Breakfast-supps and peppermint tea
Lunch- salad and pitta with houmous and strawberries and yogurt
Snack apple and goodie bar (not ideal but working)
Tea pasta with pesto and veg
Breakfast-supps and peppermint tea
Lunch- salad and pitta with houmous and strawberries and yogurt
Snack apple and goodie bar (not ideal but working)
Tea pasta with pesto and veg
Yay! We need a thread like this!
Here's what I had yesterday:
Breakfast - coffee, CL
Lunch - a piece of salt-free bread and a yogurt
Afternoon - peppermint tea, CL
Supper - pasta (2 servings:oops:) mixed with 1 TBSP low fat ricotta and parm
Snack - peppermint tea, raspberries and some Nibs (red licorice) :oops:
Not a bad day - I was a bit above with protein - about 46g, but my sodium was only about 530mg! My total calories were 1200.
Yesterday.:
breakfast peppermint tea
Lunch 2 pieces of homemade toast with strawberry jam and some strawberries
Dinner pasta with mushrooms, courgettes, leeks, butter and Parmesan and a muller light yogurt
I don't track calories etc so hopefully am in ok amounts!!!
Me too, great idea! This was yesterday:
100ml skimmed milk in my coffees - I'm having one after my morning workout and another mid-morning (with lots of sweetener!) otherwise I really struggle to make it until lunch time, and I didn't drink coffee before I had my 3rd boy so you never know!
Lunch - 2 small slices white bread with unsalted butter, a slice of dairylea light processed cheese and a little iceberg lettuce and skinless cucumber. Cup of strawberries with a dollop of zero % greek yogurt and sweetener on a meringue nest.
Dinner - 2 servings of pasta with half a tin of tomatoes and a few chopped leeks, mushrooms and courgettes with some quark (almost) fat free soft cheese mixed in.
Snack - pop tart. I never had these before and I hated it - so won't be having them again!
I meant to have my Yakult before bed but forgot ...
Today I've had:
100ml skimmed milk in 2 coffees
Lunch - 2 small slices of bread, unsalted butter and sugar free raspberry jam. A cup of grapes and an Activia fat free raspberry yogurt.
Dinner - same as yesterday but with a little parmesan instead of the quark. Meringue nest, zero % greek yogurt, sweetener and diced peeled apple.
I haven't decided what to have for snack yet and I'll try and remember my Yakult!
For drinks I have sugar free fruit squash (artificially sweetened), diet caffeine free coke and peppermint tea. I might have a vodka or two this weekend :D
Took several month to get used to...
7 am coffee with aspartame and coffemate
9am crystal light
11am low everything vegan lunch and diet caff-free soda
1 pm coffee with aspartame and coffemate
3pm crystal light
6pm low everything vegan rich dinner (40g of protien every other day) diet caff-free soda
8pm crystal light
The drinks spread out help to calm hunger pain. But I eat about 1,800 cals a day, no dairy, very little salt and sugar because I crave more, and about 40g of protein for BFing.
Before I was a hugh sugar, salt, and meat person. Guessing I was averaging 3,000 mg of salt, well over 500 cals worth of sugar, a weeks worth of protein in one day, and about 2,500-3,000 cals a day if not more. I plan to change a lot for a healthier lifetime diet.
Breakfast peppermint tea
Lunch 2 slices of toast with raspberry jam
Naughty caramel shortbread mid afternoon!!!!:wink:
Dinner pasta with courgettes and green beans and Parmesan. Muller light yogurt. Jelly sweet!
Not as good as yesterday!
... but what willpower having just one jelly sweet!
:happy:I'm more of a chocolate fan so I can't even go there!!!
Me again!!!
Breakfast peppermint tea
Lunch 2 pieces of toast with jam (there's a pattern here!!) actimel fat free, some strawberries,
A tiny, tiny bit of ds2's ice cream
Dinner cous, cous with courgette, aubergine, squeeze of lemon, butter and Parmesan. Muller light yogurt and few more strawberries
But jam toast is yum (shame we can't eat 4 or 5 slices of it!). Today I was excited because I'd decided that as a 'treat' on Saturdays I would have a couple of eggs. We also had a family day out so had a picnic.
