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I don't think it matters if you vary so long as you're still low everything. I found I went in phases - I ate the same thing for a week or two then moved on to something else! Re the fruit juice - personally I'd avoid it. One apple is ok but there are probably several in just a small glass of juice which for me is too much nutrition.
My fear is my diet has overall been a bit too nutrition, considering the mushrooms and so on.
Just when I balance one thing, I fall off on another! :(
Personally, I never worried about eating large amounts of things like mushrooms, zucchini and leeks. I tried to eat a little less of the super healthy veggies like sweet potato, red peppers, etc. - but I still included them in my diet once in a while. You can't live on carbs alone, and veggies help fill you up and keep your food from being too bland.
Yeah I wouldn't worry about mushrooms - unless you're drinking mushroom juice?! I was just thinking it takes so many pieces of fruit to make a glass of juice but I wouldn't worry at all about eating fruit in sane amounts!
Mushroom juice... ha, how unappealing is that?
Yeah, I just needed to boost my calories so thought I'd have some.
suregena, what do the Meerkats taste like and how much are they just out of interest?
:rofl: mushroom juice mmmmmm
Atomic once told me juice was ok sometimes if you need to boost your cals, but to go for the unhealthy, sugar added juice (like cranberry cocktail) as opposed to 100% juice.
Seems to me that if you need to "drink" your calories, as it were, it still might be best to turn to reg.soda (or if it's been a long day, vodka -- lol) rather than get all the nutrients that come with the calories in juice.
Re: the vodka in all seriousness ... smirnoffs now makes a marshhmallow vodka that is so yummy it is practically sippable all by itself. And who deserves a bit of a buzz more than us swayers? :)
Hi guys! I've added % cran juice back into my diet begrudgingly b/c although it has soooo many nutrients, I am plagued w/UTIs and I reaaaallllllly want to avoid them b/c of the antibiotics :( Suregena, I have also had a few mini-freak-outs about too many nutrients b/c I tend to eat a lot of veggies. Like Mocha said, I try to stick to the less nutrient-packed kind (YAY for leeks!!!) and apples if I have any fruit. I've been really good about sticking to the LE and staying either vegan or vegetarian but my nutrients are probably higher than I'd like. I had to make peace w/that though as I find that I need those veggie nutrients otherwise I feel terrible.
Dramabird, I'm so excited you are joining us and TTC time is just about here for you! I know you've been around awhile studying up on all this and now it's time for you to put it all into action! :cheer: Originally, I was not eating until about 2:30 in the afternoon, mostly b/c I couldn't eat any earlier (unless it was breakfast) b/c my day is really hectic and I'm gone from 11:00 - 2:00ish most days. Although it was super easy to do this and I wasn't hungry at all, I was not functioning very well and my boys weren't getting the best Mom they deserve. I decided about a week ago that I'd start doing breakfast and then trying to make my last meal between 3-5 as this would still keep the low BS in the picture but just be in reverse. It’s much easier for my sched to have low BS in the afternoon/evening than in the a.m. Either way, I've been struggling to get the cals I want/need in. I am doing A LOT better b/c I can function w/life & the boys great but I still am struggling to get those cals in. I think today, I'll try 7/12/4:30 and try to make the last meal something really sugary to help make my BS plummet for that long stretch w/out food. I think I’ll have to eat 3 meals otherwise I won’t get enough cals in and I want to avoid a huge meal so I don’t increase BS too much. It's such a struggle to eat at 12 b/c as I said, I'm usually gone but I'll try to make it work.
Amari, I had switched back to eating breakkie b/c I was really grouchy and didn’t have the energy I needed to actually be there w/my boys and I started feeling really guilty. It’s so easy for me not to eat until the afternoon but it just wasn’t working out w/the boys. Since I’m not hungry until the afternoon (b/c I’ve been doing this now for awhile), getting breakkie down has been a struggle…I can get maybe 300 cals down but that’s it. I know I could get more down but it wouldn’t correspond w/the LE diet.
