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

[zanacal]

Well I'm glad you say sodium is least important Atomic because I've just completely screwed up on my dinner! While I was buying the gluten free pasta I spotted some gluten free pizza bases but I misread the packet and they had 1100mg each - they weren't even very nice! So here's me today:

100ml skimmed milk for coffees

Lunch: corn tortilla with slice of low fat processed cheese and salad. 1 peeled apple. 1 pop tart (still yuck!).

Dinner: Gluten free pizza base, 1 tbsp tomato puree, low fat cheddar and vegetables. Weight watchers white chocolate ice-cream.

I still have my snack to go but so far have had:

931 cals
26g protein
1980mg sodium - dear oh dear!!

Oh and I tried a vodka and cranberry last night and ended up tipping most of it down the sink!

[swish]

Shame about the pizza but at least you tried something new!

[Mochagirl]

Breakfast: coffee
Lunch: caramel corn rice cake, Yop yogurt drink, a few strawberries and a few cherry tomatoes
Snack: 1/4 of a bagel and cream cheese. This wasn't really a snack, but sort of an early dinner as we were out of town for the day and only started driving back at supper time. I bought the kids bagels and cream cheese and stole 1/4 of one of them (and scraped off much of the cream cheese) to keep me going until I got home.
Supper: rice pasta with stewed tomatoes and parmesan, skim milk, Pop Tart for dessert
Snack: strawberries

This was my first time trying the rice pasta. I liked it a lot - with tomato sauce on it, I couldn't tell the difference. One thing I noticed that the serving size on the package was quite small. I made 3 'servings' and when I measured it it was only 1 cup. The protein was still lower than regular pasta, though with a total of 12g in the 3 servings I ate. The tomatoes I used for the sauce had sodium (I was hungry and in too much of a rush to make my own sauce), so I used half a serving and was still able to keep within my limits. It was quite tasty!

Calories: 1,311
Fat: 16.8g
Protein: 39.3g
Sodium: 833.1mg

[zanacal]

I bought some rice pasta too - glad to hear it's ok!

[Mochagirl]

I'm also happy the rice pasta is a little calorie-heavy - my 3 servings came to 600 calories! I think if I'd gotten those miracle noodles with 0 calories I would have ended up with 500 (or less) calorie days, and that couldn't have been good.... Pasta's just about the only thing I eat that adds much-needed calories to my diet.

[swish]

Sunday...family day so not a good food day!!!
Breakfast peppermint tea
Snack at 12 1 piece of toast and actimel
Late lunch vegetable lasagne, 1 piece of walnut bread, 1 mini magnum, 2 maltesers, 1 glass of wine! Oh dear but all very nice!
Nothing since, might have a small snack before bed

[zanacal]

Oooh, yum swish!

I've had:

Milk in coffees/tea at a friend's house
Lunch: Roast potatoes (made with 1 cal spray oil), vegetables and cheese sauce (made with quark, parmesan, milk and an egg) followed by low fat rice pudding.
Tea/Dinner: Peanut butter sandwich followed by a Weight Watchers individual Victoria sponge cake!

So far about 760 cals, 33g protein and 510mg salt. Don't know what to have for the rest of the evening but my tummy is beginning to rumble!

[fourwildones]

I am clueless as to how to keep the weight on with this diet-still! I am thinking of cutting my magnesium out completely-in accordance with the low nutrient theory (I am taking about 100 mg/day), as I wonder if it is flushing my system-for me, trying to maintain, let alone gain weight, is near impossible.

here is what I ate yesterday, ( this was a "bad day" as I don't normally eat pizza, wine, or the bagel twist, but thought I'd throw caution to the wind for ONE day since I am in the 2ww and desperate to gain wt)

8 AM peppermint tea
10:30am cinnamon raisin bagel twist with 1/2 of a 1/2 decaf coffee with cream and equal
1pm 1 small piece of pizza (not normally on my diet but I was at my son's birthday party!) usually I would have something else here, like toast with sugarfree jam and unsalted butter
3pm huge sandwich with homemade low salt bread, 2 slices low salt cheese, smidgeon of hummus and Tblsp. tahini, sliced, skinned cucumbers and butter lettuce, unsalted butter, about 8 lowfat potato chips
1 caffeine free diet pepsi
snack: 2 caramel rice cakes
8PM dinner: large salad with about 8 chick peas, a few raw almonds, a slice of red pepper, 1 tsp. shredded parm, 2 mushrooms and about 2 tsp. poppy seed dressing
large bowl (2 cups) pasta cooked in almost no salt and some oil with 1 tsp unsalted butter and 3 T ricotta,a sprinkle of parm and about 15 edamame
10 PM dessert: 1 cup vanilla greek yogurt (nonfat) with 1/4 cup raspberries and 2 equal packets
1 more cup peppermint tea
glass of red wine ( haven't drunk in 4 weeks but I'm so desperate to gain wt. I figured WTH!!!)
dasani

I usually have a big piece of homemade toast with a mixture of sugarfree and regular jam in place of the erroneous items (pizza, wine etc.).

I am still 85 pounds, can't get higher on the above caloric intake- so I may have to think of something else to eat soon. I am starting to think I should add a glass of wine back in... or as Atomic said some sort of candy? I need empty calories at this point. I occasionally eat string beans with butter...I was eating pop-tarts but discovered they have gelatin in the frosting and I am vegetarian so I am nixing those.

And in reading the studies, if I am pregnant or do get pregnant I fear I still will have done all the wrong things for the diet, every time I turn around I find that maybe I shouldn't be eating something I just did-AGH!

[atomic sagebrush]

BLAAAA do not cut magnesium out all together!!! You NEED 250-300 mg of magnesium (which most of us easily get via diet, even on the TTC girl diet) just for SURVIVAL. I wouldn't supplement but there is NO need and in fact it's a terrible idea to try and eliminate the magnesium in your food.

Please realize there is a huge difference in the nutrients contained in multivitamins and those that you get via foods. AT that level of caloric intake, you don't need to worry about nutrients. Besides, the macronutrients of protein and fat sway a lot "harder" than any one of the micronutrients anyway.

Your diet would be perfect if you didn't weigh 85 pounds to begin with, even with the pizza and the bagel. Anyone else I would just be telling them they were doing great. Please try not to worry and just keep eating exactly what you're eating only in larger quantities. Eat a bit more hummus, a few more chickpease, more strawberries, use sugar in place of some of the artificial sweeteners and don't worry about the pizza or the bagel. Wine? Why not, a day or three a week.

Candy is dandy! And if you're vegetarian anyway, you're already doing a lot to sway pink just from your day to day diet.


There is no need at all to worry about every scrap of food that you put in your mouth

[atomic sagebrush]

I'm also happy the rice pasta is a little calorie-heavy - my 3 servings came to 600 calories! I think if I'd gotten those miracle noodles with 0 calories I would have ended up with 500 (or less) calorie days, and that couldn't have been good.... Pasta's just about the only thing I eat that adds much-needed calories to my diet.

That's FINE! If the rice noodles are working for you, that's a great discovery!