December's pink food thread!

:wave: Welcome, Chocolate! Glad you're joining us! :cool:


Yesterday (Friday):

• :C: 2 C. black tea w/splash of rice milk
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• Sautéed leeks, portobellos & white mushrooms, zucchini (courgette) and “no sodium added” canned tomatos w/a bit of chevrai goat cheese and quark…I’d never had “quark” before but it appears to be great for a girl sway!
• 16 Sweet Tart candies
• Zevia cream soda
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• 3 sugar cookies
• 1 chocolate crinkle cookie
• Some toffee bits
• air-popped popcorn w/a bit of pecorino-romano
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• :beer: Water throughout the day

I didn’t get to eat lunch until 3 p.m. b/c I was so busy yesterday. I usually eat around 1-2ish so I was starving by the time 3 p.m. rolled around. We got a package FULL of Christmas goodies so that was the extent of my dinner (and daily cals, fat, etc!!!). Someone pry the cookies and toffee away from me!!! AAAAHHHHHRRRRGGGG!!!

Mocha, a veggie burger and sweet potato fries sounds like heaven...:bigsmile:

It was pretty yummy! However, I do find that when I stray from my usual pasta, it's hard to get my calories high enough. A veggie burger and homemade fries are surprisingly low in calories (and quite yummy)!

I went around carrying my son (30lbs nearly) in my front carrier for about two hours doing last minute Christmas stuff.

I thought I'd punch that into the myfitnesspal thing and it said I lost like 300+ calories doing that! So it uped my caloric/protein intake as a result. I'll still stick to my normal eating routine and not let that give me excuses to eat more, but at least I can't feel too guilty with the chocolate I sneak in at work sometimes...

(I have him in the carrier more often now that it's winter.)

I got my fiber supplements so took those before eating today.

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Originally Posted by Mochagirl

It was pretty yummy! However, I do find that when I stray from my usual pasta, it's hard to get my calories high enough. A veggie burger and homemade fries are surprisingly low in calories (and quite yummy)!

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Ugh, that sounds SO SO SO good (obviously, I'm veggie so, that's like... a normal meal.) I LOVE sweet potato fries. I should make some! How do you make them without oil/butter/etcetera without them getting hard as rocks?

And what veggie burger did you get? I'd worry there would be too much sodium in them. That's why I've not even looked at them!

saturday:
10.30am: 2 cupcakes
1pm: 1 choc brownie (I was out and about) and 3 choc covered marshmallows
5pm: leftovers korma with rice and 2 WW mini naan breads (they only have 90mg sodium each, and so lovely and soft!)
8pm: 2 cupcakes

so not eaten particularly well today due to lack of time and disorganisation, but at least what I have eaten has been fairly lacking in nutrients and fairly low in calories

suregena - I found the best vegeburgers to be the ones with actual vegetables inside (rather than the meat substitute type!) and breadcrumbs round the edge. They can be fairly high in sodium but I regularly had one like that from Tesco and occasionally from Waitrose. I really enjoyed one of these in a wrap with a little mayonnaise - I actually craved them!

UK ladies - I'm sat here scoffing cheap sweets from Tesco and it appears that their Fizzy Multi-Coloured Belts (very sour!) and Mini Jellie Beans have around 100 cals and not a lot else per serving and both are vegetarian.

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Originally Posted by zanacal

suregena - I found the best vegeburgers to be the ones with actual vegetables inside (rather than the meat substitute type!) and breadcrumbs round the edge. They can be fairly high in sodium but I regularly had one like that from Tesco and occasionally from Waitrose. I really enjoyed one of these in a wrap with a little mayonnaise - I actually craved them!

UK ladies - I'm sat here scoffing cheap sweets from Tesco and it appears that their Fizzy Multi-Coloured Belts (very sour!) and Mini Jellie Beans have around 100 cals and not a lot else per serving and both are vegetarian.

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I was looking at those Tesco things the other day!

I'm making dinner right now... my current favorite of veg and basmati rice. And in the back of my mind I'm trying to figure out how in the world it doesn't take me over my limit because it just all looks so filling and delicious. I'm worried the veg will ruin my sway, too. Hahah. Mushrooms, green beans, and a bit of a mix from Waitrose/Ocado that is peppers, courgette (zuchini) and aubergines (eggplant.)

