For people that want to record what they are eating (to help be strict!)

[swish]

Wow!! I didn't get my gd fix yesterday as I was at a wedding and there is SO much to catch up on!! Firstly, yesterday's food, it was a disaster as I had to eat what I was given..
No breakfast
Lunch toast and jam, strawberries
Dinner tomato and mozarella bruschetta, chicken with wine, cream and mushroom sauce, creamy potatoes and green beans, White chocolate torte - it was really delicious and the first time I've eaten meat for a LONG time!
That day I had loads of yellowish discharge and am still not really sure if I've got a yi so just incase I'm now avoiding bread and sugar - as if the diet wasn't a nightmare already!!! So today...
No breakfast
Lunch couscous with green beans, yogurt, actimel ( I thought if I do have a yi thus is the only thing I have dropped form my diet so maybe it was keeping it at bay before!)
Dinner gf pasta, courgette and aubergine with Parmesan. Strawberries and White chocolate buttons (I'm finding no sugar hard!!!)
Anyway...
Dm, just to echo everyone else, I think you're doing great with any weight loss, the idea is to make your body think times are bad and anyone's body would think that on this miserable diet!!!
Tweddle, that pizza idea sounds yum, I might try that!
Ootb, I feel really guilty, sometimes I totally ignore my lovely little men so I can read the updates!!
Mocha, I hope you're back on track with the diet, I also primarily want a bfp quickly as I want to eat again!!! I originally thought I would like a 3 year gap between ds2 and next baby so that would mean not having the baby until may, we'll see what happens...
Zanacal, as I've said to you before I just cannot believe that this will actually work for me, I know it works for others but I think everyone thinks they'll be the percentage for whom it doesn't work- all we can do is try!!!!

[atomic sagebrush]

Oh and I can't find now where I read this but my experience with Chitosan was that it worked great for weight loss when I was eating a lot of fat (because it absorbs fat) but when I was eating mostly carbs, it didn't help much. Which makes sense. That having been said, I do think it's also absorbing whatever fat there is in the things you eat and some of the fat soluble vitamins, which is all good.

[atomic sagebrush]

Are you referring to the zig-zagging Atomic? It really only means having 1200 cals 5 days a week and 1300 or 1400 on the other 2 days. I've been hitting 1100 to 1200 cals each day and I don't think I'm eating enough to lose weight quickly as it's slowed down to a couple of lbs each week. I know from my vast past experience of dieting (!) that my body will hold onto the lbs if I don't eat enough and I want to keep hitting the weight loss hard. The idea with zig-zagging your calories as it fools your body into not knowing what's coming next and gives your metabolism a boost.

No, I think I quoted the wrong post, but someone had asked whether or not it was a good idea to make your weight loss peak right when you conceive. I think it's best to just lose it when you can lose it and then conceive when you need to rather than trying to time the two.

The zig-zagging is intriguing to me because when I've dieted in the past I notice I have had a lot of times where I should be losing weight and then don't lose any, then I think, "well f- this" and cheat, and then the next day I've lost like 3 lbs. It's happened probably 2 dozen times!!

[zanacal]

It may have been me wondering whether I should be at my lowest ever pre conception weight before getting pregnant - but wording it badly!

[atomic sagebrush]

If at all possible, I DO think you should be at your lowest pre-pregnancy weight ever. And if you can get to your lowest ADULT weight, even better.

[zanacal]

Would you personally wait to start ttc until you got to that point, even if it meant conceiving at 'boy' time of year?! My weight has fluctuated so much over the years that it's hard to remember. I know that when I was 18 and DH and I had bought our first house together I went to Weight Watchers and I was 155lb. I lost some weight at WW just after that but I'm pretty sure I never got below that level again. I weighed about the same after Christmas in 2008 and DS3 was conceived in January - but my weight was definitely on the way up because we'd decided to get pregnant so I'd ditched the diet. I figure if I can get to around 150lb then that's a lot lighter than I've been for a lot of years and, I'm pretty sure, my lowest pre conception weight - but I'm also pretty sure that I won't get there for next month's cycle when we'd planned to start trying because I'm around 170lb now.

[atomic sagebrush]

Yes, if at all possible. I honestly do not think there is a light switch that magically turns on in Oct. anyway...it's probable to me that the % of boy conceptions has already begun to rise in August. And there are plenty of opposites anyway.

[Out of the Blue]

Here's my day...

1st Meal:
-decaf coffee w/splash of rice milk
-100% Cran juice w/Psyllium husks
2nd Meal:
-homemade hummus and coco pop cakes (Just found these today and they taste way better than rice cakes IMO. Only 16 cals and 5mg sodium/no fat/no protein)
-coconut water
3rd Meal:
-iceburg lettuce w/homemade vinegrette and a few sprinkles of goat cheese, "girl sway smoothie", popcorn

Cals: 1,462
Fat: 41
Protein: 50
Fiber: 72
Sodium: 837

Higher fat and protein than I hoped for but I guess not terrible.

[Mochagirl]

Swish - what a yummy sounding meal you had! You deserve a cheat day after all the hell you went through with your late O!

Zanacal - it sounds like weight sways more than time of year. Besides, we all live in different countries with different seasons. I'm sure most of these stats were made for the U.S., and you don't really have the same extreme heat/extreme cold dichotomy we have in many parts of North America (correct me if I'm wrong - I've never lived int he UK, though I've visited many times).

Here's my day:

Breakfast: coffee
Lunch: 1 slice of Weight Watcher's bread with a tiny bit of low fat peanut butter, strawberries
Supper: rice pasta with zucchini, leeks and parmesan, rice milk, low fat vanilla frozen yogurt
Snack: 30g of cheese curd (I was good today and kept to one serving, so stayed within the guidelines!), cranberry & vodka (I needed to have some extra calories anyway, and I'm far enough away from conception that I thought I deserved a little alcohol - I abstained completely for the past 3 weeks), strawberries

Calories: 1396
Protein: 37g
Sodium: 682mg

I went out today to get some new clothes because nothing fits me anymore. Turns out I've gone from a Size 6 to a Size 2! I definitely don't want to lose much more weight. How many calories do you think I should keep to so I don't gain weight but I also don't lose much more. I've been averaging 1200-1300 and thought maybe I should aim for something closer to 1400-1500? Thoughts?

[Out of the Blue]

I went out today to get some new clothes because nothing fits me anymore. Turns out I've gone from a Size 6 to a Size 2! I definitely don't want to lose much more weight. How many calories do you think I should keep to so I don't gain weight but I also don't lose much more. I've been averaging 1200-1300 and thought maybe I should aim for something closer to 1400-1500? Thoughts?

1500 is probably where you want to be...even up to 1700 is probably fine but you'd want to gradually add the extra cals in slowly, especially since you're swaying. Add a few extra over a few days and see how your body reacts and then go from there. I'm trying to eat about 1500 but I'm finding it hard to get that high most days. I just don't feel like eating more. YAY for size 2!!!!