Hey ladies - time to start a new thread!
Today was such an epic fail as far as diet was concerned that I'm not even going to shame myself by listing it all. Tomorrow I'm back home, though, and back to my pasta and creme fraiche staple.
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Hey ladies - time to start a new thread!
Today was such an epic fail as far as diet was concerned that I'm not even going to shame myself by listing it all. Tomorrow I'm back home, though, and back to my pasta and creme fraiche staple.
I had a couple bites of leftover boneless chicken wings, two cinnamon rolls, and some rice... and nothing else. Not my best day! I'm not feeling so hot though, so we'll blame it on that.
How are you not starving?!Quote:
Originally Posted by xokatietatie
Normally, I would be... but I've just kind of felt very "blah" today.
Well I need to be inspired! Have totally gone off the diet, feel so bad but needed it as was sooo over it. Thinking I may just get back on track once TWW over and if my PH is still high will skip next month attempt. Meanwhile will enjoy getting ideas from you all. :)
Today I am having a strict day... also going to the store to stock back up and friendly girl diet foods/dessert(s).
But the store I am going to is in a different town, so I'll be taking the train and walking (I don't have a car, so I walk everywhere, anyway) and have my nearly 30lb son in a front carrier... BEFORE I eat lunch. That's going to burn off some serious calories... hopefully erasing all the chocolate I've eaten the past week...
Well, I'll keep believing it will, anyway!
So I have had a cold the past couple days just been taking bites of things and drinking tons of water.
This morning I had a tiny bowl of potatoes and kilebasa. Can't wait to go grocery shopping I have nothing favoring for girl in my house. lol.
Quick question is it ok to drink soda? If so what kind?
Wow! Anyone in the UK... at Morrisons there are some "Meerkat Jellies" that are vegetarian... and for 1/2 the pack, it's 139 calories, trace protein, 0.1g fat, and trace sodium! YEAH!
So, I'm back home from my shopping trip... super wiped out and tired, though. I ended up eating two ryvitas with dairylea and iceburg before I left (about 1.30pm) because I knew hauling my son in the carrier and then groceries might turn dangerous if I didn't put some calories in before going. Good thing I did! It was a slightly lighter lunch than normal, so with all that hauling of bags plus my son on my front, I've probably already burned my lunch off. :x
I picked up some weight watchers toffee cookies and those gummies for my 'snacks'. I've had 1/2 of the gummies since I got home as I was feeling a little shakey, I've got some Dr Pepper in the fridge (not diet, though) so I'll have one when it gets cold... then will probably have dinner in a couple hours or so and end the night with some cookies.
This is what my preplanned numbers look like:
Calories: 1,217
Fat: 24
Protein: 34
Sodium: 477
I think that's quite possibly the best day I've had in this diet so far. I'm so excited for my faux macaroni and cheese dinner tonight (I'm going to cook down some dairylea cheese and hope it works out sort of like velveeta and only have 100g of pasta, and add mushrooms and cauliflower to it to beef it up)
I'm sooo happy I found those gummies! The other one at Tesco had more some minimal fat/protein in them but this has like none at all!
:)
It is A-OK!...Either type of soda you chose is good for a sway (sugar or diet). If you have the cals to spare, sugar soda is great b/c it's empty cals and sugar makes your blood sugar plummit after a bit. If you want to save your cals, diet soda is great too b/c it usually has aspartame in it which is also great for a girl sway. Drinking something fizzy can also help stave off hunger so if it's a diet soda, you can have it between meals and feel somewhat satisfied w/o cals.. If you decide to drink sugar soda, try to have it w/a meal b/c you don't want to snack between meals on a girl sway. Hope this all makes sense.Quote:
Originally Posted by ttcadaughter2012
I'm excited to finally be able to join in on the food thread -- I've been planning my sway for half-past forever and am now at the start of my six weeks! :) I started the diet on Dec. 30, so here are my past three days:
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Dec. 30:
Morning: caffeine-free Diet Coke, folic acid, Trader Joe's Psyllium Husk (fiber) and Vitex.
Lunch: Activia Fiber yogurt, string cheese, 1 slice Wonder bread (105 mg. sodium) with a Tbsp. of jelly, two servings of Trader Joe's unsalted tortilla chips with 2 Tbsp. of Paul Newman's salsa (65 mg. sodium), 8 oz. skim milk with 2 Tbsp. Hershey's strawberry syrup (empty calories -- woo hoo! :)), peach applesauce, two chocolate-dipped shortbread cookies.