Why does it feel like it's going to make me sway blue?!

I know we are supposed to try to eat vegetables with as little color as possible... but it all looks so damn healthy and divine...

And, mmm... veggie burgers in a wrap with a little mayo! God, that sounds so, so good. I'll have to stare at all the veg burger stuff. I figured it wouldn't be the soy/quorn kind but the kind made with actual veggies.

I think I'm a little hungry. I had lunch at 3.30pm and it's almost 10pm and have only just started to cook dinner.

Tried creme fraiche (low fat/etcetera) in my rice tonight... I've never had it before. AMAZING. Hahah, delicious.

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Originally Posted by suregena

Ugh, that sounds SO SO SO good (obviously, I'm veggie so, that's like... a normal meal.) I LOVE sweet potato fries. I should make some! How do you make them without oil/butter/etcetera without them getting hard as rocks?

And what veggie burger did you get? I'd worry there would be too much sodium in them. That's why I've not even looked at them!

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The ones I got were Sol Cuisine Original Burger (I'm in Canada, so I doubt you have them there), they have about 250mg of sodium per patty, and the buns I had were 110mg of sodium, so it was completely doable as long as I don't eat much sodium the rest of the day.

For the fries all I did was peel a sweet potato, cut them into wedges, and bake them for maybe 20 minutes at around 400. Easy peasy. They didn't look beautiful, but they were nice and soft and tasty.

So, yesterday was a little tricky because we were at a Christmas luncheon at dh's aunt's house out of town. First of all, they didn't serve lunch until 3pm, which almost killed me. I was already starting to feel weak around 1:00, so when they offered me a drink I accepted a full sugar gingerale. It helped get my blood sugar up and keep me going until they served the very late lunch.

7am: coffee
1pm: gingerale
3pm: tiny serving of cheesy baked pasta (maybe 6 pieces), pasta with tomato sauce (I didn't realise until after I served myself that there was meat in it, but I avoided all chunks and really only ate maybe 6 pieces anyway), Caesar salad (high in fat, I know, but the only vegetable option available). 2 tiny shortbread cookies, 1 small gingerbread man, 1 1-inch square nanaimo bar.
7:30pm: 1 1/2 cups rice with zucchini, mushrooms, creme fraiche, parmesan and a squirt of lime juice, 2 Peek Freans Lifestyles cookies
9pm: (I know it was too soon after supper to snack, but I'm used to eating supper a lot earlier, and old habits die hard) pineapple, Mike & Ikes

So I think I did ok even though I couldn't control what I ate for lunch. When I plugged everything into FitDay I was surprised to see my sodium actually seemed to be within limits - that was what I thought I had cheated on the most. Protein and Calories came out well within limits as well.

This is all just a preview of what's to come next week when I'm at my in-laws' house all week...except it will be worse because the meals won't be buffets where I can pick and choose the best options. My only potential saving grace is that one of the other guests - my BIL's girlfriend - is vegetarian. She'll only be there a few days while we're there, but I'm hoping that on those days, at least, there'll be more vegetarian-friendly food available. On the other days I may have no choice but to eat roast beef, meaty lasagna, and whatever else she serves. Hopefully O will come by then!

Hey everyone, Im not going to write what Ive been eating as dont want to give you all cravings!!

If Im not pregnant this cycle (dont think I am) then we are postponing ttc till March for a few reasons really. DS1 starts school in September so dont want to change things too much around then, the bigger the gap the better really, and also I think March sways well and Id like to enjoy my food over Chrsitmas and start the LE diet in January.
Ive spoken to Rainbowflower about my PCOS before andshe gave me some good links to PCOS so Im going to see my fertility specialist first the end of Feb. who can assess my luteal phase, hormone levels etc. so should be ready to ttc from March.

So Ill be putting on 10 pounds that I lost over Christmas ha ha!

Does anyone use wholegrain foods? I think for me I need to keep sugar levels low by skipping brekkie, but also need to stop then suddenly going high by eating wholegrain foods. I know it slightly adds some nutrition and Ill be sad not to eat the cakes and sweets! But got to be done.

But for now, Im enjoying my boy food yum yum!

