How did that happen?

shawnreyb
shawnreyb Posts: 3 Member
edited November 18 in Food and Nutrition
I'm still at the beginning of taking my meals to see where I'm going wrong. This morning, I had a two egg omelette with cheese. With that one meal I have ate all the fat I'm supposed to eat for the day. How did this happen? What do I do for the rest of the day?
-Scared to eat more

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  • louubelle16
    louubelle16 Posts: 579 Member
    Eggs and cheese have a lot of fat, plus any oil you cooked the omelettes in. Personally, I would have had one omelette with no cheese. Still yummy, but much less fat. Two really is twice as much as you need...
  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,751 Member
    edited May 2015
    louubelle16 wrote: »
    Eggs and cheese have a lot of fat, plus any oil you cooked the omelettes in. Personally, I would have had one omelette with no cheese. Still yummy, but much less fat. Two really is twice as much as you need...

    I would have used 1 egg with whites, plus the cheese. Or find a low fat cheese... Or use less cheese (how much did you use?).. Or a stronger tasting cheese so you need less (parmesan perhaps)

    Or question whether you're eating too little fat...
  • Celestina_Loving
    Celestina_Loving Posts: 15 Member
    If you're just starting out, I would eat how you normally eat for a day so you can see what your diet really looks like(might show you where you had been going wrong). I had my husband do that when he started and it was a real eye opener. You just need to learn to plan out your meals, it's like a big puzzle trying to make everything fit.
  • PaytraB
    PaytraB Posts: 2,360 Member
    luckytruck6 wrote: »
    If you're just starting out, I would eat how you normally eat for a day so you can see what your diet really looks like(might show you where you had been going wrong). I had my husband do that when he started and it was a real eye opener. You just need to learn to plan out your meals, it's like a big puzzle trying to make everything fit.

    This. It takes awhile to figure out what you should/need to change in your current consumption. Don't change anything and log well for a few days. You'll see the patterns that need to be tweaked a little bit.
  • Confuzzled4ever
    Confuzzled4ever Posts: 2,860 Member
    What??? Your fat is probably set to low. Unless you ate a lot of cheese. 2 eggs is not too many. When I eat eggs I eat 2 eggs + 2 or 3 egg white, a lot of veggies and cheese and an English muffin or biscuit. What else did you have besides the 2 eggs with cheese? That's barely 300 calories, like I said, unless you ate a lot of cheese with it. Fat is not the devil. Fat from cheese is healthy.
  • marcelo_templario
    marcelo_templario Posts: 653 Member
    Yes, your fat portion is too low, check it.
  • shawnreyb
    shawnreyb Posts: 3 Member
    I was just using what the app provided. It said I was only supposed to have 30% for the day. I ate double that.

    I know if I eat regularly, that I easily eat over 2,000 calories.
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    Are you talking about the circle? That will keep changing as you eat more. You are over 30% for that meal. Next meal eat less fat than protein or carbs.
  • myepi
    myepi Posts: 12 Member
    For breakfast I eat poached eggs with truffle flavored salt. Each egg I put on half of toasted english muffin. Omletes with cheese and oil/butter just isn't reasonable for most of the people.
  • LoupGarouTFTs
    LoupGarouTFTs Posts: 916 Member
    myepi wrote: »
    For breakfast I eat poached eggs with truffle flavored salt. Each egg I put on half of toasted english muffin. Omletes with cheese and oil/butter just isn't reasonable for most of the people.

    Doesn't it depend on what goes into the omelet? I have two eggs, scrambled with milk, onions, peppers, cheese, and sausage and still manage to eat for the rest of the day--even if I use butter instead of cooking spray.
  • RodaRose
    RodaRose Posts: 9,562 Member
    It's ok to go over in fat or carbs. Look for these two numbers:
    1 Get all your protein
    2 Stay at your calorie number. :)
  • shawnreyb
    shawnreyb Posts: 3 Member
    Thank you everyone for your comments. I will try tweaking my diet to see if i can do better.
  • SuggaD
    SuggaD Posts: 1,369 Member
    Agree that your fat is set too low. And don't be scared of fat. I eat a lot of it and it doesn't translate to body fat.
  • canary_girl
    canary_girl Posts: 366 Member
    I personally don't keep track of fat. I try to eat all my protein and get 40g of fiber and keep my calories in line.
  • ASKyle
    ASKyle Posts: 1,475 Member
    How much cheese did you use? I would have to eat over a cup of shredded cheese to even come close to my fat goal. Are you measuring your food?
  • wizzybeth
    wizzybeth Posts: 3,578 Member
    I don't track fat or sugars/carbs. I only count calories and I make sure I get my calcium, iron, protein, and fiber for the day.
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