December's pink food thread!

[suregena]

I find it doesn't really change the taste of anything I'm making significantly, but can really up your iron. If you buy the frozen kind, make sure to read the nutritional info, though - some companies add sodium to it. The stuff I have, which I love because it's in individual serving 'nuggets', has only a trace of sodium.

Yeah, the stuff I have is individual nugget-type, as well. Highly doubtful there is sodium added to it!

I think I'll be high in fat and protein today because of lunch (the mozzarella and balsamic dressing I'm sure)... probably in the low-mid 40s, with dinner included, but hopefully the odd day isn't a big deal.

[suregena]

Cup of coffee with rice milk

Lunch... was at a coffee shop so had a mozzarella/tomato/basil baby leaf + rocket salad with balsamic vinagirette... and a large Americano with soy milk.

At home I had some semi-dark chocolate chips (about a tablespoon worth.)

Dinner is basmati rice, mushrooms, spinach, tablespoon creme fraiche, lemon juice, and black pepper. (My son had pesto on his... so jealous! I LOVE pesto.)

Calories (rough estimate due to my lunch having been eaten out): 1,010
Fat: 47
Protein: 42.
Sodium: 554 (Hmmm...)

[Mochagirl]

suregena - don't worry about the number of grams of fat you have, but rather the percentage of calories from fat. Atomic says ideally we should be at about 20-30% of calories from fat. On FitDay, which I use, it shows me my totals on a little pie chart.

[suregena]

suregena - don't worry about the number of grams of fat you have, but rather the percentage of calories from fat. Atomic says ideally we should be at about 20-30% of calories from fat. On FitDay, which I use, it shows me my totals on a little pie chart.

Maybe I should try them. I don't know how to know what my calories from fat are.

[Mochagirl]

Honestly, I don't have a clue how to calculate calories from fat myself, but I'm sure you could figure it out pretty quickly if you googled it!

[suregena]

Yes... if I did the math right, it will have been 41% fat from calories, which isn't very good!

[zanacal]

You take the fat grams and multiply by 9 and divide that number by the number of calories - looks like you calculated it right suregena. The funny thing is, if you ate more calories (without eating any more fat) your % would be less!

[Mochagirl]

I was going to say the same thing about more calories, Z! I sometimes find that if I look at my calories from fat early in the day it will be really high, but after my evening candy snack it gets well below 30%.

[suregena]

I'm having such a hard time with the candy! I bought skittles the start of last week and I still haven't eaten them all! Seriously.
And tonight I can't sleep (now 1am) because I feel sick. AGAIN! I had a white piece of ww danish toast to try to stop it. It seems I do REALLY well for like a handful of days (last week I did pretty good for most of it, though) and then I have a night/morning where I feel shakey and nauseous.

[HopeandDreamG]

Mexico sounds nice Amari!!
Figured I'd get on this thread..can'd do anything except focus on diet.

8am: coffee
1pm: french toast- homemade bread and eggbeaters, bit of milk and dash of vanilla, sprinkled with splenda
6pm: pasta with riccotta and parmesean
few no salt pretzels.