Today I think I overdid it with carbs:

2 organic buttermilk pancakes
2 pieces multigrain bread for my egg salad sandwich
3/4 cup of ww pasta

Now I am contemplating a nice cup of yogurt for dessert.

What Dawn Said.

its hard to judge whether there are too many carbs because we don't know what your other foods are.

Steph,
I'm not anti-carb myself, so long as they aren't refined empty calorie carbs, and I think you can even eat those in moderation.

If you didn't list your whole menu for the day here, I would stay that while it isn't too many carbs in one day, it does really seem to be lacking in protein, fruit and vegetables. So, it is carb heavy only in the sense that you didn't eat much of anything else.

Again, maybe you did eat that, but just didn't list. To me a better balance would have been something like this:

the pancakes with a small fruit salad and maybe a turkey sausage, or scrambled egg whites;

Egg salad sandwich with a tossed salad, or steamed broccoli or asparagus;

WW pasta (what kind of sauce?) tomato sauce, with a tossed salad;

yogurt dessert.

And then a snack of a fruit serving, and snack of say baby carrots, celery, and sugar snap peas with hummus dip.

Dawn

i really like the fit-day journal because it gives you a pie graph of what you eat...i found i was eating decent as far as amount of carbs.... so that was cool! It doesn't 'rate' the carbs and it if you are eating whole grain bread w/ an egg salad sandwich...well you know how to make the good choices i think

Steph, roughly half of your calories every day should come from complex carbs, including fiber. Around 30 should come from protein and the rest from healthy unsaturated fat. This being if you are not diabetic or hypoglycemic.
Looking at your day, I would have to take into account if your pancakes were made with unprocessed whole wheat flour and if your yogurt is low sugar.
In my opinion, the balance of carbs and protein was a little off. Now, don't misunderstand. Your calories don't seem too high at all. Did you have mayo in your eggsalad?

Fit day is a great tool because it calculates all of that information for you. Also the link I gave you allows you to input all of your info and get the proper calories, and percentages of fat, protein and carbs that you should have each day. It will give you a customized pyramid.

Just a little nutrition 411. Carbs are a very important and necessary part of your diet. They provide the energy needed for brain function and also the glycogen needed for muscle function. That is the reason why it is recommended that half of your calories come from carbs. The problem is when we eat carbs that convert to sugar too quickly. Processed flour and rice etc. That sugar, if not needed immediately for exercise or hard work, is stored as fat. If you eat a complex carbohydrate, one containing lots of fiber, it breaks down much more slowly in the body and also carries with it a lot of vital nutrients that your body will love you for.

Your eggs were your only real protein, except for what may have been provided in your pasta.

The protein in pasta, beans and rice, are not a complete protein, meaning they don't provide your body with all of the essential building blocks needed by the body. They become complete when you combine, say, rice and beans.

Sorry to drone on, just sharing my little bit of knowledge. Hope to be helpful.

That certainly doesn't sound like overdoing it to me.

Thank you. I guess in my head I heard WOW that was a lot of carbs today Steph. No worries though.

Seems OK to me too.
I get 50 - 60% of my calories from whole grain carbs.
If in doubt, take a day or two to track on fitday.com and see how it comes out.

They were made from organic whole wheat flour.

Assuming the pancakes were 1 serving each, you are at 5.5 servings of carbs for the day. Seems ok-- I try to keep my carbs whole grain. Were the pancakes whole grain? Was the multi grain whole grain---- often multi-grain has very little whole grain.