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:
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!!!
Ok, I really made an effort to remember to write down what I ate today.
Breakfast: 1 large bowl of special K with 1%milk
1 really big coffee with 1 tbsp agave and 10% cream
Snacks: 1 apple
1 slice deli roast beef
6 triscuits
piece of cheddar, 1"x3"x1/2"thick
5or 6 dill pickles
fistful of cashews
tea with 1% milk
Dinner: homemade jambalaya made with ham, chicken, brown rice, celery, onions, garlic, green pepper, canned tomatoes, spices
12oz glass of 1% milk
After dinner: 6 more triscuits
couple more dills
hot lemon drink made by adding bottled lemon juice to a mug of boiling water, sweetened to taste with agave.
While typing this at midnight: couple more spoonfuls of jambalaya
I didn't really have lunch, but just kept snacking thru the afternoon. I drank about 12 cups of water, I think. I keep refilling a 2 cup water bottle and lose track. I drink lots of water.
This was a good exercise for me cause I felt like all of you were standing behind me watching what I put in my mouth. Kept me legal for the whole day. Looking forward to other menus so that I may get more ideas for what I can eat.
B. 1/4 cup oatbran with 7 oz 2% milk, topped with 12 raspberries (frozen). Coffee with 1/2 oz 10% cream.
Sn. 2 Clementines
L. Pan fried trout - 6 oz. 3/4 cup cooked carrots. (Since reading the article about the new gi values given for cooked carrots I eat them frequently). 1/2 cup canned pears in juice.
Sn. 2 Rye crispbread with 1 tbs low fat cream cheese and 1 tbs fruit spread. Coffee with 1/2 oz 10% cream x 2.
D. Chicken Enchiladas on WW Pita Bread: about 6 oz chicken breast, few pieces of mushrooms and red pepper and ss salsa with one whole piece of pita. Green Salad. 1 glass red wine.
Sn. 1 oz cheese, 1/2 cup canned pears in juice, 1/2 cup granola, 2 pieces Lindt 70% chocolate.
Lots of water but didn't count the glasses. Just keep filling up my glass.
Breakfast
2 Clementines
Toasted cheese on SGWW bread.
Finished off morning coffee
Lunch
4 oz hamburger with mushrooms, onions and salsa (leftovers from yesterday)
1/2 cup raw carrots
1/4 cup granola (time to make some more)
1/2 cup mixed fruit in juice
Snack
4 Digestive Cookies
Dinner
Baked halibut, about 6 oz.
Coleslaw
Garden salad
Bedtime
Ovaltine with 4 oz milk/4 oz water. I know this is not legal as it contains barley malt but it has no added sugar and total sugar of 2.8 gm per two teaspoons serving. Trying to avoid coffee in the evening.
OK, I'm trying to get used to actually allowing myself to eat. I was so unsure of what I could have, that I haven't been eating enough, and I've been really tired.
Breakfast:
1 scrambled egg with a splash of milk, some salt and pepper, cheddar cheese, and some chicken left from last night's dinner mixed in. (I used to eat a chicken egg and cheese biscuit every morning for breakfast... I guess I just cut out the biscuit!)
4 oz milk
Snack: 1 orange, handful peanuts (low salt)
Lunch: 1 can light tuna in water, a little mayo, mustard, some cheese, and 3 pieces of dill pickle.
A few more peanuts
Snack: Some peanuts and pickle
Dinner: Chicken Breast (last of last nights leftovers), and some stir fry veggies minus the baby corns. With a cup of decaf herbal tea and my first ever package of splenda.
NO snacks after dinner for me... I know I ate too many peanuts today, but I had the munchies and I figured overdoing it with something legal was better than cheating!
My boss started this a day after I did... and I guess I'm so determined to not cheat, because I'm sort of competitive and I don't want to be the one to mess up...LOL I know
Can someone tell me if the Dextrose and Maltodextrin in the Splenda are bad? I went to the website and it says that the sucralose isn't recognized as a carb by the body and isn't absorbed by the body and doesn't affect blood sugar levels, but it doesn't mention the other 2 ingredients on the package.
(Or.. just smack me and tell me to quit worrying so darn much!!)
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