Breakfast - coffee, sweetener and skimmed milk
Mid-morning - met friends for a coffee, had sweetener but no skimmed milk so I had a splash of semi-skimmed
Lunch - 2 pieces of bread with unsalted Lurpack, a slice of dairylea light and iceberg lettuce and cucumber (sounds so much more substantial than it is!), a packet of Goodies (toddler!) cheese puffs, strawberries. A couple of diet caffeine free cokes.
Dinner - A bagel with unsalted Lurpack and scrambled eggs. Meringue nest with an Activia fat free yogurt.
Snack - Grapes and Yakult light.
Seems like a good place to record my daily exercise too as I find it *so* difficult to stick to. Today I went out for an hour with my youngest DS in his pushchair and ran as much as I could, walking in between. It was exhausting and I tried to like it but I hated every minute!
This is pretty dang good but do feel free to add a bit more cals if you need to.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mochagirl
a Caramel shortbread is a much better cheat than a burger and fries! :agree:Quote:
Originally Posted by swish
You ladies are doing wonderfully! I'll stick this for you so you can find it more easily.
Yesterday was a strange day because I ended up falling and hurting myself late afternoon and spent the whole evening in the hospital:
Breakfast: coffee, peppermint tea
Lunch: salt-free bread with unsalted butter, yogurt, CL
Dinner: none (in the hospital)
Snack: 2 mini pumpkin chocolate chip muffins (not ideal but it was all I had with me at the hospital)
Today --
Breakfast: Tassimo cappuccino (not great but after my night last night I needed a treat)
Lunch: salt-free bread with unsalted butter, CL
Snack: yogurt
Supper: pesto pasta (again, not great, but I need some comfort food tonight - I'm down 3 pounds in the last 2 days from all the stress of the injury and hospital visit, and I'm also still in a lot of pain)
Snack: I'll probably have some raspberries later
Thanks, Atomic - I've been trying to up my calories, but find it impossible to do it without making either my sodium or protein get way too high (surprisingly, I'm having more trouble keeping my protein low lately). Really, the only way I could do it would be to eat some empty calories like candy, and I can't imagine that's good for me (but I do it sometimes anyway).Quote:
Originally Posted by atomic sagebrush
Ok, Sunday so not a good day as we have family over...
Breakfast peppermint tea
Snack at 12 yogurt
Late lunch 1 bruschetta with mozzarella and one with broad beans. Pasta With tomato and chilli. Salad. White chocolate magnum (yum!!! And it was White chocolate)
Snack cracker bread with jam (this is my save as very little protein or calories!!!)
Sunday is always the hardest day for me as we are always with family, next week I will be a boring angel!!!!
Sounds good Swish - especially the white chocolate Magnum! Here's me today
Milk for coffees this morning
Lunch - half a jacket potato (I didn't think to leave the skin until I saw Atomic's recipe thread!) with grated cheese.
Snack - Grapes
Dinner - Spaghetti with mushrooms cooked in unsalted butter and 2 tbsp parmesan. Followed by apple pie and ice cream :D
We ate out at lunch time so I shared a potato with my toddler and asked to have no butter and the toppings on the side (they were rather confused by that!) - then I gave most of it to him (and the coleslaw, oh how I love coleslaw!). At dinner time I was going to watch everybody else eat their apple pie and ice cream but when I looked at the ingredients and the nutritional info I realised it was ok so I cut back on my pasta portion and this is actually the only day I've managed to stay under 40g protein! It was Tesco Value apple pie and it pretty much only had flour, water, sugar and apples in it - they obviously don't add too much to the cheap stuff!
Here's today:
Breakfast: apple juice, coffee (I normally avoid all juice, but the medication I'm taking for my back made me feel faint and I was worried my blood sugar was too low, so I drank some juice for a quick boost)
Lunch: plain, unsalted rice cake with no sugar added raspberry fruit spread + 1 small slice of low-fat swiss cheese + skim milk
Snack: a handful of fresh green beans (I like them best raw)
Supper: no-salt risotto (this was an experiment - I made it with unsalted butter, leaks, arborio rice, mushrooms, salt-free chicken broth, and a little white wine. I added a small amount of parm to mine and more to everyone else's. Boy, was it bland! DH couldn't even eat his, but surprisingly, the kids loved it! I think if I try it again I might marinate the mushrooms in balsamic before adding them to give them more taste)
Snack: I'm planning to have raspberries
I think I'm probably too low on calories today, but I did pretty well with sodium and protein, even with the chicken broth I added to the risotto. Maybe I'll even add some low-fat ice cream to my snack since it won't put me over my limits.
