What are some typical things you would eat though out your day for dinner, snack, or lunch?
Printable View
What are some typical things you would eat though out your day for dinner, snack, or lunch?
Brekkie - skipped but when dieting I would have one of those shakes designed for weight loss.
Snack - diet yoghurt
Lunch - Salad and chicken sandwhich/ lowest calorie soup I could find - not both one or the other!
Snack - banana
Dinner - Usually a chicken stir fry, or steamed veg (brocolli, carrot, peas and corn) 1 small potato or rice/ or I would have chicken and veg rissoto very small portion!!!
After dinner - low fat icecream.
When not dieting: lots and lots of chocolate, full cream ice cream loaded with topping and chocolate pieces lol, cakes and sugary biscuits haha
Skipped breakfast, ate tons of dairy & was slim. I remember lots of bding & also the month i conceived my 2nd daughter we had a 2 day cut off, also had just come off BCP.
Low fat/low calorie. Snacks throughout day and just drank CL pink lemonade, craisins, salads, very little fried foods ever. Drank sprite occasionally but never any diet drinks. Love candy- sweet tarts, anything tart really.
Thanks ladies this is really helpful.
I never ate breakfast. Would have a jumbo mug of coffee and sometimes a nutrigrain bar or something on my way to the gym, then would work out for 2 hours. Would have a protein drink (from the gym- usually Muscle Milk) after working out, then would have something light like a pb&j or turkey sandwich with fruit and always drank some sort of calorie-free (but not plain water) beverage. For dinner, usually had a little white meat protein, very little carbs, and veggies. Never cooked with butter but a little olive oil. Reason for all of this was my mean (now ex) dh who would freak out if I had an inkling of fat on my body (yes, even while pg and with kids), or ever served any food that was in any way "greasy or fattening" and never red meat as he'd get the runs from it. (He had IBS, was a control freak, and had OCD...yes, lovely....no wonder I left him, right!?) And, on the testosterone point, I think mine was low because of not much meat, especially red meat. I did and still do drink some red wine quite frequently....like a glass while cooking, not a bottle a night or anything, although occasionally I would on the weekends. So, all in all, I was eating VERY little and working out a TON, was very thin and surely very acidic.
GOOD LUCK!!! :XX:
I forgot to add that I NEVER used salt and ate very low sodium as that good old ex-dh would freak out and say I was going to give myself a bad heart, blah blah blah. I really had a perfectly healthy diet, although in retrospect, if I were making it a really perfect diet for the real world and not ttc anything, I would add some more lean protein (like an egg at breakfast) and I would have more grains and fruits and veggies each day. I just had this notion that less calories would do the trick, and it sure worked for keeping me thin and making girl babies!
Breakfast - scrambled egg whites with orange juice and a bowl of Kashi vanilla oatmeal
Lunch - 1/2 serving turkey on low-carb bread w/light mayo, glass of milk and a few carrots or a salad w/romain lettuce, grilled chicken, a couple low fat croutons and a couple tbsp low fat oil/vinegar dressing
snack - kashi protein bar
Dinner - 3-4 oz of turkey or chicken and a green veg and sometimes brown rice, no corn or potatoes
desert - Skinny cow ice cream bar or cone
no eating w/in 2 hrs of bed
Jen, that's what I need to start eating after I get pg and deliver to lose all this blue diet weight! I was similar with food choices you had, and never used to eat after dinner around 7pm also.
Oh I was crazy diligent when I got preg w/dd#3, hoping after this free for all I'm in right now that I can reign it back in and drop some weight afterwards too.
Breakfast - skipped
Snack - piece of cheese around noon and large glass of coke
Lunch - often skipped, when not: veggie soup with milk, lots of pasta, often chicken, never potato, large glass of coke
Snack - croissant or something like that
Dinner - bread and butter, spaghetti, large cup of yoghurt
I was skinny ( still am, but I gained some weight on boy diet:bigsmile:), and I felt exhausted most of the time. I walk alot during the day, not because I like it, but because we have only 1 car, so i walk and use public transport
You guys, this is so fantastic! Thank you all for sharing!
