Meat-a-holic struggling with sway

[Beau82]

Yes to what everyone else said but I also wanted to add that the toast may be doing more harm than what it's worth hunger-wise. For me anyway, toast/bread/bagels go right through me and about an hour later I'm even hungrier than I was before. I've had weeks where I've stayed away from it and opted for veggies with dip for lunch instead and I'm easily filled up until dinnertime. But sometimes I'm in a rush and a toasted bagel with peanut butter is just quicker and easier to prepare, an hour or two later I'm ravenously hungry again. Try a couple of days eating rice cakes or veggies (things like cucumbers, celery and mushrooms don't need to be counted on the LE!) and cutting out the toast and see how you do then.
Definitely up your fat and protein though. I'm not going vegetarian, I'm just trying to cut out the red meat and cut back on other meats. I still have chicken though, just not a lot of it. I don't eat a lot of ground beef but I try to use ground chicken instead now (except for hamburgers).

[atomic sagebrush]

You aren't eating enough and there is AGES to go till November so we need to adjust this so you're feeling better.

When breastfeeding, you increase to 1800-2000 cals, 50-60 g protein, 50-60 g fat. 30 g is the barest minimum. I would also have you go up to 3 meals a day (still push breakfast back so you're eating at 11/12, then dinnertime, and a bedtime snack) Additionally, you don't count the cals, or protein, or fat, in low carb vegetables so that salad is going to need some stuff on top - cheese, fruit, nuts, an egg, whatever to get more nutrients out of that.

[atomic sagebrush]

Yeah I'm struggling to stay under with protein, and struggling to get high enough with fat - I'll have a look at what I'm eating (introduce more baked veg and chicken and see if it looks better)


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I do want to reiterate that you DON'T count protein, fat, and cals in any low carb veg like the spinach - so you may have even more food to work with if you were counting those in your limits.

[Bepan]

Awesome, thanks


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