Building a "bad" diet

LaraMc71

I am creating a fictitious client for my Nutrition research class. She is 58, works in an office, is overweight, has high cholesterol, and hypertension (my primary disease). A have to make-up a 24-hour food recall. Got any ideas of what high-sodium and high-fat foods she might be eating? How about breakfast?(does she eat any?) Lunch, Dinner? Snacking?

I'm going to give her a couple of beers...

Love to hear some ideas

tonytoo

TV dinners. Fast food.

Teddy_B

Probably those Jimmy Dean microwave breakfasts, if anything.
Lunch is probably from McDonald's.
Snacks would be chips and the like.

beckizzle

skinny latté for breakfast

bottle of coke

crisps and a bagel w/cream cheese for lunch, more coke

2 cups of coffee

a pizza, garlic cheese chips for dinner

TheBaileyHunter

No breakfast, no vegetables. Loves cheese, pastas and breads - especially the sweet pastries - meat but not fish, and chicken must be breaded or deep fried. Roasted fowl is okay if it has gravy on it. Hamburgers are always good. And a grazer. May not eat a lot at one sitting but actually never stops eating. Snacks are always available and they would be things like chips, tortilla chips, chocolate, gummies, pudding snacks, chewy granola bars because they 'look healthy'

There will be no walking or minimal movement at best. and lots of coffee, and possibly beer with clamato juice in it, but no water.

(just thinking of a family member's diet)

RiverMelSong

No breakfast

Starbucks on her way to work

McDonalds for lunch

Chocolate bar snack

Take-away curry or Pizza with garlic bread for dinner washed down with a couple of beers

Crisps as a late night snack while watching TV on the couch

Soda throughout the day

katmustbeskinny

Breakfast: Starbucks venti latte coupled with a lemon pound cake.

Snack: Reeses pieces.

Lunch: McDonald's big mac with a large diet coke.

Snack: Doritos travel bag

Dinner: Fried chicken with rice and beans. And three scoops of peanut butter ice cream with chocolate fudge and sprinkles.

That sounds so nasty.

neandermagnon

no breakfast

chocolate bar or two from the vending machine at 10:30 because she's starving because she skipped breakfast

fast food lunch, e.g. mcDs

then stuff like the others said for snacks

evening meal microwave ready meal, something that's high carb high fat low protein

you could make her smoke as well... a few *kitten** breaks here and there....

*British English

xDawnsgrace

breakfast: two- 24 oz bottles of soda
lunch: one- 24 oz bottle of soda.
dinner: 8 oz steak, 10 oz fried potatoes with loads of garlic salt, and 3 scoops of chocolate chip ice cream with two more 24 oz bottles of soda.

My mom's diet. -.-

YoungDoc2B

For breakfast, I'd say a coffee and donuts (office pitch in foods). Since she has hypertension and high cholesterol, I'd assume that she knows that she needs to sneak in some "healthier" eating habits. Because of this, I'd say she eats a salad with fruit for lunch; typical food that everyone eats to be healthy, right? However, instead of a healthy salad, make it one of those high calorie salads from like Applebee's or somewhere that comes with crispy (instead of grilled) chicken on top. Croutons, cheese, and lots of dressing. That's easily 1000 calories, if not over. For dinner, keep it simple and quick. Maybe a TV dinner and pop? For dessert, a piece or two of double chocolate cake and a cup of vanilla bean ice cream. Before bedtime, make her snack on popcorn or chips while watching her favorite sitcom. Honestly, I'd take out the beers. Maybe I'm naive, but I don't know too many 58 year old women who knock out a couple of cold ones after a long day..

dsjohndrow

Breakfast at IHOP.

Lunch at McDonalds or KFC.

Dinner at Uno's or TGIF.

That should kill her.

zyxst

Breakfast - Starbucks frou-frou double whipped caramel low-fat mocha latte with cinnamon

Snack at work (10am) - Doritos/candy bar from vending machine or baked goods left in the breakroom

Lunch - McDonald's bistro chicken sandwich or salad, fried, Diet Coke or Sprite, or one of those yogurt-granola things

Snack (if she's still working at 3pm) - more vending food or scavenge anything left in the breakroom fridge

Supper - Lean Cuisine/WW frozen meal

Snack while watching tv - chips, cookies, ice cream. If she drinks alcohol either red wine or gin

She's also downing coffee with creamer/Splenda throughout the day.

dsjohndrow

Honestly check out some of the stupid cheat meal forums, you'll find then in those diaries.

dsjohndrow

Honestly check out some of the stupid cheat meal forums, you'll find what you are looking for in those diaries.