Mid-afternoon: CF Diet Coke
Dinner: three eggwhites cooked in 1 Tbsp. butter served with 1 Tbsp. mayo (65 mg. sodium) on 1 slice Wonder bread (this egg-on-bread combo is super yummy, savory and satisfying), 1 cup of rice milk with 2 Tbsp. Hershey's chocolate syrup with calcium, 1/2 cup no-salt-added green beans, 12 gummy worms.
Evening: peppermint tea (1 bag, 2 packets of Equal)
Dec. 30 totals:
calories: 1615
calories from fat: 455
fat grams: 53
sodium: 1020 mg.
protein grams: 48
calcium: 1380
So, a bit too much on the sodium and protein fronts -- I blame the string cheese. So it'll be a pretty rare thing for me to include again. I'll also reduce the egg whites to two instead of three.
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Dec. 31:
Morning: folic acid, Trader Joe's Psyllium Husk (fiber) and Vitex.
Lunch: 2 slices Wonder bread (105 mg. sodium each) with a Tbsp. of jelly and 1 Tbsp. of butter, slightly more than one servings of Trader Joe's unsalted tortilla chips with 2 Tbsp. of Paul Newman's salsa (65 mg. sodium), 8 oz. skim milk with 2 Tbsp. Hershey's chocolate syrup with calcium, 1/2 cup no-salt-added green beans, 1/4 cup Skittles
Mid-afternoon: CF Diet Coke and double peppermint tea (2 bags, 2 packets of Equal)
Dinner: cup of white mushrooms and one small/med. zucchini, stirfried in 1 Tbsp. butter with one cup of cooked white rice, 8 oz. skim milk with Hershey's strawberry syrup, Activia Fiber yogurt, 12 gummy worms.
Evening: CF Diet Coke with sugar-free Torani cherry syrup.
Dec. 31 totals:
calories: 1575
calories from fat: 305
fat grams: 37.5
sodium: 754 mg.
protein grams: 31
calcium: 1210
Quite a bit better on the values from the day before. Is it possible this diet is actually doable after all? Ignoring, of course, the fact that I wake up hungry, am hungry by mid-afternoon and am hungry by bedtime. Besides that. ;)
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Jan. 1
Morning: double peppermint tea (2 bags, 2 packets of Equal), folic acid, Trader Joe's Psyllium Husk (fiber) and Vitex.
Lunch: serving of the mushroom/zucchini/butter/rice serving identical to last night's dinner, 8 oz. skim milk with 2 Tbsp. Hershey's chocolate syrup with calcium, peach applesauce, 1/2 cup no-salt-added green beans, 1/8 cup Skittles.
Afternoon: double peppermint tea (2 bags, 2 packets of Equal)
Dinner: two eggwhites cooked in 1 Tbsp. butter served with 1 Tbsp. mayo (65 mg. sodium) on 1 slice Wonder bread, homemade strawberry smoothie (1 cup rice milk, 1 cup frozen sliced strawberries, 1/2 cup low-fat strawberry kefir, 2 Tbsp. Hershey's strawberry syrup), 1/2 cup no-salt-added green beans, 1 Rice Krispies treat*.
Evening: CF Diet Coke
Jan. 1 totals:
calories: 1708
calories from fat: 420
fat grams: 47
sodium: 726.5
protein grams: 36.5
calcium: 1130
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Okay, here's a recipe for those struggling with getting enough calories (and also still have some wiggle room with your fat, protein and sodium): "Double-goo" Rice Krispies treats -- this gets you the extra "empties" from marshmallows and butter, without going excessive on the amount of cereal (which has some vitamins and nutrients).
6 Tablespoons butter
80 large marshmallows
6 cups Rice Krispies
Melt butter and marshmallows in pot over low heat. When completely melted, stir into Rice Krispies and spread in a greased 9x13 pan. When it's cooled enough to slice, I sliced it into eight equal portions. If my math is correct, this portion (1/8 of the pan) gives you 403 calories (75 of which are from fat) 8 grams fat, 151 mg. sodium and 4 g. protein. If you have the willpower to slice the whole pan into 16 pieces, then of course, all those values can be halved.
In the eight-per-pan portion size, this is definitely a once-in-awhile treat (as in, I'd better only make a pan once a month and hope that DH and DSs eat most of them! :)) but it's a nice change-up from gummies and Skittles.
