Diet question

[oxox2013]

Ok so here I am only a few short days later with yet another question on this diet. So I know I have read a bajillion times that cheating is ok (even though I feel guilty!) but how often can we cheat and it still be ok with the sway? Once a month? Once a week? I only ask because I am still struggling with protein. If I stay the vegetarian route, I am always under. Like between 27-37g. If I have a protein, I am finding myself more like the 55-62g range. Now this isn't everyday.... More like once or twice a week. Should I let it go and keep working what I can or should I regroup? My first attempt is in June and I will have about 9 weeks on the diet at that time...


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[Erin514]

When you say you have a veggie stir fry, what does it usually have in it? For vegetarian meals, you could up your protein with beans and rice, chickpeas, quinoa, or tofu. A handful of almonds or a diced up egg on your salad. When you eat meat, could you just have smaller portions of it to stay closer to totals? I don't think you should worry too much about a few days of 55-62g of protein, though. You're not over by a huge amount. Maybe if your protein was a bit higher on vegetarian meals you wouldn't need to cheat as often because you'd feel more full.

[oxox2013]

Good point Erin. Nuts and eggs are on my list of foods that I really don't like all that much so I dont really consider them but I may just need to suck it up and do it for the remainder of the diet. It's not forever after all!


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[Erin514]

If you don't like nuts and eggs, legumes are a really good source of veggie protein. They can also go well on salad epecially if you sprout them or buy dry roasted (like wasabi peas or chickpeas).

[atomic sagebrush]

Ok so here I am only a few short days later with yet another question on this diet. So I know I have read a bajillion times that cheating is ok (even though I feel guilty!) but how often can we cheat and it still be ok with the sway? Once a month? Once a week? I only ask because I am still struggling with protein. If I stay the vegetarian route, I am always under. Like between 27-37g. If I have a protein, I am finding myself more like the 55-62g range. Now this isn't everyday.... More like once or twice a week. Should I let it go and keep working what I can or should I regroup? My first attempt is in June and I will have about 9 weeks on the diet at that time...


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It depends on how you're defining "cheat". Some people are calling eating an egg a cheat, or some beans a cheat, and those things ARE NOT CHEATS if you stick in diet limits and are fine to do that all the time really. another thing that is NOT a cheat is something like broccoli. That's never a cheat. It is free and unlimited and you'd have to eat a literal mountain of broccoli to make up the nutrients in a Big Mac, fries, choc. shake.

ON the other end of the spectrum are people who cheat by going off diet for the whole entire 2ww "because they may be pregnant" and then justify it by saying that cheating is allowed on LE Diet. Cheating IS allowed but it has to be kept within the limits of good sense and used as a tool for social situations when you're needing to have meat because it will scandalize Aunt Edna if you don't have a serving of pot roast, or nipping cravings in the bud such as when you are about to eat 7000 rice cakes because you're craving a cheeseburger (just eat the smallest size cheeseburger and skip the 7000 rice cakes)

Now - If you're calling 55 g protein 2x a week a cheat when most of the time you're at 37, then that's not really even a cheat (and honestly, the 27 g is WORSE, that's really not what I want you to be eating so we have to get a handle on that)

I will reiterate what Erin is saying, some shredded cheese or a few garbanzos or almonds or hard boiled egg can go a long way towards upping that protein intake without harming a thing. 27 g protein, we gotta fix that. Remember this is meant to be a healthy prepreg. diet and it's already cut back as far as is advised by health professionals. Since we start off at the lowest healthy intake it means we have to be diligent in geting adequate protein because otherwise it may harm your health in the long term and reduce our ability to get and stay pregnant.

[atomic sagebrush]

Good point Erin. Nuts and eggs are on my list of foods that I really don't like all that much so I dont really consider them but I may just need to suck it up and do it for the remainder of the diet. It's not forever after all!


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Cheese?