Anyone feel like perusing my lunch?

squirrelzzrule22
squirrelzzrule22 Posts: 640 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Everything under my lunch I just threw into a blender for a smoothie. I was suprised by how not-so-healthy it seems when I look at it all together- pretty high cal, loads of sugar (damn those bananas!) and not as much protein as I thought (relatively speaking.) I'm not too concerned about the calories (I haven't put in my five mile run and No More Trouble Zones workout yet so even eating back only 200 of those cals will give me plenty for dinner) but it bothers me that everything I tossed in there was "healthy" in my mind and in very conservative quantities (the smoothie was less than half a pint) and it comes together to seem so....carb-y and caloric! Anyone feel like taking a look and giving me your thoughts?

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  • seena511
    seena511 Posts: 685 Member
    your diary is closed
  • squirrelzzrule22
    squirrelzzrule22 Posts: 640 Member
    woops! DUH how smart of me! Well NOW if anyone doesn't mind taking a look I'd be much obliged!
  • rides4sanity
    rides4sanity Posts: 1,269 Member
    I wouldn't worry about the banana to much, but if you want you could do 1/2 a banana & 1/2 cup blueberries to cut cal & carbs. Other than that my only real suggestion would be to find a different protien powder. I use Optimum Gold double chocolate from GNC and it gives you 24 g of protien in 120cal. More bang for your buck, plus you could skip the choc milk.
  • majope
    majope Posts: 1,325 Member
    Doesn't look bad to me. High protein, for one. If you want to make changes, you probably didn't need the honey, and .13 of a cup of chocolate milk couldn't add much in the way of flavor, so you could delete that next time. Protein power, almond butter--yeah, the calories will add up, but they seem pretty nutrient-dense to me, so why not?
  • Phaedra2014
    Phaedra2014 Posts: 1,254 Member
    Everything under my lunch I just threw into a blender for a smoothie. I was suprised by how not-so-healthy it seems when I look at it all together- pretty high cal, loads of sugar (damn those bananas!) and not as much protein as I thought (relatively speaking.) I'm not too concerned about the calories (I haven't put in my five mile run and No More Trouble Zones workout yet so even eating back only 200 of those cals will give me plenty for dinner) but it bothers me that everything I tossed in there was "healthy" in my mind and in very conservative quantities (the smoothie was less than half a pint) and it comes together to seem so....carb-y and caloric! Anyone feel like taking a look and giving me your thoughts?

    Leave out the chocolate milk and honey. Get your sugar only from the banana.

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