I guess I’ll give this breakfast thing a few more days but if I can’t get it together, I’ll have to figure out a way to eat at 11ish/5ish/?ish…Sorry for the rant, guys...I'll figure it out!
I didn't realise you had such a schedule conflict - it makes a lot more sense to me now why you want to reintroduce breakfast. For me, I'm always out at playdates, running errands all morning, so it's easiest for me to skip breakfast, but it sounds like your schedule's opposite of mine. Good luck, sweetie - I hope you can make it work. I think it will sway just as strongly as the other way...just make sure you eat enough!
That sounds wonderful!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by suregena
Regarding the chili powder, I think I've heard that spices like that were okay if you had them once or maybe twice a week but not to make it a daily habit (too many nutrients). I sometime put chipotle powder w/a wee bit of onion powder :oops: and I mix it w/plain, non-fat yogurt. It's divine, especially topping something else! It's even better w/garlic but I think that's worse than onions/onion powder for a girl sway so I've given it up.
I really think you're doing a great job! :agree:
Mocha, I saw your post over the weekend about curds and I just wanted to say I'm a total curd snob too, lol! We had this place where I lived when I was young called "The Cheese Factory". We would go there on school fieldtrips and watch them make cheese curds and then at the end, they'd give us fresh samples. When we'd buy some, I'd gobble it up before it would hit the fridge b/c after that, it doesn't taste nearly as good (warm, salty goodness :oops: ) and it loses it's squeek. The place was bought by a French company about 15 yrs ago and they closed the tours and stopped making cheese curds. :( I don't live there anymore anyway but when I visit, they're no longer there. I haven't had fresh curds in years! The only kind I'll buy now (and not now that I'm on the sway) is Yancey's Fancy Cheese Curds - Buffalo Wing Cheddar flavor! I heat them in the micowave and then burn my face off eating them b/c they're so spicy... Just thought I'd share! :bigsmile:
Jen, as soon as you get your BFP, I am soooooo going to send you some fresh curd by overnight express (if they'll let me send it across the border). The curd here in my city isn't quite as wonderful as the stuff from my hometown, but it's still pretty darn good.
ok guys i hope ive made it viewable now, i can see i need to add some more cals in as im way low, what do you all think, im terrible at variety and will prob eat this every day is that a bad idea with the chicken and pasta ??? Free Calorie Counter, Diet & Exercise Journal | MyFitnessPal.com
Still can't see it...I get this message: "This user is not allowing others to view his or her food diary."Quote:
Originally Posted by littlemissnaughty7
Try this:
- Go to My Home
- Click on Settings (rar right)
- Diary Settings and then go to the bottom of the page where it says Diary Sharing and click on Public. Click on Save Changes when you're done.
Hope you can understand these directions...Let me know if you can't.
Still didn't get nearly enough cals in yesterday but I'm working on it...I wanted to get the last meal in earlier but didn't come home until 6:20 and knew I had to get something in...
Yesterday:
1st Meal (07:00 a.m.) 293 cals/2g fat/13 g protein/18 g fiber/113 sodium
green drink w/100% cran juice
tea w/rice milk
2nd Meal (2:30 p.m) 656 cals/18 g fat/20 g protein/14 g fiber/630 sodium
Air-popped popcorn w/pecorino-romano
Roasted seaweed snack
Coconut water
Evening Snack (6:30 p.m.) 197 cals/4 g fat/4 g protein/29 g fiber/136 sodium
Girlsway smoothie (rice milk, psyllium husks, frozen raspberries)
Beverages throughout the day:
Water
RRL tea (2 C.)
Peppermint tea (4 C.)
ok hun ive done it now Ashone7's Food Diary | MyFitnessPal.com
It works! Thanks! Your 1st meal looks super! Are you planning to eat anything more for your 2nd and 3rd meals? If you can, try to get another 700 cals in there...You could drink some soda w/sugar, eat some sweets, etc. Something I do sometimes is to take low fat coolwhip (if you're in the U.S....???) and mix it w/some strawberry jam and then spread it on your rice cakes to get more cals. Coolwhip + jam tastes WONDERFUL and it's really pretty good for a girl sway!Quote:
Originally Posted by littlemissnaughty7
Today!
