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

[twosweetlads]

Breakfast-supps and peppermint tea

Lunch- salad and pitta with houmous and strawberries and yogurt

Snack apple and goodie bar (not ideal but working)

Tea pasta with pesto and veg

[Mochagirl]

Yay! We need a thread like this!

Here's what I had yesterday:

Breakfast - coffee, CL

Lunch - a piece of salt-free bread and a yogurt

Afternoon - peppermint tea, CL

Supper - pasta (2 servings) mixed with 1 TBSP low fat ricotta and parm

Snack - peppermint tea, raspberries and some Nibs (red licorice)

Not a bad day - I was a bit above with protein - about 46g, but my sodium was only about 530mg! My total calories were 1200.

[swish]

Yesterday.:
breakfast peppermint tea
Lunch 2 pieces of homemade toast with strawberry jam and some strawberries
Dinner pasta with mushrooms, courgettes, leeks, butter and Parmesan and a muller light yogurt
I don't track calories etc so hopefully am in ok amounts!!!

[zanacal]

Me too, great idea! This was yesterday:

100ml skimmed milk in my coffees - I'm having one after my morning workout and another mid-morning (with lots of sweetener!) otherwise I really struggle to make it until lunch time, and I didn't drink coffee before I had my 3rd boy so you never know!

Lunch - 2 small slices white bread with unsalted butter, a slice of dairylea light processed cheese and a little iceberg lettuce and skinless cucumber. Cup of strawberries with a dollop of zero % greek yogurt and sweetener on a meringue nest.

Dinner - 2 servings of pasta with half a tin of tomatoes and a few chopped leeks, mushrooms and courgettes with some quark (almost) fat free soft cheese mixed in.

Snack - pop tart. I never had these before and I hated it - so won't be having them again!

I meant to have my Yakult before bed but forgot ...

Today I've had:

100ml skimmed milk in 2 coffees

Lunch - 2 small slices of bread, unsalted butter and sugar free raspberry jam. A cup of grapes and an Activia fat free raspberry yogurt.

Dinner - same as yesterday but with a little parmesan instead of the quark. Meringue nest, zero % greek yogurt, sweetener and diced peeled apple.

I haven't decided what to have for snack yet and I'll try and remember my Yakult!

For drinks I have sugar free fruit squash (artificially sweetened), diet caffeine free coke and peppermint tea. I might have a vodka or two this weekend

[purplepoet20]

Took several month to get used to...

7 am coffee with aspartame and coffemate
9am crystal light
11am low everything vegan lunch and diet caff-free soda
1 pm coffee with aspartame and coffemate
3pm crystal light
6pm low everything vegan rich dinner (40g of protien every other day) diet caff-free soda
8pm crystal light

The drinks spread out help to calm hunger pain. But I eat about 1,800 cals a day, no dairy, very little salt and sugar because I crave more, and about 40g of protein for BFing.

Before I was a hugh sugar, salt, and meat person. Guessing I was averaging 3,000 mg of salt, well over 500 cals worth of sugar, a weeks worth of protein in one day, and about 2,500-3,000 cals a day if not more. I plan to change a lot for a healthier lifetime diet.

[swish]

Breakfast peppermint tea
Lunch 2 slices of toast with raspberry jam
Naughty caramel shortbread mid afternoon!!!!
Dinner pasta with courgettes and green beans and Parmesan. Muller light yogurt. Jelly sweet!
Not as good as yesterday!

[zanacal]

... but what willpower having just one jelly sweet!

[swish]

I'm more of a chocolate fan so I can't even go there!!!

[swish]

Me again!!!
Breakfast peppermint tea
Lunch 2 pieces of toast with jam (there's a pattern here!!) actimel fat free, some strawberries,
A tiny, tiny bit of ds2's ice cream
Dinner cous, cous with courgette, aubergine, squeeze of lemon, butter and Parmesan. Muller light yogurt and few more strawberries

[zanacal]

But jam toast is yum (shame we can't eat 4 or 5 slices of it!). Today I was excited because I'd decided that as a 'treat' on Saturdays I would have a couple of eggs. We also had a family day out so had a picnic.

Breakfast - coffee, sweetener and skimmed milk
Mid-morning - met friends for a coffee, had sweetener but no skimmed milk so I had a splash of semi-skimmed
Lunch - 2 pieces of bread with unsalted Lurpack, a slice of dairylea light and iceberg lettuce and cucumber (sounds so much more substantial than it is!), a packet of Goodies (toddler!) cheese puffs, strawberries. A couple of diet caffeine free cokes.
Dinner - A bagel with unsalted Lurpack and scrambled eggs. Meringue nest with an Activia fat free yogurt.
Snack - Grapes and Yakult light.

Seems like a good place to record my daily exercise too as I find it *so* difficult to stick to. Today I went out for an hour with my youngest DS in his pushchair and ran as much as I could, walking in between. It was exhausting and I tried to like it but I hated every minute!