Here's your challenge: Take at least ONE DAY to write down everything food related that passes your lips for one entire day.

Keep track the best you can. It's up to you to see how detailed you want to be. At least, write what food you ate and the amount (ounces, piece, etc). If you'd like to get detailed, you can journal like I do:

food - calories - fat - carbs - protein - fiber - calcium

If it's a prepackaged item, all the nutritional information is right there on the package. Just write it down. If it's an item like fruits, nuts, meats, veggies, chicken-stuff that's not prepackaged and has no nutritional info, check out a site like CALORIE KING, just click the link: http://www.calorieking.com/foods/

For those of you who use FITDAY.COM, you can make your journal public for that one day, if you wish.

Any day this week is fine, doesn't matter. I think this will be a great way to show others what we eat, while some people who don't ever journal; may have a eye-awakening experience to see how much they are really eating.

I wish everyone luck-any questions, don't be afraid to ask!!!

I seem to be having the most difficult time getting my eating right. I stay OP, but my meal/snack choices STINK!

Today -

Breakfast - 1/2 c. mixed fruit in juice.

Lunch - I was at the grocery store... ate one chicken nugget on the way home from hubby's lunch I picked up on the way.

Snacks - a couple of pickled okra, an artichoke heart quarter, 5 triscuits.

Dinner - OK, I'm pretty proud... I created a recipe today. I sauteed mushrooms in butter, put in a little minced garlic, browned some chicken breasts, poured the mushrooms back in, and poured one of those little cans of tomato sauce with garlic, oregano and basil in...then simmered it for almost an hour. I sprinkled cheese on top and let it melt in the last 2 minutes. It was good!! I ate aboug 3/4 of a piece, with a salad.
I'll have the leftover piece for lunch tomorrow.

Dessert - I'm eating it now... Aunt Gussies Almond Biscotti!! (ok, so it's my second piece, sue me..lol)

See what I mean.. I'm not eating enough.. but I'm just flat NOT hungry enough to eat much more than that. I end up feeling like I'm gonna be sick if I try to eat more.

I'll get the hang of it, I guess. I've only been at this for 2 weeks today

This is what I have eaten to-day:

Breakfast
Toasted BLT and fried egg on ww bread
Coffee with 1/2 oz 10% cream

Lunch
3/4 cup ww spaghetti
6 oz tomato meat sauce
Fruit cup - mixed fruit in juice
4 oz 2% milk

Snack
2 clementines
1/2 cup almond granola

Dinner
Baked ham - 4 oz.
1 cup cauliflower and broccoli in parsley sauce
1/2 cup green peas

Snack
Granola bar
4 oz. 2% milk

Marie.

This is what all I ate yesterday:

4.7oz raspberries
1 ww tortilla
4.5oz ff refried beans
1oz 75% lf cheese
1.5oz tomatoes
1 c extra cal. milk
1 tsp carob powder
3oz chicken breast plain
1 sl sf bread
1.3oz chopped celery/onion
1 tbl lf mayo
1.5oz slice jogging bread
5.4oz raspberries
2 sl lf bologna
3.5oz strawberries
4oz burssel sprouts
1sl sf bread
2Tbl natural pb
1Tbl sf jelly

My calories for the day totalled 1295, fat grams-36.5 (target for this caloric intake with fat would be 39.5grams), carbs 161 (remember, fiber cancels the carbs-still was a little high though, target is 146), protein intake was 91.5 grams (target was 89) and 49.5 grams fiber and 960 grams calcium-not too shabby. I do try to get in 1400 calories average, so was a little below yesterday.

Here's to today!!!

This is what I ate on Thursday, 2/21/02

6.1oz rapsberries
1.5oz Aunt Gussies Spelt SF cookies
6oz FF Plain Yogurt
1oz strawberries
1 sl SF bread
3oz plain chicken breast
.4oz lf mayo
1.3oz onion/celery chopped
1 c extra calcium milk
1 tsp carob
1 sf jello cup
6.3oz raspberries
1/2oz sf meringue
4oz brown rice w/pine nuts
3oz chicken breast
chicken stock for the brown rice
approx. .2 oz pine nutes in rice
.7oz Aunt Gussies cookie

TOTAL CALORIES: 1200
TOTAL FAT 30.5 (little low, I shoot for 37)
TOTAL CARBS 155 (little high, I shoot for 135, but I can take off for the fiber, which in this case, I'd have 125 grams of active carbs-so I'm okay)
TOTAL PROTEIN 87 (almost on target, I shoot for 82)
TOTAL FIBER 32 (RDA is 25, so this is good!)
TOTAL CALCIUM 950 (I try for 1000)

As you can see, I still don't get any veggies-something I would like to work on, but don't.

So, broken down, 23% of my calories came from fat, 51% from carbs and 29% from protein-not too bad!!