December's pink food thread!

Good for you, Ootb! I think that is fantastic! FWIW, I eat breakfast, but I still eat a late meal, I like to have some long stretches of low blood sugar in my day. I am also changing my diet a tad, as my weight is a little too low, and I have no where to lose. I am going to keep veggie, stay mostly low everything but add a little more fat and some more empty calories. I was already eating sweets last cycle, but I will add even more this cycle and add some new ones like rice krispie treats and maybe kit kats or something like that? I will also probably do some bigger portions of pasta and then the 5 days before I suspect I will O cut those things out. I am doing basically what I did before but with a bit more extra in the crappy food department rather than the nutrient department! I used to be such an healthful eater!

I hope your change makes you more sane and gives you the results you are looking for! Happy and healthy 2012!

Grrr.....I just wrote a big long post then lost it! I was going to say that you're making a wise choice, Jen - since we've all ended up on this diet longer than we'd like, we need to find a way to make it fit into our lives better.

I was traveling all day today (literally - it took us 14 hours), so following the diet was tough, but I think I did a good job:

5am: coffee
11am: 2 Tim Horton's Yogurt & Berries (these things are great - almost no sodium, only 4g of protein and they're low fat. I ate 2 because they're pretty tiny, but they're yummy!) + Caramel Corn rice cake
4pm: 3 mini cheese rice cakes (the kids were eating them and I couldn't resist)
7pm: 1 slice East Side Mario's cheese pizza (I discovered last summer this chain has a thin crust pizza that isn't swimming in sodium like most), garden salad with a drizzle of house dressing, 2 Timbits (mini donuts)
9:30pm: pineapple and melon from a fruit tray my Mom had out, hot chocolate

Calories:978 (whaaaatt? I'm surprised by this - I guess I should have eaten more Timbits)
Protein: 24.5
Sodium: 849

Ok, I think I must have left something out somewhere, because I feel like I ate a lot of junk. Maybe that slice of pizza I had was bigger than the one the site lists the nutritional info for....

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Originally Posted by Mochagirl

I was going to say that you're making a wise choice, Jen - since we've all ended up on this diet longer than we'd like, we need to find a way to make it fit into our lives better.

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Yeah...I was doing the "crash and burn" for December as I really thought it would be the last few wks on the diet and I wanted to give it the biggest shot I could, diet, RepHresh, everything, lol.

Holy cow! Great job yesterday, Mocha!!! I know I can't eat that well while traveling, especially w/that crazy lay-over! Ohhhh...I'm getting so excited for Tuesday morning to come! :)

I will be VERY surprised if I actually wait until Tuesday. I have a feeling I'll end up wasting a test on Sunday even though I'll only be 8dpo - it would be so nice to have a New Year's BFP! In the past, I've gotten my BFPs at 8dpo (with my twins), 11dpo (with ds3) and 9dpo (with my angel baby).

I find a bulk of my calories have come from SNACKING. I think that's probably bad, but I've been having trouble stopping the snacking! (Mainly at night, post dinner...)

The harder I try, the more they look really gooooooooood. Sugary snacking, by the way! Fatty, sugary snacking. :( i.e. chocolate...

Although, I have to say... Mikado's give me that chocolate I crave but they are quite low in most things!

1 stick = 0.19 protein, 0.48 fat... not sure of the sodium, but they're so dinky it hardly will amount to much.

I didn't do very well yesterday - now that I'm surrounded by yummy food at my Mom's house, I'm eating lots of stuff I shouldn't be. I have no idea of my totals and frankly don't want to know, but my day looked something like this:

7am: coffee
12pm: low sodium bun with butter, chocolate cookies
4pm: curd cheese :oops:
5pm: cheese tortellini with tomato sauce and a bit of parm. My Mom, bless her heart, planned the meal specifically for me because she knows I'm eating vegetarian right now, but when I looked at the labels, everything was super high in protein and sodium, so I know I was high on both of those. I also had a strawberry sundae for dessert.
9pm: more curd cheese :oops:, shortbread cookies, green grapes

And I think there was much more I'm forgetting....

I just Googled curd cheese Mocha and I'm still none the wiser - is it a soft cheese?

Morning: Coffee with 1% soymilk.
Lunch: Ryvita crispbreads with some dairylea cheese and iceburg lettuce, with a little balsamic vinegar and lemon juice.
Dinner: Verdi Tagliatelli (surprisingly low in stuff than packaged pasta, for some reason? It was fresh pasta rather than dried... 1/4 of the pack = 135 calories, 1 gram fat, 7 grams protein) with creme fraiche, plain tinned tomatoes, and mushrooms. Yummm.

Snacks: 1 thornton's chocolate, jelly beans, and strawberry laces.

