Ruined Sway

[atomic sagebrush]

you don't have to eat all the same foods on LE Diet, that may set you up for cheating. Just stay in limits.

Without a personalized plan I cannot give you personally limits but overall it's:

1500-1800 cals for most (but I think you're breastfeeding, right?? so you'd bump this to 1800-2000)
40-50 g of protein for most (breastfeeding you can increase to 50-60)
30-60 g fat

Do the cardio as often as you can. even up to 4 days a week has gotten good results, I do think more is better so if you can get up to 6-7 that's great. But don't be all or nothing, if you miss a day don't just throw everything out the window, pick it up again when you can.

[Nessa84]

I think its eating the same foods that are making me start to hate this diet. I am sick of the same meals and am honestly wanting to sub my pasta meal with a chicken salad for dinner now. I think I should add more meat into the menu. I am also feeling extremely bloated too so adding some meat might help me.

[Beau82]

Have the chicken salad! You don't have to go vegetarian, some people just choose to. I've chosen to just cut back on meat and other than the odd burger, I've cut out red meat. There's no reason to be miserable. I would probably drive myself crazy if I tried to stick to the diet super-strictly for too long!

[atomic sagebrush]

I think its eating the same foods that are making me start to hate this diet. I am sick of the same meals and am honestly wanting to sub my pasta meal with a chicken salad for dinner now. I think I should add more meat into the menu. I am also feeling extremely bloated too so adding some meat might help me.

Here's the thing though. You can have TONS of leeway on the diet without resorting to chicken salad. I'm not saying you can never have it, but just that there is a world of wiggle room between an overly restrictive diet eating pasta every day, and deciding you need more meat. Dieting messes with your head and this is especially true when you're approaching it from a feast or famine mentality.

Wouldn't it be much better to keep changing it up with veggie pizza and pitas and veggie lasagna and burritos and grilled cheese etc etc etc and all the stuff you had that you thought was cheating instead of going right to the one thing that may actually be too much protein for your sway?? now again, you CAN HAVE meat. It is fine now and then. It's not forbidden, but this is just the thought processes I see you guys go through again and again, where you start off too restrictive and then instead of just giving yourself permission to make changes, you make yourself miserable and then go right to the meat. There is a world of experimentation in there between living on plain pasta and picking back up to meat right away.

[Mommykisses]

so I have not been counting calories because I find it's too stressful and we have also been eating out a lot because we are so busy . When I do go out I usually do 2 yam tempura rolls when go for for sushi and then we go to another restaurant where I eat a quinoa black bean burger but I also eat yam fries . I do believe I'm keeping my limits with protein however sodium calories and fat I think I go over often ( mostly on sodium and calories ) ... I know it's hard
To say but I'm getting worried about
My over eating . I'm definitely not gaining wait though . Still at 92 pounds . I'm doing full vegetarian with 60 min of walking 5-6 days a week . How much do calories and sodium really matter ? And are
Yam fries 1-2 nights a week with over limits of fat hurting my sway too much ? I'm on week 14 . I think my calories are around 2000-2100 a day . Eating a lot of rice to keep me full . However I still have one late
Night snack and 2 meals a day

[atomic sagebrush]

Above all else let your weight be your guide. If you are holding steady at 92 lbs, that is FINE for pink. Don't even worry about calories in that scenario. Just keep doing exactly that. If you came to me and said "I weigh 92 lbs" I would say "do whatever it takes to hold steady at that weight, eat as many cals as you need" and so you are absolutely a-ok to keep doing what you're doing. Don't worry about the fat in the fries either

Re the sodium, most of us totally gave up on that and our results only went up when we did. I would not give a moment of thought or concern to sodium any more at this stage. It cannot matter a bit or we'd have seen a big drop when 95% of people stopped counting/limiting their sodium. It didn't and in fact our results have improved considerably at the same time so that indicates that sodium is not anything to worry about for a sway.

[Mommykisses]

Ok thank you for your input .