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Thanks. :) Yes, that was all we had to hand as husband just brought them home!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mochagirl
Once I'm paid again I'll be going to the store so I'll make sure to look out for treats that have no protein and low in other things.
I can't eat marshmallows as there is gelatin in it and I'm vegetarian. But I'll keep an eye out for stuff!Quote:
Originally Posted by rainbowflower
I found some little cupcakes that are 137 calories but 0.9 grams of protein and 0.06grams sodium. They were on offer so I got them.
Those cupcakes sound perfect, suregena!
Yeah, I compared them to others and just thought, eh, I'll get 'em!
I'm also not a fan of candy/sweets (unless it's chocolate) but I'll look around and see if anything seems appealing. It's just so not something I normally eat.
I'll fit in diet sodas and so on when the opportunity arises. I have this habit of NOT drinking soda (though I LOVE Dr Pepper, wow-oh and I do enjoy 7-Up) and I especially hate diet... I guess I hate the taste of aspartame (oh the irony...) but if I'm at work or something I think it might be something I'll take up.
Cakes, though, yes please.
Then all the more reason to add these things into your diet. Remember we want to eat as differently as possible from what we ate when we had our boys. I have a history of HATING aspartame as well, but after months of forcing myself to drink Diet Pepsi I actually barely notice the difference between it and regular Pepsi anymore. I've also developed a sweet tooth that I didn't have before and that continued after my BFP :oops:.Quote:
Originally Posted by suregena
mmm love cupcakes!
I've got to eat out tomorrow (work Christmas party) eek! It's going to be meat-included Thai food... what do you think is worse for the LE diet, eating a variety of meat (some chicken, some beef, and some prawn - not technically meat I know!) or eating more of the colourful veggies and getting loads of nutrients from them...?
Meat is worse by far!!! Eat the veggies (and have fun! :) )Quote:
Originally Posted by rainbowflower
Me too! Mocha is right...it's good to shake things up in your diet, most especially if the things you're incorporating sway girl. Ditto on the cakes...YUMMO! Do you eat eggs or are you a lacto-ovo veg?Quote:
Originally Posted by suregena
Oh, Mocha...I was the same way after my last sway! I was glad when I got my BFP b/c I was excited to eat a healthier diet but instead, I was still craving all the girl sway stuff and also found it hard to up my cals at first. I'm pretty sure the same thing will happen this time....:oops:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mochagirl
Friday:
• :C: 2 C. tea w/splash of rice milk
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• White basmati rice w/sautéed leeks and mushrooms w/a bit of goat cheese (YUM!...just that little bit of goat cheese really made big difference in taste!)
• Salad w/raspberry vinaigrette
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• Air-popped popcorn
• Smoothie (rice milk, frozen raspberries, psyllium husks)
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• :C: Throughout the day, 3 C. peppermint tea, 1 C. RRL tea
Saturday:
• :C: 2 C. coffee w/splash of rice milk
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• Ate out…salad, broccoli-cheddar soup :oops: and piece of white baguette
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• Grilled zucchini (courgette) w/a bit of goat cheese
• Low fat plain yogurt w/canned pumpkin, cinnamon and a bit of stevia :oops:
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• :C: Throughout the day, 2 C. peppermint tea, 1 C. RRL tea
Sunday:
• :C: 2 C. coffee w/splash of rice milk
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• Ate out…Half a tostada salad (lettuce, beans & rice, pico de gallo sauce on a soft white tortilla)
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• Other half of the tostada salad, 2 candy canes
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• :C: Throughout the day, 3 C. peppermint tea, 1 C. RRL tea
Not the best few days food-wise but not terrible either! Going to try to hit those white carbs hard today...
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Originally Posted by Mochagirl
Very, very true. I need my body to go, "WTF, Gena?!"
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Soooo... diet Dr Pepper, here I COME!
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Originally Posted by rainbowflower
My mother in law has pre-paid for us to have a Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve and it's a set menu (three courses! Obviously, no meat for me because I'm already vegetarian... but a lot of cheese and sauces, I'm certain....), so I have to eat it. All I can decide to do is eat nothing else that day. Gah. I haven't looked ahead to see where I am in my cycle that day... but I think roughly it will be January sometime when we'll be doing the official TTC month.
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Originally Posted by Out of the Blue
I do eat eggs... basically, I'm a vegetarian who eats dairy but typically not animal byproducts like Cochineal (which is used in a LOT of zero fat Strawberry yogurt... what's the point? It's just a food color! But made out of crushed bugs) or gelatin or animal rennet set cheeses (so, typically, parmesan is a no-no and various cheeses of that nature... especially if they are protected within the EU, as most of those tend to make it the traditional way with animal rennet). So, yes to eggs, cheese (with non-animal rennet), milk.
