Day 13 " WHATS A GIRL GOT TO DO TO GET CHOCOLATE??"

[jenniamigo]

Another uneventful day. I spent 2 hours at the gym. 1 hour for cardio and another hour of pilates. And now I am exhausted. 

I had a serious chocolate craving today which sucked big time. I must have looked like a loon reading all the ingredient lables on all the candy bars like I am going to manage to find a healthy chocolate bar or something lol. Anway I ended up buying myself bakers chocolate. It was the only thing i could find without milk in it. It's no reesees or dove but it satisfied the craving nonetheless.

I need help with food. Dh thinks I am eating too much.  But I keep thinking the types of things I am eating are low in fat and calories so I need to eat more during the day.  But dh thinks I am getting more calories than I think I am getting so i need to figure out an effective way to figure out how many calories I am actually getting.  Because it is seriously getting annoying hearing dh say "Your eating AGAIN??"  He thinks he is doing better because he eats only once or twice a day of small portions.  He doesn't believe me when I say he is putting his body on starvation mode thats why he is sitting pretty at 235 lbs. I lost 2 lbs last week so i think i am doing something right.

I am working out every day and breastfeeding, not exclusively but that still burns calories.  I know you need 1900 calories a day if your exclusively breastfeeding so since he only nurses 3 times a day sometimes 4 but it's like snack nursing not really meal nursing if you understand what I am trying to say. So would i need like 1500 calories or 1200 calories like a normal non breawstfeeding person?

Thanksgiving is coming and I am beginning to wonder what on earth will I be able to eat. Because we go to other peoples houses on thanksgiving. It feels rude to ask them to make things that are vegan friendly.  So that leaves cooking food for myself to take over there Which also seems rude. But I was thinking about the dishes everybody brings, and well everything has milk or eggs or both. So I need some advice about how to handle this. I don't want to impose myself on others or stand out by not eating anything either.  Should I just suck it up and just strive to be vegitarian on that day? I don't really like that idea too much though.

[Lb128f]

Nov. 19, 2009 at 7:54 PM

I'm glad you found some chocolate! :-) And, I'd say you are doing something right if you are losing...DH needs to listen to you! :-)

As for Thanksgiving...(I see nothing wrong with you bringing whatever you are able to eat -- if anyone else does, that's their problem)!

http://vegetarian.about.com/od/vegetarianlifestyle/tp/thanksgivingrecipes.htm

http://vegweb.com/index.php?board=304.0

Enjoy!