December's pink food thread!

[amari]

So, ladies, I'm going to Mexico tomorrow for 2weeks (yay!) but I will be with loads of family and eating out a lot. It will be hard to do the diet. Any words of wisdom? Thanks!

[Mochagirl]

The only problem with Asian is that my friend and I usually get dishes to share when we go that route, and I know she'd want to order meat dishes. I did tell her about the diet last time I was on it (I actually told my 3 best friends), but after the m/c I don't really want people to know I'm dieting again since I know they all think it was a crazy idea in the first place and I think they secretly blame my m/c on my massive weight loss.

I usually try to steer people towards Italian places while on the diet because I can just get pasta or wood oven pizza.

[Out of the Blue]

Yesterday:

• 2 C. tea w/splash of rice milk
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• Salad w/Raspberry Vinaigrette
• Lowfat plain yogurt w/canned pumpkin, cinnamon and a bit of stevia ( )…This was really, really good and tasted like tangy pumpkin pudding. I’ll probably do it again today…
• Coconut water
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• Air-popped popcorn w/pecorino-romano
• Smoothie (rice milk, frozen raspberries, psyllium husks)
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• Throughout the day, 3 C. peppermint tea, 1 C. RRL tea

[Out of the Blue]

So, ladies, I'm going to Mexico tomorrow for 2weeks (yay!) but I will be with loads of family and eating out a lot. It will be hard to do the diet. Any words of wisdom? Thanks!

Lucky Chica!!! Not sure I have any advice other than trying to stick to what you know is okay...

Hey, aren't you starting Clomid today?

[Out of the Blue]

The only problem with Asian is that my friend and I usually get dishes to share when we go that route, and I know she'd want to order meat dishes.

Don’t worry about sharing w/your friend…Get what you want! Where ever you go, just ask them to bring you half of your order and wrap up the other half. I do this very often and every time I ask, they seem like it’s a frequent request of other patrons.

…but after the m/c I don't really want people to know I'm dieting again since I know they all think it was a crazy idea in the first place and I think they secretly blame my m/c on my massive weight loss.

That’s what people think about my m/c…DH told a few people at work (people I know very well and used to work w/as well) that I was swaying back before I conceived last time. They are sure my m/c was due to swaying/being too skinny. I was super upset when DH told me he’d told others I was swaying (before I even conceived) b/c I’d not told anyone IRL (and still won’t this time around). As if m/c isn’t terrible enough, now when I see all these people, it’s so embarrassing. I can see it in their eyes and the whole situation is awkward. UGH…darn DH!!!

[Mochagirl]

Don’t worry about sharing w/your friend…Get what you want!

I would, except she would think it really strange since we ALWAYS share dishes, then she'll get suspicious and know I'm swaying again. It might not be an issue anyway since I think I've talked her into going to an early show and just going out for dessert afterwards instead of dinner. Dessert I can do!

As if m/c isn’t terrible enough, now when I see all these people, it’s so embarrassing. I can see it in their eyes and the whole situation is awkward. UGH…darn DH!!!

I know exactly what you mean! When I told one of my closest friends about the m/c and said we were going to try again as soon as possible, the first thing she said was 'You're not going to try that crazy diet again, are you??'. Only dh and one of my less judgmental friends know about the diet this time around, and I had to admit to my Mom that I've changed my eating habits again (she knew about the diet too) so she wouldn't try to serve meat when I visited, but I told her I'm just eating vegetarian and not doing the rest. I really don't want her to worry more about me than she already is!

[suregena]

I had such a bad day today, ugh. Work was decidedly = fail. I sort of gave up today. I had no will power.

What kicked it off was last night... er, this morning at about 3.30am, I woke up intensely dizzy, with a horrible one sided headache, and sick to my stomach. I knew it was because of lack of food. This was what I was worried about on this diet because I do get like this if I have skipped dinner in the past, or ate insanely light dinner. How do I conquer this? It makes me scared to go another two days. Basically, I had to get up at 5.30am for work and I was feeling decidedly not right and extremely unwell at 3.30am. I jumped out of bed and went downstairs and had a piece of weight watchers bread with low sugar strawberry jam. In about 30 minutes, all felt right in the world and I could sleep again. By the time we had to get up, my stomach was already grumbling. Ugh. I told my husband "I shouldn't... but 1 weetabix and soy milk, please. "

Then I got to work... oh God. They had cookies. I HAD FOUR. CHOCOLATE COATED COOKIES! AHG! Then I had couscous and rice pudding for lunch.

Royal fail today... so far.

Please, ladies, how do I keep that unbearable SICK away from lack of eating? Or do I just have to force myself to get used to it? In the past it's been enough to make me dry-heave... :/

[zanacal]

Suregena, please eat more! I haven't looked back but I seem to remember you're only eating around half the amount of calories recommended on the LE diet and, you're right, you can't stick with that long term without feeling terrible! Also, don't forget you can still have 3 meals a day even if you're skipping breakfast - I tended to eat at 11/12, 4/5 and 8/9 o'clock. The last 'meal' was usually a treat for after the children had gone to bed (like sweets or a little cake!).

[suregena]

Suregena, please eat more! I haven't looked back but I seem to remember you're only eating around half the amount of calories recommended on the LE diet and, you're right, you can't stick with that long term without feeling terrible! Also, don't forget you can still have 3 meals a day even if you're skipping breakfast - I tended to eat at 11/12, 4/5 and 8/9 o'clock. The last 'meal' was usually a treat for after the children had gone to bed (like sweets or a little cake!).

Yeah... I'm having a hard time getting the levels all within limits... I can keep the calories within limit, sure, but then I'd surely go over protein... which is why my calories the previous two days were so low. It's tough to balance. :/ I'm sure it'll just take practice, considering this is new to me. I never even dieted before in my life. I'm a normal healthy weight at the moment, so obviously don't want to drop down TOO much (I weigh less than I did before my son as it is, which was a result of breastfeeding and just stayed that way), and have been vegetarian for yeeeaaarrrss. But it's still hard! All my favorites are gone, ha!

After today I'm going to share dinner with my husband and just have a smaller portion and have the big bad no no tomato & mushroom sauce and not stress about it, and tomorrow I will start again.

I think the only way I could probably make this work is come up with some sort of meal plan so I'm not counting up everything I eat to try to make something 'within range.' That will just make a person crazy. :/

[rainbowflower]

8th Dec:
-1 cup instant coffee with 1% unsweetened soy milk
-1 Advent calendar chocolate (not sure how much that is but it wouldn't be very much!)
-1 0% fat yogurt
-1 piece weight watchers danish bread with unsalted butter
-200grams (sort of... more like 150grams... my son ended up wanting my dinner instead of his!) of plain couscous with reduced fat cream cheese, black pepper, a little rosemary, and green beans.

calories: 720
protein: 42.3
fat: 15.6
salt: 0.8g

woah that's hardly anything! how long have you been doing the diet for? how much weight do you have to lose?








here's my first diet day for ages....

mid-morning: 2 biscuits, 2 marshmallows
lunch: 1 pitta bread with some mozarella melted on top, 1 apple, 2 leftover Dominos cookies (oops!)
tea: Sainsbury's frozen golden rice (trace sodium) - why did noone tell me that was SO delicious?!?! I could eat it every day! and then I had 2 WeightWatchers lemon slices and 1 WW mini roll and 2 more marshmallows

so not too bad really, although I feel I ought to eat more tomorrow