But I don't think I'll be eating eggs on this diet unless it is baked into something, although I have been curiously looking at the egg white you can buy in a carton... but haven't checked its protein.
Suregena, I was just curious since I'm a vegetarian but was a vegan before/during/after DS#2. Then after he was about 6 mos or so, I ate fish again (just a few times a year) and then cheese here and there. I've kept up the cheese and sometimes yogurt for the sway but would loooove to go back to vegan b/c I felt really great on the diet! Right now, the bit of dairy I do include helps me keep to the girl diet so I do that for now. I only do eggs right now in cakes, etc. if I even have those.
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Originally Posted by Out of the Blue
Neat! I'd love to do full vegan on this diet but I don't know how to do that, per se, and keep my calories up with the general restrictions as it is.
I've been vegetarian for years but probably protein heavy because of my love of Mexican food (beans, beans, beans! And it cracks me up how, over the years, people would voice their concern for me being vegetarian on, "Are you SURE you get enough protein?!" and especially when I was pregnant for my son, both my mother who has always been happy with my vegetarianism and especially my father, were VERY concerned about protein then. I was a spitting image of health throughout my pregnancy! I had amazing iron reserves... my midwife was always very pleased with my blood tests. Sillies...)
So even though the odd amount of beans is allowed, I am seriously going to try not to have them at all... because my body is used to them and craves them all of the time. Have to shake things up a bit.
What sort of vegan meals were you eating when you conceived your son?
Suregena - I never had a sweet tooth either but got quite a taste for them on the LE diet! I think you really need them to get the extra calories without any protein or sodium. I used to eat Mr Kipling cakes (Viennese Whirls, Mini Battenbergs etc.), Bakewell Tarts, Jam Tarts, Weight Watchers Victoria sponge cakes, Tutti Fruttis, Fox's Glacier Fruits and Skittles. I made sure I always bought vegetarian (although with the cakes I guess it depends on the brand).
Hmm... I think I'd be up for skittles. Those are always fun. Been ages since I've had them but I'm assuming they're vegetarian. Maybe I'll get some at work tomorrow! :P
Suregena,
So funny about the “not enough protein”…I easily ate 75 – 100+ grams of protein per day on a vegan diet w/out even thinking about it! Protein is seriously the least of health worries on a veg diet! I think that’s a great idea to really limit your beans, especially if that was your diet w/DS1. I also love beans and never eat them unless we’re out (which is entirely too often!).
Regarding what I ate when I was vegan, my favorite meal was the following:
Brown rice or quinoa topped w/steamed veggies (kale, carrots, purple cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower) and tofu topped w/sauce (tahini + soy sauce + bit of water). Honestly, I craved this all the time and had it once or twice a week. DH loved it as well.
Another staple in our house was a big salad w/:
• Romaine lettuce
• Endives
• Cucumber
• Tomatoes
• Green beans (grilled or raw)
• Asparagus (grilled or raw)
• Edamame
• Beets
• Apples
I mixed it up and topped it w/vinaigrette dressing. For DH who wasn’t/isn’t vegan, I put ****d white cheddar in it.
I also made quinoa tabbouleh, vegan potato salad and wonderful enchiladas topped w/a cheese sauce made out of cashews and nutritional yeast flakes. That sauce is also really yummy over tortilla chips for nachos but screams BOY!
Hey Mocha! I just sent your packie...I feel so strange just sending you seaweed...It'll be so anti-climactic when you open it. I totally wanted to stuff some chocolate and toffee covered pecans in there but I didn’t b/c I don’t want to ruin your sway. I figure the seaweed is bad enough, lol!
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Originally Posted by Out of the Blue
Haha, mmm... that all sounds so very yummy! My diet was/is dairy/mexican food heavy (or indian and then with the lazy nights of pizza/pasta... vegetarian but not super health-conscious vegetarian... i.e., we were CONSTANTLY eating donuts, cookies... we're always so tired after work we think we deserve "treats"... which borders on excessive... it's a good thing I don't gain weight eating like this!) so I wish I could think of more vegan meals without throwing in some sort of cheese because I fear I should really cut back on dairy when/where I can. I'm not really inspired right now in the diet because I haven't done a big grocery shop until I'm paid...