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Originally Posted by Mochagirl

So, yesterday was a little tricky because we were at a Christmas luncheon at dh's aunt's house out of town. First of all, they didn't serve lunch until 3pm, which almost killed me. I was already starting to feel weak around 1:00, so when they offered me a drink I accepted a full sugar gingerale. It helped get my blood sugar up and keep me going until they served the very late lunch.

7am: coffee
1pm: gingerale
3pm: tiny serving of cheesy baked pasta (maybe 6 pieces), pasta with tomato sauce (I didn't realise until after I served myself that there was meat in it, but I avoided all chunks and really only ate maybe 6 pieces anyway), Caesar salad (high in fat, I know, but the only vegetable option available). 2 tiny shortbread cookies, 1 small gingerbread man, 1 1-inch square nanaimo bar.
7:30pm: 1 1/2 cups rice with zucchini, mushrooms, creme fraiche, parmesan and a squirt of lime juice, 2 Peek Freans Lifestyles cookies
9pm: (I know it was too soon after supper to snack, but I'm used to eating supper a lot earlier, and old habits die hard) pineapple, Mike & Ikes

So I think I did ok even though I couldn't control what I ate for lunch. When I plugged everything into FitDay I was surprised to see my sodium actually seemed to be within limits - that was what I thought I had cheated on the most. Protein and Calories came out well within limits as well.

This is all just a preview of what's to come next week when I'm at my in-laws' house all week...except it will be worse because the meals won't be buffets where I can pick and choose the best options. My only potential saving grace is that one of the other guests - my BIL's girlfriend - is vegetarian. She'll only be there a few days while we're there, but I'm hoping that on those days, at least, there'll be more vegetarian-friendly food available. On the other days I may have no choice but to eat roast beef, meaty lasagna, and whatever else she serves. Hopefully O will come by then!

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Hiya, hope I arrives by then, this happenned to me on holiday, was buffet food and hoped O was done but it caught me out and came 2 days after eating meat and fry ups! Thats this cycle but dont think I am pregnant or Im sure it would be a boy again.
If youve been doing the diet a while Im sure its the over all diet that counts.

Every once in a while I have some wholegrains. Those extremely low sodium hamburger buns I had the other day were whole grain - but they were so tiny that I figured it was worth it for the 100mg of sodium they had, as opposed to the 200+mg that all the white buns I found had. Once in a blue moon I also eat the whole wheat pasta I make for my kids instead of the regular pasta I cook for myself - mainly because I don't feel like having to have two pots boiling at once. I'd say maybe I have whole grains about 2-3 times a week all told.

Anyway, enjoy your food for the next month, chocolate! You are very patient (and probably wise) to take some time off TTC if you don't get your BFP this cycle...I wish I had your patience, but we've been TTC since last May (although I was pregnant for a few months in there), and I want to be pregnant RIGHT NOW!

Yep Im trying to be patient! Especially when I google PCOS it throws up all sorts of issues but Im trying not to think about that too much right now, was going to do the LE diet this week but just couldnt be bothered to do a special food shop, and to be honest I probably need to gain a few pounds so I have enough left to loose.

Hope this month is your bfp month, will deserve it after doing all this over Christmas!

I had the bright idea to walk my son (he's two next month so he's an excellent walker who loves to go for walks) to the park so he could play since the sun was out. Bad idea! Ice everywhere. He slipped twice (he was holding my hand so he didn't hurt himself.) Just as I saw sight of the EMPTY playground, I turned around and he became hysterically upset. So I decided to walk to the local coffee shop to get him an orange juice. I decided to just get lunch while I was there. I had a rocket and baby leaf salad with balsamic vinaigrette, tomato slices, and slices of fresh mozzarella... with some pita bread. Probably took a chunk of my allowance of the day (I put it in myfitnesspal and I do still have plenty, maybe except in the fat/protein department where I just have "enough" room left).

After eating, though, I have a headache, I feel lightheaded/dizzy. I bet it's my iron levels. I bet they're low. Not sure what to do about that...

When I was worried about my iron right after my m/c, atomic suggested I have spinach salad with some white beans and a chopped egg every day. Honestly, I only did that one day because it ended up taking my protein too high, but after that I had spinach salad with either 1/4 cup beans or a little egg for a few days. Now, whenever I feel my iron getting low, I just add spinach to lunch or supper or both (I have some frozen spinach nuggets in the freezer I can toss in with my sauteed veggies that I mix with my pasta) and/or I switch the regular pasta for whole wheat pasta for a day or two, since the stuff I buy has 25% of your daily iron per serving.