Hmm, I've messed up a bit today. I've not felt good all day, very light-headed and jittery, and after work I collected the boys from the childminder's and had to take them round the supermarket. When I got through the door I had to eat 'now'!! So here's what I've had so far:
Skimmed milk for coffee
Lunch - 2 bread with unsalted butter and sugar free jam, 2 caramel flavoured rice cakes, Activia fat free yogurt.
Dinner - Microwavable pouch of mushroom rice (see above!) and a Weight Watchers white chocolate ice-cream (I blame you for this Swish after you mentioned white chocolate Magnums!!).
So now I've had only about 900 calories, 25g of protein and 1200mg of sodium! I'm not too worried because I have at least half that amount of sodium most days but I need to find something high in calories and protein but no or little sodium for snack later. Looking down my list this includes rice, pasta or a glass of milk - I guess it'll have to be the milk as I'm not going to be cooking again later. Any ideas in the meantime let me know!
Lol, sorry!!!!
Hi,
I have had;
Breakfast-tiny bit of smoothy to mix up my fiber powder.
lunch-salad with cranberries, pitta and houmous,goodies crisps, goodie bar,pear, a bit of lemon cake(i Know this is bad no icing though and no salt added!)lots of sugar free gum and peppermint tea
tea- rice noodles, veg and salt free sauce on it
pudding-small amount of oats, raspberries, freedom icecream(I need a pudding!)
Breakfast peppermint tea (yawn!!!)
lunch 2 pieces of toast with jam, muller light yogurt
Snack actimel drink
Dinner correct pasta portion!!!! With aubergine puree and Parmesan. Strawberries
twosweetlads - I had some goodies cheese puffs on Saturday! Not bad when everybody else is munching on crisps :D
swish - Was the aubergine puree nice? Were you eating too much or too little pasta before?!
I've just had some strawberries with sweetener and a meringue nest (Tesco Finest meringue nests are yum btw!) as well as a glass of skimmed milk. Tomorrow will be the end of my first week on the girl diet and I'm excited to see how much weight I've lost!!
The aubergine puree was actually really nice!! Dh laughed at me as he ate his chicken in egg and breadcrumbs, pasta and broccoli!! It was a funny colour! I just roasted a whole aubergine in the oven for 40 mins, scooped out the middle and added a bit of lemon.
I was eating WAY too much pasta, I'm not calculating protein etc at all so I thought I should measure the pasta portion. Are the meringues good for the diet?
Zanacal, have you decided to drop the supplements? I'm thinking of doing it but it's a real leap of faith, I wish there were more people who had done it whikst swaying and got a girl
The meringues are just egg whites and sugar which I think is fine - only 52 cals, 0.6g protein and no salt and they're yum with strawberries and sweetener and a dollop of fat free yogurt or a bit of diet squirty cream :D
I'm still taking Vitex but I'm not taking anything else. I'll take an antihistimine and baby aspirin around our attempt. I would consider Saw P if I wasn't breastfeeding (I don't think I'm ready to stop but I really need to read more about Saw P to see what it does). I wish there was a magic testosterone lowering pill (perhaps that's the Saw P?!) because every time I read about traits of women with high testosterone I feel like they're describing me and I'm not sure anything I ever do will change that! The only other things I was taking were calcium and magnesium and I *think* I'm happy not to bother. I hate taking them because the pills are so big but I'm trying really hard not to let that be a part of my decision lol! I think the whole concept of swaying is a leap of faith and literally everybody takes calc/mag when swaying pink and it doesn't seem to be a deciding factor - lots have girls but lots don't. I don't think I'll ever wonder if it would have made a difference and I've spent far too long worrying about whether the supplements are safe to take in the first place which can't be good either.
I had a melon at 11am... the boys ate 1/4 I ate the rest.
3pm a plain old lettuce wrap, with nothing else.
dinner is pasta with broc... the boys get fish
Well done Purplepoet :D
I was out all over town this morning and i was so tempted to eat fast food.... It was killing me but I am proud of myself for going striaght home without wonderful junk food.