So far today (it's 1 p.m.), I've had a CF Diet Coke, a double peppermint tea and my pills (Vitex, folic acid, fiber), but nothing caloric to eat. Normally, I'm aiming to eat at noon (no earlier) and 6 p.m. (no earlier), but tonight I'm taking my kids over to my parents' house for a movie night and we'll probably be there from 5:30-7:30 or so. I don't want to eat before that because I'll be starving well before bedtime. So I'm planning on eating after the kids and I get home ... therefore, I'm trying to push myself on lunch as long as I can, so I'm not (yep, you guessed it) starving during the movie -- especially since I'm sure my dad will bring in popcorn, pop and Junior Mints. :)
Good luck, ladies!!!
welcome, Drama! when are you TTC?
2nd Jan:
morning: nothing!
12pm: winter veg soup + 1 slice of toast with butter, choc cake that DH bought for me! 1 cupcake
6pm: Sainsbury's golden veg rice, some segments of choc orange
Thank you, Rainbow. AF should be here tomorrow or thereabouts and I will not be TTC this cycle. So I should ovulate mid-January (not TTC) and then again mid-February (first TTC!!!).
Question for anyone: How much should we be concerned with eating the same things over and over again? For example, as I said, I really enjoy the butter-friend eggwhites and mayo on bread. So long as I'm keeping under my values (calories, protein, whatnot), is it a problem if I'm eating eggs (not yolks) everyday? Or should it still be more of a couple of times a week thing because of the general healthfulness of eggwhites?
as long as you stay within the limits that's fine
someone had a theory that variety also sways blue because it means lots of food is available
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Originally Posted by dramabird
I miss marshmallows/rice krispie treats. Haven't been able to eat them since I became vegetarian almost 13 years ago...
I also was wondering about marshmallows since I have a couple of bags left from holidays, I usually eat them by handfuls, so they are ok, right??
Like I've said in previous posts - can't drink milk, haven't in years!!! But if I must maybe chocolate would allow me to chug it down, one glass a day, maybe...
I think generally people have been using them to boost calories on this diet. However, I myself cannot as they are not vegetarian (I'm vegetarian and there is gelatin in them.)
I think they're ok in small amounts, but I wouldn't eat a whole bag of them or anything since they do have gelatin in them, which sways boy....
Oh, I've been eating rice krispie treats. I guess I'll stop when the box is gone!
Ahhhh...it feels good to be home and finally in control of my meals again after a week and a half of being a guest in other people's houses!
7am: coffee
1pm: low sodium small roll dipped in balsamic vinegar, 2 Peek Freans Lifestyles cookies
5:30pm: 1.5 servings pasta with homemade primavera sauce (leeks, mushrooms, zucchini, and 'no salt added' canned tomatoes) + parmesan
8:30pm: green grapes, vanilla frozen yogurt with raspberries, Sour Patch Kids, 4 Pringles
Calories: 1383
Protein: 40g
Sodium: 511mg
mocha-do you get your frozen yogurt from the grocery store or as soft serve from a frozen yogurt shop? It is one of my faves, and I was having it a lot and then I stopped, I think I am going to start it up again, I am trying to decide what my go to meals are going to be for the weeks ahead!
So based on the little amount of food you all are eating my diet SUCKS big time. lol How do you do it?
This is me today-
8:30 cofffee w/ a tiny bit of creamer
11:15 - 2 small cookies and water
2:30 - bowl of Pasta w/ teaspoon of pesto, 1/2 cup lettuce w 1tbs dressing and CL
5:30 - small piece of williams Sonoma peppermint bark (bad i know but so YUM)
7:00 - Yoplait light yogurt, bowl of white rice with butter and a very tiny piece of chicken shredded in
9:15 - Spearmint tea w/ equal and a cookie
I've seen people say they are eating gummies, is that like gummy worms? I thought they had gelatin?
I sometimes get the frozen yogurt at a frozen yogurt shop as a treat - there's a place like that at the movie theatre I go to. However, most of the time I just have the basic, boring stuff you buy at the grocery store. I also have low fat ice cream, sherbet and gelato. My freezer's always full of frozen treats!
hi guys going to be starting my diet in a week, ive put my info of the foods ive planned to eat onto myfitness pal and im shocked as its alot easier than i thought, or am i doing something wronge please take a look Free Calorie Counter, Diet & Exercise Journal | MyFitnessPal.com
the only thing that is missing is on the dinner one that i plan to add some heinz baby pasta sauce which they dont have in there inventory, here is the info on that Cookies Detecting!
