December's pink food thread!

[Mochagirl]

Personally, I find it easiest to skip breakfast all the time - otherwise I get used to eating in the morning and have trouble cutting it out, but if you're someone who has trouble skipping breakfast I know lots of ladies only do it close to O time. Maybe start weaning yourself off breakfast now by making is smaller and smaller or eating later and later?

[Out of the Blue]

MommyDuke, I think you’re doing a great job but increasing your cals may make it a bit more tolerable for you. It’s okay to go up to even 1,600 cals, especially if you’re struggling. In the very beginning when I was trying to do a sway diet, I tried to combine the IG and LE diets but it was just too difficult and restrictive so I just picked the one that made the most sense for my sway and am sticking w/it. Maybe just picking one and sticking to it would be easier for you…? I know this diet is so tough and downright depressing some days, especially watching your family eat something really you really miss. Hang in there and !!!

So question for you all-my period just started, yay!! I am down to 94.5 this morning, should I start to skip breakfast or keep eating it? what would you do? thanks!

Wowzuhs! You are a tiny thing, Amari! What's your BMI (you don't have to tell me if you don't want to!). If it's 18.5 or below, I would tend to think you should keep the breakfast up b/c you so small and you need food! You're going on Clomid (YAY for AF coming!!!) so you'll want to be fertile and being so small, you're already swaying pink. Clomid certainly doesn't hurt a girl-swayer either!

Personally, I find it easiest to skip breakfast all the time - otherwise I get used to eating in the morning and have trouble cutting it out, but if you're someone who has trouble skipping breakfast I know lots of ladies only do it close to O time. Maybe start weaning yourself off breakfast now by making is smaller and smaller or eating later and later?

Agreed, Sistah!!! I just quit eating it one day a few wks ago and realized I could do it so I kept it up. Last time when I was swaying, I went back and forth a few times but it just made it harder. Mocha is right...if it's difficult to just start quitting breakkie, wean yourself off over a period of a wk or so and try to be done w/it by the time AF ends (give or take a day). If it’s easier to skip dinner, do that instead b/c it will sway the same as skipping breakkie. Like I said above, though, you may need to eat breakkie if you're so small.

[Out of the Blue]

Saturday:
• 1 C. half-caff coffee, 1 C. black tea with rice milk

• Lunch at IKEA was and no where near satisfying …2 tiny side salads (mixed greens) and two tiny sides of steamed veggies. They used to have wonderful salads but not this time. I tried to cut waaay back on the dressing b/c it wasn’t girl sway-friendly.

• Homemade veggie tostada (beans, rice, grilled veggies, cheese and a drizzle of ranch dressing)


I went over my sodium levels on Saturday.

Sunday:
• 1 C. half-caff coffee, 1 C. black tea with rice milk

• Ate out again…1/2 Mexican veggie salad and part of DH’s berry cake

• The other ½ of my veggie salad from lunch, Zevia cream soda (w/stevia…I know! )

• A few pieces of my sons’ Halloween candy (bottle caps, starbursts)

[amari]

Wowzuhs! You are a tiny thing, Amari! What's your BMI (you don't have to tell me if you don't want to!). If it's 18.5 or below, I would tend to think you should keep the breakfast up b/c you so small and you need food! You're going on Clomid (YAY for AF coming!!!) so you'll want to be fertile and being so small, you're already swaying pink. Clomid certainly doesn't hurt a girl-swayer either!

I don't know my BMI, I am 5'4". I can't decide if I should skip a meal or keep eating. I can not skip bfast. I will try and skip lunch today and see how it goes...check in with you all later!

[amari]

I don't know my BMI, I am 5'4". I can't decide if I should skip a meal or keep eating. I can not skip bfast. I will try and skip lunch today and see how it goes...check in with you all later!

[Mochagirl]

amari - if you're going to try to skip lunch, maybe have some diet Pepsi/Coke. I find it really does a good job of fooling your stomach into thinking you're full without raising blood sugar *and* it's good for your sway.

[Out of the Blue]

I don't know my BMI, I am 5'4". I can't decide if I should skip a meal or keep eating. I can not skip bfast. I will try and skip lunch today and see how it goes...check in with you all later!

Here's a link to a good BMI calculator:
Body Mass Index calculator you'll like

I'm about 5' 4.5" and 110ish. My BMI is about 18.6ish right now. If I were you, I would ask Atomic Sagebrush for advice. You can send her a private message...She welcomes giving advice! GL today!

[amari]

Thanks,jen. it says i'm 16.3. i am having a hard time balancing this sway diet with keeping on enough weight and keeping my blood sugar low. i don't want my to gain weight and end up swaying blue but i don't want to keep losing and be not fertile. i want to maintain but i keep losing instead by mistake. so, maybe i should not skip meals even at fertile time, idk. i don't want to bother atomic, i just bothered her with lube questions!

[amari]

i broke down and ate two cookies, i figured it would raise my blood sugar then bring it way down again?!

[Mochagirl]

You definitely need to eat more then, amari. I would think it would be fine for you not to skip meals - you're so skinny that you're swaying girl regardless. I also wouldn't worry about bothering atomic - I'm sure she'd be happy to help.