LE Diet and No-No foods

[atomic sagebrush]

All sounds good to me. In fact I would like to eat any of it right now

I would say as long as it's within limits your good. Before my loss I would avoid things like carrots, peas, nuts/peanut butter. If I had salad I would do iceberg lettuce instead of romaine. Now I don't worried if what I am eating is too healthy. If I feel like it and it is in limits, I eat it. Unless I am having a cheat meal then all thoughts are tossed out the window.

THere are no no-no foods - the rule of thumb is when all things are equal, if you can pick an option with lower nutrients, then pick that option. But that doesn't mean you can't have more nutritious foods when you want them, provided that you were within limits overall.

This diet is a bit of a work in progress and when I was first starting off, people were SOO hung up on the magic foods idea that I almost had to make the diets more about the foods themselves than I would have liked to, simply because people wanted/expected it.

[atomic sagebrush]

Is there a new thread for "what we're eating"? My vices are butter, cream, pb.... I'm lazy so making toast and pb is my thing. Guess I'm ditching it (most days). And idk if I can give my morning coffee with cream up.


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I ate butter all the time - margarine is best but I just don't like it.

[atomic sagebrush]

I eat small amounts of PB, usually thinly spread on a rice cracker, maybe a few times a month. PB is actually not that healthy; it's more pink friendly than butter at least.

I also had peanut butter. small amounts just don't sway.

I do think that fortified foods like cereal really are problematic but even red meat in small amounts is ok

[atomic sagebrush]

I'm from Canada but hunting this down immediately lol
When you guys say "creamer", do you just mean cream? Like 10% or 18% mf normal cream or do you mean the artificial stuff?


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cream is fine. non-dairy creamer is fine. milk is fine. It all depends on what YOU like and what you need from your diet. Some people use cream in coffee as a way to get some needed fat.

[atomic sagebrush]

Mars I ate a bagel with low fat cream cheese, fat free yoghurt and three piece's of vege sushi or a small salad instead of sushi. My other meal was two crumpets, low fat cream cheese and low fat vege soup. I really needed the bread to keep me going! Steph k had some amazing recipes and meal ideas! Good luckX

Be sure though, ladies, that you are getting ENOUGH fat. I sometimes see people who insist on doing fat-free everything who have tons of trouble getting enough fat and then stop ovulation. 25 g fat is the barest minimum, and you can go up as high as 60 g (not everyon will need to go this high)

[atomic sagebrush]

Mars - I ate a ton of Mexican too, rice with black beans, quesadilla, etc, if you keep the portions reasonable it's easy to make LE.

portion control is the only "magic" to the LE Diet. For realz.

[Ugee]

This is such a helpful thread! Lots of questions on food laid to rest for me so thank you for that

[maidentomother]

So true about portion control!

[Hitmebabyonemoretime]

I ate butter all the time - margarine is best but I just don't like it.

Ya it makes me gag lol


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[Hitmebabyonemoretime]

Is there a new thread for chatting about what we've eaten? I saw the other was closed but maybe a new one hasn't started?


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