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You know, come to think of it, my arms and shoulders are really bony too. Because it's summer, I've been wearing lots of tank tops, and my friends have commented on how skinny my arms look. My collarbone has become prominent too. I'll bet it is the lack of protein.
That's so weird, I have never had a bony collarbone in my life until now, but it's really prominent and the first thing anybody commenting on my weight loss notices!
Mine are a little bigger since putting on weight
Here's yesterday's food:
7am: coffee
12pm: shirataki noodles with low sodium primavera sauce and a dusting of parmesan, green grapes, 2 fruit creme cookies
5:30pm: homemade low sodium black bean burritos on corn tortillas with fresh salsa and non-fat yogurt + cheddar cheese
8:30pm: brownie with vanilla ice cream (I was out for dessert with a friend)
The burritos actually turned out quite well. I just cooked a can of no salt black beans with a can of no salt tomatoes, added cilantro, a bit of chili powder and cumin + a chopped leek, then added 2 cups of white rice. I used store-bought fresh salsa and full fat cheddar, but only a little bit, and used non-fat yogurt instead of sour cream. I had 4 (my no-salt corn tortillas are tiny), and everyone in the family ate some too, and I have sooooo much filling left for future meals (luckily, the kids liked it too). I thought I was going to be over my limits, but I weighed all my portions and discovered I was actually very low for everything - I could have eaten more. I was only at 900 calories heading out with my friend for the evening, which is why I went for the big brownie with ice cream. Yum!
Here's yesterday's food:
7am: coffee
12pm: shirataki noodles with low sodium primavera sauce and a dusting of parmesan, green grapes, 2 fruit creme cookies
5:30pm: homemade low sodium black bean burritos on corn tortillas with fresh salsa and non-fat yogurt + cheddar cheese
8:30pm: brownie with vanilla ice cream (I was out for dessert with a friend)
The burritos actually turned out quite well. I just cooked a can of no salt black beans with a can of no salt tomatoes, added cilantro, a bit of chili powder and cumin + a chopped leek, then added 2 cups of white rice. I used store-bought fresh salsa and full fat cheddar, but only a little bit, and used non-fat yogurt instead of sour cream. I had 4 (my no-salt corn tortillas are tiny), and everyone in the family ate some too, and I have sooooo much filling left for future meals (luckily, the kids liked it too). I thought I was going to be over my limits, but I weighed all my portions and discovered I was actually very low for everything - I could have eaten more. I was only at 900 calories heading out with my friend for the evening, which is why I went for the big brownie with ice cream. Yum!
Mmmmm, chocolate brownie!
Today for me:
Lunch: ww bread with processed cheese and cucumber, yogurt, bakewell tart, sweet.
Snack: ww chocolate wafer bar
Dinner: Tesco light cheesey pasta with peas and broccoli. ww toffee ice-cream.
Wow - Queen of processed food today!
That is very little food, z!!
Me today...
No breakfast
Lunch few crisps, m and s falafel wrap, bar of White chocolate
Snack rice with balsamic (odd snack I know!)
Dinner vegetable lasagne, frozen yogurt, tooti frooties
Still being relaxed with diet but getting back on track!
I had rice with balsamic at lunch today, swish!
hiya, first proper post in here! I'm still struggling with my meal plans and finding it hard to eat enough nutrients. I travelled to a different town today to meet another mum and felt faint when there again after a light lunch so had a slice of victoria sponge and felt SO guilty about it!! although even with that slice of cake I'm still not near my targets...
Anyway, here are my latest two days food:
Targets:
1800 calories
60-65g fat (30%)
700-1000 mg sodium
60-65g protein
Day 2
crackers + cheddar : Total: 381 calories, 14.1g protein, 14.4g fat, 220mg sodium (for 8 with cheddar)
egg fried rice: Total: 529 calories, 16.7g protein, 7.6g fat, 80mg sodium
coco pops: 175 calories, 6g protein, 3g fat, 150mg sodium
2 WW lemon cake slices 160 calories 1.6g protein 1g fat 20mg sodium
4 Marshmallows 95 calories 0.9g protein trace fat trace sodium
TOTAL: 1340 calories 39.3g protein 26g fat, 470mg sodium
Day 3
1.5 pitta + salad: 225 calories, 9.3g protein, 1.05g fat, 270mg sodium
pasta + tomato sauce: Total: 790 calories, 18.8g protein, 2.2g fat, trace sodium
coco pops: 175 calories, 6g protein, 3g fat, 150mg sodium
victoria sponge 329 calories 4.5g protein 15.1g fat 150mg sodium
total: 1519 calories, 38.6g protein, 21.35g fat, 570mg sodium
plus 250ml of regular cola
can anyone suggest some things I can imrpove on? I don't really like cheese if I'm honest (well, I only really like creamy cheese)
oh and I'm finding it hard to eat more at mealtimes too. I'm getting quite full on veg/fruit and rice/pasta/bread... so not sure how to eat more without snacking unless I reduce the fruit/veg.
In what way do you want to improve, what meal time are you not happy with?
Do not feel guilty about the odd snack, especially when you're still in limits, don't be too hard on yourself :)
I really need to be eating more calories/fat/protein, etc. I'm still BF, and don't want to lose too much weight either as I only have about 10lbs I can lose in total before I'm underweight...
What about humous? That has a good amount of fat.
