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

[elle82]

Thanks, I'll give it a go and see what it turns out like

[Peachy]

Girls, this is a great thread for a newbie! Lots of ideas and inspiration. Today I skipped breakfast, had a coffee around 11. Lunch was strawberries and low fat yogurt. Dinner was chicken and broccoli and cabbage, with salad with strawberries and ice cream for dessert. I'm a lazy swayer, not following anything 100% but I've totally given up red meat, potatoes, bananas and adding salt to anything. Good luck to you all! I'm starting on crystal light today too, just got some.

[fish2012]

great i love being obessive!

today i had no breaky, lunch veggi sushi, raspberries, snack 1 apple and a mini (100cal) bag of jelly tots, dinner aubergine curry and rice, two fondant fancies - just found these low fat and protien great for spare cals.

i use myfitness pal to track, out for dinner tomorrow nite

[Peachy]

I'd no brekkie, coffee, lunch was slice of toast and a yogurt, dinner was pasta with broccoli and green beans, tiny bit of Parmesan. Snacks were rye cracker with cream cheese and then for my failure!!- a bottle of corona, packet of hula hoops and a pack of starburst! Not good. Today will be better! I just have a fear I won't ovulate if I lose too much weight as I'm naturally very slim and now I look bony. I've only lost a few lbs but its noticeable already so trying to up calories but stay within ranges.. Hard do

[sosapop]

I had a coffee in the am with splenda and some cream, lunch at noon was a veggie wrap with eggplant, zucchini and squash and a little bit of goat cheese (usually swiss, but it was on the go and didn't have the opportunity to melt it). A handful of swedish fish and jelly beans! Dinner was the same wrap, but with swiss and a fat-free yogurt. Some diet root beer to drink and that's it! My body has really become used to this, but tonight I'm really starving!! I took my son to a theme park and walked around a lot, I'm sure I burned off everything

[suregena]

Today I had 3 coffees with unsweetened soy milk in the morning, then I had some lettuce with 1 1/2 white pita bread with cheese spread in it, 3 apricots (oops!) and a bunch of grapes... and a WHOLE PACK OF JELLY BEANS! (365 cal worth of 'em, good grief...)

Dinner was iceberg lettuce, 160g baby chestnut mushrooms, 150g worth of zucchini/courgette, probably 2 tablespoons worth of rice (was taking from hubby's dinner as I wasn't going to have any rice with my dinner due to all the jelly beans earlier!), low fat sour cream, some salsa.

Totals...


Cal: 1,257
Potassium: 2,097
Fat: 17
Protein: 32
Sodium: 849
Fiber: 14

[HopingWishingPraying]

Lunch: I actually forgot to eat at all till about 3pm. It is funny, some days I am STARVING and can barely make it till 11.30am, other days I forget to eat till really late and have no problems waiting. I had some caramel popcorn, a very small amount of rice (half a cup at most) with mushrooms and capsicum in it with some white sauce / parmesan on it, and a nonfat yoghurt.

Dinner: Vegetarian burger patty, white bun, leeks and some swiss cheese melted on it. Yummy. About 8 - 10 potato wedges on the side (my naughty cheat).

Supper: Caramel popcorn, Le Rice apple flavoured rice snack and Peppermint Tea.

Not tracking at the moment as I have done it for a while and got a reasonable handle on what I can eat to stay in the values plus I am not attempting until September or October.

[Mum23boys]

Just founf this thread and already getting some great food ideas - ThANKS LADIES

[HopingWishingPraying]

Lunch was a cup of pasta with a heaped teaspoon of creme frache on it, a cup of pureed apple and a non fat yoghurt.
Then went out to a friend's birthday party at a restaurant... was difficult as I was sat on the table with the tasting platters in front of me for about 3 hours. I did have a lot of dip but mainly with celery and a little bit of bread. Got given (and ate... couldn't resist) a massive slice of black forest cake. So as penance for the cake for dinner I just had a cup of rice with another heaped teaspoon of creme frache for dinner with 2 fibre supps to soak up some of the fat. After dinner snack was a Le Rice pudding and some lychees, plus peppermint tea. Hopefully it all came out in the wash despite the cream filled cake.

I have just found out I have to go out for dinner tomorrow to a tavern that has nothing but steaks, burgers, creamy pastas and pizzas on the menu! The best I could do would be a margarita pizza! I am thinking of either getting that, or saying "stuff it" - if I am going out I might as well have my favorite (a pasta carbonara) but making it an entree sized one, taking fiber and eating nothing much other than plain rice throughout the rest of the day! I am at least 5 weeks out from my attempt but hate having an enforced big cheat. Love hearing what other people are eating. For the record I am only tracking my foods on FitnessPal occasionally - I have been on the diet for 6 weeks before and got the idea of what I can and cant eat.

[HopingWishingPraying]

Today: An apple and half a pear at 11am, 2 pieces of mountain bread at 1pm with some leeks on them, one with some mayo on them the other with a sprinkle of low fat cheese. A no fat yoghurt. Peppermint tea.
Dinner: Half a pizza with tomato paste, eggplant, zucchini, mushrooms, leek, and a sprinkle of parmesan on it. Le snack rice pudding for dinner, about to have some lychees and peppermint tea. Do other people find they have huge swings in their appetites? Some days I just want to eat the house down (but dont) and am completely and utterly miserable / weak with hunger. Other days (like today) I eat the same amount and am barely hungry at all. Weird!