For people that want to record what they are eating (to help be strict!)

[Mochagirl]

Ok, here's today:

Breakfast: coffee
Lunch: steamed rice mixed with a couple of TBSP of plain non-fat yogurt, strawberries
Snack: 2 Peek Freans Lifestyles (no sugar) cookies
Supper: caprese salad (a slice of fresh mozzarella, tomato and a bit of basil with balsamic vinegar drizzled on top) (I was making this for my kids and couldn't resist one slice), rice pasta with pesto and parmesan (mmmmmmmmm...so yummy. WHY oh WHY can't we eat garlic on this diet - it would be sooooo much easier if we could eat it!!!), low fat frozen yogurt and a few Nibs for dessert

Calories: 1502
Protein: 40g
Sodium: 922mg

Now I have to start weaning myself back onto the real diet or I'll get into the habit of cheating every day. I'll be 14dpo tomorrow and will be testing again. Wish me luck!

[zanacal]

Mmmmmm, garlic, how I miss garlic!

I'm so excited to see more people over here

OoTB - I was unsure about taking Chitosan whilst breastfeeding at first but then I rationalised it by telling myself that I wouldn't think twice about eating shellfish in itself! Tbh, I'm not sure it does a great deal. I'm not BFing anymore either - DS3 would have carried on if I hadn't asked but I gave him the option and he ran to the fridge for a cup of milk! I would have stopped when pregnant anyway (ouch!) and it means I can take Saw Palmetto. Thanks for the feedback on 'zig zagging' (now I even have a name for it!). I'm hoping it will help me to keep on losing weight fast because I'm nervous about getting pregnant without losing enough first!

DM - I did exercise for the first week but I was really worried that I wasn't exercising often enough or hard enough and whilst I think I can do this diet longer term, there's no way I could have stuck with that, so I'm sat on my bum being lazy instead!! We're planning an August or September attempt too

This morning I took my youngest 2 to Costa and I had a really yummy latte made with sugar free vanilla syrup and skimmed milk. I also bought some mini muffins and brought home a white chocolate and raspberry one for me to have with my lunch I'd have brought 2 home if DS3 hadn't taken another!

[zanacal]

Mochagirl - how did you make your spinach and ricotta cannelloni? It sounds so good!

[Mochagirl]

I mixed some thawed frozen spinach with a container of low fat ricotta, 60g of parmesan (2 servings, but this was to make a whole pan for the family) and an egg white (you could leave this out if you're avoiding eggs - I eat them once in a blue moon). I stuffed some oven ready cannelloni shells with the mixture, then put them in a pan with some tomato sauce spread underneath and on top (I mixed low sodium tomato sauce with no sodium stuff and added a few extra spices for flavour), then sprinkled 60g of low fat mozzarella on top. My portion was 1/4 of the pan, and though I don't have the exact nutritional info on hand anymore, it fit in nicely with my daily limits.

[Out of the Blue]

Hi all! DH is out of town until Monday and I’ll be Oing in a few days…Glad I postponed my sway b/c we couldn’t have made it work anyway but it’s kind of sad to watch an O go by w/out attempting to get preg, especially having been on the diet for so long while I keep having to postpone TTC. Oh, well…my girl is coming on her own sched I guess.

Mocha, I portobello burgers! I actually ate them often before the sway so I’m so glad you posted about them to give us the idea. I totally agree w/you on the garlic! Everything I used to cook always had garlic in it…Thankfully we can have LEEKS!!! I think they're my BFF on the diet. That spinach and ricotta cannelloni sounds divine! I’ve been meaning to make zucchini lasagna which has similar ingredients. You use strips of zucchini in place of the pasta. I’ve got to figure it out in my head and then try it. I might try to make your cannelloni first though because it sounds really yummy!

YAY, Doula Mama! I’m focused on August too… I’ve wanted to incorporate exercise into my sway but just as you guys said, I’m afraid I won’t be able to keep it up enough to lower T and instead increase it. I’m skinny yet flabby now. All muscles are gone, baby, gone…Oh, well. That's what we want, right? I think T is my biggest issue to tackle but I I’ve come a long way since where I was conceiving our two boys. I just hope it’ll be enough…Off to drink more peppermint tea, lol!

Zanacal – here’s a zig-zag calculator if you want…http://www.naturalphysiques.com/64 You’re doing great losing weight and you are swaying HARD! Keep it up…you inspire me!

[DoulaMama]

Thanks for the welcome guys! Wow it sounds like you guys have this diet mastered! I'm excited to peruse this thread from start to finish It's cool that some of us are going to be trying around the same time. Question for you guys... I notice that a lot of you are skinny. I am not I'm probably 35 lbs over my ideal, comfortable weight. Do you think 6-8 weeks of weight loss and diet will do anything? I'll still be heavy when we ttc I'm feeling a bit down today. I conceived all 3 boys on a boyfriendly diet but I was still 20-30lbs overweight when I did. Ugh. I wish I had some willpower.

[zanacal]

DM - I'm not skinny!! When I started the girl diet I was 190.5lb and after 5 weeks I'm 172lb. I think the lowest I've been pre-conception is around 155lb, but I'd hit my bottom weight and was putting on again (I'm a yo-yo dieter I'm afraid!). I lost weight before each of my pregnancies but each time I'm pretty sure I was on the way up again because I told myself it really didn't matter if I was going to get fat and pregnant anyway! I don't know whether we'll go for it in August as planned if I haven't lost enough weight because I really want to get to around 150lb, which would be a 40lb loss in total and the lowest I can remember weighing since my late teens. On the other hand, I plan to do a lot to sway pink and therefore lower my chances of even getting pregnant to begin with so perhaps we shouldn't wait until I get to where I ultimately want to be given that it might take us a few months. I'm hoping Atomic will have some helpful advice on this

Thanks so much for the information on calorie zig-zagging OoTB, it's really helpful. I think I've cut back way too much on calories for somebody of my weight so I'm going to double up on my pasta and get a bit more in and follow the zig-zagging concept too. It means I get a few more calories a couple of days a week

[zanacal]

Here's my food today:

Breakfast - coffee with skimmed milk and sweetener
Mid-morning - Skinny latte with sugar free vanilla syrup
Lunch - 2 slices ww white bread with low fat spread and sugar free jam. Costa mini white chocolate and raspberry muffin. Peeled apple.
Snack - 2 custard cream biscuits
Dinner - Double portion of spaghetti with kids tomato and vegetable pasta sauce and 20g parmesan. 1 Fox's Glacier Fruit sweet!

Around 1200 cals, 40g protein and 550mg sodium.

[swish]

Wow!!! So many new people on this thread
Everyone sounds like they're doing fab with the diet and we can all keep each other motivated!! I'll write my food later as there were so many posts to read, I've run out of time to write!!!

[tweedledeedum]

Hi Girls! I would like to join in too, if that's ok. I am about to O and my will power is sliding so I think posting my diet should help. I am nursing a 2 yr old. I started out at 157 and I am now 142. I concieved my last two at 145 and 150lbs.

Yesterday I had:

mid morning: glass skim milk, couple strawberries, pitcher cl
Lunch: 2 pieces of low salt bread with diet pb, glass skim milk
supper: 2 pieces of low salt bread with strawberry jam, glass skim milk, pitcher cl

Today so far I have had:
mid morning: glass skim milk, rice cake, pitcher cl
lunch: 1 no salt homemade waffle, glass skim milk

I am trying to really cut down because I will be Oing so soon. looking forward to getting some new ideas from you guys. I am stuck on toast and rice.