Should I snack if I need more calories?

[AMY]

I wish I could help you, but I have the same problem

My day:
no Breakfast, just a cup of peppermint tea with splenda

Noon:
Zucchini (courgette) 400g, peeled, boiled in water
(80 cal, 6 Prot, 8 Carb, 800 Pottasium) togeter with Spagetti (made out of spelt- german wheat)(100g 360 cal, 12 Prot, 500 Potassium, 3 fat , 0,2 sodium), One Pear ( 80cal, 210 Pottasium), one cucumber 400g, 560 potassium, 50 cal), 250 g mushrooms (champinons), 1000 Potassium 40 cal, 6 Protein,

Afternoon 4.30

2 slices crisp bred made out of rye and spelt ( 66 cal, 2 Prot, 1 fat, 0,1 sodium, 100 Potassium) with one spoon of philadelphia cream cheese (35 cal, 3 fat, 1 Prot, 20 potassium, 0,1 sodium) with one strawberry full fat joghurt (150 cal, 5 protein, 5 fat, 220 potassium, 0,1 sodium) plus one apple 80 cal, 130 potassium
I drink plenty of water and 2 glasses of decaf diet coke for flavor.

comes up to 840 cal, 32 protein, 10 fat, 0,4 sodium, 2740 potassium,

Atomic, am I eating to healthy? I am worried that I get too many nutritions with all these healthy vegetables, I am so not used to eat this way.
now I am thinking of adding candies to that base, to bring up the numbers???

[AMY]

I could not find out how much potassium is in green beens...

[AMY]

And could you please tell me which candies I can add? I read skittles, are they low in Potassium? Could not find out. I keep seeing that a lot of people are eating things like muffins etc? Is cake low in potassium? I am so confused. And is it ok for me to eat candies etc if I am taking metformin? I always ate candies since I figured that metformin puts my insulin back to normal. So I can eat what everybody else eats on the LE Diet?

[Atsaukina1]

was that 800 cal for the whole day??? your protein looks good your fat and cals are super super low-

[AMY]

That's why I am asking! I cannot find things to add without too much protein that only contain fat. I don't even know which fat is the one I should look for, the good or the bad, animal or plant based.

[AMY]

Found something, how about whip cream? Has little protein, mostly sugar and fat. I need to add more fat because I cannot use the lo since 4 days

[atomic sagebrush]

Download or sign up to the website or phone app called myfitnesspal, it will help track your intake as it sounds like there is a bit of guessing going on and that can be detrimental to a sway. Also, it takes the stress out of meal planning as you can trial adding some foods in then remove them if your daily totals are not right.

It does look like you aren't eating enough calories or nutrients to ensure you ovulate so don't let it get out of control just look at reducing not completely stopping food!

You are doing well, the diet is a constant learning process for me and for everyone on here, so don't feel you 'failed' because we are giving you tips, I am still learning even 3 months in!

Maybe if you approach it more like portion control than low nutrients. Because portion control / lower calories per day (1500-1800) will make you loose weight, and will be lower nutrient anyway, especially without vitamin supplements.

I totally agree! The portion control does a lot of the heavy lifting for you on nutrients...as long as you're eating less cals and have dropped prenatals, you are eating less nutrients by default.

[Wanting-a-girl]

I got the app and I love it!

[NCBeachyGrl]

I use to fill my empty calories/fat with marshmallows, salad dressings, butter, sour cream, etc. That stuff adds up fast!

[atomic sagebrush]

First of all, DO NOT count protein, cals, or fat in low carb veg. like zucchini. They are free.

AMY, you are not eating healthy ENOUGH. You need more calories, more protein, more fat, more sodium - doing good on potassium though!!! do NOT get hung up on the nutrients, you'd have to eat a mountain of broccoli before you could ever get anywhere near the level of nutrients in a burger and fries. Vegetables are allowed, it's just that when you have a choice between a high nutrient veg and a lower nutrient one, may as well pick the lower nutrient one.

Not sure if you've seen this yet, I just posted a couple days ago. LE Diet short version.

http://genderdreaming.com/forum/tryi...l-version.html