1st Meal (07:00 a.m.) – 293 cals/2g fat/13 g protein/18 g fiber/113 sodium
• green drink w/100% cran juice & TONS of psyllium husks
• tea w/rice milk
2nd Meal (12:00 p.m) – 663 cals/22 g fat/19 g protein/5 g fiber/297 sodium
• Sautιed leeks, mushrooms and white basmati w/quark
• Hershey’s milk chocolate bar
• Coconut water
3rd Meal (5:30 p.m.) – 467 cals/5 g fat/4 g protein/34 g fiber/146 sodium
• Girl Sway Smoothie (rice milk, psyllium husks, frozen raspberries)
• Candy cane
• Willy Wonka Sweet Tart Chewy Minis
• Fuji apple
Beverages throughout the day:
• Water
• RRL tea (2 C.)
• Peppermint tea (4 C.)
Totals:
Cals – 1,423
Fat – 29
Protein – 36
Fiber – 57
Sodium – 556
If I can, I'll try to pull in that last meal so it's at 4:30ish...
Makes sense, ootb. I am at a toss up between eating brekkie and waiting til noon. Either way I have to have 3 meals because I that's what my body needs, as opposed to the 8 meals I had before the LE diet. today I waited til 12:15 aside from the little bit of creamer I put in my decaf coffee.
12:15-two mini bagels w/quark cheese and sugar-free jelly, bag of lite kettle corn, 100 cal pack coffee cake, 1 coco rice cake, slice of lite swiss cheese amounts to about 500 calories 20 g protein.
plan on white rice with a bit of sour cream and iceburg lettuce w/mushrooms, cucumbers between 5-7 pm
then frozen yogurt w/strawberries for dessert around 8pm Should be about 1500-1700 total.
Amari, that's great!!! :agree: The stuff you're eating is all GIRL SWAY approved! Fro-yo sounds wonderful right now! Cold Stone Creamery had this one kind of fro-yo and I think it was called "Tart and Tangy" or something like that and it was pink. It was sooooo yummy and the largest size was only 340 cals if I can remember correctly. I'd only eat half and save the rest for the next day if I got that size. It was sugar-free and fat-free I think. I haven't seen it there in a long while so I'm not sure if they've discontinued it or if they're just always out of it. I'm totally craving it right now after seeing that you'll be having fro-yo tonight. :)
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Originally Posted by GeCon
They taste pretty good! You know, not too sweet... more chewy than gummy (probably because of the lack of gelatin in them)... and they're 3 packs for £1.
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Originally Posted by Out of the Blue
Well, I guess I've hit the chilli powder end for the week... I've had it in my dinner two nights in a row now!
Tomorrow, um... er, no seasonings this time.
ooh that coolwhip and jam sounds lovely on rice cakes im in the UK so not sure what coolwhip is, is it like fresh cream in a squirty can ??
Yes! It's like that but it comes in a tub. We have the squirty stuff too but I've not tried it. It should work just fine for you! Sometimes, if I need a bit of extra cals/protein, I put some low fat cream cheese in there as well and it tastes even better.Quote:
Originally Posted by littlemissnaughty7
Maybe you could make it 3x a week...;)Quote:
Originally Posted by suregena
Heeheh, don't tempt me!
9am: 1 1/2 cups coffee with soy milk. (One cup was like half a cup.)
Lunch: 3 ryvita crispbreads, dairylea cheese spread, iceberg lettuce, weight watchers cookie pack, and some meerkat jellies.
Dinner: Basmati rice with 2 tbsp reduced fat creme fraiche, 100g (weighed on a scale but it sure didn't look like much...) of cauliflower, some plain tinned tomatoes (about 100g), and chilli powder... and heated up two corn tortillas in a pan WITHOUT butter and just some water to moisten them, as I knew through preplanning that I was going to be low on calories, and had some of the rice stuff in them. Yum, yum!
