January 2014- Let's record what we are eating!

[stephk]

520am - coffee with whole milk
12.30pm - a carton of new covent garden tomato and balsamic soup, a white baguette, a pack of spinach, a small avocado, an essential waitrose side salad and an essential waitrose beetroot salad
4.00pm - a banana, some blackberries and c50g total greek yoghurt
6.00pm - 2 cosmopolitan cocktails
8.00pm - a small tuna steak, some polenta, a courgette and some babycorn. Magnum icecream for dessert. Will share a bottle of sauvingon blanc with DH. Unfortunately his brother and GF have decided they wish to stay with us this weekend and will arrive around 8/9 so I might have to open another bottle.....

Not very LE with the tuna and avocado but everything else makes up for it, apart from the calories. I would add in more chocolate (all i want to do is eat a mountain of chocolate!!!) but I know this weekend will be bad on the eating front now that we have (uninvited) houseguests and they want to BBQ....

approx 2100 cals, 49g (23%) fat, 62g protein

Edit Saturday morning: Ok so in the end this did not happen as planned because the uninvited guests decided not to come last night!!! DH suggested sushi takeaway and I was not going to turn that down!! So we shared the tuna steak and ordered some delicious takeaway. So my cals were around 2500, 60g fat and 85g protein. I didn't have the dessert so that's something.....

[bluebonnet22]

I'm a bit low on calories for today, but I might have a piece of chocolate or somethin later to up them a bit if I'm still hungry. Also I'm eating out for lunch and I feel like the real calorie counts are always much higher than they say they are!

Breakfast: Coffee + creamer
Lunch: Einsten Bagels Veg out sandwich (bagel with cream cheese, sprouts, cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuce)
Dinner: 1 cup pasta + 1/2 cup of marinara sauce + 1/2 cup of mushrooms + 1/4 cup of low fat shredded mozzarella cheese + 1/2 bottle of wine

1130 calories, 21 grams of fat, 36 grams of protein

[Rosie85]

I am on the day after my attempt.. I am so tempted to eat nothing! Dumb idea obviously and I won't but I am nervous to raise my blood sugar at all.

[stephk]

if youre nervous and not hungry maybe have something that is pure protein and no carb? that will not raise blood sugar. However your problem then might be too much protein for too few cals. Also the sugar v protein thing that atomic pointed out, you need to have more carb (sugar) in relation to protein. Depends what you feel comfortable with.

Been so hard not eating everything in sight today..... had such a hungry week, no idea why!

[eleena2014]

does anyone have any breakfast ideas? also does anyone know the calories/protein/fat in 1 egg please?

[bluebonnet22]

eleena - we typically don't eat breakfast or eggs on LE

[eleena2014]

breakfast being mid-morning obviously.x

[eleena2014]

im sure i can remember reading you can eat them every so often

[FutureMiniMe]

Yesterday was my first day officially on LE. I would love some suggestions on how to get a little more fat and protein in my day without adding too many calories!
morning: coffee black with splenda
(lots of water throughout the day, mostly in the morning - not sure if that is okay)
12:15pm two cans of green beans with 1/2c tomato sauce (both low sodium)and two laughing cow cheese sun dried tomato & basil flavor mixed in
1/2 oz. Pirates Booty Snack & Diet coke
3:00 - apples and yoplait light yogurt
6pm 1c pasta with more low sodium sauce, medium baked potato with 2T of light sour cream and some zucchini
2 IPAs! Love that part!

I don't think I got enough fat but now that I have written it out, maybe I can go for full fat sour cream, yogurt, etc. I was really nervous about sticking to the calories.

I am confused about free veggies....do I still count the calories or don't bother? I counted the green beans yesterday but not the zucchini...

Today I am going to try to save calories to have some Fro-Yo with my bestie!

[bluebonnet22]

Eleena - for a mid morning "breakfast" maybe something like white toast with margarine/jam or bagel with light cream cheese. Some fruit, etc. I sometimes have pancakes around 10:00 AM with margarine.

In general just try to avoid things like eggs, cereal, or highly nutritious/fortified foods like energy bars and vitamin drinks, juices, etc.