So, ladies, I'm going to Mexico tomorrow for 2weeks (yay!) but I will be with loads of family and eating out a lot. It will be hard to do the diet. Any words of wisdom? Thanks!
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So, ladies, I'm going to Mexico tomorrow for 2weeks (yay!) but I will be with loads of family and eating out a lot. It will be hard to do the diet. Any words of wisdom? Thanks!
The only problem with Asian is that my friend and I usually get dishes to share when we go that route, and I know she'd want to order meat dishes. I did tell her about the diet last time I was on it (I actually told my 3 best friends), but after the m/c I don't really want people to know I'm dieting again since I know they all think it was a crazy idea in the first place and I think they secretly blame my m/c on my massive weight loss.
I usually try to steer people towards Italian places while on the diet because I can just get pasta or wood oven pizza.
Yesterday:
• :C: 2 C. tea w/splash of rice milk
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• Salad w/Raspberry Vinaigrette
• Lowfat plain yogurt w/canned pumpkin, cinnamon and a bit of stevia ( :oops: )…This was really, really good and tasted like tangy pumpkin pudding. I’ll probably do it again today…
• Coconut water
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• Air-popped popcorn w/pecorino-romano
• Smoothie (rice milk, frozen raspberries, psyllium husks)
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• :C: Throughout the day, 3 C. peppermint tea, 1 C. RRL tea
Lucky Chica!!! Not sure I have any advice other than trying to stick to what you know is okay...:luck:Quote:
Originally Posted by amari
Hey, aren't you starting Clomid today?
Don’t worry about sharing w/your friend…Get what you want! Where ever you go, just ask them to bring you half of your order and wrap up the other half. I do this very often and every time I ask, they seem like it’s a frequent request of other patrons.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mochagirl
That’s what people think about my m/c…DH told a few people at work (people I know very well and used to work w/as well) that I was swaying back before I conceived last time. They are sure my m/c was due to swaying/being too skinny. I was super upset when DH told me he’d told others I was swaying (before I even conceived) b/c I’d not told anyone IRL (and still won’t this time around). As if m/c isn’t terrible enough, now when I see all these people, it’s so embarrassing. I can see it in their eyes and the whole situation is awkward. UGH…darn DH!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mochagirl
I would, except she would think it really strange since we ALWAYS share dishes, then she'll get suspicious and know I'm swaying again. It might not be an issue anyway since I think I've talked her into going to an early show and just going out for dessert afterwards instead of dinner. Dessert I can do!Quote:
Originally Posted by Out of the Blue
I know exactly what you mean! When I told one of my closest friends about the m/c and said we were going to try again as soon as possible, the first thing she said was 'You're not going to try that crazy diet again, are you??'. Only dh and one of my less judgmental friends know about the diet this time around, and I had to admit to my Mom that I've changed my eating habits again (she knew about the diet too) so she wouldn't try to serve meat when I visited, but I told her I'm just eating vegetarian and not doing the rest. I really don't want her to worry more about me than she already is!Quote:
Originally Posted by Out of the Blue
I had such a bad day today, ugh. Work was decidedly = fail. I sort of gave up today. I had no will power.
What kicked it off was last night... er, this morning at about 3.30am, I woke up intensely dizzy, with a horrible one sided headache, and sick to my stomach. I knew it was because of lack of food. This was what I was worried about on this diet because I do get like this if I have skipped dinner in the past, or ate insanely light dinner. How do I conquer this? It makes me scared to go another two days. Basically, I had to get up at 5.30am for work and I was feeling decidedly not right and extremely unwell at 3.30am. I jumped out of bed and went downstairs and had a piece of weight watchers bread with low sugar strawberry jam. In about 30 minutes, all felt right in the world and I could sleep again. By the time we had to get up, my stomach was already grumbling. Ugh. I told my husband "I shouldn't... but 1 weetabix and soy milk, please. :("
Then I got to work... oh God. They had cookies. I HAD FOUR. CHOCOLATE COATED COOKIES! AHG! Then I had couscous and rice pudding for lunch.
Royal fail today... so far.
