For people that want to record what they are eating (to help be strict!)

You made my decision for me, zanacal! While buying groceries today I picked up a bag of low fat salt & vinegar chips (crisps) and thought I'd have them as a treat on a day when I have enough room left in my sodium budget...then I started to second guess myself. I'm finding lately that by day's end I've only had about 400-500mg of sodium, so it would be easy for me to have a treat like that. Salt & vinegar chips are one of my favourite things in the world - it would be soooo nice to have a treat like that some evening!

I won't buy them as a matter of course because I too love them and it's what I would have eaten a lot of pre girl diet - but they were left over from DS2's party and when I read the packet I was excited that I could have a bag as a treat!

I have an unopened tube of Pringles in the cupboard I keep eyeing, but my worry is that if I start eating them I won't be able to stop. Instead I bought a small bag where the serving size listed in the nutritional info is the whole bag. That way I can eat the whole thing and when they're gone, they're gone.

Yum, salt and vinegar crisps, I love them!!!!:bigsmile:
Today....
No breakfast
Lunch Swiss cheese and cucumber sandwich, not worry the protein, will return to my usual tomorrow! Strawberries, ww lemon drizzle cake
No snacks! The heat is helping this!!!
Dinner spinach risotto (used only a few spinach leaves), few courgettes. Yogurt
Waiting to ovulate, hopefully next couple of days!!!!!!!!!!

So I have fallen into my own diet....

Over the last weekend I ate Red Robin, NV Buffets, donuts, and even breakfast. After a trip to Red Robin were I ate a burger and two straw/lemonaide my blood sugar hit the roof and I slept from 2pm-9am. I am still holding off breakfast and eating 2 meals a day or 3 very small meals. I am back on fake sugar, very low salt, no carbs, and no dairy. Since I am TTC now I am not to worried about limiting so much. I only eat 3-4oz of chicken, turkey, or pork for dinner and veggies. Afternoon meal is rice cereal with rice milk and fruit. Still having crystal light, diet soda, and aspartame coffee like before.

I'm sure a little cheating here and there isn't the end of the world, purple. It sounds like you're back on track now.

Here's my day:

Breakfast: coffee
Lunch: swiss cheese sandwich (I splurged a little and ate store bought bread - it's Weight Watchers and relatively low in sodium), grapes
Supper: spinach & ricotta cannelloni, steamed broccoli, low fat fruit creme cookies
Snack: strawberries & grapes

The cannelloni was a big splurge. I used store bought pasta sauce and mozzarella, but I used each very sparsely. I measured all ingredients carefully so I could figure out the nutritional info per serving. It was very yummy and definitely tasted like a 'real' meal, which was nice. I think on a normal day I could have easily eaten this and stayed within the guidelines (my sodium by the end of the day is normally well below 700mg), but because I had a bit of a splurge with that cheese sandwich at lunch I'm slightly over for sodium today. No salt & vinegar chips for me tonight :(.

Calories: 1084
Fat: 33.6
Protein: 43.3
Sodium: 1142mg

Good going everyone :D

I lost another 3lb this week, so 16.5lb in 4 weeks now. Very pleased with this given it was DS2's birthday and party and that I currently have AF so am bloated!

Today is my wedding anniversary and I really struggled to think of a meal we could both eat. There are some foods which aren't ideal but I'm at 1160 cals, 34g protein and 580mg sodium so that's all good!

Skimmed milk for coffees
Lunch: side salad - I went out for that meal I mentioned yesterday and when it arrived it was all deep fried and swimming in oil so I didn't even taste it, just ate the salad garnish!
Snack: (Late lunch really!) Croissant, 2 custard cremes, 1 boiled sweet
Dinner: Ceasar salad - I'm having lettuce, tomato and cucumber, tofu fried in Fry Light and with a salt free seasoning (like Mrs Dash I believe), croutons, parmesan and light ceasar dressing. Followed by strawberries, squirty cream and a meringue nest. 5 fl oz sparkling wine :D

DH is having chicken instead of tofu and a garlic bread side as well as the rest of the bottle of wine!!

Happy anniversary, zanacal! Well done on the weight loss again :bigsmile:
Here's today...
No breakfast
Lunch toast and jam, yogurt, strawberries
Snack caramel rice cakes, rice milk
Dinner pasta with roasted butternut squash and Parmesan. Strawberries and spoonful of freedom ice cream, few tutti fruties (zanacal, you have got me addicted to these!)

I'm addicted too swish! They're so tasty and they last ages because they're so chewy!

Are you eating Snack-a-jacks? I noticed today that they're suddenly made from wholegrain rice. Thanks for making them healthier then!! I'll still eat them, think they're quite a good option.

We have a lady at work who has a little girl and she has 2 sugars in her tea and eats sweets all day long but not a lot else and today she also mentioned that she never eats breakfast - ha!

