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Mocha, I love the menu for your girls' night in!!!
Here's today:
* half-caf coffee w/rice milk
* BIG salad & BIG bowl of popcorn with parm cheese
* BIG salad w/goat cheese, Girl Sway smoothie, Trader J's seaweed strips, coconut H2O
* 4 C. Pep Tea, 2 C. RRL Tea
Tomorrow is our Thanksgiving so it'll be a bit crazy diet-wise... :oops:
Can anyone recommend some meals for dinner? I currently have Spaghetti-Cauliflower-Parmesan or Rice-Courgettes-Mushrooms-Parmesan most nights... I need some inspiration please. :)
Hi GeCon - I eat a lot of pasta too, but there are definitely ways to eat other things on this diet. In the past I've made veggie quesadillas/burritos by combining and heating no salt added black beans, a can of no salt added tomatoes a bit of chli powder and cilantro, spreading it on salt-free corn tortillas and adding 30g of cheese, then eating them with fresh low sodium salsa and fat-free yogurt. I've also made cannelloni stuffed with ricotta and spinach with low sodium pasta sauce and parmesan on top. Tonight I made pizzas on low sodium pita with low sodium sauce and 30g of mozzarella (I could have added lots of veggies too but I didn't have anything on hand).
So...last night was a bit of a wash. I did really well all day:
9am: coffee
12pm: spinach salad with beans and balsamic, pineapple, 2 sugar free cookies
5pm: apple
8pm: Greek food takeout - veggie pita with tzatziki, Greek salad
Before dinner my intake was:
Calories: 294
Protein: 11g
Sodium: 98mg
But I'm sure that Greek food tipped me waaaaay over the edge with sodium (that salad dressing was gloriously salty and so was the feta). I might have been ok with calories and protein, though.
Today so far I've had:
7am: coffee
12pm: 1/2 cup mixed beans with balsamic, banana (this was tough - IG taught me bananas were evil and I've had trouble eating them while swaying since, even though they're fine on the LE diet)
5:30pm: 1 1/2 pizza made on low sodium middle eastern pita, with low sodium tomato sauce and 30g mozzarella, 1 cup steamed broccoli
8:30: ice cream, red wine
As of now, 8:30 I'm at
Calories: 748
Protein: 34.4g
Sodium 801mg
This always happens to me when I stray away from calorie-heavy pasta - I have trouble getting enough calories without getting too much sodium and protein. I think I may eat some candy and drink some cranberry juice to try to get myself at least to 1000 calories - I'm aiming for at least 1500 each day, so today was not very successful. Back to pasta tomorrow.
Hey, girls! Have you tried the raspberry vinaigrette dressing from trader joes? It has about 30 cal 30 g sodium, maybe 2 g of fat and maybe 1 g of protein? This is from memory. It's pretty good!
Sounds great! I'm in Canada, so we don't have Trader Joes, or I'd give it a try!
Hey, Amari...I just picked some up on Sunday. I haven't tried it yet but I'm excited to! I've been using Trader Joe's Ranch Dressing (in the refridgerated section). It's not too bad for girl swayers either...For 2 T., 30 cals, 1.5g fat, sodium 130, protein 2. It's not as flavorful as other brands of Ranch but it's not bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by amari
I've been MIA due to all the Thanksgiving craziness. I was pretty good w/the diet, even on T.G.(although I was a bit over in all catagories). I've been skipping breakkie for over 2 wks now and honestly, it's really easy. Here's yesterday's menu:
- 2 C. half-caf coffee w/ricemilk
- Smoothie (froz rasp., psyllium husks, coconut H2O), BIG bowl of airpopped pop-corn
- BIG salad w/a bit of goat cheese and dressing, coco pops (like rice cakes but w/corn instead, confusing name since theres' no chocolate in there at all) & strawberry jam mixed w/lite cool whip and a T. of low fat cream cheese.
- 4 C. Peppermint Tea, 2 C. Raspberry Leaf Tea (throughout the day)
I'm thinking today, I'll grill some portobellos and zucchinis (courgettes). Not sure about the rest of the day but I suspect there'll be a BIG salad in there somewhere!
I've been MIA too - it wasn't Thanksgiving here, but I was at my Mom's house and cheated quite a bit. Both of my days there I had yummy cheesy vegetarian lasagna and quite a bit of curd cheese, so I'm sure I was over for protein and sodium...though it could have been worse.
Yesterday was my first day back fully on the diet again.
7am: coffee
12pm: spinach salad with 1/4 cup white kidney beans and balsamic vinegar, 2 sugar free cookies
5pm: pasta with creme fraiche and parmesan, 2 sugar free cookies
8:30pm: raspberries, Sour Patch Kids, Skittles
Calories: 1441
Protein: 39g
Sodium: 523mg