FoxyLifter

Ramen Noodles for sure!... and lots of Chinese food

tennileb

No breakfast just coffee with flavored full fat creamer

Lunch frozen TV dinner or full salt soup

a couple rows of store bought cookies at 10:30 at night


anything takeout for dinner....chinese food (go chow mein (no veggie), sweet n sour pork, fried rice. )

and the largest size available blended frozen coffee drink....

Reinventing_Me

*no water because she can't drink it / doesn't like the taste
*no fruit because she feels they're too high in carbs
*on the occasion she does eat salad it's loaded with multiple servings of dressing, cheeses, mayo based pasta & chicken salads
*has no idea what true serving sizes are
*finishes what's on the kids'/grandkids' plates so as not to waste food.

pcastagner

She's drinking lots of cold water because it takes calories to heat it up to body temp

BrendaLee

Breakfast -- Bacon, eggs w/ salt, toast with salted butter, ketchup, coffee w/ lots of cream & sugar

Lunch -- Hot dogs w/ ketchup and mustard, potato salad, chips, a jumbo cookie, chocolate milk

Dinner -- Pizza, garlic bread, caesar salad w/ the works, soda, cheesecake

And a late-night cookie binge.

LaraMc71

Here's her final 24-hour recall (it's nasty) :sick: :

Breakfast
Chewy Granola Bar
Black Coffee
Apple Juice (6 oz)

Lunch
Fast-food cheeseburger (one ¼ lb patty)
Med French Fries
Med Diet Soda (20 oz)

Dinner
Pork Chop, bone-in (5 oz) prepared with Seasoned Coating Mix for Baking
Rice with Broccoli-Cheese Sauce, from bag, cooked with margarine (3/4 c)
Whole Kernel Corn – canned, with 1tsp margarine (1/2 c)
2 Beers (24 oz)

Snacks
Mid-Morning: 1 c fruit cocktail.
Mid-Afternoon: Candy-coated chocolates (2 mini bags)
Evening: Sour Cream-Onion Potato Chips (1/3 of a 10 oz bag) with 1 cans of diet cola (12 oz)

(Relevant Totals: 2518 kcal, 40 g Sat Fat, 3100 mg of Sodium)

Here’s something CRAZY!: Supertracker (USDA’s site) says she is over her recommended Vegetables! Corn and French fries are vegetables – that’s great advice :noway:

Thanks to all - KEEP GOING if you want - it's actually interesting to see how much everyone is learning! :flowerforyou:

Elbee1

Was going to post this suggestion, but see you're already done...

Breakfast = Donuts. Chocolate frosted - 2, 1 glazed. Chocolate milk to drink.
Lunch = Large chocolate shake from Baskin Robbins to go with her double whopper from burger King, large fries
Dinner = Mexican meal -- such as enchiladas, nachos (for appetizer), double riced, refried beans, cheese dip, with dessert of 2 sopapillas. Coke to drink.
Snacks = A whole box of Little Debbie chocolate cupcakes. another coca=cola, potato chips with onion dip.

AmandaJCole13

Breakfast- Nothing but coffee. Lots of coffee.
Morning Snack- An apple
Lunch- Salad w. Chicken and light dressing, more coffee
Afternoon Snack- Yogurt with Granola
Dinner-A beautifully portioned
Before Bed/Late Night- Chips, Candy, Nachos, Junk junk junk

This is how my parents eat.
Skipping breakfast and getting supercharged from caffiene is great at first...
but ends up kicking them by bed time

niightwindz

No breakfast, no vegetables. Loves cheese, pastas and breads - especially the sweet pastries - meat but not fish, and chicken must be breaded or deep fried. Roasted fowl is okay if it has gravy on it. Hamburgers are always good. And a grazer. May not eat a lot at one sitting but actually never stops eating. Snacks are always available and they would be things like chips, tortilla chips, chocolate, gummies, pudding snacks, chewy granola bars because they 'look healthy'

There will be no walking or minimal movement at best. and lots of coffee, and possibly beer with clamato juice in it, but no water.