Are you excited that your attempt is coming up? I get the feeling that I'll be talking to myself here soon!

Lol! Fx I won't be posting my daily food soon! Very excited about the attempt just so want it to be successful, I'm going to struggle with another cycle eating like this, which for me is another 5 weeks as I have long cycles. Mut try to be positive!! The rice cakes are from m and s, they're delicious and come in lots of flavours, some have more salt than others.

The skipping breakfast is definately a common theme and also weight loss, just hope it works for us!!

Don't worry, zanacal - I'm subscribed to this thread, so even if I get a BFP, I'll still be reading your entries and cheering you on. I think it'll be a while before I can eat freely without worrying about how much protein and sodium are in everything!

Breakfast: coffee
Lunch: 6 of ds's fries (I brought him to a fast food restaurant for lunch and was quite proud of myself for not ordering myself anything. I think I showed great restraint only eating 6 of his fries too!), 1/2 swiss cheese sandwich, non-fat yogurt, strawberries
Supper: rice pasta with unsalted butter, zucchini and leeks + parmesan, 2 fruit creme cookies for dessert. I finally got a digital kitchen scale today and so was able to see exactly what a serving of parmesan looks like (28-30g, depending on the brand)...I was pleased to see that it's actually way more than I've been eating, so tonight's pasta was much yummier than usual.
Snack: Strawberries, low fat vanilla frozen yogurt

Calories: 1233
Fat: 43.1
Protein: 37.1
Sodium: 717.6

Thursday is the last day of school for my twins, and a fellow Mom and I are going to bring our kids out for lunch. I've been studying the menu of the fast food restaurant we're thinking of going to to try to find something I can order. I think I may just get a small fries (250 sodium) and eat the rest of my lunch when I get home. I've been contemplating cheating, but I'll be 7dpo then and pretty close to testing, so I think I should try to make it until then. We'll see how I do when faced with a table full of people eating salty food.... Speaking of cheating, I think I've decided that if I get a BFN, I'm going to indulge in one big meal as a treat to myself on the day af appears...just to help keep me from getting depressed and to give me energy to continue the diet for another month. It'll make me dread af a little less if I know I'll get a treat when it arrives.

I had thought of doing similar when the time comes mochagirl, I think it's a great idea :D

I forgot to take my lunch to work today! So I ended up with this:

Skimmed milk for coffees
Lunch (turned into snack): packet of Skittles, Trancetto (some Italian cake like thing with jam and yogurt in the middle!)
Snack (ate my lunch when I got home!): Warburtons thin with slice of low fat cheese, Organix sweetcorn rings, 3/4 of the Trancetto DS didn't like/eat!
Dinner will be: Spaghetti with kids tomato/veg sauce and parmesan, strawberries, glass of milk

Cals: 1280
Protein: 42
Sodium: 652

I like that idea, mocha!! I'm dreading getting a bfn and I haven't even ov yet!! Can't believe I'm still waiting, dutifully testing everyday! Come on ov!!!!

I think we should all treat ourselves if we get a BFN. It'll make it a little less heartbreaking and I'm sure one day of cheating won't matter.

I hope you O ASAP, swish! It's so weird that we both got af on the same day (if I remember correctly), yet here I am 6dpo and you haven't even O'd yet! The funny thing is, if we both get a BFP we'll have the same due date!

So the weekend we went to NV I gained 5lbs but since being home again I have lost 10lbs. Replacing my 11am sandwich with rice cereal and fruit is working a little to fast but I am happy because I am over weight and can loose up to 30 more lbs without being underweight. I have a very small frame and my butt is huge and I would love to loose it.

For the passed 5days I have had 1/2 gallon of Crystal Light a day, 3 diet caff-free sodas, 2cp coffee with aspartame and coffeemate, 1/2 gallon of water, 2cps of rice cereal w/ 1/2cp of rice milk and about 1/2cp of fruit for lunch, and for dinner I eat 3-4oz of protein and veggies. I am not sticking to girl friendly veggies or fruits but I alternate the type I eat each day (d1 carrots, d2-d4 light green) and I try to eat low sugar fruits for 3-4days and then maybe 1day of a sweeter fruit. I stopped carbs because it was raising my blood sugar to much and I hadden lost any weight during the 2 wks I ate carbs with lunch.

I am not eating anything before bed but I drink some crystal light with some vitamins and it helps a little but I am a little hungry. I noticed that I am loosing weight faster because I wait until I feel like I am starving before meals and then I try to limit the amount that I eat. If I don't get a BFP I am going to continue to eat this way and maybe I can loose a lot more weight.

Sounds like you're doing great, purplepoet! This diet definitely makes the pounds melt away!