Please, ladies, how do I keep that unbearable SICK away from lack of eating? Or do I just have to force myself to get used to it? In the past it's been enough to make me dry-heave... :/
Suregena, please eat more! I haven't looked back but I seem to remember you're only eating around half the amount of calories recommended on the LE diet and, you're right, you can't stick with that long term without feeling terrible! Also, don't forget you can still have 3 meals a day even if you're skipping breakfast - I tended to eat at 11/12, 4/5 and 8/9 o'clock. The last 'meal' was usually a treat for after the children had gone to bed (like sweets or a little cake!).
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Originally Posted by zanacal
Yeah... I'm having a hard time getting the levels all within limits... I can keep the calories within limit, sure, but then I'd surely go over protein... which is why my calories the previous two days were so low. It's tough to balance. :/ I'm sure it'll just take practice, considering this is new to me. I never even dieted before in my life. I'm a normal healthy weight at the moment, so obviously don't want to drop down TOO much (I weigh less than I did before my son as it is, which was a result of breastfeeding and just stayed that way), and have been vegetarian for yeeeaaarrrss. But it's still hard! All my favorites are gone, ha!
After today I'm going to share dinner with my husband and just have a smaller portion and have the big bad no no tomato & mushroom sauce and not stress about it, and tomorrow I will start again.
I think the only way I could probably make this work is come up with some sort of meal plan so I'm not counting up everything I eat to try to make something 'within range.' That will just make a person crazy. :/
woah that's hardly anything! how long have you been doing the diet for? how much weight do you have to lose?Quote:
Originally Posted by suregena
here's my first diet day for ages....
mid-morning: 2 biscuits, 2 marshmallows
lunch: 1 pitta bread with some mozarella melted on top, 1 apple, 2 leftover Dominos cookies (oops!)
tea: Sainsbury's frozen golden rice (trace sodium) - why did noone tell me that was SO delicious?!?! I could eat it every day! and then I had 2 WeightWatchers lemon slices and 1 WW mini roll and 2 more marshmallows
so not too bad really, although I feel I ought to eat more tomorrow
Somewhere Atomic stated her preferences that it's better to go over on sodium/etc provided you get your calories up - I had issues with not eating enough too initially. I think protein is easy to keep within limits if you avoid meatQuote:
Originally Posted by suregena
Okay, I'll approach this slightly more relaxed tomorrow... fingers crossed.Quote:
Originally Posted by rainbowflower
I did check nutrients in everything to begin with but after a while I just scribbled down the calories/protein/sodium in 3 columns on a scrap piece of paper and made sure each of my 2 main meals was somewhere in the region of 500 cals/20g protein/500mg sodium - then I grabbed a handful of sweets as a treat in the evening.
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Originally Posted by rainbowflower
Only two days, don't worry! (I'm not counting today, the third day, because it was bad.) But two days was enough for my body to slap me and say, "It isn't RIGHT!"
I'm trying to organize myself into something that works for me on a daily basis with little stress. I am also breastfeeding and I do not have a car, so I suppose I drop calories elsewhere on a daily basis on top of it all (so maybe I shouldn't try so hard!) And already a vegetarian. And my husband is already a vegetarian. Both for many years.
So... I probably weigh about 115lbs at a really rough guess (after my son it went to 108 but I've gained some back since I went back to work. Before I had my son, I was about 120. Before I moved to the UK and was in the US, I was always about 130.) I am only 5"... so I don't really have weight to lose, per se.
Suregena - I agree that you definitely need to eat more. You're right that your body's trying to tell you something. Back when I started the diet last May, I had a lot of trouble keeping protein and sodium down while eating enough calories too. I think things changed when I stopped trying to eat 'normal' things like pre-packaged stuff, store bought bread and yogurt. Now I eat plenty of food, rarely feel hungry and am almost always within limits (unless it's a cheat day).
I do things the same way Z used to - eat at 12, 5 then a snack (usually candy or ice cream) when the kids go to bed. I go to bed happy and satisfied instead of already feeling hungry - if you are, it's a looooong wait until 12 the next day.
And as for the tomato sauce? That's totally acceptable on the LE diet - just try to buy a low sodium one.
you sound a lot like me then - I started the diet when I was 104lbs at 4'11" and I'm still BF too (3 times a day at the moment)Quote:
Originally Posted by suregena
especially if you're BF you might want to eat more calories and definitely more protein or you could find your milk supply really suffers too. Raspberry leaf tea is safe to drink when TTC - it has some benefits such as lowering pH, improving milk supply, and improving your uterine lining so implantation would be easier.... but some find it increases CM as well (I haven't found that)
are you planning on doing the diet for 6 weeks before TTC? I lost nearly 9lbs in 6 weeks and know that this time I'll have to keep the diet up until I get a BFP as it seems I don't regain weight post-diet as fast as I lose it! hence thinking of TTC after just 3 weeks on the diet this time around...