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Originally Posted by Mochagirl

When I was worried about my iron right after my m/c, atomic suggested I have spinach salad with some white beans and a chopped egg every day. Honestly, I only did that one day because it ended up taking my protein too high, but after that I had spinach salad with either 1/4 cup beans or a little egg for a few days. Now, whenever I feel my iron getting low, I just add spinach to lunch or supper or both (I have some frozen spinach nuggets in the freezer I can toss in with my sauteed veggies that I mix with my pasta) and/or I switch the regular pasta for whole wheat pasta for a day or two, since the stuff I buy has 25% of your daily iron per serving.

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Ah, good idea. I have some frozen spinach. I'll add that to whatever I end up making for dinner.

I find it doesn't really change the taste of anything I'm making significantly, but can really up your iron. If you buy the frozen kind, make sure to read the nutritional info, though - some companies add sodium to it. The stuff I have, which I love because it's in individual serving 'nuggets', has only a trace of sodium.

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Originally Posted by Mochagirl

I find it doesn't really change the taste of anything I'm making significantly, but can really up your iron. If you buy the frozen kind, make sure to read the nutritional info, though - some companies add sodium to it. The stuff I have, which I love because it's in individual serving 'nuggets', has only a trace of sodium.

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Yeah, the stuff I have is individual nugget-type, as well. Highly doubtful there is sodium added to it!

I think I'll be high in fat and protein today because of lunch (the mozzarella and balsamic dressing I'm sure)... probably in the low-mid 40s, with dinner included, but hopefully the odd day isn't a big deal.

Cup of coffee with rice milk

Lunch... was at a coffee shop so had a mozzarella/tomato/basil baby leaf + rocket salad with balsamic vinagirette... and a large Americano with soy milk.

At home I had some semi-dark chocolate chips (about a tablespoon worth.)

Dinner is basmati rice, mushrooms, spinach, tablespoon creme fraiche, lemon juice, and black pepper. (My son had pesto on his... so jealous! I LOVE pesto.)

Calories (rough estimate due to my lunch having been eaten out): 1,010
Fat: 47 :(
Protein: 42. :(
Sodium: 554 (Hmmm...)

suregena - don't worry about the number of grams of fat you have, but rather the percentage of calories from fat. Atomic says ideally we should be at about 20-30% of calories from fat. On FitDay, which I use, it shows me my totals on a little pie chart.

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Originally Posted by Mochagirl

suregena - don't worry about the number of grams of fat you have, but rather the percentage of calories from fat. Atomic says ideally we should be at about 20-30% of calories from fat. On FitDay, which I use, it shows me my totals on a little pie chart.

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Maybe I should try them. I don't know how to know what my calories from fat are.

Honestly, I don't have a clue how to calculate calories from fat myself, but I'm sure you could figure it out pretty quickly if you googled it!

Yes... if I did the math right, it will have been 41% fat from calories, which isn't very good!

You take the fat grams and multiply by 9 and divide that number by the number of calories - looks like you calculated it right suregena. The funny thing is, if you ate more calories (without eating any more fat) your % would be less!

I was going to say the same thing about more calories, Z! I sometimes find that if I look at my calories from fat early in the day it will be really high, but after my evening candy snack it gets well below 30%.

I'm having such a hard time with the candy! I bought skittles the start of last week and I still haven't eaten them all! Seriously.
And tonight I can't sleep (now 1am) because I feel sick. AGAIN! I had a white piece of ww danish toast to try to stop it. It seems I do REALLY well for like a handful of days (last week I did pretty good for most of it, though) and then I have a night/morning where I feel shakey and nauseous.

:(

Mexico sounds nice Amari!!
Figured I'd get on this thread..can'd do anything except focus on diet.

8am: coffee
1pm: french toast- homemade bread and eggbeaters, bit of milk and dash of vanilla, sprinkled with splenda
6pm: pasta with riccotta and parmesean
few no salt pretzels.