My diet was always heavily mexican food. Living in the UK, that's unusual, but I'm from Arizona! Haha! I swear we would have burritos for dinner at least 4x a week... and always repetitive toppings of black or pinto beans (I usually make big batches in the slow cooker so don't really add salt to them), romaine lettuce, salsa, hot sauce, sour cream, cheeeeeeeeese.
So, I really need to get so different... and my own innovativeness is not kicking in. I need a meal plan. Or else I'm going to get flustered every day and reach for the reduced fat cream cheese constantly!
I figure replacing cheese/dairy with tofu is probably a good idea.
Ah, who knows.
Yay! Thanks, Jen! I'm excited to have a new treat to try!Quote:
Originally Posted by Out of the Blue
I'm sending you O vibes so you can move on to the 2WW! Catch that egg!
-1 coffee with soy milk
-Part hummus and part reduced fat cream cheese on weight watchers danish bread with black pepper and basil
-1 Fabulous Bakin' Boys - Mint Chocolate Christmas Cupcake... mmm...
-A cereal bowl (about two cups, cooked) of the pasta leftovers from last night... that also has some grilled veggies and green beans in it, with reduced fat cream cheese (didn't add additional, it's from last night) and some chopped plain tomatoes... I added 10g of soy spread (there is 0 protein in the soy spread! I don't know how soy-heavy I want to make my diet but... no protein, which is odd) so it would be super dry reheating it as I do not own a microwave and reheated on the stove.
-Some stewed peeled pears & apples I made this evening that has some of the soy spread melted in from cooking, also.
I've been using myfitnesspal to tally things up... and sometimes I just wonder how accurate it is, then I look at the actual products and the tallies seem correct. Although I feel like the sodium count is off...
HOW am I not eating much sodium? I feel like I'm eating a LOT of food in general. I probably need to swap good calories, i.e. real food for empty ones, i.e. soda, candy. :/
I'm just not sure how accurate it all is, to be honest.
Calories: 1,314
Fat: 45
Protein: 38
Sodium: 400
I found with sodium that a lot of entries on myfitnesspal are incorrect due to other members submitting the details and making mistakes when inputting the sodium. I had to change quite a few items due to this. Basically the packs list sodium in grams, i.e. 0.1g. Myfitnesspal, however, lists sodium in mg. So a lot of times people input the sodium content as 0.1, but don't realise that it is asking for mg not g, in which case it should be 100mg. Therefore in this example the item would show no sodium content when it has in fact 100mg, which is 1/10 of your daily allowance. Hope this makes sense.Quote:
Originally Posted by suregena
I use Fitday, and the problem I find with it is that when it gives the sodium for something like pasta, it assumes you're salting the water, so it gives it this really high sodium rating even though on the package it says '0' for sodium. The same goes for most cooked vegetables. I always cross-check everything with packages and other sites and I use the 'custom foods' function to enter my own values all the time.
Thx, Mocha!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mochagirl
Monday:
• :C: 2 C. tea w/splash of rice milk
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• Air-popped popcorn, chipotle pepper hummus, weight watchers “giant latte” ice-cream bar
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• Sautéed leeks and mushrooms with white basmati rice and goat cheese, plain low-fat yogurt with canned pumpkin, cinnamon and stevia
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• :C: Throughout the day, 2 C. peppermint tea, 2 C. RRL tea
I ended up having an accidental cheat night last night. I did pretty well during the day:
7am: coffee
12pm: 1/2 pita with 1 TBSP light Hummus and cucumber, homemade low fat banana muffin
5pm: pasta with sauce made from low fat cream cheese, a splash of milk and a pinch of parmesan + sauteed mushrooms and leeks
This is where I was before my evening started:
Calories: 932
Protein: 31g
Sodium: 406mg
Then....I went out for 'dessert' with some of my friends. I'd made sure I'd left plenty in my caloric budget for a dessert, but when I arrived at the restaurant it turned out half of them were ordering supper first and the other half wanted to split appetizers before we got dessert. So...I ended up picking at all of the apps we ordered: crostini with mushrooms and goat cheese + with tomatoes and cheddar, a cheese plate, and onion rings. I didn't eat a lot of anything (1/2 of each flavour crostini, 1 giant onion ring, a few tiny ****s of cheese), but I ate enough that I'm sure my sodium and protein were through the roof. I also had a martini and shared a dessert tasting platter (chocolate cake, creme brulee and pumpkin cheesecake) for dessert. Again, I only had a couple of bites of each since I was sharing the platter with 2 other people, but I'm sure it brought me way over my limits. Oh well, at least it was yummy :bigsmile:.
Sounds heavenly!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mochagirl
You’re okay! You needed it and your overall trend is super...no need to worry.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mochagirl
Hey, Suregena...How are you doing? Hope all is well!
