January Pink Food Thread

1 serving of the pasta I ate was 85g. I normally ate 1.5 servings, so about 130g, then 30g of parmesan. The only way I could do this was by making sure my lunch was under 10g of protein - an easy sacrifice, since I love my pasta and it felt good to have a full plate of food at supper time. When I ate rice pasta, I had 2 servings each meal because a serving size is smaller - 56g. I always thought rice pasta was soooooo much lower in protein than regular pasta, until I realised how much smaller a portion is. It's still lower, but not by as much.

i love pasta too lol, how much protein would you normally have eaten on the diet a day hun ?

I kept to 40g max, though most days I was at more like 35g.

i eat pasta a lot, just the white pasta I get from trader joes. It has some iron and a few nutrients in it, but not too much. It has 7g protein per serving, 1/2 c dry which is not much, and 200 cal. I eat 1 cup dry, so I am getting 400 cal and 14 g protein, I then add a little under 1 tbls low-fat butter (Balade) and some sprinkable parmesan. So that is about 500 cal, I eat this with a big iceburg lettuce salad that has cucumber and white mushrooms and raspberry vinegrette also from trader joes and that is dinner. It has about 550 cal.

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Originally Posted by dramabird

You got it, Mocha! I think Jareth was my first love. :HH:

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My nephew is called Jareth. :) Yes, from The Labyrinth!

Doh! There is "salt" listed in the ingredients of the chilli powder I've used sometimes (I don't use tons of it!) but I'm not sure how much... it doesn't taste very salty.

Well, that's out forever.... er, until I'm pregnant. My AF is down to pink/spotting today... luckily I tend to keep so low on sodium in general that whatever amount in it won't hurt me. :/ :(

today (CD3) so far:
Lunch:
Sainsburys golden rice - 232 calories, 5.8g protein, 3g fat, trace sodium
2 WW jaffa mini rolls - 154 calories, 1.8g protein, 5.8g fat, 50mg sodium

Total: 386 calories, 7.6g protein, 8.8g fat, 50mg sodium


Tea:
Home made veggie lasagne - 144+150+270 calories, 1g+9.4g protein, 11.8+1.1g fat, 700mg sodium
2 garlic baguette slices - 194 calories, 5g protein, 7.2g fat, 240mg sodium
green beans - 50 calories

Total: 808 calories, 15.4g protein, 20.1g fat, 940mg sodium

Daily totals: 1194 calories, 23g protein, 28.9g fat, 990mg sodium

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Originally Posted by suregena

Doh! There is "salt" listed in the ingredients of the chilli powder I've used sometimes (I don't use tons of it!) but I'm not sure how much... it doesn't taste very salty.

Well, that's out forever.... er, until I'm pregnant. My AF is down to pink/spotting today... luckily I tend to keep so low on sodium in general that whatever amount in it won't hurt me. :/ :(

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No worries....it doesn't sound like sodium really sways that much anyway...it's the other things like protein/fat/cals. You'll be preggo soon enough anyway! You are doing a fabulous job w/the diet, Suregena!

i just posted this on another thread so sorry if you read this twice, are your DH'S doing the LE diet with you, or are they supposed to do it at all, if not what are they doing if anything to help sway girl ??

I'm certainly trying! I think, so far on this diet (by a rough guess as I didn't weigh myself at the start of it) I've lost about at least 6-8 lbs. Hope that's good enough, but even so...

December 23rd I weighed 111.5 pounds (using my son's childminder's scale, sneakily... heeh. Asked her if I could "use her bathroom")

January 10th I weigh 107 pounds (same story as above, haha!)

I think at my lowest ever weight after I had my son (with breastfeeding when it was his main source of nutrition) was 109lbs.

Before I was pregnant with him, I was more 123ish.

So, regardless, I've never been 107lbs as far as I know, like... ever in my adult life. So, that's got to count for something! :p

For all I know, my body weight and the breastfeeding was already going to sway for me whether I found out about swaying or not!

Well, I can think that, anyway.

Food today:

Morning: 1 cup peppermint tea, half a cup coffee (felt headachey and sick this morning but didn't want to cave on ANY sort of food)
Morning (9am) at work: 1 cup of coffee
11am at work: another half a cup of coffee (I didn't finish it)

Lunch: 1 WHOLE pack of meerkat jellies (I was hungrrrrrrry!), 4 Ryvita crackerbreads (have started on them now as they are even lower in everything then the crispbreads and will be going to 3 of them tomorrow, was just extra hungry today!) with 2 light dairylea cheese triangle servings and iceberg lettuce, and 1 weight watchers carrot cake slice

On the way home from work: (seriously hungry, bah!) nearly 80g worth of jelly beans! Oy vey!

Dinner: 1 serving long grain rice, with 2 tablespoons low fat creme fraiche, button mushrooms, 1 serving cauliflower, with pepper and a little chili powder. 1 Dr Pepper zero.

later I'll have another weight watchers slice and another cup of peppermint tea.

Calories: 1,311
Fat: 9
Protein: 28
Sodium: 393


Is it bad to be higher in protein versus fat? I've been trying to aim for lower fat rather than protein, though I read atomic say protein may sway "harder" but then something about lower fat still being better.

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So, do those numbers look okay?

I cannot believe my AF is down to spotting! :nails: