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Originally Posted by Mochagirl
Yes, I just googlechecked... 60mg.
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Originally Posted by Mochagirl
Yes, I just googlechecked... 60mg.
:(. I woke up feeling sick. With all the walking/traveling to work, I couldn't face it feeling sick so ate a nonfat yogurt this morning.
What would you do on a morning you feel sick with a headache? I didn't want to ignore it as I do have to function at work as it's a busy environment. Hopefully something like this on occasion should my body scream at me, is okay.
Your health comes first, suregena, so I think you did the right thing. I know in the past atomic has given advice for people who need to eat breakfast on what the best choices are, but I can't remember what they were. Anyone else remember?
Here's my day yesterday:
7am: coffee
12pm: English muffin with 1 TBSP low fat peanut butter (I was THRILLED when I discovered that these English muffins had only 120mg of sodium, and it made for a satisfying lunch)
5pm: pasta with zucchini, mushrooms, leeks, creme fraiche and parmesan, Jello for dessert (I know - bad idea with all that gelatin, but the kids were eating it and I couldn't resist :oops:)
8pm: Another girls' night, this time at someone's house. I ended up eating 1 handful of low sodium chips, 1 2-bite Brownie, 1 thin chocolate square, and a handful of jelly beans. It could have been way worse.
I don't really know my totals, but I think I'm still ok based on where I was at before my night out. I'm looking forward to some nights in now so it will be easier to control what I eat. AF is gone - just some minor spotting now - so I've gotta kick this diet into high gear to prepare for O next week.
agree suregena, you did the right thing. No brekkie is most key during the 2ww anyway.
Mocha - sounds like a nice day! I don't think it's important to track exact totals once you've got a feel for how much is in everything - you'll know from experience if the sort of things you eat are the sort of things that could push one of the totals over
Oh, I know rainbow - it's just my Type A personality coming out :oops:. I was even tracking all my nutrients for the first few weeks of my last pregnancy - I just got addicted to entering everything into my computer and couldn't stop! I've been trying to kick the habit, though, since I know it probably raises my testosterone. After over 6 months on the diet I certainly know what works and what doesn't...at the same time I love those days when I figure out my totals and discover I have room for a big evening indulgence like ice cream or chips! If I didn't do my totals I'd always be afraid to eat those things. Still, I'm going to try to wean myself off of it....
Suregena, as the others said, NO WORRIES! Do what you need to do, especially when you feel ill and have to work!
If I can recall (?), she said to keep the cals low and eat a bit of simple carbs while keeping protein to a minimum. A piece of toast, a small plain donut, etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mochagirl
I hope you’re feeling better, Suregena!
Mocha, I love that you have "girls’ nights" often!!! I need grab my girls and make it a bi-monthly thing!
Tuesday:
• :C: 2 C. tea w/splash of rice milk
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• Sautéed leeks, mushrooms and basmati w/a bit of chevrai goat cheese, weight watchers “giant latte” ice-cream bar & an apple
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• Big salad w/Raspberry vinaigrette (I’m finding I need to mix my dressing w/a lot of lime juice to give it more flavor), plain low-fat yogurt with canned pumpkin, cinnamon and stevia
• Had Mini Chewy Sweet Tarts 45 min after dinner…This is my new favorite candy!!! :awe:
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• :C: Throughout the day, 4 C. peppermint tea, 2 C. RRL tea
I am an avid oatmeal eater, so when confronted with the breakfast problem, Atomic said cream of wheat would be OK if I could not avoid eating a cereal type thing,...it's not the best, but it works, it's not as filling as oatmeal so I get hungry a lot faster but i think its better for blood levels plus there was something in oatmeal that turns into testorine in the body I think? So cream of wheat is what I use...not sure it's the best, but I cannot function without breakfast, i will get too sick to my stomach and too headachy to go to work.
DH and I don't have a babysitter, so girls' nights are the only way I get out! I'm lucky I have a couple different groups of girls who like to get together to watch movies, eat dinner...low-key stuff. Most of us are Moms, but not all of us - it's a nice mix.Quote:
Originally Posted by Out of the Blue
Yeah, felt fine after the yogurt! Still had a headache but that went away by lunchtime. Maybe I ate less calories than I estimated? I felt hungry before bed, but obviously ignored it.
Rice and veg tonight! That's the plan, anyway.
Glad you're doing better! When I'm just starting to cut my cals, I tend to get really annoying headaches b/c I'm not eating enough. Sounds like that's what happened to you. Eating is the only thing that seems to help me when I get those headaches.Quote:
Originally Posted by suregena
"Breakfast" because I felt really nauseated with a horrible headache and dizzy. :(
-(6:30am) 0% yogurt (I didn't know what else to do!)
-(8.00am) 1 coffee with soy milk
-Lunch (1.40pm) Reduced fat hummus and skinless cucumber sandwich on weight watchers danish bread and a little cupcake.
-(4.00pm) 2 bitesize cadbury's at work, oops! But they were tiny, so it should be fine...
-(7:00pm) Plain basmati rice (mmm....) with 1 cup grilled veggies, 1 cup green beans, and 100g baby button mushrooms with 2 tsp of soy spread and a little reduced fat cream cheese... yummm. It makes me feel like I'm cheating, but I'm not? Odd. I'm going to be eating mainly rice over pasta now... yum! I only ate a little over half of the amount, though, and saved the rest for lunch tomorrow.
Calories: 1,130
Fat: 32
Protein: 40
Sodium: (Can't be right.) 543
I might have something to add near bed. With the yogurt in the morning, and the cheeky bitesize cadbury, I'm surprised my numbers are what they are, more or less. But I guess swapping out pasta with rice will do that.
Last time I was on this diet I made the switch to rice pasta for the same reason. This time around I've been eating regular pasta mainly because I wanted the extra iron after all the bleeding I had after the m/c, but if I'm on the diet for much longer I think I'll switch to rice pasta again.
lunch: 1 pitta with melted mozzarella on top, 1 mince pie (freebie at work!), 2 quality street chocolates, 1 WW choc slice
5pm (before my uphill walk home): mars bar
tea: sainsbury golden rice and *ahem* a whole pack of Toffiffee!! Once I started I couldn't stop....
7am: coffee
12pm: English muffin with a bit of low fat peanut butter
5pm: jumbo pasta shells stuffed with a mix of canned pumpkin and ricotta cheese, topped with a mix of low sodium tomato sauce and more pumpkin + a sprinkle of mozarella. This sounds a lot better than it was - I saw the recipe in a magazine and thought it sounded good, but it was a little too much pumpkin. I think it would be better if I left the pumpkin out of the tomato sauce and just used it to stuff the shells. The kids loved it, though and it left me waaaay below my limits for protein and sodium! + 2 Peek Freans Lifestyles cookies for dessert
8:30: vanilla frozen yogurt topped with melted frozen raspberries, Mike & Ike candies, a handful of low fat salt & vinegar chips, grapes (yes, it was a big snack today - but necessary because going into it I'd eaten only 800 calories!)
Wednesday:
• :C: 2 C. tea w/splash of rice milk
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• Sautéed leeks, mushrooms and basmati w/a bit of chevrai goat cheese
• Fuji apple
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• Big salad w/Raspberry vinaigrette
• Plain low-fat yogurt with canned pumpkin, cinnamon and stevia
• Candy corns (left over from Halloween)
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• :C: 2 C. peppermint tea, 1 C. RRL tea
I think I O’d yesterday so I’ll be cutting out the tea for now…
Ohhh, I love your day yesterday!!! Sounds great! :agree:Quote:
Originally Posted by rainbowflower
Too many snacky treats today. :(. Holiday season, grrrr.
I feel your pain, Suregena! This has got to be the worst time of year to sway for a girl!
I managed to avoid several diet pitfalls while shopping at the farmer's market today. I averted my eyes when I saw the cheese curd, and bought each of my boys beautifully decorated Christmas cookies while buying nothing for myself. For lunch I bought some Montreal-style bagels (waaaay lower in sodium and protein that the classic NY style ones) and am having one for lunch with a bit of low fat cream cheese. It feels like an indulgence, but actually fits quite well into my diet. Now I just need to find something sweet for dessert....
Oh, and for once my millions of cups of tea a day might be a good thing. My u/s is scheduled for 1pm and I'm supposed to have a full bladder. I just took my OPK, so now I'm going to have a double sized cup of peppermint tea and a double sized cup of RRL tea instead of the water I'm supposed to drink. I can kill 2 birds with one stone! :)
TOO much snacking today. Mainly at the end of the work day. All the Radiologist consultants at work brought in their little Merry Christmas boxes of chocolates, cookies, etcetera today... and, oh goodness. It is SO hard walking by those boxes a million times and everyone around you chomping cookies to not grab some yourself. I'm so WEAK!
I had coffee and soy milk this morning.
Lunch at 1.40pm was leftover basmati and veg rice from last night, plain... so I bought a little thing of cottage cheese in the work cafeteria to add to it as it was a little less than half of what I had for dinner last night, and was scared of being too empty-stomached. I have NO idea if it was normal cottage cheese or low fat. :( It was probably half a cup's worth. Or a little less. Hope it wasn't TOO bad... oh, and one of those cupcakes...
Then 4pm rolled around and in came the cookies. I had 4(!!! :sigh:) and two bitesize cadbury's. Bad, bad, bad! I HAVE to TTC this time of the year (at least to try to get pregnant by a certain time, or else I'll have to wait some months and then try again... going to the US for Christmas next year so have to coordinate birth/pregnant/whatever around it, ha...), but if it were my choice, I wouldn't! Hard business, all these festive treats are going to ruin my sway! My willpower is terrible.
I had breakfast bowl size portion of basmati rice again for dinner, with button mushrooms, green beans, some garam masala/coriander/black pepper/cumin (I hope those seasonings aren't bad!) and some reduced fat cream cheese.
Calories: 1,258
Fat: 41
Protein: 43
Sodium, not even going to bother... probably all incorrect.
Also, these numbers could be off because I round up and tend to slightly over-estimate the amounts I have to be on the safe side.
Sometimes I think I have it easier doing the diet as a SAHM. I remember from my working days all the treats that circulate around the office at Christmas. There's no way I could have resisted them either, suregena! At least at home I can keep temptation away.
Oh, definitely! I wish I was a stay at home mom. :( Returning to work still just depresses me. I feel like I miss chunks of my son's life and I hate it...Quote:
Originally Posted by Mochagirl
The weekends when I am not at work are SO much easier!
7am: coffee
12pm: Montreal-style (low sodium) bagel with low fat cream cheese
5:30pm: pasta with zucchini, mushrooms and canned no salt tomatoes + creme fraiche and parmesan
9pm: green grapes, Mike & Ikes
Calories: 1309
Protein:40g
Sodium: 565mg
what I wouldn't give for a cheese and pickle sandwich for lunch :(
would be much too high in sodium, though
Rainbow, what I wouldn't give for just a cheese sandwich!!!
Thursday:
• :C: 2 C. black tea w/splash of rice milk
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• Sautéed leeks, mushrooms and basmati w/a bit of chevrai goat cheese
• Fuji apple
• Weight watchers Giant Latte ice cream bar
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• Big salad w/Raspberry vinaigrette
• Just a bit of plain low-fat yogurt with canned pumpkin, cinnamon and stevia
• Bit of air-popped popcorn
• A piece of low fat string cheese
• 1 Sour Patch candy cane
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• :C: No Pep tea…just water and my morning tea
:celebrate:Looks like I O’ed back on the 13th so I’m 3 dpo today.
YAYAYAYAYAYAY :cheerteam:Quote:
Originally Posted by Out of the Blue
Hey everyone, Ive been directed here by Zanacal, think this is going to be the making of my diet plan as was so lost!
Am loving Zanacals sweets and cakes!
Im about 5dpo and thinking now Im not pregnant - jumped and dumped after very shallow dtd,most in underwear, dtd 2 to 3 days before O. Replens 3 hours before dtd, probably over-kill with amount too. Mainly ate normal pasta, parmasan and rice, yogs and diet coke.
Im basically going to mimic Zanacals diet because Im UK based and will be great to include cakes and sweets and hula hoops lol as I need food on the go that I like too or I will give in and reach for a burger!
Am going to start tracking cals and nutrients too so hope to be a regular on here but follow in Zanacals foot steps for a fast bfp and a girl!
Welcome, Chocolate! Z and I started the diet around the same time and swayed together all last summer, so I'm very familiar with what she ate on a daily basis - good idea to mimic her food choices!
Oh gosh Chocolate, I hope it works for you too! Rainbow is also in the UK so I'm sure you'll be a great help to each other. Just remember to track your calories and protein and your sodium if you choose to - obviously those sweet treats are only ok if included in your daily allowance! Enjoy :D
7.50am - coffee with soy milk.
1.40pm - leftover basmati rice with green beans and mushrooms and a little (about 25g worth) of reduced fat cream cheese, with a diet Dr Pepper (whoa! I HAAAAATE aspartame, but I couldn't really taste it...)
3.00pm - three bitesize chocolates at work. :sigh:
7:00pm - Three Ryvita cracked black pepper crispbreads and three sweet chilli Ryvita thins, with a half of a cucumber skinned and sliced, about 50g of baby button mushrooms cooked, about 150g of nonfat cottage cheese, and about 25g of reduced fat cream cheese. (the stuff was used as toppings to the different Ryvita things. A lot of dairy, I know, but my son and husband finished off my reduced fat hummus today!)
Calories: 1,024
Protein: 46 (is that too much? :/)
Fat: 18
Sodium: Ehh, can't be right... but... 621
I am not hungry today... 2cps of coffee and a small slice of banana bread. I will have a bean burrito for dinner.
I'm from Arizona! But I live in the UK. I miss mexican food. Especially in Arizona. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by purplepoet20
fridays food:
10am- choc brownie (was out with a friend)
1pm- 2 WW choc slices
5pm - caulliflower, courgette, mushroom, onion with Waitrose half-fat korma sauce, rice, 1 WW mini naan bread, marshmallows
8pm - a few homemade cupcakes ;)
I'm sooooo starved today. It didn't help that we were just at the mall and I had to walk through the food court right near suppertime! I think I'm having a veggie burger for supper tonight. I've already worked out all my totals and I can fit it in with 300mg of sodium to spare - even WITH ketchup and mustard! I'm also making sweet potato fries for myself to have with it with no salt or oil added - we'll see how they turn out!
I'm really hungry at the moment too - I've woken up feeling hungry which is unusual for me at the moment
Here's yesterday:
7am: coffee
12pm: Montreal-style bagel with a tiny bit of light cream cheese, 2 Peek Freans Lifestyles cookies
5:30pm: veggie burger on thin, low sodium bun with a dab of low sodium ketchup and mustard + almost a whole sweet potato worth of sweet potato fries with a bit of malt vinegar on them - I cooked them with no salt or oil
9pm: realised I had only 700 calories for the day, so started trying to add to that - 1/2 glass white wine (I would have had more, but that was the end of the bottle), pineapple, a ton of Mike & Ike candies
Calories: 1172 (I definitely could have had more calories, but I was watching a movie with dh and kept driving him crazy when I paused it and went to the kitchen for more food)
Protein: 35.7
Sodium: 865
I love rice milk on its own, in cereal, etcetera, and I've switched to it in my coffee and it just doesn't work. I've barely drunk any! Siiiiiigh. Maybe it would work better in black tea...