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What a shocking day! Today was DS5 birthday and we were out all day then went out for dinner at a club. Way over everything and no exercise! So disappointed. 😞
10am Mug size flat white
11am Small Flat White and half a chicken, cheese & avocado roll.
7pm Seafood mornay crepe with chips and salad. And it was covered in melted cheese! Piece of chocolate birthday cake & 2 vodka, cranberry & tonic.
Probably a weeks worth of calories! 😬
mumofsix sounds amazing! And normally you eat at the lower end so I am sure this one day will not ruin anything at all. I bet it was not a weeks worth of calories :) I hope your DS had a lovely birthday.
eleena - the essay just says that there are no magic foods and no banned foods. if you remember the totals, just try to keep within that, and you cant go far wrong. There will be cheat days which atomic says are mandatory on the LE diet so that you can stick to it most of the time.
Yesterday:
5.20am - coffee with whole milk
1pm - a pear, Kirsty's moroccan vegetables with quinoa, mash direct red cabbage and beetroot, some leftover spinach and avocado salad from the weekend
4pm - a banana, some raspberries, some blackberries, a punnet of graze pina colada (dried coconut, mango, pineapple) and c50g total greek yoghurt
8pm - this was DELICIOUS - 100g fresh crab (the brand is called seafood & eat it), slim pasta fettucine, tendersteam broccoli, helda stringless beans, babycorn, c25g sun-dried tomato pesto - this was all cooked in the juice of a lemon with some garlic, oregano, chilli and coriander. Afterwards I had some dark chocolate with marzipan and a peppermint tea
approx 1600 cals, 58g (32%) fat, 49g protein
today:
5.20am - coffee with whole milk
12.45pm - waitrose chargrilled vegetable soup, a white baguette, waitrose essential side salad, waitrose adzuki & edamame bean salad, sweetfire beetroot
3.45pm - some raspberries, some blackberries, c50g total greek yoghurt, a dandelion tea and a graze jaffa cake flapjack
8.00pm - roast butternut squash, roast courgette, roast mushrooms, half a pack of garlic and coriander cous cous, half a can of essential waitrose ratatouillie, half a pack of waitrose vegetable layer. A glass of whole milk after dinner.
approx 1900 cals, 56g fat (28%), 62g protein
stephk - I love reading your posts because all the food is so exotic sounding to me (either because I'm an American or horrible at being vegetarian)? For example I have no idea what adzuki, beetroot, or courgette is :)
I'm so horrible at this diet - I love meat and fat and protein soo much, hate sugar, hate carbs, UGH. Today isn't a very good example for the diet but I figured I'd post it anyways since it follows LE principals (sort of), just not many LE friendly foods on my menu!
I've recently added in daily cardio (only doing 45 minutes for now and slowly working up to 60 minutes by 6 weeks out from my attempt) and I'm having so much trouble skipping breakfast! I like to do my cardio first thing in the morning on an empty stomach. My son is still sleeping (and my husband hasn't left for work yet) and the temperatures are so nice outside that it's great for a run. When I get home, however, I'm SO HUNGRY. I'm miserable waiting to eat until 11 or noon. Today I was so freaking sick I had to eat something at 9 AM.
Breakfast (9:00 AM): coffee + creamer, a low sodium rice cake with light cinammon laughing cow cream cheese
Lunch: a taco with cheese and avocado, watermelon agua fresca to drink
Dinner: Chick fil a cool wrap (contains veggies and small amount of chicken) dipped into 4 tbsp of fat free caesar dressing, diet lemonade with 3 oz of vodka mixed in.
1200 calories , 39 grams of fat, 50 grams of protein
Sorry for the long post!
Hi! I thought if I write here what I eat I would keep motivated! Finding it hard especially in the evening in front of the tv!
Breakfast :8.30 am soya cappuccino
Lunch: 1.30pm : 750ml of homemade green smoothie (2 bananas, pineapple, oranges, spinach)
Snack: peppermint tea and a rice cake
Dinner: 5.30pm: spaghetti vegetarian bolognese (homemade with Quorn) with some grated cheese
Total calories: 1167
22g fat, 46g proteins
I cook a lot from scratch so sometimes its hard to know exact amounts of fat/proteins etc... But I tend to choose highest content on MFP to be on the safe side.