Familiar patterns hey!
Starve yourself and get skinny....
LOL not advising anyone to do this though :P
I was always dieting before conceiving my girls and lost significant amounts.
I did it with weight watchers, so weight loss wasnt crazy or binge like, but definitely limited my calories.
Breakfast- Healthy cereal (cheerios, bran flakes etc) with non fat milk. Usually a half a cup of cereal and half a cup of milk because I didnt want breakfast to exceed 3 points.
Lunch- Huge salads with nonfat cottage cheese, whole wheat sandwiches with low fat cheese, soup, tuna fish with low fat mayo etc.
Dinner- Usually a lean protein like salmon or chicken breast with asparagus or similar veg and sweet potatoes or brown rice.
I snacked only on veggies. I drank only Diet Coke, water and seltzer. I would binge and have sweets, but only within my points range. I hardly ate any red meat, bananas, dont use a lot of salt either. I also hardly ate fruit.
I did WW too! And in between did The Biggest Loser shakes lol and yes lots of Coke Zero!!
TTC5, I am convinced: you and I are the same person except you have one more girl :).
I am looking at what I wrote and from I have learned here, what makes my diet particularly girl friendly even though I ate well with regard to grains and carbs is that my dairy was always non or low fat. I was really low fat and low carb and did cardio like a madwoman.
I ran over 40 miles a week before and while TTC both my girls. Never did much strength training aside from the occasional ab work. Very slim and lean. Diet was pretty funny and my friends all still tease me about it, because I pretty much lived on Coke Zero and then, this is what is funny, massive amounts of real sugar :-) I ate at least 3 candy bars, or cookies, or cupcakes a day. So I wasn't a low fat or low carb diet person by any means.
Other than that, my meals were fairly healthy but light fare like egg whites, grilled fish/chicken salads, PB sandwiches, yogurt with fruit, cottage cheese, beans and rice, etc. Not a ton of veggies ... we did eat broccoli a ton though because DH likes it. I rarely ate red meat. Maybe 1x a month. I definitely had lots of dairy because I always drank milk with my sweets. My calorie intake was high (around 3000 a day) but more from the sugar than from nutritious food, and because of what I burned through exercise I was still thin.
OH ... I have always loved salt! Which I know is a boy friendly thing. My theory there is that with all the sweating I was doing with the running my salt intake was likely just replenishing that so it wasn't really leaving my body in a "high salt" state.... unlike now, where I salt everything and rarely sweat, LOL.
When I got pregnant with my daughter, I never ate breakfast. I ate a lot of ice cream and drank a lot of milk.....it's hard to remember everything because I wasn't swaying and was just trying to get pregnant. I know for a fact that she was conceived from DTD with shallow penetration three days before O as that was the only time we DTD for a while because I was sick and then my husband was sick.
thanks this is wonderful info!!
Thank you Girl moms! This is so informative. Here's all my blue dust!
Ok if this helps... breakfast :most of the time nothing... maybe bagel , egg bacon
snack:I don't do snack
lunch: IF I eat lunch then something small like : sandwich or ramen noodle , yakisoba noodle, salad with hidden valley ranch,soup ,pizza, anyway not much
snack: again nothing or joghurt ,some fruit or so
dinner: when we cook I eat that what ever it is ( not much) or nothing because don't want to eat much and put on weight right?
late night snack: no way
I also love butter and sour cream . Don't really like milk. If we go out I eat whatever . So I was not really on girl diet but didn't eat much.And drink diet pepsi like none stop. really almost nothing else.
Ok BUT when I was on boy diet I did it right and even put on weight (don't remember but over 10 lbs for sure) and still didn't worked for me. It never raised my PH or anything . Only BS did and I read that diet did raised PH for others so I don't know what to think about it.
Breakfast: Bran Cereal with 2% (semi-skimmed) milk. Coffee with lots of milk!
Snack - Fruit or cakes the people brought into work.
