Nutrition Thread - Week of 8/17 to 8/23

YESS!!! They do this at Runnersworld.com. I think that's a great idea.

Yeah - I got the idea from the runnersworld threads but I am a lurker over there.  It's motivating to read about other people eating well, especially since I tend to be surrounded by people who don't.

Count me in, too. I'm on vacation right now, so food logging is not happening at the moment, but I'll be home in a few days and would love to participate!

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I'm in!

This sounds like a wonderful idea!

"Definately on board with this idea"!!! "Good thinking"!

This is just the accountability I've been looking for, plus it will help me be true to what I've been doing which is to journal my calorie intake each day.

Alrighty then!  I'll start up the thread on Monday, I'm excited.  Have a good weekend and happy training!

I'd be interested in participating.  I'm not very good at logging my food, so if I know people expect me to that might help me out.

Is the plan to write down everything we've eaten or total calories?  I can do it either way.  I'm logging in the Daily Plate website.

Whatever works for you is fine.  I plan on listing what I eat, but it's cool if you'd rather just put the calories down or maybe give a link to your daily plate page.

Here's my plan for the day. All the calorie calculations are off the Daily Plate site..

Item Name	Servings	Calories
Breakfast
Cottage Cheese, 1% Milkfat,  No Salt Added	0.50	80
Whole Wheat Bread	1 slice	45
Egg Beaters	2.00	60
Tomatoes	0.50	25
Coffee with Skim Milk	1.00	15
Lunch
Stewed Cabbage	1.00	55
Chicken Breast	1.00	258
Snack
String Cheese Snacks	1.00	80
Pear, Bosc	1.00	100
Dinner
Tabatchnik Vegetable Soup	1.00	90
Raw Green Apple	1.00	75
Chicken Breast	0.50	129
	Total:	1012

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Oh you guys are too fast for me!  I was going to start up a new thread, but this morning was busy at work.  Since we already started here, I'll just see if we can get a mod rename the thread so it has a date on it.  Here's my plan for Monday.


My goals for the week:  300 daily calorie deficit (except Saturday).  No added sugar unless it's for training purposes, and NO artificial sweeteners at all. 

Monday, August 17
6:30 - 1/2 Ezekiel English Muffin and 1/2T natural peanut butter
Shake: 1 scoop whey protein, 1/2 cup milk, and 1 tsp instant coffee

9:30 1/2 cup 1% cottage cheese, 1 cup strawberries

12:30 SALAD: 5 oz romaine w/.5 cups each of black beans, corn, edamame.  1 tsp walnut oil, 1 tbsp rice vinegar

3:30 hard boiled egg.  1 cup broccoli dipped in 1/4 cup homemade tzatziki sauce

7:30 Chili's Guiltless Grilled Salmon w/steamed veggies

Total Calories: 1323 (REST day)
Total Activity: 40 minute walk with my friend




Edited by DMW 2009-08-17 12:39 PM

It's all good... I got it renamed.  Now we're all in the right spot!

My daily calorie goal is 1,560 which is the 1.5 pound loss per week.  Here's today:
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Food Item	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
Williams-Sonoma Meyer Lemon Poundcake breakfast	1.00	170	9g	0mg	14mg	26g	15g	0g	1g	x
	^ Servings consumed: Serving size: 1/2 inch thick slice (16 per loaf) Optional: When did you eat this? - select mealtime - breakfast morning snack lunch afternoon snack dinner evening snack midnight snack pre-workout post-workout Unclassified or more specifically  --  12am 1am 2am 3am 4am 5am 6am 7am 8am 9am 10am 11am 12pm 1pm 2pm 3pm 4pm 5pm 6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm
Coffee breakfast	2.00	4	0g	0mg	10mg	0g	0g	0g	1g	x
	^ Servings consumed: Serving size: 8 fl. oz. Optional: When did you eat this? - select mealtime - breakfast morning snack lunch afternoon snack dinner evening snack midnight snack pre-workout post-workout Unclassified or more specifically  --  12am 1am 2am 3am 4am 5am 6am 7am 8am 9am 10am 11am 12pm 1pm 2pm 3pm 4pm 5pm 6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm
Sugar breakfast	0.50	18	0g	0mg	0mg	1g	1g	0g	0g	x
	^ Servings consumed: Serving size: 1 TBSP Optional: When did you eat this? - select mealtime - breakfast morning snack lunch afternoon snack dinner evening snack midnight snack pre-workout post-workout Unclassified or more specifically  --  12am 1am 2am 3am 4am 5am 6am 7am 8am 9am 10am 11am 12pm 1pm 2pm 3pm 4pm 5pm 6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm
Hood Half and Half breakfast	1.00	40	4g	15mg	20mg	1g	1g	0g	1g	x
	^ Total consumed: servings cups tablespoons teaspoons Serving size: 2 tbsp (30.0 g) Optional: When did you eat this? - select mealtime - breakfast morning snack lunch afternoon snack dinner evening snack midnight snack pre-workout post-workout Unclassified or more specifically  --  12am 1am 2am 3am 4am 5am 6am 7am 8am 9am 10am 11am 12pm 1pm 2pm 3pm 4pm 5pm 6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm
Starbucks Terragon Chicken Salad Sandwich lunch	1.00	490	12g	75mg	1,330mg	62g	15g	4g	35g	x
	^ Servings consumed: Serving size: 1 Sandwich Optional: When did you eat this? - select mealtime - breakfast morning snack lunch afternoon snack dinner evening snack midnight snack pre-workout post-workout Unclassified or more specifically  --  12am 1am 2am 3am 4am 5am 6am 7am 8am 9am 10am 11am 12pm 1pm 2pm 3pm 4pm 5pm 6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm
fruit salad lunch	0.50	50	0g	0mg	0mg	5g	0g	0g	0g	x
	^ Servings consumed: Serving size: 1 cup Optional: When did you eat this? - select mealtime - breakfast morning snack lunch afternoon snack dinner evening snack midnight snack pre-workout post-workout Unclassified or more specifically  --  12am 1am 2am 3am 4am 5am 6am 7am 8am 9am 10am 11am 12pm 1pm 2pm 3pm 4pm 5pm 6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm
Coca Cola Diet Coke (can) lunch	1.00	0	0g	0mg	40mg	0g	0g	0g	0g	x
	^ Servings consumed: Serving size: 1 Can 355ml Optional: When did you eat this? - select mealtime - breakfast morning snack lunch afternoon snack dinner evening snack midnight snack pre-workout post-workout Unclassified or more specifically  --  12am 1am 2am 3am 4am 5am 6am 7am 8am 9am 10am 11am 12pm 1pm 2pm 3pm 4pm 5pm 6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm
Tyson Chicken Breast dinner	1.00	110	3g	55mg	180mg	0g	0g	0g	23g	x
	^ Servings consumed: Serving size: 4.0 oz Optional: When did you eat this? - select mealtime - breakfast morning snack lunch afternoon snack dinner evening snack midnight snack pre-workout post-workout Unclassified or more specifically  --  12am 1am 2am 3am 4am 5am 6am 7am 8am 9am 10am 11am 12pm 1pm 2pm 3pm 4pm 5pm 6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm
Baby New Potato dinner	1.00	60	0g	0mg	50mg	13g	0g	2g	1g	x
	^ Servings consumed: Serving size: 2 potatos Optional: When did you eat this? - select mealtime - breakfast morning snack lunch afternoon snack dinner evening snack midnight snack pre-workout post-workout Unclassified or more specifically  --  12am 1am 2am 3am 4am 5am 6am 7am 8am 9am 10am 11am 12pm 1pm 2pm 3pm 4pm 5pm 6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm
Nuun dinner	2.00	6	0g	0mg	360mg	0g	0g	0g	0g	x
	^ Servings consumed: Serving size: 240ml Optional: When did you eat this? - select mealtime - breakfast morning snack lunch afternoon snack dinner evening snack midnight snack pre-workout post-workout Unclassified or more specifically  --  12am 1am 2am 3am 4am 5am 6am 7am 8am 9am 10am 11am 12pm 1pm 2pm 3pm 4pm 5pm 6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm
Barnes & Noble Cafe Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Cookie evening snack	0.50	310	18g	18mg	280mg	34g	22g	2g	5g