Now craving some sweets or chocolate! What do u do against those cravings?
I eat at 1pm and then again at 6/7pm. Then I eat my third meal around 10pm and it is always sweets and chocolate! Every night! I keep it just below 1500 daily so it is still allowed! You're completely allowed chocolate and sweets as long as it's within the limits. Go and enjoy some Life's too short! ;)
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Yesterday:
10am large flat white & wholemeal English muffin with cheese
10pm vodka with cranberry a
& tonic. Slice of chocolate cake
😕
bluebonnet - thank you :) I think that you probably would know what they are, maybe they have different names in America? For example, I know that courgette is also called zuccini.
This is the sweetfire beetroot - I am sure you will recognise it when you look at the picture: Ocado: Sweetfire Beetroot Wedges Waitrose 180g(Product Information)
Beetroot is free fat and protein, you only count cals hence I eat a lot of it!!
This is the adzuki & edamame bean salad: Ocado: Adzuki & Edamame Bean Salad Waitrose 200g(Product Information)
the adzuki beans are the little brown ones, they are a great source of fibre (I am not taking fibre supps as its just too expensive buying all this stuff, I would rather just up my fibre intake)
You can also buy dry adzuki beans but you have to soak them overnight before boiling them which is a bit of an effort so I just buy ready prepared ones like this.
I know what you mean on feeling starving, especially after exercise and it does take time. Before any of this TTC business (and when I last TTC) I would have my coffee when I woke up and then went to the gym. If at the weekend, I would always shower before eating so it would be a quick shower because I was starving, if at work I would again shower and dress quick to get to my desk to immediately eat breakfast. Very slowly I pushed it back. At first, my aim was to eat an hour after finishing my workout. Then 90 mins and so on. For a while I ate breakfast no earlier than 1030 if I could help it. Then when I was able to get to 11, I thought well if I can make it to 11 I may as well just bring my lunch forward to 12/1230 and have my 'breakfast' mid afternoon, which then takes away the snack I always craved mid afternoon.
Also - I am not sure what time you are eating dinner, but if you are eating at 6pm and then again at 9am, that is 15 hours fasting which is completely fine! We are aiming for 14-16 hours daily fasting to keep blood sugar on the low side. It is not about a magic time to eat, its just whatever works for you. I must say though and I am sorry to point this out, if you are only eating 1200 calories and running for an hour, you are burning around 500 through exercise which isnt leaving a lot for your body to function and may be one contributing factor to feeling that way after exercise. I get up at 515, have my coffee, am in the gym from 6-730, I burn 800-850 cals and do not feel ill even though I have no food for many hours afterwards. Its not always easy dont get me wrong but this is why I aim for around 2000 cals because I am more comfortable with this. Even if you just add a load of free food like salad, beetroot(!), veggies, low fat veggie soups etc, you are then giving your body the calories it needs but its free or very LE friendly.
One piece of advice that atomic gave me in the beginning when I wasnt able to skip breakfast - she said try to have either pure protein or pure carbs if possible. The reason for this is their effect on blood sugar (pure protein has no effect, pure carbs will elevate it then crash). Eating a rice cake with a bit of cream cheese (or eating whatever) if you are feeling that ill is completely fine and you should just do it becuase you need to function and the point is not to be miserable waiting for a magic time of day to come around. Dont feel guilty about it.
Lavie - when I want chocoate and it is within my totals for the day, I eat it! Sometimes I will eat it even if I go over totals.
I think we all need to remember that this can all be taken a little too far. Another great thing that atomic told me was that girl mums are not sitting around miserable and analysing every scrap of food that goes into their mouths. They just eat carefully most of the time and if they fancy cake or whatever they will just have it without worrying about it.
daisymoo - that is the perfect time to have something like that because when your blood sugar crashes really low you will be sleeping so wont feel the effects :)
Stephk - such a great post! I think we all need to read those things sometimes when we try to count hours and minutes of fast, calories in everything and stressing over getting the percentages of protein and fat right.
I haven't been able to skip breakfast, but pushing it until 10 and then not eating after 6 pm. When seeing everybody else having first meal at noon I feel bad about myself not doing it, but then I read posts like yours and they are such a relief. So thanks for this kind of unstressing posts! They are needed for us marthas ;)