Lunch - PBJ Sandwich, or Turkey Ham with Cheese, Banana, low fat yogurt
Snack - Carbs, crackers, toast
Dinner - Pasta with sauce- sometimes cheese and crackers, rarely ate meat, chili- beans and tomatoes with lots of cheese!
I think for me- lack of good quality (and expensive since we are on a budget) meat and lots of carbs. Very acidic and bad for TW. 2 strikes!
My grocery bill is out of this world on the boy diet!
Pretty much for me, I always ate my breakfast and love my salty foods, never been a big meat eater, had heaps of dairy, always snacked before bed & snacked through the day, lunch & dinner pretty much everything, basically my diet was a very acidic one not very healthy.
Ive always been slim but very toned, always have protein shakes, cause of my weight training.
Now that Im ttc a boy, my diet has changed to an alkaline one, much more healthy!
2 x beautiful :biggirl2:
i hardly ate breakfast,nothing really until 11am. had milk by the gallon. ate sweets by the truck load.not much meat.im trying to do the opposite now and its hard when youve gotton your body used to one way but hopefully it will be worth it!
Breakfast: no such thing lol! around noon piece of cheese (yum!)
Lunch: never potatoes ( I hate it), rarely red meat, lots of rice and chicken, lots of pasta
Dinner: sometimes nothing, sometimes pizza or white bread with something.
Gallons and gallons of coke which is super acidic and when consumed in so high amounts like I did, it makes you dehydrated. I COMPLETELY stop drinking coke - the toughest part of my swaying.
I was skinny and felt exhausted most of the time. Never did any exercise, but walking a lot.
Note: I did cook for my family, but I wasn't eating it. Now I'm eating like a baby dinosaur and I gained 5 kg which sucks.
I was perfect example of girl friendly life style.
When you swayed last, what was your pH?Quote:
Originally Posted by Flava
Same here! My local grocery store must be puzzled with the sudden increase in gelatine sales lmao!Quote:
Originally Posted by SpicyTunaSushi
With my 1st, I ate a lot of indian lentils and rice, pretty much every day for lunch. skipped breakfast. had a dinner with vegetables & starch and occasional fish. no meat. not a lot of food, quite skinny.
2nd -
watched my caloric intake. ate a lot of cheese, spinach, rice, grapes, peanut butter and jelly toast. rice & vegetables a lot. some meat, but not a lot.
3rd -
watched caloric intake, pasta, bread, rice, chopped salad with walnuts, lowfat yogurt, not a lot of meat.
Thank you Demeter!!
I'm trying to figure out where I went wrong with my diet when I had my girls. I have endometriosis so I followed the endo. diet to try to keep my symptoms away. On this diet I avoided wheat, red meat, dairy, sugar, soy, coffee/tea. I always had breakfast though, and ate two organic eggs a day (even though you're not supposed to have eggs on the endo. diet). I ate lots of fruit & veggies, gluten-free grains (rice, quinoa, etc.), beans/legumes, nuts/seeds, occasionally organic chicken, plain yoghurt, corn chips for a snack. Sea salt was allowed but I generally didn't eat much salty foods. I guess it was low in fat and testosterone. I always found that I lost weight eating this way, and it helped me shed those postpartum pounds. I also took coconut oil and EPO to help with pain and fertility. Maybe dairy does help to sway blue; I wasn't having much except for plain yogurt.
pfb, to me that is a pretty girl friendly diet. Just as you say, low in fat, lower in complete proteins (beans and legumes are good for protein but are not complete in the way animal proteins are), lower in nutrients overall. I do think that's still a good diet for TTC a boy, just try upping the heal;thy fats as much as you can, gain some muscle rather than losing weight, and be sure to eat BOTH protein and carbs at every meal.
That having been said, you can do everything "right" and still conceive an opposite. It's because it's not what you do that sways, it's how your body reacts to what you do, so if your body is still doing the "girl stuff" even if you eat the most boy-friendly diet you can get your hands on, you will still be more likely to conceive a girl.
Thanks atomic for the helpful info. I'm learning so much; still trying to sort everything out.
It takes some sorting I know so please let me know if you have any q's!!
