LE Diet Thread

[atomic sagebrush]

Help. What to do? Some friends have just invited me and my family to grill dinner. They don't know I don't eat meat and I don't want to tell them. Should I eat a little bit of their meat-dinner or tell them beforehand? Maybe it dosen't hurt to eat a little bit just this evening.

Have a bit of meat. It won't hurt anything.

[amelia10]

I'm on a Caesar salad rampage ... Having it around 3/4 Times .. hope it's ok, running out of ideas, hope I get pregnant this month missing my breakfasts!!!

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[Serenity]

Joining in here...

I also wouldn't worry much about the grill. I would either choose to eat mostly sides with a small piece of meat, or to make a cheat day out of it.

I have been having coffee with a bit of skim milk and cinnamon every morning. I'm not worried about it raising my blood sugar much.

Are any of you noticing any mood changes while on the diet? I was previously on medication for anxiety/PTSD. I also had depression at that time (after experiencing trauma and loss), but I haven't had mood problems for a few years. Since starting the LE diet a few weeks ago, I'm noticing some depression and quite a lot of anxiety creeping back in. I tried to go vegan about a year ago, and had to stop that after a couple of weeks for the same reason: it was having a serious impact on my mental health. I went right back to normal after resuming eating animal based foods.

So far it's manageable, albeit annoying, and I'm definitely not willing to stop the diet over it, but I guess I'm wondering what specifically could be causing the issue, and if there is anything I can do within the confines of the diet to fix the problem. I'm not exercising yet, because our first attempt probably won't be until September and I don't want to lose too much weight (I'm 5'0 and 105 pounds right now), but I do think that will help, if atomic recommends it for me (I will probably be receiving my plan soon). I'm mostly eating: white bread with grated cheese melted on it, fruit/veg (kale, apples, strawberries, broccoli, grapes), small serving of pasta with sauce and grated cheese, margarine, corn oil, puffed wheat cereal (unfortified) with rice milk, coconut water, sometimes skim milk, chocolate bars/candy, white bagels with cream cheese, low sodium corn chips with a bit of salsa, diet coke. I'm adding iodized salt occasionally (I'm going to try to buy an iodine supplement later today), and I'm talking 1000mcg (?) of folic acid twice a day. I'm cheating a bit on the weekends (for example, I had a few popcorn shrimp and lots of french fries this past Sunday).

Apart from the depression/anxiety, my personality seems to be changing a bit....I am usually the boss of the family, and these days I am kind of just going along to get along, if that makes sense. My husband is calling all the shots, he loves it.

It kind of makes me wonder if this could be one of the reasons I haven't had a girl yet: if I need a high nutrient diet to be at my optimum mental health, it makes sense that I would always eat like that, and then of course I would always have boys...hmmmm

[Girlieplease]

Am sure others will have views on this but if your hungry, which I suppose you should be and your eating low calorie diet it is bound to have some impact on your mood. I have noticed subtle changes in the sense am more snappy and less tolerant. Am usually such a positive person but not conceiving has been a challenge, I am usually great at finding an explanation for things that help me maintain a balanced outlook but I am finding this eludes me with my inability to conceive. I also think part of the impact on my mood is the time consuming nature of this process, which ultimately may not result in a girl anyway. It is trying to fit exercise in, while looking after three young children, trying to inconvenience my dh and children as much as possible. Not eating my usual, having to plan meals or if I go outcry and think what can I eat. Trying to plan when to have sex, then the hell of the2 ww, only to not be successful. I think it would be strange if dealing with all that did not impact negatively on our mental state? Probably just my personality and others that are much more relaxed and why I will probably end up with another boy despite best efforts! X

[Girlieplease]

Freudian slip above, trying to inconvenience my dh and children as little as possible ha ha!

[Girlieplease]

Coffee, I recently added it to my sway. I hate the stuff but gradually coming around. I have to have milk in it, so struggling to fit it in, does it really have to be three cups per day? I would need to do morning, lunch and dinner, am struggling with one cup at the minute! X

[weeziewoozles]

This is the third time I've been on the LE diet and it definitely affects my mood. I'm usually very positive and laid back but am far snappier on the diet. My gut feeling is that it's the lack of fat and protein. What we do eat will get used for essential maintenance and repair leaving no extra. Also I would usually take a large array of vitamins and minerals, which I'm not taking on LE, some of which definitely affect my mood. Interestingly I am finding the exercise to be helpful for my mental state, which I've obviously heard of before but as someone who hates exercise, hadn't experienced before!

[atomic sagebrush]

Serenity, we have had that reported by a minority of people and what we need to do is gradually tweak things so you're feeling better - I would have you up protein to 50-60 g and this will then cut carbs by virtue of getting more cals from your protein, and cut out the super carby things like rice milk in favor of more protein rich skim milk or even full fat.

[Serenity]

Thank you to atomic, weezie, and girlieplease for your input.

OK, I'll up the protein a bit and see if that helps. I just got AF this morning, on CD 28 for the first time in my life (my cycles are usually several days longer), so the intensified mood changes were probably PMS related...I didn't think of that because I didn't expect AF so soon!

On coffee: I'm only having it in the morning so far, but I might add in another one around lunch time at some point. Girlieplease, that might just have to be my new mantra: inconveniencing my DH and children as much as possible!

[amelia10]

Serenity funny u wrote that because that's exactly how I feel the last while ... Really really snappy at the kids (usually very chilled), overly anxious and Moody!!!

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