It wasn't that tasty, but it was ok - and had way less sodium and protein than my usual pasta that I drown in Parmesan trying to give it taste - since the sauce of this pasta was tasty on its own, it didn't need the extra parm. I think it would have been better if I'd thrown in a few tomatoes too. I was actually making it for my kids and dh - theirs also had shrimp in it. Before I added their shrimp I stole some of the sauce and had it myself.Quote:
Originally Posted by Out of the Blue
proper cheat day today, but I knew it would be!
it was my office Christmas Party so couldn't avoid it, so it was a Thai meal and I ate the meat option and I thoroughly enjoyed it! Won't be having anything else for the rest of the day and ate nothing else before it.
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Originally Posted by Out of the Blue
Doing good! Today was a good day at work! I didn't feel like I was suffering AND everyone brought goodies/cakes/cupcakes/cookies in and I didn't HAVE ONE. That's crazy for me, but I thought if I caved in, there would be no stopping me. So it was my first proper day on the diet at work.
6am - got up, dressed, left for work. Got filter coffee at the train station and put a splash of soy milk in it.
1.30pm - hummus and skinless cucumber sandwich on weight watchers bread and one of those cupcake thingies that have like 0.9 protein (the fat is 8g but oh well!)
6.30pm - 1 tablespoon of semi-dark chocolate chips... wanted to make dinner but my son wanted to nurse, so...
7.30pm - leftover pasta (2 cups worth, but that was it already cooked with veggies in it) with reduced fat cream cheese, a little grilled veggies like zuchini and eggplant, a tiny smidge of tomato that was barely noticeable, a little soy spread so it wasn't dry on reheating it over the stove, I added some baby button mushrooms to it as it is day 3 leftovers in the fridge and needed a little bit of pep...
8pm (now!) - some skittles and going to have a cup of Yorkshire tea with some soy milk to end my night on.
As you guys mentioned about the sodium, that makes sense to me completely. It's an easy thing to goof up. I'm sure I'm still within range on sodium, though. I must be! I don't salt anything! But I'll pay attention to those numbers and try to add them in manually, though... that'd get really, very tedious...
Calories: 1,362
Fat: 35
Protein: 45
Sodium: 383 (questionable.....)
Suregena - I agree that you're fine for sodium, though I'm sure your numbers are slightly off. I think WW bread has something close to 200mg of sodium for 2 slices (though I haven't had that for a while, so I may be remembering incorrectly). The Hummus I have has 140mg of sodium per TBSP, and the cream cheese has 105mg of sodium per TBSP. How about your cupcakes - they must have had some sodium, right? And there'd also be small amounts in some of the other stuff you had. Regardless, you're doing fine - you probably had something like 500-600mg of sodium, which is well within limits. As I said before, I manually enter all of my regular foods into FitDay - it saves them as 'custom foods' so I only have to enter them once. And yes, I do realise I am letting my testosterone-filled Type A personality shine by admitting this :oops:.
That's more like it Suregena! Can you eat low fat creme fraiche? I found that worked well for pasta on the LE diet.
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Originally Posted by zanacal
Ah, yes! THat might be an easier option... cream cheese is a little dry when adding to things like pasta, rice, couscous.
I think Mocha is right that maybe I should preset stuff so I KNOW the amounts are right!
Here's the nutritional stuff for the weight watchers, per slice:
Nutritional Data
Nutrition
Per average slice (20.6g)
Energy 49kcal
Protein 2.2g
Carbohydrate 9.4g
of which sugars 0.5g
Fat 0.2g
of which saturates Trace
Fibre 0.5g
Sodium 0.09g
Sooo... what does 0.09 equate to? (this will all be in grams... fairly certain, being in the UK.) (Edit to add: just looked it up, think it's 90mg per slice.)
I'll be switching to corn tortillas though once out of the bread. Just got my shipment from mexgrocer.co.uk (my favorite website, being an American in the UK!)
I second the creme fraiche recommendation. I got the idea from Z initially, and now it's one of my staples!
Also, while I know the cupcake thingies (they were on offer so not like they'll be a staple in my diet, heh) are high in fat at 8.0g, the rest of the nutrition is this:
137 calories
0.9g protein
8.0g fat
0.06g sodium
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Originally Posted by Mochagirl
I've never bought it before--I don't know why! I'll definitely pick some up!
Oh yes, I remember now that in the UK they often list sodium in g. That must get so confusing! What is that - 60mg of sodium?Quote:
Originally Posted by suregena