June Pink Food Thread

[suregena]

This mornings was not as good as those earlier ones... VERY hard to see, hence my panicky feelings.

[fish2012]

I'm confused on the same issue that Drama brings up - you need to be eating 40-50 g protein and 25-60 g protein and NEVER drop below 1200 cals a day. 1500-1800 is best for most people.

In the Dream Members section there are some threads that may help you.

http://genderdreaming.com/forum/ttc-...ompleters.html
http://genderdreaming.com/forum/ttc-...disasters.html
http://genderdreaming.com/forum/ttc-...ast-ideas.html
http://genderdreaming.com/forum/ttc-...h-dinners.html

hey guys sorry being unclear, I'm aiming for 1500cal 40g protien and 35g of fat the numbers are what i have left at the end of the day NOT what I have eaten sorry! yes would be v foolish diet dunno about not ovulating don't think i'd function!

been on a shopping trip tonite minus boys and i think i have manged to get goodies to broaden my diet!
PS does anyone know how to get potassium and salt targets to show on myfitnesspal tracker?

thank you ladies - i'm an idoit ;-0

[Emily]

Hello everyone,

Fish2012 there are no idiots here! we are all just trying new things - you can select what you want to show up on myfitnesspal by going to settings (top right), account settings, diary settings, nutrients tracked (choose from drop down menu) and save.

I have a food question too - hope it is Ok to add to existing thread. What is low sodium pasta? I cannot find it here in spain but also cannot sea salt in the list of ingredients. Is it a speciality food from health food shops?

Thanks!

[fish2012]

thank you emily ;-0 just put my coconut water on and it said 0 for potassium i thought that's odd so added a banana on thou and shows 0 potassium too so maybe not 100% relaiable on that!!!

i looked for reduced salt too and couldn't find any but plently that don't list salt so assumed that was okay!

[suregena]

Yesterday we did Father's Day early... I took my hubby out to lunch and he DID NOT want me to just sit there with a drink. :/ So I asked if they had any soup and they said no! So I tried to get the least offensive thing I could (sweet potato and chickpea curry... which no doubt was loaded with sodium... I could taste it! But there are worse things out there, I suppose.)

So, as a result, for dinner I just made low salt vegetable broth with only like 25g of rice and with mushrooms. That was so low in everything all around, I think I may use it again in the future for a diet disaster day. It made me feel pretty content (probably the warm broth helped) and I had a low cal hot chocolate later on.

[sweetpea]

I personally think you did just fine, suregena! It's so hard when you're dining out or at a friend's house and don't have total control over what you're eating, but there was a LOT worse you could have done! And it's only one day!

[suregena]

Yeah, I mean... it's handy I'm already vegetarian... but still. Sometimes the shame/guilt I have from cheats is TREMENDOUS!

[NCBeachyGrl]

My diet has been pretty simple. This is my diet for today (I plan it out in the AM so I don't stress about what I am going to eat or trying to add to MyFitnessPal while cooking):

Breakfast: medium coffee with 3 splenda and skim milk & diet coke
Lunch: mushrooms and cheese quesadilla, 1 TBSP low-fat sour cream, with tomatoes and cucumbers in 1 TBSP greek veggie dip, strawberries, and a snackwell 100 calorie cookie pack, and diet coke
Snack: 4 swedish fish, a twix low cal ice cream bar, and a spongebob push up
Dinner: will be 2 small baked potatoes with 1 TBSP low-sodium butter, 1 TBSP low-fat sour cream, wheat thins w/ cracked pepper hummus, cucumbers and greek dip, and strawberries w/ splenda, another spongebob push-up, 4 swedish fish

Total #s: Fat 43g, sodium 1016 mg, protein 30g, calories 1500. A little high on sodium but I am OK with that! Sodium is the hardest thing for me to get down.

[HopingWishingPraying]

Hi all!

Just started the diet yesterday. I'm enjoying being able to start my sway, but feeling a bit hungry and miserable. Hopefully that is only because I am adjusting and in a week or so it will be easier.

Yesterday I had:

Apple for morning tea, with peppermint tea
Lunch: One piece of mountain bread with ricotta, leeks and nutmeg, plus one piece of mountain bread with low sugar strawberry jam. Fat free yoghurt.
Dinner: Green beans, cucumbers, one cup of white rice baked with cumin, lemon juice and natural yoghurt.
Supper: 2 low-in-everything apple and cinammon flavoured rice crackers, and 2 milk arrowroot cookies.

Today:

Apple and pear for morning tea
Lunch: Pureed corn mixed with a cup of white rice, with a small handful of cheese melted on top.... this was actually really yummy and reasonably satisfying. No-fat yoghurt. 2 cookies.
Dinner: Pizza made out of a low(ish) sodium pizza base, table spoon of tomato paste on it, a tablespoon of ricotta, covered in leaks, eggplant, zuccini, mushrooms and 20g of low fat cheese. Green beans on the side.
Supper: Went out to a social thing where they had a caramel banoffi pie on offer. Banoffi pie is so totally 1000% right up my alley of food that I LOVE, and it was also made by a great cook and generally just divine. I had a very small piece, left the cream to the side, then knocked back seconds when everyone had seconds and refused when I was offered some to take home. Felt proud of myself but also deprived and miserble at the contemplation of having to be like this for months! No wonder I have 3 boys, I am too much of a foodie. So I came home and had 5 rice-thins. Not quite the same as banoffi pie!

[fish2012]

hi
welldone that's a great start

it's so hard and i don't really want to tell people why i'm eating some things and not others my mum today was like you're eating cheese but not eating bread doesn't make sense to me!

I hate banoffee pie so i'm always hoping people will produce it cause i can easily say no, a chocolate brownie however no chance! it does get easier the no breakfast made me feel really sick for about two weeks, now i feel okay but think i'm still grumpy, said to DH not sure if i'll go back to eating breaky - he said i think you should - me urm am i grumpy then - yes apperantly so ;-0

xx