Calories: 1399
Fat: 36
Protein: 37

:rofl: I forget that not everyone knows what curd is! Curd cheese is an acquired taste. Basically it's unfinished, fresh cheese - when they make cheddar, they press curds into blocks then age them. Eating the curds fresh results in a salty, squeaky (yes, they really squeak when you bite into them) snack. You buy it by the bag, and if you're me, you can't stop until the whole bag's gone. True curd snobs (like me) will only eat them if they've never been refrigerated - they can be kept for up to 48 hours at room temperature after they're made. They're best (and freshest) if you buy them directly from a cheese factory, where they've been made that day. Yummy!

Curds are also part of one of our favourite, national indulgences here in Canada, that originated in Quebec: poutine! That's fries, covered in curd cheese and gravy. Mmmmmmmmm!

It's going to be another big cheat day for me - we're off to have Greek food for supper! Once I'm back home on Monday, I'll have to get back into following the diet strictly, but for now I'm letting myself go over for sodium and just making sure not to snack between meals since I'm in the 2WW.

Well, yesterday was another not great diet day:

7am: coffee
12pm: mini low sodium bun with a tiny bit of mayo and a slice of swiss cheese, 2 shortbread cookies
5:30pm: dinner at a Greek restaurant. I had one piece of buttered bread with a teeny smudge of saganaki cheese, Greek salad, charbroiled vegetable shish kebab, rice, steamed vegetables and fries, which I dipped in tzatziki. I some vanilla ice cream for dessert.
9:30pm: went to a movie with DH - I had another handful of curd cheese I had smuggled in :oops:, a handful of M&Ms and some Sour Patch Kids

I haven't figured out my totals, but I think I was probably fine for protein and calories, but likely very high in sodium. This is my last day at my Moms - I'll do the same thing today - not eat much during the day then eat a big cheat meal for supper. Tomorrow I'll be home and back to the LE diet full time...unless I get a BFP before that :bigsmile:.

Lol at taking curd cheese to the cinema! I think I'm going to have to take your word on it, it doesn't sound very appetising!!

Z - some day I'll Fedex you a bag of fresh curd so you can taste it for yourself. Believe me, it's heaven!! :bigsmile:

1st Jan:

1pm: pasta + WW parmesan and pesto sauce, some home made cupcakes (very small ones)
7pm: winter veg soup and 1 slice of bread, some choc orange segments

think that's it for the day! this skipping breakfast thing is getting easier, and getting easier not to snack too

Good work, rainbow!

Today has not gone well so far. My Mom got everyone Wendy's for lunch. I managed to just have a small fries and a small Frosty, but that puts me at 435mg of sodium for the one meal alone. Everyone's having quail for supper, and my Mom has cheese pizza for me, so that number is only going to get higher. Good thing I'm going home tomorrow and can go back to pasta with creme fraiche and veggies every night!

That's less than half of the sodium you're allowed and only one of your two meals mocha - you'll be fine!

Yes, but the pizza I'm having tonight has at least 500mg per slice, and there's no way on earth I'm only have one...:oops:

I see your point - but I still think you've done amazingly given your circumstances these past couple of weeks!

Thanks, Z. I think I did pretty well when it counted most - during O time - but since I didn't really have many treats over Christmas, I'm making up for it now! I'm doing my best to still keep my blood sugar low, though. Hopefully I'll get my BFP in a day or two and none of this will matter...:fx:

Hmmm...

Mother in law decided to come by and treat us for lunch (GAH!)...

Breakfast: coffee with soy milk.
Lunch: (went out for lunch, sigh...) Jacket potato with quorn mince (holy high protein) veggie chilli (there was no beans in it...) and sauteed mushrooms, no butter added to it, a few of my husband's fries/chips, and a salad that I don't think had any dressing on it whatsoever. I also had some of my son's hummus... :sigh:
Dinner: a smaller than 1/4 pack of that Tagliatelli verdi (so not bad in any of the categories... but the mince from lunch DOOMED ME for the day... wait until you see my number totals...) with creme fraiche, green beans, and plain canned tomatoes.
Two rice cakes with about 1 teaspoon's worth of nutella on each.

Calories: 872
Protein: 48 (at least! :sigh:
Fat: 20 (obviously, could be more as only using rough estimates using my fitness pal with what I ate out at a pub today...)
Sodium: 22 (HAHA... yeah right... that is DEFINITELY not right!

So, way too low on calories, but through the roof in protein. How do I balance this out? I have no candy in the house! :( I guess just leave it.

Do you have any juice or pop? That would do the trick.

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Originally Posted by Mochagirl

Do you have any juice or pop? That would do the trick.

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No, neither... unfortunately.

I always go for dessert! Cookies, cake, ice cream?

Nope. :(

Just chocolates! Grrrr! Seriously... the gifts from my mother in law AND my husband's aunt and uncle for Christmas were GIANT boxes and tubs of CHOCOLATES.

Evil. Evil.

Evil!

And I snack a lot, as it is. I suck at this diet. :(

<------- NO WILL POWER! (even though I stay mostly completely within the limits!)

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