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Originally Posted by rainbowflower
Yeah, not sure. Originally was going to try this cycle (I'm on my period now) but felt that would be too little time spent on the diet and too little time on licorice root for my husband (I thought it might be worth giving his system a go through on AF to O but not try and then do it again the cycle we try, though it probably makes no difference I guess!) So I opted to start the diet now and try the cycle after this one.
I didn't end up going out for supper yesterday, so no big cheats yet for me.
6am: coffee
12pm: rice with balsamic vinegar, homemade low fat/low sodium banana muffin
4pm: 1/2 cup hot apple cider (we cut down our Christmas tree and I couldn't resist it after being out in the cold)
5:30pm: homemade vegetarian lasagna (eggplant, zucchini, leeks, mushrooms, low sodium sauce, lasagna noodles, low fat ricotta, a bit of parmesan, spinach and part skim mozzarella) - it was veeeery yummy
8pm (at the movie): Nibs, Mike & Ikes
10:30pm: raspberries (I know - bad girl snacking late at night, but I was a little hungry and couldn't resist).
Calories: 1203
Protein: 35.8g
Sodium: 857mg
I think I'm going to have my cheat night soon. I still don't know whether or not I have af, but all this confusion and stress is getting to me, and I think I need a big treat!
Instead of just 0% yogurt for lunch, I increased my calories at lunch and had a low fat cream cheese and skinless cucumber sandwich on weight watchers bread. Haven't looked at numbers, but hopefully it leaves some room for dinner.
Sounds good, suregena!
Just did numbers... geez (ha, I accidentally typed "cheese"... I think food is on my mind...), I hardly have had anything today, number wise. Sometimes I question my math! Crazy. But means dinner will be fine to add butter into. ;)
Excellent!
mid-morning: mince pie given to us on the train ride (celebrating DS's first birthday!)
lunch: savoury rice, 3 marshmallows
tea: roasted veg with pasta + philli sauce, 2 slices of birthday cake and a lot of spoon-licking!
Happy birthday to your DS, rainbowflower!
10th Dec:
-2 cups instant coffee with 1% unsweetened soy milk
-1 cucumber (no skin) and reduced fat cream cheese sandwich on weight watchers danish bread with pepper and basil.
-2 1/2 cups of pasta (I probably had less than half of that, though) with 10grams (again, half of that) butter, 2 tbls Quark (etc!), 1 cup grilled vegetables and 1 cup green beans (but more like half as it was both me and my son's dinner), black pepper, rosemary, and basil.
calories: 939
protein: 38.75
fat: 22.8
sodium: 0.51
I think I did a lot better today! Think I'll have a snack! And I actually feel pretty good. Dinner felt nice and filling. It actually might be lower numbers. I cooked 2 1/2 cups worth of pasta but my son had a toddler bowl full, I had a breakfast bowl full, and there are leftovers...
But, yeah! Feel good about today.
thank you Mocha, it's been an emotional day reflecting back on last year!
suregena - I'd still try and eat more than that - aim for 1400-1600 calories at least... and it's sodium you need to count, not salt. Sodium is about half of the salt value.
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Originally Posted by rainbowflower
Yes, it was a mistake. I count sodium but I wrote salt! It is the sodium levels.
Hmm, more? I'll try. I'll add a yogurt with my sandwich tomorrow. I don't have many snacky things but yogurt and crumpets at the moment (I'm doing this without having done a proper grocery shop for this sort of eating.)
I guess the biggest change is I am decreasing portion sizes (normally there is a lot more cheese and action if I made pasta usually, and huuuge portions...) and I'm not eating my usuals.... beans, lentils, and so on.
Trial and error!
you'll get there :)
perhaps the snacky things could really help you get the calories up - or have your breakfast cereal for supper/fit in an extra meal before bed or a snack between lunch and tea?
one of the things I did in order to up my totals was to stop measuring portions and to eat more if I wanted (excluding chicken, which I have twice a week - I still limit that)
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Originally Posted by rainbowflower
I'm vegetarian as it is so my main cut outs are beans/legumes/lentils. But I feel so good today that I'm glad that I'm on the right track and the diet feels a little less daunting knowing that even my relaxing how hard I try, I'm still trying too hard.
