Let's record what we're eating to help each other

[LacePrincess]

Yay Weezie! Funny how the witch is sometimes very welcome.

Also, CD1 is ALWAYS treat yourself cheat day for me. I bloat like crazy anyways, lol, perfect day to justify a binge.

[weeziewoozles]

:-) I did LE for six months last year and hardly cheated at all. It was really interesting. Mostly I didn't feel the need to and occasionally when I did, I'd just say to myself "I want a girl more than I want this chocolate" or pizza or whatever. It just worked. This time round I'm already having to stop myself cheating too much and I've only been doing it a few weeks! My aim is to do the best with it that I can do, to avoid any regrets if we have another boy. I'm having a treat on Saturday having a night in a spa hotel with my best friend :-) So I'll have to break the diet but I'll try to choose the most girl friendly options on the menu and not gorge on the breakfast in the morning (although the latter is going to be very tricky!) I've not started adding in diet drinks yet as I think they're yuck but I will when we get nearer TTC month.

[LacePrincess]

hey, remember that relaxing is a big part of the sway!!

Enjoy your spa day for sure. Diet drinks really aren't necessary, and I find it bloats me anyways so I have some if I feel like pop but it's not like a regular thing for me.

[wannabowbaby]

Day 6
Breakfast
2.25 hours after waking, 12.25 hours after late night snack
Coffee with standard 1/4 cup whole milk & 1 Tbsp sugar.
Great Value Chewy Fiber Bar

Lunch
Skipped

Dinner
Spaghetti Squash & sauce
3 slices of garlic toast

Late night snack 10pm
double bowl strawberry frosted mini wheats, plus 2 cups of milk & a candy cane.


1522 calories
249 carbs
46 fat
51 protein
29 fiber

1810mg Potassium - just a little shy...
1229mg Sodium - HOLY COW. a mere 29 above health goal!
88% RDA Calcium - Meh
119% RDA Magnesium - and this is WITH my supplement for muscle

cramps and nursing aversion :/
219% folate total HELLO breakfast cereal LOL. COnsidering my LOW intake all week, this is a good thing.

Calorie breakdown 26% fat, 62% carbs, 12% protein.


All in all a GREAT day.

Granted the cereal prob has more nutrients than I really need on the LE diet, buuuut it's a once in a while oh shit I need to make up some serious calories kinda thing. And the candy cane was because I needed a few empty calories.

[LacePrincess]

Today:

Skipping breakfast. Coffee with nondairy powdered creamer, 25 cals. (Trying to go caffeine free but man that's hard near the end of the week!)

Lunch - 3 ritz crackers with roasted garlic (fending off a cold!), green beans, two sweet potato pancakes with a bit of honey, 1/2 cup cottage cheese with berries & cinnamon, 1/2 choc chip cookie. 514 cals.


Preclass meal - english muffin with roasted garlic and light cream cheese, 1/2 cup yogurt with berries, cinnamon & metamucil, wilted spinach. Hard boiled egg, fresh pineapple, 1/2 choc chip cookie. 452 cals.


1.5 hour ballet class in the evening

Dessert - bday cake & ice cream.

Total - 1300 cals

[weeziewoozles]

Lunch - pasta N sauce with French bread, then tea and dark chocolate digestive biscuits
Dinner - veggie pasta

Totals should be 1700 cals, 33g fat, 50g protein

[Frilly Lady]

Lunch home made scones with jam, salt & vinegar crisps and 1 strip of chocy

Dinner rice with homemade sauce.

60 min treadmill

[HealthyGirl]

Can someone tell me if we need to keep our potassium low or high?

I know it's recommended to get 2500-3500 mg daily but is that keeping it low or high?

Atomic recommended doing coconut water but don't want to do that. Anyone taking supplements?


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[wannabowbaby]

Day 7
Breakfast
1.5 hours after waking, 13 hours after late night snack - getting better!
Coffee with standard 1/4 cup whole milk & 1 Tbsp sugar.
Great Value Chewy Fiber Bar

Lunch OHCRAPFASTFOOD
2 grilled onion cheddar burgers & half of a small fry & a diet coke

Dinner
Spaghetti Squash & sauce
2 slices of garlic toast
1 cup dry cereal

Late night snack - NONE


1638 calories
214 carbs
65 fat
59 protein
18 fiber

625mg Potassium - pretty sure I got more than that but can't find info for burgers
2649mg Sodium -
63% RDA Calcium -
86% RDA Magnesium - and this is WITH my supplement for muscle

cramps and nursing aversion :/
106% folate total HELLO breakfast cereal LOL. COnsidering my LOW

intake all week, this is a good thing.

Calorie breakdown 35% fat, 51% carbs, 14% protein.

Not bad considering the fast food LOL

[wannabowbaby]

Can someone tell me if we need to keep our potassium low or high?

I know it's recommended to get 2500-3500 mg daily but is that keeping it low or high?

Atomic recommended doing coconut water but don't want to do that. Anyone taking supplements?


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The LE diet doesn't really do the calciummagnesium for girl vs sodiumpotassium for boy thing... the 2500-3500 is AS's recommendation for safety as potassium deficiencies are all too common and very dangerous.

Now, I'm using SparkPeople to track what I'm eating, and their rec is 2000-2500 for safety. Since I am choosing to (lightly) incorporate the calmag/sodpot aspect in my sway, I went with the SP recommendation since it's slightly lower.

One of the easiest sources of potassium (I've found) is potatoes. Both white potatoes & sweet potatoes are pretty good sources.