Diary help.

rdfhunter
rdfhunter Posts: 95 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Anybody have a few minutes to scrutinize my diary...? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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  • yopeeps025
    yopeeps025 Posts: 8,680 Member
    When is your weight in days. I am guessing the scale is showing no weight loss. The past week you are in the red for sodium almost everyday. Even when you are in calorie deficit there will still be water retention for the scale to show nothing or a increase.
  • LolaKarwowski
    LolaKarwowski Posts: 217 Member
    Where are your veggies my friend??
  • yopeeps025
    yopeeps025 Posts: 8,680 Member
    Where are your veggies my friend??

    I saw that too lack of nutrient dense foods.
  • wkwebby
    wkwebby Posts: 807 Member
    One thing, looking at this week only going back until Sunday. You ingest a lot of sodium, and you're not logging a heck of a lot of water. Is this just because you're not being good about logging (but still drinking it), or really not drinking it? You may be retaining a bit of water.

    Also you always seem to be under your calorie goal, I didn't look too long to see why. Is it due to logging exercise or is it your MFP provided calorie goal you're under? If exercise logging increases your calorie goal, then you may be inadvertently eating back too many calories.

    Hope I helped a little! :flowerforyou:
  • IHateThinkingOfAUsername
    IHateThinkingOfAUsername Posts: 568 Member
    Just looking at Tuesday's food diary and I notice a lot of 'cups'. Okay not such a big deal when it comes to salad items, but you had ½ cup of chicken breast, 0.25 cup of wild rice, 0.25 cup of sweetcorn. Using cups to measure solids can cause inaccuacy in logging. I would advise getting a kitchen scale and weighing in grams (or oz).
  • Lourdesong
    Lourdesong Posts: 1,492 Member
    Sodium is really high. If you got rid of all the cold cuts/deli items and the olives you should be ok.

    I recommend going to the CDC website regarding sodium. Your levels (4000+) are higher than the average Americans, which is itself too high.

    http://www.cdc.gov/dhdsp/programs/sodium_reduction.htm

    Not the link I intended, here is the correct one:
    http://www.cdc.gov/salt/
  • rdfhunter
    rdfhunter Posts: 95 Member
    I thought my greens were good but you guys have a point

    Sodium is a tough issue for me. I got rid of the v8 because of it & I need to change my salad dressing choice


    The cup measurements on my dinner are because what I made Sunday was divided into 4's & it was how I thought it should be tracked.

    My weigh day is Monday morning but without any exercise I'm not expecting any lose..

    I do need to increase water... Not sure why that's so hard for me
  • IHateThinkingOfAUsername
    IHateThinkingOfAUsername Posts: 568 Member
    The cup measurements on my dinner are because what I made Sunday was divided into 4's & it was how I thought it should be tracked.
    :) ah okay, in that case I still weigh things out. Say I make a big pot of bolognaise, and freeze it into portions. I weigh all the original ingredients and then divide that amount by the portions I made and log it. So say I used 502g of beef (because the packet wasn't quite right) and got 10 portions out, that would be 502/10 = 50.2g of beef each time I ate it. Does that make sense? It just makes it a bit more accurate.

    Take the rice, if you measured out 0.25 cups how can you be sure it is always the same amount?
    Hope that helps.
  • rdfhunter
    rdfhunter Posts: 95 Member
    That is a great point....

    I find it's packaged food that I overdose on sodium from

    Thanks everybody for the feed back..
  • castlerobber
    castlerobber Posts: 528 Member
    Ah, the beer-and-crackers diet. ;-)

    Seriously, there are a lot of empty carbs in your diary. While there's nothing wrong with having a beer, it's displacing nutritious food in your diet some days. Same with the daily pack of Lance crackers, the two or three slices of white bread, the bottles of Gatorade and fruit punch...

    Try swapping most of those low-nutrition carbs out for more veggies, nuts, seeds, slightly larger portions of meat/fish/poultry, salad dressing with some fat in it (to help with nutrient absorption), some fresh berries or cherries. This will give you better nutrition, and you'll feel full longer.
  • rdfhunter
    rdfhunter Posts: 95 Member
    Ah, the beer-and-crackers diet. ;-)

    Seriously, there are a lot of empty carbs in your diary. While there's nothing wrong with having a beer, it's displacing nutritious food in your diet some days. Same with the daily pack of Lance crackers, the two or three slices of white bread, the bottles of Gatorade and fruit punch...

    Try swapping most of those low-nutrition carbs out for more veggies, nuts, seeds, slightly larger portions of meat/fish/poultry, salad dressing with some fat in it (to help with nutrient absorption), some fresh berries or cherries. This will give you better nutrition, and you'll feel full longer.
    I understand .. Eating less doesn't mean eating healthy..

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