What are you eating???

[DoulaMama]

Ok gals!
I'm trying to figure out what the heck I should eat. Can you guys tell me what your day looks like? When do you take your supps? When is your last meal-how late do you eat in the evening? When/how do you exercise? Do you exercise?

Thanks!!

[shouldihope?]

Good questions. Wondering if I am doing the right things myself.

[Indira]

Nice thread!

I´ve not started all the supplements yet, but I can tell you what i´m doing now, trying to start loosing some weight.
I still have breakfast, I eat a bowl of yoghurt (without cereal now) and have a cup of peppermint tea. In a month or so I will stop eating the yoghurt as well.
At 10 am I have a cup of decaf coffee (yes, that has to go too!)
I don´t snack between breakfast and lunch, if I really need something I eat some strawberries, pickles or an apple.
For lunch, while I cook noodles for my kids I eat a nice big salad with beans, mais, pickles or anything else on it (that tasts really good actually after all those hours), that way I´m already quite full when we sit down and I eat just a tiny portion of noodels or rice. Ah, and I take folic acid.
Then I have another pepperminttea in the afternoon with two thin crisp bread with low-fat cream cheese on it.
For dinner I just have what I cooked for my family really reducing my protein portion and if I make potatoes in whatever way for them I make couscous or rice for myself.
Then at around nine pm I have a herbal tea with two crisp bread slices again. Before going to sleep I take iron with vit C, my doctor told me to do so.

I´m having a hard time as I used to eat soooo many Good Sweet Fat Things all day long but I am keeping it up and I´m quite sure I´ll be able to take out breakfast and those crisp breads six weeks before my attempt. The only problem will be if I don´t get pregnant in July, because in August I will be in Italy for two weeks with my family in law they will make me eat!

Ah and I´m looking for saw palmetto now because I want to start taking that too.

[wishing on a star]

Hi ladies just thought id put my daily routine down:
NO breakfast, sometimes a glass of milk around 10 but not very often
For lunch 3 crackerbreads with unsalted butter and cottage cheese
If i cant wait till tea then have a yougurt drink or some cucmber mid afternoon
Dinner is usually noodles or pasta with a small bit of cheese, unsalted butter, peas and cucmber. Or once a week will have small bit of chicken with leeks and beans followed by yougurt
DRINKS, cranberry juice throughout day, 2 glasses of milk and some perrier
Have lost 18lbs in 3 months doing this
xxx

[wishing on a star]

Oh and for supps i have 10,000mg cranberry tabs
100mg calcium (as most of it is through diet)
300mg magnesium
400mg folic acid
xx

[DoulaMama]

Nice thread!

I´ve not started all the supplements yet, but I can tell you what i´m doing now, trying to start loosing some weight.
I still have breakfast, I eat a bowl of yoghurt (without cereal now) and have a cup of peppermint tea. In a month or so I will stop eating the yoghurt as well.
At 10 am I have a cup of decaf coffee (yes, that has to go too!)
I don´t snack between breakfast and lunch, if I really need something I eat some strawberries, pickles or an apple.
For lunch, while I cook noodles for my kids I eat a nice big salad with beans, mais, pickles or anything else on it (that tasts really good actually after all those hours), that way I´m already quite full when we sit down and I eat just a tiny portion of noodels or rice. Ah, and I take folic acid.
Then I have another pepperminttea in the afternoon with two thin crisp bread with low-fat cream cheese on it.
For dinner I just have what I cooked for my family really reducing my protein portion and if I make potatoes in whatever way for them I make couscous or rice for myself.
Then at around nine pm I have a herbal tea with two crisp bread slices again. Before going to sleep I take iron with vit C, my doctor told me to do so.

I´m having a hard time as I used to eat soooo many Good Sweet Fat Things all day long but I am keeping it up and I´m quite sure I´ll be able to take out breakfast and those crisp breads six weeks before my attempt. The only problem will be if I don´t get pregnant in July, because in August I will be in Italy for two weeks with my family in law they will make me eat!

Ah and I´m looking for saw palmetto now because I want to start taking that too.

Wow! Thanks for going into all the details! One question? Are pickles ok to eat then? I thought because of the sodium content they were a no-no? And looking at the French diet...the crisps, as long as they are low salt, should be fine. Is there a reason we can't have them? I'm just making a very big list of all the foods I can/can't eat and some of them I'm a bit confused....

[DoulaMama]

Hi ladies just thought id put my daily routine down:
NO breakfast, sometimes a glass of milk around 10 but not very often
For lunch 3 crackerbreads with unsalted butter and cottage cheese
If i cant wait till tea then have a yougurt drink or some cucmber mid afternoon
Dinner is usually noodles or pasta with a small bit of cheese, unsalted butter, peas and cucmber. Or once a week will have small bit of chicken with leeks and beans followed by yougurt
DRINKS, cranberry juice throughout day, 2 glasses of milk and some perrier
Have lost 18lbs in 3 months doing this
xxx

Thank you!! And way to go on the weight loss!! I'm down 20 pds as well Feels so good

[Emmy2012]

I get up at 5am skip breakfast
12pm 2 slices low sodium bread and dab of unsalted butter, 2 glasses of non-fat organic milk
4pm non-fat greek yogurt, no sugar added strawberries and equal
6pm calcium fortified pasta, organic no salt added green beans, small amount of parm and non-salt butter
Thats it for the day! Tons of dasani water with wal-mart crystal light and some peppermint tea with equal for drinks!
I take a mag pill at lunch, vitex in the am, and folic acid, baby aspirin and saw palmetto at night.

[wishing on a star]

Wow that's great doula mamma your obviously doing something right, keep up the good work
Xxxx

[Coccinelle33]

im not really doing the diet 100% anymore. im going to start again tomorrow though. i was getting up at 6 and then not eating until about 10-12. i would have a big glass of peppermint tea though... i would have some toast with sugar free strawberry jelly or swiss cheese and a glass of skim milk for my late breakfast. a yogurt and more tea for a snack. for lunch more milk and something like a salad or noodles with a little parm cheese and green peppers with mrs. dash and yogurt on top or cottage cheese..... for dinner normally rice or noodles with veggies (peas or green beans) and more toast. yogurt again for a snack and more tea. sometimes i would eat off the diet or have a potato. it's been hard to stick to since im always running around and just cant sometimes. i haven't salted anything in 2 months and im eating a lot more dairy and mostly off the girl diets.