What food does your day consist of?

I never seem to hit my protien ,carb or fat targets but I keep trying , keeping my diary I think is helping me understand a bit more about the nutrition of what I eat

What do you normally eat? It might be easier to make suggestions if we could see your diary.

A typical day for me looks like this:

Breakfast:
coffee w/ cream & sugar
greek yogurt
protein powder in milk, or sometimes in my coffee.

on weekends I usually have eggs and toast.

Lunch:
Chicken pita wrap with fresh spinach, tomato, red pepper, black olives, cucumber, tatziki sauce.

Dinner:
Some kind of meat, side dish, and salad or veggies.

Dessert: several times a week I eat ice cream when it fits in my calories.

My diary is open, but I am not sure I have the "right" answer. I typically go over my proteins and fats but not my carbs. If you check out my diary look at last week. We were out of town Friday-Monday so my schedule was a bit off.

Typically I have oats and fruit for breakfast and a glass of almond milk. Then my lunch consists of a ton of veggies with a protein or two (beans, egg whites, grilled chicken, or fish). Today my lunch was high in carbs because I need to go to the store. LOL Dinner is a salad of some kind, tons of veggies and a lean meat. Lots of high protein snacks in between.

My diary is open, I don't normally eat breakfast and just have 2 larger meals. Not including today, usually my protein is higher and my carbs not so out there. But homemade calzones are just too good to worry about it. I love to cook so I always have a wide variety of meals and treats.

Open diary here.

Breakfast is usually oatmeal, chocolate chips, protein powder

Lunch chicken, fish or something... or today I didn't have time so I ate dark chocolate raisins, protein powder and milk

Dinner is salmon croquettes, green peas and mashed potatoes

Snack butter pecan ice cream and chobani coco flips.
I still need to adjust things for today hehe. Maybe some popcorn or something
I hit all my macros

My days are mostly vegetables, lean meats, and dairy (mostly cheese), with other stuff slotted in where I have room. Today, for example, my lunch was turkey, cheese, and avocado ranch in a low-carb wrap with greens and tomatoes, a tomato-and-cucumber balsamic salad, and baby carrots. Dinner will be one ounce (dry weight) of tri-color pasta, seven ounces of lean pork, a tablespoon or two of pesto, and some steamed broccoli. That's my planned food, and it leaves me about 500 calories to play with -- I might have a string cheese later here at work, or go nuts and have a Pop-Tart from the communal cupboard, or have some chocolate, or nosh on pretzels before bed... so basically, I plan my main meals to be mostly protein + veg and then play with whatever's left over based on what sounds good.

Today:

Breakfast: 2 eggs scrambled, serving of Coach's Oats w/50 grams of blueberries

Lunch: 1 Cups of my homemade pinto beans, 1 flour tortilla, 4 oz of chicken breast, 1/2 avocado, 85 grams sauteed green cabbage, 5.5 oz low sodium V8

Afternoon Snack 1: 250 grams of mixed vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, snap peas, grape tomatoes) w/ 2 Tbsp hummus

Afternoon Snack 2: 170 grams of gala apple with 30 grams of almonds

Afternoon Snack 3: Cytosport Whey protein and 1 oz Vigil's Carne Seca

Dinner: 8 oz beef filet, 148 grams red potatoes boiled and then tossed with about 1 tsp butter, 85 grams of Brussel's sprouts roasted in olive oil.

Desert: pecan ice cream

I will probably also have some beers tonight....

You don't need to hit your macros dead on...you will very rarely do that. When I logged I gave myself about 5 points either way. The purpose for me was to eat a more balanced diet that had more nutrition in it, not to hit some arbitrary macro number to the T. Really, it's not all that important unless you're trying to be a competitive bodybuilder or otherwise be showing your body on stage.

Just try to eat a balanced diet that is rich in veg and fruit with lean proteins and healthy fats and you're golden. As far as getting in adequate protein, basically I make sure I have some source of protein with every meal and snack and I also supplement.

My macros are no longer set for 40/30/30 but that's what I did when I was losing and it helped me to just balance my diet better...again, I didn't worry about being dead on...it's not really important like that. I no longer do 40/30/30 because it puts my protein goals well above my 1 gram per Lb of LBM and I find that to be expensive and pointless.

For breakfast, a 3 or 4 eggs omelet with mushrooms and sometimes bacon in it, or an eggs pancake/tortilla with lettuce and bacon.

For lunch a salad. Lettuce always, but the additional veggies I throw in that vary. Sometimes when I want a warm lunch I have steamed broccoli with the salad.

For snacks, almonds. And berries when it's the right season. Some fruit if my day is going too low carb for my taste. (I avoid keto, but still have a 100g carb max. So I usually try to stay between 70 and 100.)

For dinner, meat. A good steak, chicken or fish.