I need help!!

[Hobbermittens]

As many of you have already read, I keep losing weight, so I am terrified of trying to sway in October if I can't gain a little soon. I thought maybe if I listed a sample menu, maybe I could get some suggestions on what I could add/subtract to make me gain some weight.

Breakfast: either dates and nuts, or peanut butter oatmeal (no milk)

Green tea
pineapple juice w/ ACV

snack: beef jerky, potato chips, banana

Lunch: tomato soup and a baked potato, ham, and a pear; or a ham sandwich and a piece of fruit; or a peanut butter sandwich

snack: more beef jerky and potato chips

Pineapple juice, or V8 with nutritional yeast flakes

Dinner: Salad, meat of some kind, and a starch.

Bedtime snack: dried fruit and nuts

[LolaInLove]

Hmmm, what are you doing differently than before when you weren't losing? Your diet looks good.....I guess you could just eat more.

[Hobbermittens]

I swear it is all the sugar I am not eating, and I think that stupid Atkins diet changed something in me so I am just losing!! Horrible. Who would have thought? The ONE time I am supposed to gain and I can't!! I never should have done that diet. I started out at 159 lbs, and am now down to 143, and I haven't been doing Atkins since July!! I don't get it!

[LolaInLove]

Wow, it seems like it totally sped up your metabolism or something. I think that is great, except for blue swaying, not so much! But you know what, I don't know if you should worry about it so much. I know TONS of girls who ate very balanced healthy diets and were very thin and had boys, so it's not like you have to be tipping the scales to conceive a boy. Maybe you could just up all of the food intake and even adds some sugar and more fats in until you ttc?

[LolaInLove]

Oh, and I was just thinking about how I have lost a few pounds in the last few weeks because I stopped eating burgers and chips and such. Now, I eat all day long, but just little bits of healthy protein +carbs. I am not too worried about it swaying pink or anything because it's not like I'm in famine mode, just healthier feast mode. I don't know, I hope that is true, at least!

[Flava]

Hobber Im sorry

Maybe you have to eat a little more or add other foods too. Like

"Breakfast: either dates and nuts, or peanut butter oatmeal (no milk)

Green tea
pineapple juice w/ ACV:"

try to eat eggs with bacon , or cook the oatmeal in whole milk , or pancakes, or hashbrown and so...you can add to all this dry fruit or fruit and juice.
Don't drink ACV before noon!

I think your lunch is fine maybe eat more then 1 sandwich and more fruit?

Same with snacks you can add more veggie /fruit and dark chocolate is good too!

"Dinner: Salad, meat of some kind, and a starch."

Maybe you can add potato or rice or pasta to the meat and not just salad ?
Just because you want to stop loosing weight.
Eh I do that and Im fat duhhh no wonder LOL.

Bedtime snack I eat the same thing like you ! And again you can have 1 more banana and dark chocolate!
Cant think of anything else. Try this and HTH!

[zanacal]

To me that doesn't look like very much food. Swaying aside, because I'm not 100% on what you are/aren't eating:

Breakfast - I'm interested in how you're having oatmeal without milk, are you making it with water? That seems quite diet friendly to me. Could you eat your oatmeal then have the peanut butter on a couple of slices of toast?

Lunch - a sandwich or a sandwich and fruit seems very little (to a big eater like me!). I would have (if I was eating my normal diet not if I was swaying blue!) that but also a bag of crisps/potato chips, a cereal bar and a yogurt.

Dinner - Maybe increase the amount of starch and add a sauce of some sort? Do you like curries?

Are you avoiding cheese? That's a sure fire way to put on weight! Regarding your snacks, you have my sympathies, banana and beef sounds yuck!

[Hobbermittens]

Maybe you could just up all of the food intake and even adds some sugar and more fats in until you ttc?

Aren't we supposed to avoid sugar? If we could have sweets, I would be gaining a ton, I am sure, because I could down a box of twinkies in a sitting!

[Hobbermittens]

Flava--Why can't I drink ACV before noon?? I do it all the time!

I am trying to avoid dairy, so I can't make the oatmeal with milk. But I guess I can try to add some bacon or sausage. I just don't have any more room in my tummy for extra food!

[Hobbermittens]

To me that doesn't look like very much food. Swaying aside, because I'm not 100% on what you are/aren't eating:

Breakfast - I'm interested in how you're having oatmeal without milk, are you making it with water? That seems quite diet friendly to me. Could you eat your oatmeal then have the peanut butter on a couple of slices of toast?

Lunch - a sandwich or a sandwich and fruit seems very little (to a big eater like me!). I would have (if I was eating my normal diet not if I was swaying blue!) that but also a bag of crisps/potato chips, a cereal bar and a yogurt.

Dinner - Maybe increase the amount of starch and add a sauce of some sort? Do you like curries?

Are you avoiding cheese? That's a sure fire way to put on weight! Regarding your snacks, you have my sympathies, banana and beef sounds yuck!

I will try to eat more but I really don't think I can hold any more! I am avoiding dairy, so cheese is out. Too bad, I know. I could have pizza every day otherwise!

For lunch today I had a corndog, a hotdog, AND a fried burrito! Maybe that will help.