I posted everything I ate today on Fitday in an effort to better track my calories. It took a while because I added each individual thing for the salmon cakes. Also, just to clarify-i did not have two bowls of cereal for breakfast, I poured out the mini wheats and there were like 4 or 5 squares so I added some Corn Flakes.
If any of you have time-can you check out my journal for the day and please make suggestions that might help me with better choices. My fat percentage was pretty low until I posted dinner, mostly because there olive oil on the veggies(1 tsp), a tsp of oil in the dressing(which I only used a small amt of), and the salmon cakes I used a tsp of sesame oil to cook all 8 patties, and there is sesame oil in the dipping sauce and then the fat % went up on the fitday chart of course. Jill http://fitday.com/WebFit/PublicJournals.html?Owner=gigi70
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Summer Challenge Goals: 1) Walk 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week 2) Plan weekly menus
Originally posted by jillybean: I think I need to cut back on my snack calories-I was looking through my list and my one "snack" consisted of cheddar cheese, pastrami, grapes-over 200 cals. For some reason I have a hard time eating a piece of fruit for a snack, or some carrot and celery sticks. Any suggestions? jill
First off, I agree that everything looks very good. Your total fat was a bit high but your saturated fat was right on.
As for snacks, I have a hard time with just fruit too. I need more of a balance to keep me satisfied. My favorite snacks are: 1/2 c of lf granola and fruit ww tortilla w/hummus and veggies 1/2 natural pbj on ww
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It does look really good to me too. The only thing I noticed was your evening cereal snack was higher cals than I prefer for snacks. Do you think you could get away with only 1/2 c. milk on that snack? You also seem a little light on veggie servings although I didn't carefully add them up. I might have considered replacing some or all of the pastrami with some carrots or cucumbers or something along those lines.
Really not a lot of room for improvement in the balance area. Just maybe start cutting back on quantities a bit. Good job. I know how it can be sort of frustrating to get all those niity gritty details into FitDay.
Originally posted by GoingSkiing: Looks great to me... even your snacks.
You don't have much at all in the way of empty calories. Looks like a good balance of foods to me - lots of fruits and vegs - salmon is a good protein.
Your saturated fat is about 10% of your calories - which is on target.
I'd give it a grade of A.
Thanks Denise-I am trying to stay between 1500-1600 calories/day but went over today. I am going to try and track calories for a while using fitday, I think I may not have been accounting for everything before, it is amazing how the "little things" really add up! Jill
Summer Challenge Goals: 1) Walk 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week 2) Plan weekly menus
You don't have much at all in the way of empty calories. Looks like a good balance of foods to me - lots of fruits and vegs - salmon is a good protein - three servings of dairy.
Your saturated fat is about 10% of your calories - which is on target.
I'd give it a grade of A.
Were you happy and satisfied eating this way?
Denise
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I think I need to cut back on my snack calories-I was looking through my list and my one "snack" consisted of cheddar cheese, pastrami, grapes-over 200 cals. For some reason I have a hard time eating a piece of fruit for a snack, or some carrot and celery sticks. Any suggestions? jill
Summer Challenge Goals: 1) Walk 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week 2) Plan weekly menus
Originally posted by Lori4squaremom: Jill, the link you gave isn't for your food journal....you need to make your journal public and get the link from there to show us.