Breakfast: coffee, CL
Lunch: plain white rice mixed with a bit of plain non-fat yogurt. Pretty bland, but for some reason my kids loved it when they asked to try some, and requested it for supper tonight!
Snack: Peppermint tea
Supper: skim milk, salad with balsamic vinegar and one piece of boconccini cheese + quiche made with a storebought pie shell (80mg of sodium per serving), eggs, milk, a bit of goat cheese, dried oregano and some cherry tomatoes. It was soooo yummy and one of the more satisfying meals I've had in a long time. It was surprisingly low in sodium, and fit well within my maximum allowance, especially because I kept sodium low the rest of the day. I'm working this one into my regular repertoire, and I'll just change the veggies I add for variety.
Snack: strawberries, peppermint tea
Calories: 903
Sodium: 533 mg
Protein: 42.1 g
That sounds lovely, mochagirl! Definately beats my strange coloured pasta sauce!!!!
Thanks, swish - it was really yummy. Next time I might experiment with a crustless quiche or my own low-fat crust because it was pretty high in fat. What should our upper limit for fat be? I ended up with 35.4g yesterday, and 12g of that was the crust. Too much?
I keep having to stop and think about fat too Mochagirl because so many things don't seem too bad with regards to calories, protein and sodium and I don't always remember the fat - I'm not sure what a good limit would be?
I lost 6lb on my first week of the diet - woo hoo :D
I have no idea what to have for dinner tonight. When you have rice and yogurt together, do you mean hot rice and cold yogurt?!
Yep - I just steam some rice, add about 1/4 cup of plain yogurt and stir. It gives the rice a bit of a sour taste, which I like for a change. I suppose you could also put in some herbs or spices for flavour. One day I added some cumin so it tasted like Indian food.
I have no idea what to have for lunch today! I'm out of salt-free bread - I need to bake some this afternoon. I feel like I want more than a rice cake and some yogurt, but I don't want to use up any of my precious sodium quota on lunch. I need to have a tastier supper to look forward to or I'll go crazy!
Zanacal, I'm having rice with stir fry leeks, mushrooms, courgettes and bean sprouts with a tiny bit of tesco sweet and sour sauce diluted with stock!! If that helps!! Well done on the weight loss, that's fantastic!
I have fallen off the band wagon-AGAIN!
Breakfast-none
11am-goodie bar
lunch-veg rice, salt free goodie corn crisps, apple
snack-salt free rice crispies with rice milk
dinner-veg and pasta bit of pesto
Here's where it all went wrong(ds was being a monster and it tipped me over the edge!)
I had some of their pizza, ice cream, Loads of choc icing (whilst icing cakes that I sell!).
I'm sooo annoyed with myself.
I really feel like I can't do this any more its too hard and it makes me too stressed.
I was running around the store and was so hungry I bought a candy bar for lunch... I have a month to get rid of the sugar.
Dinner is Turkey meatloaf flavored with only dry herbs and rice cake bread crumbs. Greenbeams on the side.
You can do it, twosweetlads!!! Just right it off as a bad day and start again, also don't forget whatever you do it's really different from what you did before. Clean slate, start again!!!!
I agree with swish - you can do it, twosweetlads! This diet is HARD so absolutely don't beat yourself up over a few bad days. Every little change helps, so maybe drop those parts of the diet that are causing you the most stress, and focus on a few important aspects of it.
{hugs} twosweetlads, dieting is hard no matter what the reason. You can do it though! I'm finding the reason for this particular diet far more motivating than any reason I've had in the past - but I'm only a week in and I know it'll get considerably harder. You're doing great!
Today I had:
Skimmed milk for coffee
Lunch - 2 pieces of bread with unsalted butter, a slice of Dairylea light and cucumber (again - but I like it!)
2 unsalted rice cakes, grapes
Dinner - Bagel with unsalted butter and sugar free jam, a mini white chocolate weight watchers ice-cream, a glass of skimmed milk
Snack - Strawberries and meringue nest
I don't think I should buy the ice-creams again - they're fine I think but probably should be a special treat not an every day occurance! Good on the protein today, less than 40g (which is why I had the glass of milk again!).