Here's today:

Breakfast: coffee
Lunch: swiss cheese sandwich (I'm starting to really enjoy these), rice milk, strawberries
Supper: rice pasta with butternut squash and parmesan, Rice Krispie square for dessert
Snack: strawberries, salt & vinegar Pop Chips (I couldn't resist them anymore, even though they brought me very slightly above my sodium limit), Nibs

Calories: 1571
Protein: 37g
Sodium: 1089mg

I've felt dizzy all day like my blood sugar was way too low. I was starved even after eating each of my two meals, and I can't seem to stop snacking tonight. I'm hoping this is a sign I could be pregnant.

Oh man! you ladies are doing soooo well, i have so much trouble trying to work out what is good and bad! :( i have dinner cooking at moment and it smells way to yummy, its a roast chicken, im taking part of the chicken and adding lettuce and pasta to make a salad with a homemade yoghurt dressing, but the rest of the family are having mashed tatties carrots, pumpkin and gravy, if i start eaating any of it i wont stop! i have been skipping brekky for the last 2 weeks (easy i have found) and eating at 12, today i was really hungry so had cruskit craackerss which had 98 for sodium per serve so i had 4 of those with lowfat cheese and cucumber on the top, then at 3pm had a small lowfat yoghurt, im not good at reading the label thingy so heres hoping im doing things right, have been takingmy supps tho and have noticed a huge change in my PH, it was always around 8 but have got it down to a 5 and thats only after 5 days, have also started jogging/walking the past two nights, have done 5 km both nights but overdone it last night by jogging too much and have puller something in my leg so having lots of trouble walking today :( so will rest up for a couple of days and take it easy, next time will ease into it and remeber to STRETCH before heading out!

Well done Kiesse! Amazing that your pH has gone down so much so quickly :D I found roast dinners the worst to work around too. I usually have roast potatoes (which I make with very low calorie spray oil) and vegetables and once attempted a cheese sauce to eat with it which didn't work well at all!

Sounds promising Mochagirl, I have everything crossed for you!

Yay mocha!! I really hope it is a good sign for you!! My long cycles is one of the reasons I feel so anxious of getting a bfp soon as if I don't it's a really long time on the diet again and I'm so sick of it now!!!!
Kiesse, sounds like you're doing great:bigsmile:
Yesterday I had...
No breakfast
Lunch humous sandwich on proper bread, strawberries and a cupcake with butter icing!!! We had a picnic for my birthday so I think I did as well as I could!
Dinner gf pasta with roasted courgette and aubergine with a bit of butter, lemon and Parmesan. A yogurt, no more cake:sad:

Happy birthday, swish!!! Was yesterday the actual birthday? What a great present a BFP would be!

Yes it was yesterday. A bfp would be an incredible present!!!! I'd have settled for ov yesterday but it didn't happen yet!!!! I'm trying to put the thought out of my head that maybe I won't ov as my weight as low, that's silly isn't it?

With ds3, I got my BFP on my birthday, so maybe your birthday will be good luck for you too! I'm sure you'll O - don't worry. Remember that the Vitex can cause havoc with your cycle - it made me O 2 days late.

Happy Birthday for yesterday swish! I'm very impressed with how good you were on your big day :D I hope you ovulate soon. Is it this weekend your DH is away?

mochagirl - I have a good feeling for you, so excited for your BFP!

Today I had:

Skimmed milk for coffees bla bla bla ...
Lunch: Bagel with low fat spread and jam then some grapes
Dinner: GF pasta with sweetcorn and cheese sauce for toddlers and babies! (Great idea, tasted disgusting!) WW victoria sponge cake.
Snack: 2 slices toast with 1 tbsp peanut butter and small glass skimmed milk

swish, are you still taking Chitosan? Do you find it keeps you regular? It's doing nothing of the sort for me, never in my life has having a poo been such a flipping struggle lol!

Lol, zanacal!!! No I'm not as I was worrying about losing too much weight. I'm not regular at all either, the joys of the girl diet!! I too was impressed with how good i was on my birthday, I basically just ignored my birthday this year!!! Dh said we'll go out for a lovely meal when I get bfp!!!! Dh was away last weekend so all good this weekend for lots of attempts. I'm so tempted to dtd through o, did you guys see 3boys sway, she went through o. Will post today's delights after dinner, I'm starving!!!!!!

I pretty much dtd through O - we dtd on the evening before I O'd, and I think I O'd in the morning. I feel like I'm doing so many other things to sway that I won't get pregnant at all if I mess too much with timing!

I'm going to test tomorrow for the first time. I'll only be 8dpo, so it'll probably be a BFN, but I can't wait any longer! I haven't felt very pregnant today after feeling dizzy all day yesterday. I keep going back and forth between being sure I'm pregnant and sure I'm not pregnant. I just want to eat some real food!

