could someone take a look at my diary please x

Cocacoladdict
Cocacoladdict Posts: 80 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
completed it for the day and I THINK it looks "ok but not finished" if that makes sense? Any tips??

Edited just to add that tomorrow is shopping day so I have a lot of clementines and bananas but not much other fresh food til tomorrow. I do have hazelnuts, walnuts and almonds left from Christmas and a few tins of soup

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  • vjohn04
    vjohn04 Posts: 2,276 Member
    your diary is not open. you need to change the settings to public.
  • Cocacoladdict
    Cocacoladdict Posts: 80 Member
    sorry didn't realise it wasn't open!!
  • elisa123gal
    elisa123gal Posts: 4,324 Member
    Drink your water, eat some raw vegetables and fruit. But you're eating below your calories..so that is good. I don't know your stats..make sure you're eating enough.
  • Cocacoladdict
    Cocacoladdict Posts: 80 Member
    your diary is not open. you need to change the settings to public.

    changed em, clearly I am a donut lol
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    your net is fairly low, so maybe throw in a couple more snacks, but apart from that it looks fine.
  • missmiller1
    missmiller1 Posts: 131 Member
    I suspect that you are probably ingesting a fair amount of sodium, though your diary doesn't track it, so make sure you are drink A LOT of water.
  • vjohn04
    vjohn04 Posts: 2,276 Member
    I suspect that you are probably ingesting a fair amount of sodium, though your diary doesn't track it, so make sure you are drink A LOT of water.

    Agreed.
  • rainghirl
    rainghirl Posts: 203 Member
    Bit more fruit and veg? If you're usually in a rush you could make your own big batch of cook-in sauce with veggies and tinned tomatoes and freeze it. You'll get more veg in that way and more control over the calories. You can set up your own recipe on here which will help you calculate the calories too. It will also help you control sodium levels as someone mentioned above.

    It might just look "unfinished" as you've not got a long list of ingredients, but it looks okay to me on the whole.
  • Greenrun99
    Greenrun99 Posts: 2,065 Member
    Try to eat more grain items, so instead of like white bread, try a fiber bread or grain type bread... Also watch what you track for exercise because if you actually burned that much, you should eat back your exercise calories.. but as you were tracking cleaning.. I wouldn't.. I wouldn't track normal day activity for exercise.. like cleaning, or vacuuming, shoveling snow, etc as those are really rough estimates to actual calorie burns.
  • Cocacoladdict
    Cocacoladdict Posts: 80 Member
    yeah I wouldn't have logged the cleaning either if it was the usual day to day house stuff but as it was something I wouldn't usually do I was advised to log. Is that not right??
  • rainghirl
    rainghirl Posts: 203 Member
    I had to do a huge house clean back last year when we had moths. I logged that as it was way over and above what I'd usually do - I spent all day doing it and was totally knackered! I don't normally bother with a run round with the Dyson though. To log it that is, sounds like I don't clean otherwise!
  • Greenrun99
    Greenrun99 Posts: 2,065 Member
    yeah I wouldn't have logged the cleaning either if it was the usual day to day house stuff but as it was something I wouldn't usually do I was advised to log. Is that not right??

    I wouldn't, I know people on here log everything.. I mean something you can think of is this.. is your Heart Rate high when your doing the activity, and is the activity 20+ minutes in length, and are you sweating? So maybe like Painting your house (lots of climbing up and down/bending), or installing carpet.. But like scrubbing your toilet, cleaning the kitchen.. where your spraying and wiping.. nope... I mean those activities your talking a few more calories over your normal calorie burn of just sitting on the couch.
  • Cocacoladdict
    Cocacoladdict Posts: 80 Member
    yeah I am doing my kids room so have moved all the furniture around and cleaned, hovered, painting walls
  • Firefox7275
    Firefox7275 Posts: 2,040 Member
    You aren't meeting the basics of the UK recommendations for healthy eating - don't see any wholegrains at all. Definitely add in some of those nuts, you aren't having any mineral/ fibre/ healthy fat rich foods otherwise. Remember the UK five a day message is a minimum, the research actually supports the equivalent of nine servings.

    Do you hit the recommended 10,000 steps a day? Housework and decorating is not exercise, it's lifestyle activity.
  • cedarghost
    cedarghost Posts: 621 Member
    What is your goal? I am not sure what you are wanting an opinion on.....
    Seriously, you're opening the door to the whole eat this, not that debate. You're under on calories and you had plenty of protein. In my book, that's all I shoot for. So A+ from me. I am not going to tell you to eat more or less of anything, or drink more water, etc. etc. If your calories are figured right, you should be good to go.

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