December's pink food thread!

[suregena]

Just did numbers... geez (ha, I accidentally typed "cheese"... I think food is on my mind...), I hardly have had anything today, number wise. Sometimes I question my math! Crazy. But means dinner will be fine to add butter into.

[Mochagirl]

Excellent!

[rainbowflower]

mid-morning: mince pie given to us on the train ride (celebrating DS's first birthday!)
lunch: savoury rice, 3 marshmallows
tea: roasted veg with pasta + philli sauce, 2 slices of birthday cake and a lot of spoon-licking!

[Mochagirl]

Happy birthday to your DS, rainbowflower!

[suregena]

10th Dec:
-2 cups instant coffee with 1% unsweetened soy milk
-1 cucumber (no skin) and reduced fat cream cheese sandwich on weight watchers danish bread with pepper and basil.
-2 1/2 cups of pasta (I probably had less than half of that, though) with 10grams (again, half of that) butter, 2 tbls Quark (etc!), 1 cup grilled vegetables and 1 cup green beans (but more like half as it was both me and my son's dinner), black pepper, rosemary, and basil.

calories: 939
protein: 38.75
fat: 22.8
sodium: 0.51

I think I did a lot better today! Think I'll have a snack! And I actually feel pretty good. Dinner felt nice and filling. It actually might be lower numbers. I cooked 2 1/2 cups worth of pasta but my son had a toddler bowl full, I had a breakfast bowl full, and there are leftovers...

But, yeah! Feel good about today.

[rainbowflower]

thank you Mocha, it's been an emotional day reflecting back on last year!

suregena - I'd still try and eat more than that - aim for 1400-1600 calories at least... and it's sodium you need to count, not salt. Sodium is about half of the salt value.

[suregena]

thank you Mocha, it's been an emotional day reflecting back on last year!

suregena - I'd still try and eat more than that - aim for 1400-1600 calories at least... and it's sodium you need to count, not salt. Sodium is about half of the salt value.

Yes, it was a mistake. I count sodium but I wrote salt! It is the sodium levels.

Hmm, more? I'll try. I'll add a yogurt with my sandwich tomorrow. I don't have many snacky things but yogurt and crumpets at the moment (I'm doing this without having done a proper grocery shop for this sort of eating.)

I guess the biggest change is I am decreasing portion sizes (normally there is a lot more cheese and action if I made pasta usually, and huuuge portions...) and I'm not eating my usuals.... beans, lentils, and so on.

Trial and error!

[rainbowflower]

you'll get there
perhaps the snacky things could really help you get the calories up - or have your breakfast cereal for supper/fit in an extra meal before bed or a snack between lunch and tea?
one of the things I did in order to up my totals was to stop measuring portions and to eat more if I wanted (excluding chicken, which I have twice a week - I still limit that)

[suregena]

you'll get there
perhaps the snacky things could really help you get the calories up - or have your breakfast cereal for supper/fit in an extra meal before bed or a snack between lunch and tea?
one of the things I did in order to up my totals was to stop measuring portions and to eat more if I wanted (excluding chicken, which I have twice a week - I still limit that)

I'm vegetarian as it is so my main cut outs are beans/legumes/lentils. But I feel so good today that I'm glad that I'm on the right track and the diet feels a little less daunting knowing that even my relaxing how hard I try, I'm still trying too hard.
I'm measuring at the moment because I have no sense of restraint. Haha. Before, giant portions were norm (even though I'm small.) I walk everywhere so I probably burn up more, and therefore can eat loads of food.

Example is when we make burritos, we always have three!

However, I'm sort of happy to know that I can possibly fit in a pre-lunch (say, 11am as I get up at 5.30am on work days and my lunch at work isn't until 1.30pm...) snack and still stay within limits.

[rainbowflower]

there's nothing wrong with bigger portions if you're burning more - if you keep doing the exercise you do now and eating as little as you are now the weight could drop right off you too fast, it's sooooo hard getting the balance right so you lose weight but lose it really slowly!