WOWZUHS…It’s awesome to see all the new people to this thread! :agree: I need to go back and catch up w/you guys! I’m doing things differently now and no longer skip breakfast but instead, skip dinner. I’m just testing this out right now to see if it works better for me but if not, I’ll go back to skipping breakfast instead. I also am incorporating more “healthy” veg nutrients into my sway b/c I’ve been feeling terrible lately. I’m hoping that keeping my blood sugar low as well as keeping cals/fat/protein/sodium down, it’ll still sway “girl” enough for me…
Yesterday:
• -1st Meal (07:00 a.m.)
• -green drink w/100% cran juice
• -fuji apple
• -tea w/rice milk
2nd Meal (2:30 p.m)
• -veggie wrap from Whole Foods
• -sautéed leeks, mushrooms and white basmati rice w/quark
Evening “Snack “ (6:30 p.m.)
• Calorie free Zevia Cream Soda
Beverages throughout the day:
• Water
• RRL tea (2 C.)
• Peppermint tea (4 C.)
Wow, you didn't eat much yesterday, Jen! I worry that you're keeping your breakfast too light because you're hesitant about eating it, but then you're still only eating one other meal. Have you figured out how many calories you had?
Mocha, it's so hard to eat enough in the a.m. so it was all I could do to get that apple down. It's easy for me to not eat until 2:30 whether or not I skip breakfast. I'm still not sure if I'll keep this pattern or not. It's tough to get enough cals regardless of what I do. Yesterday, I was only able to get 1,148 cals in. I'm shooting for 1,400 but it's difficult. I may have to turn to candy again...I love it but I feel guilty eating it...:worry:
I have major worries about my sway because I eat about triple what everyone else eats. I don't know what to do. If I eat less I will keep losing weight which I am told not to do b/c mine is low already, but if I eat the amount I eat then I don't know if it is as strong of a sway except it is low in terms of nutrients and I am not eating as often as I was. I am eating 3 times a day. I also am trying to eat the same(ish) things for less overall nutrients.
But for instance, so far for brekkie at 10:30 I already had, 1 1/2 mini bagels w/ whipped cream cheese and sugar free jelly, a slice of italian bread with light butter, two coco rice puffs, a handful of gorilla crunch cereal, two pretzels w/ melted rolo candies on them, 3 green grapes, coffee with sugar-free creamer, pep tea with equal.
I plan to have a yoplait yogurt and kettle corn later though I am sure that won't be enough for me for lunch so will have to add something else, maybe a fiber smoothie too?? and then pasta with leeks and parm or quark for dinner with a huge iceburg lettuce salad w/ cucumbers and mushrooms and also dessert most likely some candy and popsicles or popsicles and a rice krispie treat.
Any advise food wise for my sway?? Seems like a ton of food but I am a)hungry b) still 93 lbs. Thank you fabulous ladies! Amari
Amari, you're tiny already and you're not gaining weight and hopefully maintaining so don't worry one bit! You need those cals! As long as you're keeping protein/fat/sodium on the lower side than what you were doing before, I think you're doing ABSOLUTELY PERFECTLY! :agree:
When I click on the link, it says that I'm not permitted to see your food diary. Could you go into the settings and change it to make it public? I use MFP as well and I :awe: it!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by littlemissnaughty7
I have to leave to pick up my son from school but I'll try to pop back on today to catch up w/the last 3 pages of this thread...still haven't been able to do so but I'm so excited that this thread is hoppin'! :bigsmile:
I agree with Jen, amari. You don't have any weight to lose, so as long as you're not gaining, I think you need those extra calories!
Jen - I'm soooo soryr you're having trouble adjusting the diet to make it easier for you. This is just my humble opinion, but if you're having trouble eating breakfast anyway maybe you should go back to dropping it. Instead you could eat an early lunch at 11 or so, an early dinner at 4-5 and you could still have a snack (give in to the CANDY!) in the evening. Whatever you do, take care of yourself and make sure you're getting enough calories. Let's keep your body in prime health so you can create your perfect little girl in a week or so :HH:.
Jen, you're having trouble eating brekkie? I missed that? Is your new diet not working for you? That seems like a long stretch from 2:30 to 7:30 the next day? Are you still doing your fiber smoothies at all?
I haven't been able to try to log onto the diary yet, hope to try after I grab a shower if my little one is still napping....
So what i have looks ok to you all? This is just an example if today but actually I will probably end up w a few more desserts. I guess as it gets closer to o I can just drop them.