'dessert' - 1 200ml glass vanilla rice milk, two rice cakes with about 15g or so of weight watchers reduced strawberry jam (which was ALL that was left, anyway! I had only used the stuff once. When I bought it, I got me that and I got my husband a different kind of strawberry jam. HE ATE ALL OF MY JAM!!!!! :( But the other jam jar is full. What is he, on a DIET or something?!? :P)
Calories: 1412
Fat: 24
Protein: 30
Sodium: 409
Should you force yourself to do the calories? I am not at all hungry, made myself had the rice and salad and was really looking forward to froyo but now not hungry at all, (very unlike myself!). I know if I go get it I will eat it all, and I am supposed to go for a girls night and bring them some, but part of me feels like you should just listen to your body, and the other part says, you're messing with your body so much your body doesn't know what it needs, give it the minimum whether it wants it or not! Sorry, rambling...
8am - Black coffee with equal
12pm- 1c. strawberries w/ equal, yopliat light yogurt & a rice krispy treat
Lunch 3:30- Plain pasta w/ 1/4c. non-fat ricotta cheese, 2tbsp. parm. cheese and some saute leeks w/ 1/2 tbsp. butter. (so yummy!)
Dinner 8pm- White rice w/ green bean & cauliflower. 1/3 cucumber with feta ranch dip. 1 sugar cookie.
And drank tons and tons of crystal light
Calories: 1225
Fat: 18 grams
Protein: 39
Sodium: 577
The feta ranch dip is sooooo good. Here is the recipe.
1 c. plain fat free yogurt
3 Tbsp. low fat sour cream
1/2 chopped leek
1/5 Tbsp. lemon juice
1/4 c. feta cheese
1 tsp. dried oregano
black pepper
Mr. Dash
Add it all together and yum yum. I use it as dressing for iceburg lettuce too, but mostly just dip cucumbers in it. If you eat 1/5 the recipe as a serving the nutritional facts are:
Calories 52
Fat 2
Protein 4
Sodium 117
hey all so excited to be starting my sway on tuesday eeeeek ! just a little confused on to how much pasta and chicken i can have in a week, and when i say chicken i mean wafer thin pieces that i put in my bagel, and with the pasta i swear i saw Atomic say you should only have it once in a while why is this again, i never seem to hit my cals nwhen i write out what i woulo eat and pasta is one of the things that help, anyone have any insight ???
I think pasta is fine as long as you are within your calorie limits. I have pasta most days, although I have switched to gluten free as it has less protein and means I can have more without adding too much protein.Quote:
Originally Posted by littlemissnaughty7
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Originally Posted by prayforprincess
Nom, nom, nom...I'm hungry now! TFS, Princess! :agree:
As long as you're getting enough cals in, try not to force yourself to eat. I know you're already very small so just make sure you are able to maintain. If not, try to get a few extra cals in.Quote:
Originally Posted by amari
Ditto, LMN7...As long as you're in your guidelines for cals/protein/fat/sodium, you can eat it every day if you want! GL! :luck:Quote:
Originally Posted by GeCon
ooh ok hun thanks is that the same for wafer thin chicken slices ???
and get anyone give me the name of a cheese that is low in sodium and protein please, oh i live in the uk x
yesterday:
12pm: dannon greek vanilla non fat yogurt, nutrigrain strawberry bar, 2 rice cakes
3pm: 4 egg whites, 1 slice low sodium cheese, 1 serving hint of salt wheat thins, strawberries
6pm: 1/3 cup pastina, 2 rice cakes
9pm: 3 rice cakes
AM I doing the diet right? Here are the totals:
sodium-777
potassium-653
protein-49g
fat-15g
calories-1100
All righty, another three days under my belt! :) I'm only going to weigh myself each weekend so I can see my progress, or lack thereof, a week at a time, but even knowing that others have found themselves shedding weight quickly on the LE diet and even though I'm staying within the limits, I sure don't feel like I've lost anything. I may find I need to cut back more calories -- :( -- but we'll see! It seems like I'm listing so many more foods consumed each day than the rest of y'all ... do you think I'm messing up somewhere in here? Input is welcomed!!
