Why Nutrition Wed 10/1 - Fiber
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Not really a vitamin or mineral - but we'll do Fiber today!
Most carbohydrates are broken down into sugar, but fiber cannot be broken down and instead it passes through the body undigested. Fiber helps regulate the body’s use of sugars, helping to keep hunger and blood sugar in check.
There's 2 types of fiber too!
- Soluble fiber, which dissolves in water, can help lower glucose levels as well as help lower blood cholesterol. Foods with soluble fiber include oatmeal, nuts, beans, lentils, apples and blueberries.
- Insoluble fiber, which does not dissolve in water, can help food move through your digestive system, promoting regularity and helping prevent constipation. Foods with insoluble fibers include wheat, whole wheat bread, whole grain couscous, brown rice, legumes, carrots, cucumbers and tomatoes.
Check In:
What's your sources of Fiber?
Today's Food
Exercise
Water
And, How's today going?
Most carbohydrates are broken down into sugar, but fiber cannot be broken down and instead it passes through the body undigested. Fiber helps regulate the body’s use of sugars, helping to keep hunger and blood sugar in check.
There's 2 types of fiber too!
- Soluble fiber, which dissolves in water, can help lower glucose levels as well as help lower blood cholesterol. Foods with soluble fiber include oatmeal, nuts, beans, lentils, apples and blueberries.
- Insoluble fiber, which does not dissolve in water, can help food move through your digestive system, promoting regularity and helping prevent constipation. Foods with insoluble fibers include wheat, whole wheat bread, whole grain couscous, brown rice, legumes, carrots, cucumbers and tomatoes.
Check In:
What's your sources of Fiber?
Today's Food
Exercise
Water
And, How's today going?
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Seehe asked if you guys would like Weekly posts where we'd check in daily in 1 thread for a week, or keep with the daily.
Let me know which way you prefer. With a new month we can switch it up.
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I sort of like the daily posts myself, but I'm easy so whatever works for everyone, works for me! :-)
Food: Same breakfast as yesterday. Mixed it up a little by having the keilbasa casserole at lunch with a pepsi. Tonight I think I'm going to make a little flatbread pizza, maybe use some pesto sauce on it. I've had a stressful day so I want to stress eat without going over my macros. The flatbread I have is actually low carb so I figure that's a fair compromise.
Water: I think I'm at 8 cups right now, but if not I'm pretty close. I've refilled this water bottle about 4 times now.
Exercise: none yet. I honestly don't know if I'll get something in. Maybe I'll force myself to at least get a walk in.
Fiber sources - a big one is probably the almonds I like to snack on as well as the avocados I use in my breakfast. I also recently discovered (like in the last few months) that I like brussell sprouts.0 -
ugh. Overate.
Fiber sources - Nuts, Tomatoes, Rice, and Oatmeal.
Food - Wayyyyy too much. Snacked at I went and dinner missed sides so ate two brats...
Exercise - Walked 20 minutes.
Water - 3 glasses. Yep, just 3
Today went OK but need to find a workout routine I like. Maybe a 30 day thing?/Any so suggestions?0 -
Fibre is something I have looked at carefully and have flax seed to boost my intake.
Food I have been struggling again, overeating crap late at night. Any ideas how to stay away from food.0 -
Today went OK but need to find a workout routine I like. Maybe a 30 day thing?/Any so suggestions?
I too need to move more, I have started 10, 000 steps challenge as I like walking and can stick to this with some effort. Looking for other ideas.0 -
However, I'm not fussed about how we do check ins.
I get fiber through whole grains and a supplement.
Breakfast: Chia seed omelet with turkey bacon
Lunch: Half a scoop of ice cream and a granola bar
Dinner: BLT and fries
I did an hour on the elliptical, and 40 squats for my squat challenge.
I'm up to 12 cups of water, but I'm still running on an endorphin rush, so I'll probably have a couple of more.
I took a physics exam and my fall break started right after, so I think I'm going to start a Walking Dead marathon to get ready for season 5 next week.0 -
Fibre is something I have looked at carefully and have flax seed to boost my intake.
Food I have been struggling again, overeating crap late at night. Any ideas how to stay away from food.
I don't have anything to snack on at the house honestly. I have fiber-one bars, popcorn I'll have to air pop and fruits and veggies that I never seem to crave. I can't trust myself to have snack-things in the house cause I'll binge eat on them.
Doing 10,000 sounds like a great plan. I think I'm going to look up some 30 challenge and print it today. Hopefully nothing with burpees - I really dislike burpees.0