I completely understand that!!!
Here's today..
No breakfast
Lunch toast and jam, strawberries, yogurt, tutti fruities
Snack rice milk
Dinner gf pasta with courgette and mushroom, lemon, butter and Parmesan. Frozen yogurt

Today was a strange day. It was the last day of school for my older two boys, so we brought them out to lunch to a restaurant of their choice: fast food, of course. I was going to be good and just get a small fries and nothing else (I had previewed their nutritional info and found I could manage a small fries within my nutritional guidelines). Instead I found myself ordering chicken nuggets then eating the whole thing with 1/2 my fries (luckily ds dropped his fries so I had to give him half of mine or I'm sure I would have eaten them all). I figured the day would be a throwaway, but to my surprise, when I figured out my totals for the day, I was pretty much within limits (only very slightly over for sodium). The weird part - those chicken nuggets only had 5 grams of protein in them. What ARE they making those things out of?? I'm not sure I want to know....

Anyway, here's today:

Breakfast: coffee
Lunch: 5 chicken nuggets with plum sauce, 1/2 an order of small fries
Supper: rice pasta with butternut squash and parmesan
Snack: Vanilla frozen yogurt with strawberries + some gummy candies later in the evening (I had the munchies)

Calories: 1375
Protein: 38.7g
Sodium: 1069mg

Tomorrow I'm 8dpo so I'm going to test first thing in the morning with a FRER. Wish me luck!

Have you tested yet, mocha, fx for you!!!!

I can't wait to hear Mocha!

Yeah - BFN today, but I'm only 8dpo so I'm holding out hope. It's a holiday weekend here in Canada, and I'm aching to eat some yummy food!

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Originally Posted by swish

Yes it was yesterday. A bfp would be an incredible present!!!! I'd have settled for ov yesterday but it didn't happen yet!!!! I'm trying to put the thought out of my head that maybe I won't ov as my weight as low, that's silly isn't it?

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It's not silly and it can happen, but all it means is that your body will just take a bit longer to O is all.

Thank you, atomic! Still no ov, am trying not to get stressed about it!! I read on another thread about people who ov late are more likely to miscarry, is that true? Thanks

Keeping fx for you, mocha!! I know you got a bfp at 8dpo with your twins but that is very early!! Keep us updated

Today's menu
No breakfast
Lunch humous and cucumber sandwich on real bread!!! Strawberries, 1 bite of a doughnut before I could sneakily pass it to dh!
Snack frozen yogurt
Dinner pasta with caramelised leeks and Parmesan, strawberries, frozen yogurt, tutti fruities

Not a brilliant day but we were at Lego land and I was exhausted by the time we got home and needed a good snack! The excuse for more sweet treats is because I'm fed up with still no ov!!!!

You definitely deserve some treats after your long wait for Ov! I hope it happens very soon!

Okay, here's today:

Breakfast: coffee
Lunch: swiss cheese sandwich (I'm really enjoying these lately - they burn up a good amount of my daily sodium and protein, but they fill me up and help me get to supper time without snacking), rice milk, grapes
Supper: rice pasta with low sodium tomato sauce and parmesan, Pop Tart for dessert
Snack: low fat vanilla frozen yogurt with strawberries

Calories: 1518
Protein: 37.8
Sodium: 1000

I've been walking a thin tightrope with sodium lately - always right at the maximum level after keeping to an average of 500mg a day for the first 6 weeks of the diet. I'm just trying to find ways to incorporate more normal food into my diet since I know I'm going to go batty if I end up having to eat nothing but rice pasta for another month. Tomorrow we have friends visiting from out of town and have plans to eat lunch at the local farmer's market (there are lots of food kiosks like at a fair). I know it will end up being another high sodium day since I can't think of anything else I can get except for fries. I'm really praying that BFP happens in the next couple of days.

I really hope so too Mocha! 1000mg sodium still isn't high. I checked the daily recommended amount when I started the diet and I'm pretty sure it was at least double that.

Any sign of O yet swish? What are you doing about BDing, are you doing it every day or are you waiting for your +OPK?

I forgot to add my daily menu yesterday. We went to a family fun evening at the school where the rest of my gang had a BBQ and crisps and cakes .... and I had a can of diet coke!

Breakfast: Coffee
Lunch: Low fat cheese slice and cucumber in sandwich (I love these too, the most enjoyable thing I eat most days!), packet toddler crisps
Dinner: Kids pizza, pineapple and squirty cream on meringue nest
Snack: Bagel and jam, ww victoria sponge cake (was going to have a glass of milk but had run out - cake seemed a good substitute :D)

Not yet, but feel like it should be soon! Have some ewcm and had headache yesterday. Have so far bd 7 days in a row, it's getting a bit exhausting!!! Have been taking zyrtec to dry up cm bu doesn't seem to be working, do you think I should try benadryl?