Jan. 2
Morning:
folic acid, Trader Joe's Psyllium Husk (fiber) and Vitex.
double peppermint tea (2 teabags, 2 packets of Equal)
CF Diet Coke
Lunch:
2 slices Wonder bread with 1 Tbsp. jelly and 1 Tbsp. butter
8 oz. skim milk with 2 Tbsp. Hershey's chocolate syrup with calcium
1 oz. Trader Joe's salt-free tortilla chips with 2 Tbsp. Paul Newman's salsa
1/2 cup no-salt-added green beans
Afternoon:
Crystal Lite
Dinner:
Stirfry of red and yellow bell peppers, leeks, zucchini, summer squash and mushrooms sauted in butter, served with boiled rice
Smoothie of rice milk, strawberries, Hershey's strawberry syrup and low-fat strawberry kefir
One serving "double-goo" Rice Krispy treat
Evening:
double peppermint tea (2 teabags, 2 packets of Equal)
Totals:
Calories: 1712
Calories from fat: 396
Fat grams: 44
Sodium: 811
Protein: 30.5
Calcium: 1255
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Jan. 3
Morning:
folic acid, Trader Joe's Psyllium Husk (fiber) and Vitex.
double peppermint tea (2 teabags, 2 packets of Equal)
Lunch:
Leftover stirfry from Jan. 2
Activia Fiber yogurt
8 oz. skim milk with 2 Tbsp. Hershey's chocolate syrup with calcium
1/8 cup Skittles
2 chocolate-dipped shortbread cookies
Afternoon:
CF Diet Coke
Dinner:
Two eggwhites sauteed in 1/2 Tbsp. butter served with 1 Tbsp. mayo on 1 slice Wonder bread
Smoothie of rice milk, strawberries, Hershey's strawberry syrup and low-fat strawberry kefir
2 oz. marshmallow vodka (yeah, baby! :))
Evening:
double peppermint tea (2 teabags, 2 packets of Equal)
Totals:
Calories: 1519
Calories from fat: 363
Fat grams: 41.5
Sodium: 657.5
Protein: 40.5
Calcium: 1275
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Jan. 4
Morning:
folic acid, Trader Joe's Psyllium Husk (fiber) and Vitex.
double peppermint tea (2 teabags, 2 packets of Equal)
Lunch:
Leftover stirfry from Jan. 2
Activia Fiber yogurt
8 oz. skim milk with 2 Tbsp. Hershey's chocolate syrup with calcium
1/8 cup Skittles
Afternoon:
CF Diet Coke
Dinner:
1 slice Wonder bread with 1/2 Tbsp. jelly and 1/2 Tbsp. butter
1 slice Wonder bread with slice of Sargento's low-sodium cheese (I found this at Walmart)
Activia Fiber yogurt
1/2 cup no-salt-added green beans
3 oz. marshmallow vodka (if it ain't broke ... :))
choc./vanilla pudding cup
1/4 cup rice milk
8 "Hint of Salt" Wheat Thins
1/8 c. Skittles
Totals:
Calories: 1584
Calories from fat: 290.5
Fat grams: 35.5
Sodium: 885
Protein: 33
Calcium: 1350
It doesn't really exist! I found the organic cheddars to be lower in protein and sodium sometimes - but you'll have to read all the packets. I had a Dairylea Slice in my sandwich for lunch each day, sometimes a little parmesan on my pasta (yum mixed with low fat creme fraiche) and went through a phase of having feta cheese mixed with some cucumber and balsamic vinegar in a wrap or pitta!Quote:
Originally Posted by littlemissnaughty7
Any of these are ok so long as you include them in your daily allowances.
You guys are all doing so well!