I'm measuring at the moment because I have no sense of restraint. Haha. Before, giant portions were norm (even though I'm small.) I walk everywhere so I probably burn up more, and therefore can eat loads of food.
Example is when we make burritos, we always have three!
However, I'm sort of happy to know that I can possibly fit in a pre-lunch (say, 11am as I get up at 5.30am on work days and my lunch at work isn't until 1.30pm...) snack and still stay within limits.
there's nothing wrong with bigger portions if you're burning more - if you keep doing the exercise you do now and eating as little as you are now the weight could drop right off you too fast, it's sooooo hard getting the balance right so you lose weight but lose it really slowly!
suregena - it sounds like you did a much better job today. Definitely eat a snack tonight to add to your calories, though.
I will! :) Won't turn down the opportunity to snack!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mochagirl
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Originally Posted by rainbowflower
Yeah, my daily life involves a bit of walking. A typical work day is walking into town to the bus stop, walking 1 mile (at a guess) from the bus to my son's childminder's house, walking to the train station from her house, walking from the train station to a bus stop... and I work in a hospital so while I am at a desk job, I am up and down constantly.
And then errands, i.e. tonight I walked with my nearly 30lb son in a front carry in my Beco carrier to the store and back.
So, I'm fairly active (but not in a forced-exercise way, just day to day walking from point a to point b to point c...)...
Snack it is!
I may be more girl friendly than I feel like I am (I have three brothers, my husband has two brothers... I have that "destined to only have boys" feelings but maybe not since everyone eat meat but my husband and I!)
I had my af cheat night yesterday, so I won't torture you all by telling you what I ate. Let's just say it involved LOTS of cheese, chocolate, and oily deep fried goodness :bigsmile:
Back to rice for lunch today. Sigh.
I've not had the best diet day either:
no breakfast
11am: slice of birthday cake
1pm: kids-size IKEA meatballs, chips, and peas
5pm: skewer of chocolate covered strawberries from the German market. I hadn't seen them for sale since I was in Germany with my Dad before he died, so I got emotional and DH bought some for me. Think I might have an apple later too
No Breakfast but had 1 cup coffee with unsweetened soy milk.
Lunch: cream cheese and skinless cucumber sandwich on weight watchers bread and a 0% fat yogurt.
Snack at 8pm: (Was waiting for husband to get home... he doesn't get home until 10pm...) three Ryvita thins with two of them having a small smear of low fat hummus. Also had another cup of coffee with unsweetened soy milk.
Dinner: 1 cup (uncooked) pasta with 1/2 cup grilled veggies, 4 tablespoons of green beans, about 40ish grams of reduced fat cream cheese, rosemary, black pepper, and a splash of lemon juice.
Calories: 980
Fat: 20
Protein: 47
Sodium: 350
Why can't I get more calories?! But now my protein is bordering on high... so anything I'd snack on would have to have, like... 0 protein.
I felt like I ate all day, ha! Geez...
:/
If I eat a Mr Kipling mince pie... it will take me to 1,232 calories and 49 protein... should I? :o
There are lots of sweets with no protein and practically no sodium - I rely on those to bring my calories up. If all you have on hand is the mince pie, though, go for it. Next time you're grocery shopping look for sweet treats that appeal to you and read the label - it's good to stock up on lots of stuff like that. Juice or full sugar soda is another great way to add calories without adding anything else. Also check out atomic's post on 100-300 calorie snacks for ideas.
Here's today:
7am: coffee
12pm: 1/2 cup rice with spinach, fat free yogurt and balsamic vinegar, homemade sugar cookie for dessert
3pm: a few pieces of curd cheese :oops: (I was visiting my brother and he offered me some - it's one of my biggest weaknesses but I was proud I only had a few pieces)
6pm: leftover homemade vegetarian lasagna
8:30pm: green grapes, Mike & Ikes
Calories: 1336
Protein: 39g
Sodium: 1000mg (damn that curd cheese!)
suregena - I'd go up to 60g protein especially if you're BF. Eat more empty calories like marshmallows or non-jelly sweets. Even cake could be an option to get the values up! It's BETTER to go over on the other values just to eat more calories.