My Food diary for today!! is this ok??

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Lyndo
Lyndo Posts: 95
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I'm just wondering how different people are eating?
Or maybe I'm eating too much, they fir in my calorie intake daily of 1300
Should I eat less amount for lunch? thats what i wonder? or instead of having a sit down lunch,
maybe to have more tiny snacks, like nuts & min yougurts????/
I'm still learning at this portion food intake :flowerforyou:
Breakfast:
Sunshine - Whole Wheat Bread, 2 slices
Coffee -Regular W/ Sugar - Coffee, 1 cup remove
Eggs - Hard-boiled (whole egg), 2 large
Becel - Light Calorie-Reduced Margarine, 2 tsp

Snack
Melons - Cantaloupe, raw, 1 cup, diced

Lunch
Dempster Whole Grains - 100% Whole Wheat Bread, 1 slices
Homemade - Organic Vegtable Soup, 1 container (2 cups ea.)
Perdue - Boneless Skinless Chicken Thighs - Roasted, 3 oz.

& for Dinner I'll have some ground meat with lots of veggies,
& for a snack maybe a apple with peanut butter to dip in!!!
Or just a Silhouette yogurt with fresh blueberries

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  • KatWood
    KatWood Posts: 1,135 Member
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    Overall, I think this is a good day. Fairly well balanced. But does it add up to 1300 cals? Seems like less to me. I eat 1500 cals and it is way more than this.

    I wouldn't reduce your cals, especially if you workout, in which case you may need to add some. Play around with having meals vs snacks. I like mini meals but really it is about finding what works best for you.

    Also, with the margarine, soup and your meat, be careful to watch your sodium intake.

    Good luck!
  • jellymedina
    jellymedina Posts: 37
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    if u can fit all that food and be in your range for calories then good. with me it seems my fit doesnt add up to much.
  • angiered
    angiered Posts: 169 Member
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    The ONLY change I would make is to be sure you have a little bit of protien with the melon. Melon has a fairly high glicemic index #. Eating it with some protein (string cheese anyone?) will slow down the processing of all of that sugar. You'll stay satisfied longer and your body will make more efficient use of the energy in the melon.
  • Lyndo
    Lyndo Posts: 95
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    Sodium is what ? how much salt you eat?? I don't have it set as Sodium???
  • alwaysenl
    alwaysenl Posts: 197 Member
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    It sounds good overall...maybe try adding in another fruit somewhere, possibly another snack. If you think lunch feels like too much break it up and have the soup and skip the chicken or vice versa and have a snack later on with some protein like nuts and a piece of fruit or some sort of low-fat dairy (that is if you can have dairy). But seems like a pretty balanced day to me!
  • donna56
    donna56 Posts: 412
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    Breakfast
    Coffee - Brewed from grounds, 3 cup (8 fl oz) 7
    Milk - Reduced fat, 2% milkfat, 4 fl oz 61
    General Mills - Honeynut Cheerios, 1 cup 147
    Generic - Non-Dairy Creamer, 4 teaspoon 40
    Equal - Sweetener - 0 Calorie Sweetner, 3 packet 0
    Add Food Remember Meal 255

    Lunch
    Eckrich - Bologna - Updated, 2 slice (28g) 160
    Bread - White (includes soft bread crumbs), 2 slice, large 160
    Add Food Remember Meal 320

    Dinner
    Homemade Salmon Patties - Salmon Patties, 1.5 pattie 350
    Beans - Snap, green variety, canned, regular pack, solids and liquids, 1 cup 36
    Homemade - Macaroni Salad, 1 cup 197
    Add Food Remember Meal 583


    Snacks
    Lucky Leaf - Applesauce Cup (Plain), 3 cup (4 oz.) 240
    Act Ii - Popcorn - Light Butter Microwave , 2 cup popped 50
    Coke - Diet Coke, 24 fl oz 0
    Add Food Remember Meal 290
    Total: 1,448
    Your Daily Goal: 1,450
    Remaining: 2 31 12 -6
    Calories Carbs Fat Protein

    The numbers I have showing at the end of each entry is the calories



    This is my daily menu for today. It is plenty to eat and I only went over my protein limit by 6 which I'm not sweating at the moment

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  • stormieweather
    stormieweather Posts: 2,549 Member
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    Cheese is high in sodium too. Sodium causes you to retain water, slowing weight loss. You can track more nutrients than just Calories/Carbs/Protein/Fat on MFP, just go to settings and add them.

    You could have half the melon and one egg with your toast for breakfast, and the other egg and half the melon for a snack a couple hours later (if you find you're getting hungry before lunch). Personally, I'd drop one slice of breakfast bread and have some protein-maybe peanut butter on the other slice or a handful of almonds.

    String cheese-2% is a great snack to take along with you too.
  • MollySue30
    MollySue30 Posts: 288 Member
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    This is mine for the day... I am set to eat 1400 calories a day:

    Breakfast
    Kashi Go Lean - Blueberry Frozen Waffles, 2 waffles 170
    Generic - Hard Boiled Egg White, 2 egg 34
    Lipton - Decaffeinated Tea Bags, 1 Tea Bag 0
    Prairie Farms - Fat Free Vitamin A & D Skim Milk, 1 cup 80
    Total:284

    Lunch
    Hellman's - Light Mayo, 2 Tbsp 70
    Star Kist Chunk Light Tuna - Chunk Light Tuna In Water, 4 oz 120
    Arnold Dutch Country - 100% Whole Wheat Bread, 2 slice 200
    Yoplait - Light Fat Free Yogurt - Very Vanilla, 1 container 110
    Watermelon - Watermelon Raw, 1 cup (152g) 46
    Total:546

    Dinner
    Generic - Perdue Perfect Portions Italian Style Chicken Breast, 1 filet 130
    Del Monte - Cut Green Beans, 1/2 cup (121g) 20
    Minute - Instant Brown Rice Individual Cups, 1 cup 230
    Total: 380

    Snacks
    Archer Farms - Almonds-Raw & Unsalted, 0.0625 cup 40
    Earthbound Farm Organic - Baby Carrots, 3 oz. 35
    Total: 75

    I have roughly about 120 calories left for the day. I am sitting at 1284 calories right now.
  • Lyndo
    Lyndo Posts: 95
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    Wow! Now thats variety!!!
    I find that if i purchase the unslated almonds I'll eat them all, I do not have enough will power to eat just a few or even a hand full, I love nuts :laugh:
    The popcorn I'll have to try, because at night when my husbdna eat crazy popcorn with extra added butter I am there wishing i can eat or even steal his popcorn, but the no butter added for 2 cups has not alot of calories in there Thanks guys!
    & I will try to eat only 1 bread At breakfast! I'm very energetic person & I find I feel hungry within 30 min of my food intake So i have to keep myself busy & clean, or drink more water,
    I will switch to sodium on my settings i do not want to retain any extra water ,.....:flowerforyou:

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