Critique my week... My diary is open.

Anewabigail · March 2015

I already know I drank too much. ✌️

RodaRose · March 2015

You need to eat more food so that you can reach your protein goals. You will feel better.

lcooper327 · March 2015

Eat more! Those calories are built in to be eaten. And watch out for exercise calories. 350 calories for 35 min on the elliptical?

envy09 · March 2015

lcooper327 wrote: »

Eat more! Those calories are built in to be eaten. And watch out for exercise calories. 350 calories for 35 min on the elliptical?

Agreed. Do you use a HRM when you exercise?

Phrick · March 2015

stop using generic entries - from yesterday alone I see 2 eggs, scrambled, "generic, zucchini, baked, 2 halves," home made cauliflower tortillas and home made chicken & rice soup (unless these are recipes you entered, in which case my apologies).

2 scrambled eggs with no added cooking oil, milk, etc. should come in at roughly 140 calories (assuming an average sized large egg); your diary entry shows 199 calories. How do you know you made your eggs exactly the same way as the person who made that entry did? You don't. So don't use someone else's entry.

How big was the zucchini? How many grams? I've seen some pretty small zucchinis in stores - and I've also grown some as big as my arm (which are typically pretty spongy by that point, and only good for grating into zucchini bread, but that's totally beside the point LOL). Was it baked and eaten totally plain, or was there some oil and seasoning involved? At only 70 calories logged per 2 halves it seems that either very very tiny zucchinis were used, or no oil, or oil was used but not accounted for.

What are the ingredients in the home made cauliflower tortillas? I know cauliflower is low calorie, but I have seen several recipes for cauliflower tortillas and I can't make what I've seen in the ingredients lists add up to only 131 calories for THREE unless they were very small.

Additionally the Hummus entry is a "net carbs" entry, not a fully accurate one. (net carbs are determined by taking the total carbs and subtracting the fiber grams... I think...). Earlier in the week you were using a "Lily's Hummus" entry, but then later on in the week you switched to a "Tribe Hummus - Julia's net carbs" entry ?

"1 cup" of chicken and rice soup is pretty ambiguous - although getting an accurate measure of soup is difficult regardless! But was it 1 cup of mostly chicken and rice with the broth drained out? Was it mostly broth with a little chicken and some rice?

I did look at most of the week, and the inconsistencies are all throughout all the days. On Thursday you had a "home made cinnamon roll" with only 4g of sugar listed. I don't think that's even possible! Which calls all the other nutrients on that entry into question as well.

1/5 of an avocado? What size avocado? 1/5 of a 300g avocado is a lot more calories than 1/5 of a 200g avocado (I did see that the grams are listed, but I will go out on a limb and guess that you didn't go by the grams - possibly a faulty assumption, and if it is again I apologize, and offer the suggestion that you use the official no-asterisk entry for "avocados - raw" and enter the actual gram weight from the drop-down list to avoid this kind of assumption from folks in the future)

Francl27 · March 2015

Ok how to start...

- stop using generic entries. 2 scrambled eggs are probably not 199 calories. There is in average 70 calories in one egg... so it would be 140 calories, plus whatever butter/oil you use, if you do. Same with the cauliflower tortilla... did you make it and use the recipe builder to figure out the calories? Just two examples
- use realistic entries... I can't imagine in what world a zucchini would be 140 calories?
- stop eyeballing and use a food scale. Your 1/4 cup of nuts could be 250 calories.
- eat your calories
- eat more protein

malibu927 · March 2015

This thread will help you out immensely with regards to what everyone has already pointed out: https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1234699/logging-accurately-step-by-step-guide#latest

Additionally, are you currently breastfeeding your little one? You'll need even more calories to sustain his or her health as well as yours.

sandrableizeffer · March 2015

How do you see/share? I have many questions and don't know how to show to get answers?

echmainfit619 · March 2015

Setting aside food for a moment, we need to talk about your taste in wine.

Phrick · March 2015

@sandrableizeffer‌ if you follow this link to your diary settings, scroll all the way to the bottom, select "Public" under diary sharing and hit Save Changes. Then your diary will be viewable by all, and you can get specific helps/critiques based on your entries

sandrableizeffer · March 2015

Thanks

sandrableizeffer · March 2015

@phrick thanks. I think it worked?

Phrick · March 2015

@sandrableizeffer‌ yes, it did! If you have specific questions though, you should start your own topic so that it gets more attention from the whole group, as opposed to just those of us looking at this particular thread

sandrableizeffer · March 2015

@phrick. Okay thanks. I am new to all this so getting to learn my way around. Thanks for helping me

cdn_beaver · March 2015

Eat more, measure food by weight, eat more protein or you'll be losing muscle instead of fat.

Anewabigail · March 2015

Phrick wrote: »

stop using generic entries - from yesterday alone I see 2 eggs, scrambled, "generic, zucchini, baked, 2 halves," home made cauliflower tortillas and home made chicken & rice soup (unless these are recipes you entered, in which case my apologies).

