December's pink food thread!

[Mochagirl]

I managed to avoid several diet pitfalls while shopping at the farmer's market today. I averted my eyes when I saw the cheese curd, and bought each of my boys beautifully decorated Christmas cookies while buying nothing for myself. For lunch I bought some Montreal-style bagels (waaaay lower in sodium and protein that the classic NY style ones) and am having one for lunch with a bit of low fat cream cheese. It feels like an indulgence, but actually fits quite well into my diet. Now I just need to find something sweet for dessert....

Oh, and for once my millions of cups of tea a day might be a good thing. My u/s is scheduled for 1pm and I'm supposed to have a full bladder. I just took my OPK, so now I'm going to have a double sized cup of peppermint tea and a double sized cup of RRL tea instead of the water I'm supposed to drink. I can kill 2 birds with one stone!

[suregena]

TOO much snacking today. Mainly at the end of the work day. All the Radiologist consultants at work brought in their little Merry Christmas boxes of chocolates, cookies, etcetera today... and, oh goodness. It is SO hard walking by those boxes a million times and everyone around you chomping cookies to not grab some yourself. I'm so WEAK!

I had coffee and soy milk this morning.

Lunch at 1.40pm was leftover basmati and veg rice from last night, plain... so I bought a little thing of cottage cheese in the work cafeteria to add to it as it was a little less than half of what I had for dinner last night, and was scared of being too empty-stomached. I have NO idea if it was normal cottage cheese or low fat. It was probably half a cup's worth. Or a little less. Hope it wasn't TOO bad... oh, and one of those cupcakes...

Then 4pm rolled around and in came the cookies. I had 4(!!! ) and two bitesize cadbury's. Bad, bad, bad! I HAVE to TTC this time of the year (at least to try to get pregnant by a certain time, or else I'll have to wait some months and then try again... going to the US for Christmas next year so have to coordinate birth/pregnant/whatever around it, ha...), but if it were my choice, I wouldn't! Hard business, all these festive treats are going to ruin my sway! My willpower is terrible.

I had breakfast bowl size portion of basmati rice again for dinner, with button mushrooms, green beans, some garam masala/coriander/black pepper/cumin (I hope those seasonings aren't bad!) and some reduced fat cream cheese.


Calories: 1,258
Fat: 41
Protein: 43

Sodium, not even going to bother... probably all incorrect.

Also, these numbers could be off because I round up and tend to slightly over-estimate the amounts I have to be on the safe side.

[Mochagirl]

Sometimes I think I have it easier doing the diet as a SAHM. I remember from my working days all the treats that circulate around the office at Christmas. There's no way I could have resisted them either, suregena! At least at home I can keep temptation away.

[suregena]

Sometimes I think I have it easier doing the diet as a SAHM. I remember from my working days all the treats that circulate around the office at Christmas. There's no way I could have resisted them either, suregena! At least at home I can keep temptation away.

Oh, definitely! I wish I was a stay at home mom. Returning to work still just depresses me. I feel like I miss chunks of my son's life and I hate it...

The weekends when I am not at work are SO much easier!

[Mochagirl]

7am: coffee
12pm: Montreal-style (low sodium) bagel with low fat cream cheese
5:30pm: pasta with zucchini, mushrooms and canned no salt tomatoes + creme fraiche and parmesan
9pm: green grapes, Mike & Ikes

Calories: 1309
Protein:40g
Sodium: 565mg

[rainbowflower]

what I wouldn't give for a cheese and pickle sandwich for lunch
would be much too high in sodium, though

[Out of the Blue]

Rainbow, what I wouldn't give for just a cheese sandwich!!!

[Out of the Blue]

Thursday:

• 2 C. black tea w/splash of rice milk
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• Sautéed leeks, mushrooms and basmati w/a bit of chevrai goat cheese
• Fuji apple
• Weight watchers Giant Latte ice cream bar
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• Big salad w/Raspberry vinaigrette
• Just a bit of plain low-fat yogurt with canned pumpkin, cinnamon and stevia
• Bit of air-popped popcorn
• A piece of low fat string cheese
• 1 Sour Patch candy cane
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• No Pep tea…just water and my morning tea


Looks like I O’ed back on the 13th so I’m 3 dpo today.

[Mochagirl]

Looks like I O’ed back on the 13th so I’m 3 dpo today.

YAYAYAYAYAYAY

[chocolate]

Hey everyone, Ive been directed here by Zanacal, think this is going to be the making of my diet plan as was so lost!
Am loving Zanacals sweets and cakes!

Im about 5dpo and thinking now Im not pregnant - jumped and dumped after very shallow dtd,most in underwear, dtd 2 to 3 days before O. Replens 3 hours before dtd, probably over-kill with amount too. Mainly ate normal pasta, parmasan and rice, yogs and diet coke.

Im basically going to mimic Zanacals diet because Im UK based and will be great to include cakes and sweets and hula hoops lol as I need food on the go that I like too or I will give in and reach for a burger!

Am going to start tracking cals and nutrients too so hope to be a regular on here but follow in Zanacals foot steps for a fast bfp and a girl!