(just thinking of a family member's diet)

This was basically what I was going to suggest.

laele75

Breakfast - Starbucks frou-frou double whipped caramel low-fat mocha latte with cinnamon

Snack at work (10am) - Doritos/candy bar from vending machine or baked goods left in the breakroom

Lunch - McDonald's bistro chicken sandwich or salad, fried, Diet Coke or Sprite, or one of those yogurt-granola things

Snack (if she's still working at 3pm) - more vending food or scavenge anything left in the breakroom fridge

Supper - Lean Cuisine/WW frozen meal

Snack while watching tv - chips, cookies, ice cream. If she drinks alcohol either red wine or gin

She's also downing coffee with creamer/Splenda throughout the day.

Being an overweight woman with hypertension who used to do little about it, this one speaks the most to me. How I would have still been eating 20 years from now if I hadn't woken up. She thinks her 'low fat' and 'lean' food is healthy and that means she can have junky snacks. I never used sugar in my coffee ever, always some kind of artificial sweetner. Thought it was better for me. Cooking for one person seemed pointless, so lots of 'healthy' ready made meals.

rduhlir

58...overweight, desk job....let's see.....

As background, I can see her having been in a family who pretty much doesn't do much. Her parents and friends have pretty much been the same way, so she really didn't get the wake up call until now. It would seem to me the the said 58 year old eats a lot of grab and go breakfasts, so many trips through fast food lines and possible starbucks grande mochas and chocolate crossants. She brings her lunch to work, and it is usually some sodium filled microwave meal, or she will order out with the office and go together on pizza, more fast food, or even chinese (which she will eat the entire thing). She rarely drinks water, it is many filled with Pepsi or Mountain Dew, though when she does get the occasional "I feel and look horrible" mind, she will slip in a diet coke thinking it is anything better.

For dinner she makes it. But it is usually some fat cut of steak, or pasta dish. She never really grew up with veggies, after all her parents rarely ate them either, so then probably still thinks she hates the majority of veggies. When she does eat salad, she covers it in the high fat dressings. And then, later that night she will sit down on couch to watch tv with a bowl filled with a triple serving of fudge track ice cream smothered in caramel sauce.

LaraMc71

Breakfast - Starbucks frou-frou double whipped caramel low-fat mocha latte with cinnamon

Snack at work (10am) - Doritos/candy bar from vending machine or baked goods left in the breakroom

Lunch - McDonald's bistro chicken sandwich or salad, fried, Diet Coke or Sprite, or one of those yogurt-granola things

Snack (if she's still working at 3pm) - more vending food or scavenge anything left in the breakroom fridge

Supper - Lean Cuisine/WW frozen meal

Snack while watching tv - chips, cookies, ice cream. If she drinks alcohol either red wine or gin

She's also downing coffee with creamer/Splenda throughout the day.

Being an overweight woman with hypertension who used to do little about it, this one speaks the most to me. How I would have still been eating 20 years from now if I hadn't woken up. She thinks her 'low fat' and 'lean' food is healthy and that means she can have junky snacks. I never used sugar in my coffee ever, always some kind of artificial sweetner. Thought it was better for me. Cooking for one person seemed pointless, so lots of 'healthy' ready made meals.

Good for you - you are changing the outcome of your health. You should be very proud of yourself! I know this is close-to-home for many.

TheBaileyHunter

No breakfast, no vegetables. Loves cheese, pastas and breads - especially the sweet pastries - meat but not fish, and chicken must be breaded or deep fried. Roasted fowl is okay if it has gravy on it. Hamburgers are always good. And a grazer. May not eat a lot at one sitting but actually never stops eating. Snacks are always available and they would be things like chips, tortilla chips, chocolate, gummies, pudding snacks, chewy granola bars because they 'look healthy'

There will be no walking or minimal movement at best. and lots of coffee, and possibly beer with clamato juice in it, but no water.

(just thinking of a family member's diet)

This was basically what I was going to suggest.

This is how my mom eats...she's been as heavy as 350+ before she stopped looking at it. Sometimes it goes down as she controls her portions and starts swimming again, but her actual diet never changes. :-( I wish she'd at least add a few fruits n' veggies in there for balance.