What is a bad food choice??

TeachergirlCeleste

For lunch, I had a footlong roast beef sub sandwich from subway. I had veggies and oil and vinegar and mustard for the topping. I was reading that roast beef contains less sodium. I did not eat breakfast this morning and was extremely hungry. The sub sandwich has made me full enough and I will not have dinner tonight. I am going to drink water for the rest of the day and do a 45-minute workout once it digests. Is this an ok food choice? I count calories on fitbit and the sub fit into my calorie range

TavistockToad

TeacupsAndToning wrote: »

Why would you not eat anything else during the day? That's the only bad food choice I see here.

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Alatariel75

There's really no such thing as a bad food choice in and of itself. Multiple bad choices can lead to weight gain, weight loss and/or poor nutrition, but for a meal it's unhelpful to consider it "good" or "bad". How many calories was your sub? Do you have calories left over? Because I'd not have thought a sub would take your whole day's calories.


An aside: I'm always a little envious of people who can skip dinner after having a large lunch. I can eat the biggest lunch on the planet and 5 hours later, I'm ready to go again.


ETA: I also now have a random craving for Jimmy Johns *sob*

jayemes

No food is good or bad. It just fits into your daily goal and keeps you feeling satiated or it doesn't.
I would think that a foot long sub isn't enough for a whole day though? Is it a 1200 calorie sandwich?

toxikon

For weight loss purposes, calories are all that matter.

For health purposes, focus on hitting your protein goal and try to have at least a few good servings of fruit and veggies to meet your micronutrient needs. Otherwise, don't sweat it. Humans are incredibly adaptable and can thrive on a variety of dietary choices.

TeachergirlCeleste

Thanks, everyone. I forgot to add that I drink homemade green smoothies as a meal supplement for dinner

vingogly

I'm getting 750 calories for the described sub on their calorie calculator:

https://www.nutritionix.com/subway/nutrition-calculator

You're worrying too much.

RoxieDawn

I don't have any bad food choices. Neither should anyone else as long as they are not under eating their calorie MFP gave them to lose weight.

kommodevaran

Hm... is meal supplement the new name for meal replacement, or meant to supplement replacements? (Seems like Google thinks it's the same.) Anyway, it sounds horrible. To skip breakfast, worry over lunch, and not getting a decent dinner. Bad food choices if this is part of a pattern.

lemurcat12

Why don't you have a regular dinner?

LearningToFly13

This just made me want a subway ...

pamfgil

Actually a bad food choice is something you don't like, is not healthy and you have no idea why you're eating it, but you do anyway

JeromeBarry1

My green smoothie is a lot of protein, fat, fiber, and near 500 calories. What's yours?

lulalacroix

For me a bad food choice would be shellfish - mainly due to anaphylaxis.

Otherwise I eat within my calories, try to hit my protein, and enjoy my food.

bpetrosky

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lorrpb

A bad food choice is one that doesn't provide the nutrition or satiety for the calories, and hence triggers eating over your calorie goal.

paperpudding

I think a bad food choice is something eaten in frequency and portion size so much that it derails your goals.

Ie 20 cream buns is your daily diet - unlikely to fit within anyone's calorie goal and certainly won't be balanced nutrition.

But one cream bun on occasion could fit in fine.

Can't see why one foot long beef subway wouldn't - not huge in calories and reasonable balance of nutrition.

Nothing wrong with green smoothies either, although they are not my thing.

amusedmonkey

A bad food choice is one that keeps you consistently overeating, consistently under eating, or consistently low on nutrient variety and quality (keyword is "consistently", a day here or there where one of these things happens is okay). A bad food choice could also be something you don't like or don't enjoy, so it's basically a waste of calories (and yes, that applies to smoothies and meal replacements if you would rather have something else).

I'm curious, why do you think the sub was a bad choice? It helped you feel full, it has a nice balance of all 3 macros, and since you didn't have breakfast it's likely calorie appropriate. This sounds like a perfectly good choice to me. The only bad food choice, if it were me, would be that sad dinner. I would not want to have a green smoothie for dinner unless it was the most amazing tasting smoothie in the world and I were in the mood for a dinner smoothie. If you enjoy it and it's exactly what you feel like having for dinner, then that too was a good choice provided you didn't end up too low on calories.

TavistockToad

tinaalisa15 wrote: »

Thanks, everyone. I forgot to add that I drink homemade green smoothies as a meal supplement for dinner

i hope your smoothie was about 600 cals, or you are massively undereating