I'm excited to finally be able to join in on the food thread -- I've been planning my sway for half-past forever and am now at the start of my six weeks!
I started the diet on Dec. 30, so here are my past three days:
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Dec. 30:
Morning: caffeine-free Diet Coke, folic acid, Trader Joe's Psyllium Husk (fiber) and Vitex.
Lunch: Activia Fiber yogurt, string cheese, 1 slice Wonder bread (105 mg. sodium) with a Tbsp. of jelly, two servings of Trader Joe's unsalted tortilla chips with 2 Tbsp. of Paul Newman's salsa (65 mg. sodium), 8 oz. skim milk with 2 Tbsp. Hershey's strawberry syrup (empty calories -- woo hoo!
), peach applesauce, two chocolate-dipped shortbread cookies.
Mid-afternoon: CF Diet Coke
Dinner: three eggwhites cooked in 1 Tbsp. butter served with 1 Tbsp. mayo (65 mg. sodium) on 1 slice Wonder bread (this egg-on-bread combo is super yummy, savory and satisfying), 1 cup of rice milk with 2 Tbsp. Hershey's chocolate syrup with calcium, 1/2 cup no-salt-added green beans, 12 gummy worms.
Evening: peppermint tea (1 bag, 2 packets of Equal)
Dec. 30 totals:
calories: 1615
calories from fat: 455
fat grams: 53
sodium: 1020 mg.
protein grams: 48
calcium: 1380
So, a bit too much on the sodium and protein fronts -- I blame the string cheese. So it'll be a pretty rare thing for me to include again. I'll also reduce the egg whites to two instead of three.
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Dec. 31:
Morning: folic acid, Trader Joe's Psyllium Husk (fiber) and Vitex.
Lunch: 2 slices Wonder bread (105 mg. sodium each) with a Tbsp. of jelly and 1 Tbsp. of butter, slightly more than one servings of Trader Joe's unsalted tortilla chips with 2 Tbsp. of Paul Newman's salsa (65 mg. sodium), 8 oz. skim milk with 2 Tbsp. Hershey's chocolate syrup with calcium, 1/2 cup no-salt-added green beans, 1/4 cup Skittles
Mid-afternoon: CF Diet Coke and double peppermint tea (2 bags, 2 packets of Equal)
Dinner: cup of white mushrooms and one small/med. zucchini, stirfried in 1 Tbsp. butter with one cup of cooked white rice, 8 oz. skim milk with Hershey's strawberry syrup, Activia Fiber yogurt, 12 gummy worms.
Evening: CF Diet Coke with sugar-free Torani cherry syrup.
Dec. 31 totals:
calories: 1575
calories from fat: 305
fat grams: 37.5
sodium: 754 mg.
protein grams: 31
calcium: 1210
Quite a bit better on the values from the day before. Is it possible this diet is actually doable after all? Ignoring, of course, the fact that I wake up hungry, am hungry by mid-afternoon and am hungry by bedtime. Besides that.
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Jan. 1
Morning: double peppermint tea (2 bags, 2 packets of Equal), folic acid, Trader Joe's Psyllium Husk (fiber) and Vitex.
Lunch: serving of the mushroom/zucchini/butter/rice serving identical to last night's dinner, 8 oz. skim milk with 2 Tbsp. Hershey's chocolate syrup with calcium, peach applesauce, 1/2 cup no-salt-added green beans, 1/8 cup Skittles.
Afternoon: double peppermint tea (2 bags, 2 packets of Equal)
Dinner: two eggwhites cooked in 1 Tbsp. butter served with 1 Tbsp. mayo (65 mg. sodium) on 1 slice Wonder bread, homemade strawberry smoothie (1 cup rice milk, 1 cup frozen sliced strawberries, 1/2 cup low-fat strawberry kefir, 2 Tbsp. Hershey's strawberry syrup), 1/2 cup no-salt-added green beans, 1 Rice Krispies treat*.
Evening: CF Diet Coke
Jan. 1 totals:
calories: 1708
calories from fat: 420
fat grams: 47
sodium: 726.5
protein grams: 36.5
calcium: 1130
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Okay, here's a recipe for those struggling with getting enough calories (and also still have some wiggle room with your fat, protein and sodium): "Double-goo" Rice Krispies treats -- this gets you the extra "empties" from marshmallows and butter, without going excessive on the amount of cereal (which has some vitamins and nutrients).
6 Tablespoons butter
80 large marshmallows
6 cups Rice Krispies
Melt butter and marshmallows in pot over low heat. When completely melted, stir into Rice Krispies and spread in a greased 9x13 pan. When it's cooled enough to slice, I sliced it into eight equal portions. If my math is correct, this portion (1/8 of the pan) gives you 403 calories (75 of which are from fat) 8 grams fat, 151 mg. sodium and 4 g. protein. If you have the willpower to slice the whole pan into 16 pieces, then of course, all those values can be halved.
In the eight-per-pan portion size, this is definitely a once-in-awhile treat (as in, I'd better only make a pan once a month and hope that DH and DSs eat most of them!
) but it's a nice change-up from gummies and Skittles.
So far today (it's 1 p.m.), I've had a CF Diet Coke, a double peppermint tea and my pills (Vitex, folic acid, fiber), but nothing caloric to eat. Normally, I'm aiming to eat at noon (no earlier) and 6 p.m. (no earlier), but tonight I'm taking my kids over to my parents' house for a movie night and we'll probably be there from 5:30-7:30 or so. I don't want to eat before that because I'll be starving well before bedtime. So I'm planning on eating after the kids and I get home ... therefore, I'm trying to push myself on lunch as long as I can, so I'm not (yep, you guessed it) starving during the movie -- especially since I'm sure my dad will bring in popcorn, pop and Junior Mints.
Good luck, ladies!!!
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