This is by far the most eye opening thread I have read in all the years I've been reading threads on diet. I could copy and paste some of these entries.
Overall it seems to be the theme - Eat food, not too much, eh..
Michael Pollen would be mad at me.
Breakfast - what's that? Coffee in a container with stevia and cream. IF I did eat, it was always the classic bacon and eggs and then I could get so busy that I would totally not eat anything for a half assed lunch by 2-3 pm.
Lunch - Slice of pizza or a grilled cheese sandwich. Maybe a salad or a sandwich (I love sandwiches).
Dinner - This is where it gets weird. Some days I'd have steak with red wine and fries. Other days I'd crack open a can of chicken soup. The consistency in this 'diet' is that there was no consistency. I could eat one big meal per day and then snack all day long on random things like crackers, chocolates, cookies, cereal with milk and oh yes, copious amounts of cheese. I have never been a 3 meal eater + snacks a day.
I almost never regularily ate meat, chicken, proteins, veggies, fruits (except apples). I could live on pizza every day. To this day if I need to eat healthy and a balanced diet, and be constant with my meals, it's an epic effort.
I am a huge red winer drinker and conceived both times with alcohol in my system (first was a vodka and soda and lime - I KNOW!!! - and the next was red wine). I also do not work out. At all. I walked a lot living downtown at the time but that again is cardio.
Sigh.
For DD2 I really tried to change it a LOT. But even looking back, I could have done so much better.
Thank you envisioned, very helpful!!! I find your diet to be quite consistent with a girl-friendly one - the skipping meals thing really seems to be something fairly consistent for moms of pink (with exceptions on both sides, of course).
People have the misconception that to conceive a girl, you have to eat a very limited diet but I do not believe that to be the case. Most women out there have conceived at least one girl or more, without trying or giving it any thought whatsoever - I think that's why some people don't buy into swaying, because they think, well I didn't drink a gallon of milk and eat cranberries all day long and I have girls! It's your overall diet and eating patterns that matter, and not any one or two or 10 magic foods.
I agree, my diet is not limited at all. I eat alot but I usually skip breakfast I'm just too busy I'll have breakfast about 2hrs after waking up but sometimes it will be 4-5hours.Quote:
People have the misconception that to conceive a girl, you have to eat a very limited diet but I do not believe that to be the case. Most women out there have conceived at least one girl or more, without trying or giving it any thought whatsoever
Looking back I can see how my eating habits were SO girly! I was probably overdosing on calcium because I drank tons of milk, ate yogurt every day and I had an addiction to ice cream! Also, I drank a lot of diet soda and crystal light. The moment I read up on ttc a boy I knew why I had gotten 2 daughters in a row like I did! Plus I was still nursing when I conceived both of them and had just gotten off of the mini-pill with both of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by mommy*duke
I know you guys are prob sick of hearing me say it but I ate/drank tons of dairy foods with all four of my boys.
Getting off the minipill does sway pink possibly from hormones but also because BCP cause damage to the cervical crypts so they produce less EWCM.
I always ate breakfast...Weet-Bix, milk & sugar or toast & vegemite.
Would sometimes skip lunch but would snack on crackers, biscuits etc. If I had lunch it was a white bread sandwich of some variety.
Dinner was pasta or rice with chicken or very small amount of lean red meat, mashed potato & vegies.
Snacks were nearly always sweet...wasn't big on savoury.
I was by no means skinny. Prob 5-10 kgs above ideal weight, although my work was quite physical and I tried to stay active after pregnancies. I ate waaaaayyyy too many carbs (too much wheat & sugar which I am now quite intolerant to since second pregnancy...think I overloaded), too many sweet things, not enough red meat, not much in the way of fat. Not enough vegies. My diet wasnt limited but I was not getting anwhere near enough nutrients from my carb-laden diet...not balancing it up with enough protein or vegies.
Before I fell pregnant this time, my diet had changed a lot...wasn't following the boy diet for long but now that I think about it my diet has changed considerably over the period since having DD#2 so is probably much more favouring boy before I started TTC this time anyway.