TTC Pink Daily Food Diaries - August

[Mochagirl]

Ok, here's today:

7am: coffee
10am: skinny cappuccino (a friend came over to visit)
12pm: rice with balsamic vinegar, homemade raspberry oatmeal muffin
5pm: rice pasta with low sodium tomato sauce and parmesan, 2 sugar free cookies
8:30pm: low fat vanilla ice cream with fresh raspberries, low fat salt & vinegar chips, Sour Patch kids, green grapes (Wowza - I couldn't stop eating!)

Calories: 1690
Protein: 41g
Sodium: 814mg (I'm amazed it was this low even with a full serving of chips!)

Calories were a bit higher than I would like, but otherwise I suppose it was an ok day. The cappuccino wasn't a great idea since I'm sure the milk in it raised my blood sugar a bit. I'm also just not sure how many calories I should aim for if I don't want to lose anymore weight but also don't want to gain any!

[happyheart]

Thank you so much Mochagirl!! I really appreciate it so much!!! I am so sorry to hear about your friend's mom...

I am definitely going to have a glass or two.

I think that I may be eating too much protein. I am following the LE diet and I am having one small chicken breast everyday. Are most of you staying away from meat all together?

[DoulaMama]

Thank you so much Mochagirl!! I really appreciate it so much!!! I am so sorry to hear about your friend's mom...

I am definitely going to have a glass or two.

I think that I may be eating too much protein. I am following the LE diet and I am having one small chicken breast everyday. Are most of you staying away from meat all together?

One 4oz portion of chicken breast is around 36gr of protein so depending on what you eat for the rest of the day you might come in under 50. I find I can only have around 1oz of chicken or low fat fish if I want to stay under the protein allowance and be somewhat satisfied at the end of the day. I love meat so this is definitely the hardest part of the diet for me. I'm thinking I may go veggie soon with just dairy and eggs.

[zanacal]

Wow, I can't believe that amount of protein in the chicken! I come in at around 30g in total most days, sometimes less and sometimes more.

I'm going to a friend's for dinner tomorrow and she's serving:

Starter: Filo pastry mushroom tarts
Main: Chilli con carne/sticky chicken drumsticks, baked potatoes, salad, bread
Desert: Pavlova/Tiramisu/Cheese & Biscuits

There are going to be lots of people there so hopefully nobody will pay much attention to what I am or aren't eating, but I'm thinking the starter will be ok and a small piece of pavlova for desert is fine too. For main I'll take the potato and salad and a chicken drumstick or two but hope to 'lose' some of it under a lettuce leaf! I can't announce, having known these people for years and after she's gone to so much effort, that I'm suddenly vegetarian! I don't have great hopes for my weight loss this week though ...

[lena]

I have just been having a healthy choice or lean cuisine for dinner and lunch and pepsi max for my sugar cravings. I have thrown my one I had for lunch out but tea one says: (I do per serve not 100g don't I???????)
Calories- 404g
Protein- 20.4g
Sodium- 830g (This is way to high isn't it?)

[Mochagirl]

lena - your sodium looks fine. The guidelines say to eat 700-1000mg per day. I'm amazed you're finding frozen dinners that stay within the guidelines! Tell me what ones you're choosing!

In it's strictest form, the LE diet is meant to be vegetarian. When I started, I was eating a bit of chicken, but I dropped that after a couple of weeks. I also dropped eggs after a month or so when I found a post by atomic saying she thought they weren't a good idea.

I'm amazed at how much protein is in food. Even with no meat or eggs, my protein adds up so quickly! A glass of milk can ruin your whole day's diet (though sometimes I indulge in rice milk, which is a lot lower in protein), bread and pasta are very high in protein (a double serving of pasta can be as much as 22g of protein before you even add any sauce!), and even fruit and vegetables have protein in them! One trick a lot of us have discovered is to eat rice pasta instead of regular pasta, as it has half the protein.

For the past few months I've been sticking to 40g per day, but for the next month I'm going to allow myself to go slightly over 40g sometimes (to a max of 50 except on cheat days) - it's just getting so exhausting having watch every speck of protein that goes in my mouth!

[Mochagirl]

Oops - I just noticed that your sodium listing was per frozen dinner, not per day...sorry! Yes, that is too high. Basically, you could eat one of those and almost no sodium for the rest of the day, which would be really tough. It is almost impossible to find packaged food that is low enough in sodium for this diet, which is why I was so surprised when I thought you'd found a frozen dinner that worked with the diet.

[Mochagirl]

zanacal - that meal sound yummy! Your plan sounds great - just shove some other food on top of the chicken and no one else will notice you're not eating it. Even if you have a bite or two it won't blow your whole diet - you've been doing such a great job.

[swish]

Hello all!
I've had a very rice day(oh that's a very bad joke!!)
No breakfast
Lunch rice with balsamic, strawberries, go ahead bar
Dinner rice with courgette, mushroom, Parmesan, balsamic
Couple of maltesers!
I'm off on hols tomorrow and I'm not sure if I'll be able to pop in or not. I still haven't ovulated which is annoying but I will be in the 2ww whilst I'm away, wish me luck!!

[happyheart]

Hello everyone ~

Thank you for the help with the protein questions. I am going to cut back.

swish ~ have a nice time! Good luck!!!

zanacal ~ that does sound like a yummy meal!