Ladies, don't starve yourselves! Remember, Atomic has warned about dropping so quickly that then you feel the need to gain a few pounds back and before you know it, boom, you're in boy sway territory. Amari, as little as you are, your size is already swaying pink. I'd just focus on keeping that blood sugar low ... consume generous calories, just try to consolidate them into two, maybe three, sessions. Jen, if you're having a tough time having an appetite for breakfast, then you're going to back yourself in a corner of eating essentially only one meal a day. :( Forgive me if I missed it; is there a reason you're skipping dinner?
I feel like I'm gobbling down so much food compared to what I'm seeing others post here. I'm not as little as Amari, but on the small side (I'm starting my sway at 107 lbs. at 5'2.5", which is a BMI of 19.3), so I'm trying to start off making absolutely sure I'm hitting at least 1500 calories (and not feeling bad if I get closer to the 1800 end). I'm going to weigh myself once a week and if I'm not losing weight at all, I'll start trimming calories a 100 or so at a time; if the weight is coming off too quickly, I'll try to make it more gradual with additional empty calories. Since there's no way to know how long it will take to conceive, I don't want to leave myself nowhere to go weight-wise (plus it'll freak out my DH if I lose too much).
Stir-fry in butter! Add some mayo to a sandwich! Put flavored syrups in your drinks! So long as you're keeping your fat, protein and sodium levels below the maximum amounts, you don't have to utterly deprive yourselves. Who knows how long we'll be doing these diets, so let's do something we can maintain.
More from Ms. Sagebrush on the importance of 1500-1800 calories: http://genderdreaming.com/forum/ttc-...-calories.html
It's past noon, so I'm off to eat 800 calories of rice, veggies, yogurt, skim milk, cookies and Skittles! :) May the sway-force be with you!
Good advice, dramabird. When I first started to sway last May I dropped the weight waaaayyy too quickly, and then I'd painted myself into a corner and was afraid to eat more calories lest I gain weight. This time I vowed to stick to a minimum of 1500 calories a day, and did that for the most part. It was the perfect amount to help me drop some of the extra pounds I'd gained in my brief pregnancy, but the weight loss stalled at 115lbs, which is a good weight for me, and still over 10 lbs lighter than my past conception weight. After sooooo many months on the LE diet, I think I have a pretty good grasp of what kinds of foods work for me, and I keep track of everything on FitDay to make sure I'm getting enough calories while not going over with anything else. I'm all about dessert and candy!
What went wrong for me this time was the week and a half I spent as a guest at other people's houses, where I couldn't make my own meals, so had to make do with side dishes while everyone else ate the meat main course. Somehow I dropped 10-15 pounds in that week and a half, so THANK GOODNESS I got my BFP today, because I'd be scared to lose anymore weight and I'd worry going back to my 1500 calories would cause me to gain weight. Please stick, little bean! :pray:
Yes, little miss, it says it is private.
And, dramabird, I agree, I do stick to 1500 at least to, usually more. I always feel like I eat double what everyone else eats too. I guess we all have to do what is right for us.
Mocha, I am so excited for you bfp!!! And an added bonus is you get to eat!! Yay!
Congratulations, Mocha! Sending you sticky pink dust!! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Mochagirl
I thought I conquered the mighty little chocolates at work today... until literally 45 minutes before I was due to leave! GRRR! I had two little ones. :(
Morning:
at home - 1 cup peppermint tea
at work - 1 cup coffee with 1% soy milk
An hour before lunch (I wake up at 5.30am and lunch isn't until 1.30pm, so I was dying!)... half a pack of meerkat gummies.
Lunch: 3 ryvita crispbread originals, with dairylea cheese and iceberg lettuce.
Dinner: A strange concoction of sorts... and it tastes strangely... like chilli (YUM)... without... the beans, and so on... hmmm! Baby button mushrooms, basmati rice, some tinned tomatoes that are low in everything, some low fat creme fraiche, and a few dashes of chilli powder (unsure what the rules are on that one... but it was staring me in the face in the cupboard!). All washed down with about 300ml of pure apple juice (it's only made with apples, zero stuff added to it... no syrups/sugars/etcetera... it's just pressed apples.)
Probably going to have more of the gummies tonight after dinner... I like where my fat/protein numbers are... or else I'd have the weight watchers cookies!
Calories: 1390
Fat: 28
Protein: 26
Sodium: 313
Sometimes I get worried if I get a bit too varied with my meals? Think it matters?