7am: coffee
12pm: small bagel with low fat cream cheese, gingerbread cookie
5:30pm: orzo pasta with roasted butternut squash, a dab of butter and parmesan (Yum!), 2 more gingerbread men for dessert :oops: (in my defense, I baked them today and the whole house smelled like them)
9pm: green grapes, Mike & Ikes

3 cups peppermint tea, 2 cups RRL tea, 1 can Diet Pepsi

I've done really good today! Er, except for the calories... but everything else is spot-on. Actually, I did the percentage of fat from calories thing again and I think it was at 23% or something. Yeah!

Breakfast:
No coffee this morning... I just can't do the rice milk in coffee... I have to go back to soy. Rice milk just doesn't taste nice in it and if I am not enjoying it, I am not forcing it down me!

Lunch:
3 Ryvita thins and 3 Ryvita cracked black pepper crispbreads, with nonfat cottage cheese, skinless cucumber slices, and about 50g worth of reduced fat hummus... and a diet Dr Pepper.

Dinner:
(Not eaten yet but soon... it's in the plan.)
Leftover basmati rice with mushrooms and a little bit of grilled veggies, and some low fat creme fraiche.

Snacks:
Half of cupcake-thing (the last one in the box... I split it with my son.)
Two rice cakes with 1 tablespoon worth of Nutella (I only did 1 tablespoon worth and spread it very thinly over the two. SO GOOD. I never buy Nutella because... I could probably eat the whole jar...) I'm so glad there isn't heavy loads of protein in it.

Calories: 926
Fat: 24
Protein: 33
Sodium:518 (could be slightly more than that but definitely not over the limit.)

I might have one more rice cake with nutella close to bed... I have the room and I need more calories! Ha!

Sounds like a great day, suregena! I actually use a very small slosh of regular 1% milk in my coffee - I couldn't stomach the rice milk in it either and I don't care for coffee black. I'm fairly sure atomic once said the small amount you put in coffee doesn't raise your blood sugar enough to make a difference.

7am~ coffee with milk
1pm~ 2 small slices homemade bread 2 slices low sodium cheese
6pm~ 1 strawberry nutrigrain bar
7pm~ 1 chicken cutlet, pasta with ricotta
8:30~ nutmeg sconce, handful of sourpatch kids

7am: coffee
12pm: rice with yogurt & balsamic, gingerbread man
5:30pm: leftover orzo pasta with butternut squash and parmesan, 2 more gingerbread men :oops:
9pm: green grapes, Mike & Ikes and a handful of Pringles (I had room in my budget and was craving salt)

Calories: 1569
Protein: 38
Sodium: 701

This week is going to be near-impossible to diet on when I'm not at home. I might relax it this holiday week (except at home!) but obviously not go CRAZY. 1 week (not even a full week...) shouldn't doom me when all of the supplements, etcetera, are taken into consideration... then after the 25th I'll hit it hard again.

There's a work party with snacks and things involved tomorrow. I'm baking chocolate chip and peanut butter cookies tonight... I have my mother in law's Christmas dinner on Friday... and outings on Xmas Eve and Xmas.

Near... impossible. I'm just not going to stress about it and ride the holiday wave a little and then jump back on the diet horse right after.

Oof.

Good idea, suregena. Once I O, I'm going to let myself relax a bit with the diet too - at least while I'm visiting the ILs. The food there will be out of my control anyway, so there's no sense fighting it and stressing about it. I will try my best to keep my blood sugar low, though, since that's most important in the 2WW...but I won't beat myself up about eating a bit of meat if that's all that's available at meals.

today started well...

morning: 2 marshmallows when I felt dizzy
lunch: tomato +sweetcorn pasta, 2 WW mini rolls

then started to feel down....
mid-afternoon: slice of cheesecake (but didn't eat it all)

and then DH ordered pizza...
tea: 1/2 Dominos garlic bread, a few potato wedges, 2 Dominos cookies

so think I've definitely gone over on the sodium today, and probably at the upper limit for cals/prot/fat too

There's no way I'd let dh order pizza while I'm on the diet! Pizza's something I can never, ever resist - and I can't stop at one piece - I'll eat a whole pizza if you set it in front of you. I think you did a great job, all things considered....

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There's no way I'd let dh order pizza while I'm on the diet! Pizza's something I can never, ever resist - and I can't stop at one piece - I'll eat a whole pizza if you set it in front of you. I think you did a great job, all things considered....

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You and me both! My husband had pesto and pasta twice over the weekend. TWICE! The smell was intense.
Last week he also had pizza... it was brutal.