I eat pasta/rice for both lunch and dinner which I find gives me a few more calories. Also full fat pop has been recommended to me. I would eat proper cake too, not ww, it will probably have the same protein but more calories and fat. You definitely need to eat more if you don't want to lose too much weight
You're lucky you don't like cheese, rainbow - cheese is my biggest weakness, and it's so high in protein I can barely have any on this diet!
You're right that you're not eating enough, though. One of my biggest regrets is that I didn't start out this diet eating to the maximum limits - I was regularly eating only 1000-1200 calories per day at first and I lost weight way too quickly. A couple of girls on here lost too much weight and stopped ovulating (our own lovely swish included).
Do you like sweets? If so, I'd add some more. Maybe full fat ice cream?
I also think in your situation you might want to eat 3 meals a day (atomic says this is ok on the diet). Still skip breakfast, but fit the 3 meals into the hours between noon and bedtime somewhere. I found I was never able to give up my nighttime snack, so I decided to consider it my third meal even though it only consists of snackfoods and sweets (all within the limits, of course). An extra real meal a day could really help with your totals and won't require you to overstuff yourself at each sitting.
I would have a pudding after each meal rainbow (and I do!). These are the treats I can think of and most of them have calories but not very much protein and sodium. (Btw, where did you find egg fried rice with such low sodium?!)
- Mr Kipling cakes (I have Viennese Whirls, Raspberry Slices and Mini Battenburgs)
- Jam Tarts (the Tesco cheap brand ones are quite good)
- Bakewell Tarts (same as above)
- Biscuits! 2 custard creams gives you about 130 calories and not alot else.
- Sweets - There are 20 calories and no other nutrients in a Fox's Glacier Fruit so you could suck a few in the evening for a snack and sneak in another 100 calories easily. Tutti Fruttis - about 180 calories (I think!) in quarter of a big bag.
- Snack-a-jacks
- Crisps! There are quite a few which only have 100mg or so of sodium in them. Hoola Hoops are ok. There are also Weight Watchers and 'Velvet Crunch' but these have less calories as they're aimed at dieters.
- Ice cream! I like the mini tubs of ww toffee and chocolate ice-cream and the toffee and honeycomb sundaes. Yum!
- Meringue nests and a bit of cream or yogurt with your berries.
- Yogurts. I like the Activia ones in the little round tubs. They're not fat free but they're less than 3% fat and have around 120 calories, 6g protein and very little sodium.
If you don't like cheese how about having a bagel with no/low sodium butter or spread and jam or a tablespoon of peanut butter? I've found a couple of Tesco Light Choices ready meals lately which have worked out fine. There's a pasta in cheesey sauce with peas and broccoli, creamy mushroom pasta and tomato and cheese pasta bake.
HTH :D
Oh, were you only eating 2 meals? Yes, definitely eat 3!! I find that because I eat lunch early (I often have it at 11 or 11.30 because I can't make it until 12!) I want dinner early (sometimes at 4) so then I have supper during the evening (which, like mocha said, is often just snacky foods but I eat them in one sitting so it's not like I'm grazing all evening and keeping blood sugar levels elevated over a long period of time).
I agree on the 3 meals thing, that's something I'm going to do too
Here's today for me:
7am: coffee
12pm: 2 homemade low fat apple muffins (veerry yummy!), 1/2 cup rice with a bit of yogurt and balsamic
2:30pm: coffee (it was a bad night - the kids were up a lot)
5pm: leftover vegetarian burritos - I had one on a real tortilla and two on my tiny sodium-free (tasteless) corn tortillas, 2 fruit creme cookies
8:30pm: frozen strawberries warmed in the microwave then mushed up on top of low fat vanilla ice cream. This was sooooo yummy!, Mike & Ike candies, peach, 1/2 serving of low salt chips (I couldn't really afford the sodium, but I needed more calories and didn't want anything else sweet)
Calories: 1734
Protein: 41g
Sodium: 1115mg
well I've sort-of been having 3 if you count my supper of coco pops as a meal! I'll try and make the other meals more substantial today with puddings then.
the bit that worries me is that I'm eating so much at each meal I don't really feel as if I'm simulating being starving and in hard times lol
thank you for all of those ideas, I will investigate those light chocies meals too (don't forget to add those to the UK food ideas thread!) as there are days when I'll be working when I won't get home until 6pm and my DS starts bedtime at 6.30pm so I'll need a quick fod
Continue on the September thread ladies ...
http://genderdreaming.com/forum/show...read-September
The ww creme fraiche is gorgeous on the pasta, I see that you ate tomaotes a lot is that OK. Also where are you getting all the baby food that you are using, you mentioned tomato based sauce... IT is my first day and I only ate about 890 cals, I am going to have to try and work that out!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by zanacal
The baby foods can be found in the baby aisle. Some of them are quite nice, others can be a bit tasteless. The best tomato sauce I have found so far is the Weight Watchers Parmesan and Pesto Pasta Sauce: 175g (1/2 glass) has only 86 calories, 3g fat, 3g protein and 90g sodium.Quote:
Originally Posted by pebmcp6
Also, I am not sure if you are aware of this, but here is some info I got from Atomic some time ago on the subject of sodium:
"Do not drop the sodium any lower (than the recommended 700-1000mg). That is the level of sodium that is required for your health and this is true on all three diets, IG, FGD, and LE."
The tomato pasta sauce I used was a Mickey Mouse kids sauce, with all the other pasta sauces in Tesco and not from the baby aisle. I wouldn't say I ate a lot of tomatoes - perhaps one jar of that pasta sauce a week and it would last me for 2 days.