		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
Click totals for charts!	Totals:	1,258	45g	163mg	2,284mg	141g	54g	8g	67g

Hmm....there must be a better way to format that!  Any suggestions?

I'm scared....

Kashi cereal w/ 1/2 a banana, soymilk, and pb/chocolate = 450?

snack: ww cracker w/ more pb and protein water = 150-200

lunch or something: latte with some of a cheese scone = 350

Dinner: kids pesto pasta + 1.5 Parmesan bread crisps = 600

snacks= frozen yogurt and mocha = 500+

To much sugar today. I did a 5 mile run and was out all day.

Yesterday was my first day back from vacation, and I couldn't get myself to log food.... but I'm back on track today!! My goal will be to shoot for 2,000 - 2,300 calories/day, and striving for roughly 50% carbs, 20% protien, 20% fat (give or take).

I actually like the table format. If you want to reduce the amount of data displayed, you could export everything into Excel from Daily Plate, remove the extra columns, and then paste the data from Excel here.

O.K. it completely slipped my mind about this thread until I saw it this morning. It's been a buisy weekend. However, I still managed to journal my calories which were right around 1845 on Monday. Today the target is right around the same. So on top of everything I need to get my charts up and going.

Good morning!!

Here is my "core" plan for today.. not sure about dinner yet. It will have to be something within 300 calories

Meal	Item Name	Calories
breakfast	Cottage Cheese, 1% Milkfat,  No Salt Added	80
breakfast	Whole Wheat Bread	90
morning snack	Cantaloupe	47
afternoon snack	Banana, medium	105
lunch	Green Apple	36
lunch	Minestrone	100
dinner	Chicken Breast	258
dinner	side??
Calories		771

Here's my plan for the day.  Everything's packed and at work except the dinner.  My dietitian keeps telling me to up the fat so I went crazy today.  This is a totally new way of eating for me, but I bet she'll love it.

7:00 - Breakfast
Shake: Scoop vanilla whey, 8 oz almond milk, 1/2 cup raspberries
1/2 Ezekiel English Muffin w/.5tbsp peanut butter and .5 tbsp Polaner

10:00 - Snack
1/2 cup 2% Greek Yogurt, .5 ounces pecans, 1/2 cup sliced strawberries

1:00 - Lunch
Lean turkey burger patty on 1/2 ezekiel english muffin. 
1 bell pepper dipped in 1/4 cup hummus

4:00 - Snack/pre-workout
1 scoop vanilla whey in 8 oz milk
1 medium banana with 1 tbsp almond butter

8:00 - Dinner/post-workout
2 clementines
2 eggs + 1/4 c egg whites scrambled with spinach and 1 wedge laughing cow light cheese
(2 fish oil caps + multivitamin)

Calories: 1645
Carbs: 36.87% (153 grams)
Protein: 28.73% (120 grams)
Fat: 34.4% (64 grams)

Activity: 5 mile easy run
Activity: 50 minutes weight routine

Edited by DMW 2009-08-18 9:52 AM