2 scrambled eggs with no added cooking oil, milk, etc. should come in at roughly 140 calories (assuming an average sized large egg); your diary entry shows 199 calories. How do you know you made your eggs exactly the same way as the person who made that entry did? You don't. So don't use someone else's entry.

How big was the zucchini? How many grams? I've seen some pretty small zucchinis in stores - and I've also grown some as big as my arm (which are typically pretty spongy by that point, and only good for grating into zucchini bread, but that's totally beside the point LOL). Was it baked and eaten totally plain, or was there some oil and seasoning involved? At only 70 calories logged per 2 halves it seems that either very very tiny zucchinis were used, or no oil, or oil was used but not accounted for.

What are the ingredients in the home made cauliflower tortillas? I know cauliflower is low calorie, but I have seen several recipes for cauliflower tortillas and I can't make what I've seen in the ingredients lists add up to only 131 calories for THREE unless they were very small.

Additionally the Hummus entry is a "net carbs" entry, not a fully accurate one. (net carbs are determined by taking the total carbs and subtracting the fiber grams... I think...). Earlier in the week you were using a "Lily's Hummus" entry, but then later on in the week you switched to a "Tribe Hummus - Julia's net carbs" entry ?

"1 cup" of chicken and rice soup is pretty ambiguous - although getting an accurate measure of soup is difficult regardless! But was it 1 cup of mostly chicken and rice with the broth drained out? Was it mostly broth with a little chicken and some rice?

I did look at most of the week, and the inconsistencies are all throughout all the days. On Thursday you had a "home made cinnamon roll" with only 4g of sugar listed. I don't think that's even possible! Which calls all the other nutrients on that entry into question as well.

1/5 of an avocado? What size avocado? 1/5 of a 300g avocado is a lot more calories than 1/5 of a 200g avocado (I did see that the grams are listed, but I will go out on a limb and guess that you didn't go by the grams - possibly a faulty assumption, and if it is again I apologize, and offer the suggestion that you use the official no-asterisk entry for "avocados - raw" and enter the actual gram weight from the drop-down list to avoid this kind of assumption from folks in the future)

I don't usually cook with oil when I do I use coconut and I enter it and I don't use any seasonings with most things. I don't have a food scale that's why I don't enter personal entries. I should get one though but I'm looking for a cheap on I don't have a lot to spend. Any suggestions? Yes I switched hummus brands Mid week. I like the second one better.
That was what the can said it wasn't homemade it was pillsbury, but now I know not to trust entries. I think that answered the questions you asked! Thanks for your help!

Anewabigail · March 2015

Oh also the only ingredients in my cauliflower tortillas were one head of cauliflower and one egg and they were small

Anewabigail · March 2015

malibu927 wrote: »

This thread will help you out immensely with regards to what everyone has already pointed out: https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1234699/logging-accurately-step-by-step-guide#latest

Additionally, are you currently breastfeeding your little one? You'll need even more calories to sustain his or her health as well as yours.

Thanks I'll definitely check it out. Yes but not as often. I haven't noticed a drop in my supply, I also pump that keeps up the supply.

Anewabigail · March 2015

echmainfit619 wrote: »

Setting aside food for a moment, we need to talk about your taste in wine.

Lol I know. Usually I don't drink. I was celebrating a new job this weekend with friends

Anewabigail · March 2015

So I guess my only questions are what are food sources of protein I really am not trying to eat meat. I like fish though but even that i only want to eat maybe twice a week.
And does anyone know an affordable food scale brand? That's also good

mymodernbabylon · March 2015

Cottage cheese, eggs, greek yogurt, nuts, quinoa, beans - all good sources of protein.

Phrick · March 2015

as far as a scale goes, pretty much any that you can afford will do. Best features to have would be a Tare (zero) feature and the ability to switch between grams/oz. A higher weight limit is good, too (some only go to 5 lbs, some go to 11).

We have three food scales in our kitchen (I will fully admit that's a little overkill). One is by Taylor, their Biggest Loser branded one; one is Mainstays brand, and one is by Eat Smart. The Taylor and Mainstays ones we got at Walmart for under $20 each, the Eat Smart one I got on Amazon for I think $

I like the cheapy-cheap Mainstays one best, because the weighing surface is biggest, and it sits high enough that you can actually read the display when a plate is on it.

The Taylor one is nice because it has a backlit display, but it has a smaller (and round) weighing surface which can be difficult with the style of plates we have. It also has a slight delay in registering the actual weight, usually by which point the backlight has shut off so it can be frustrating to read the weight.

The EatSmart one is the worst of the lot (and was the first one I bought, which is why I ended up with several). Its weighing surface is small and round and just about any plate you put on it will completely obscure the display so it's pretty useless. I ended up gluing an empty cottage cheese container to the top of it out of desperation so that the plate would sit higher up and that worked pretty well, but that made it harder (much) to clean. We still have it around because we suck at throwing stuff away, and we do use it on occasion but not often.

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