What I ate today..whaddya think??

[jenscats5]

Total: 1677
g cals %ttl
Fat: 35 316 19%
Sat: 10 86 5%
Poly: 5 49 3%
Mono: 7 59 4%
Carbs: 226 795 49%
Fiber: 27 0 0%
Protein: 129 514 32%
Alcohol: 0 0 0%


Got up late so breakfast/lunch was a banana & a turkey (3oz) & 1 slice of 2% cheese, lettuce & tomato on wheat bread & 11 Baked LAYS original potato chips.

Dinner: 1 small ear corn, grilled peppers, 2 flowerets broccoli, 14 medium shrimp, bbq sauce to dip lightly in, 1/2 indivi Boboli pizza crust & dipped in FF Spaghetthi sauce, large salad of spring mix with peppers, cucumber, tomato, balsamic vinegar, lemon juice & pepper. 1 Viactiv chew. Oh & just enuf trans fat free butter spread to pu on my corn.

Protein shake made w/1cup milk & 2 scoops ON double rich chocolate protein powder.

1 slice of WW bread with RF Peanut Butter (2 tbl) & jelly (grape 1 tbl "naturally sweetened)

Numbers appear above. Today was Chest, Triceps & Shoulders today in the gym. No cardio.

 

[spatts]

Where did your training fall in all this food? In other words, what were your pre and post workout meals?

Why reduced fat PB? They take out all that great fat that your body needs and replace it with a bunch of chemicals and sugar. Makes no sense. Another gimmick. Notice that regular Jif has 16g of fat, and 3 saturated? Then Reduced Rat Jif has 12g of fat, and 2.5 saturated? They drop .5g of sat fat (YES, 1/2 A GRAM!), and replace it with 1g of sugar, meanwhile they take the 4g of good fat, and don't replace it at all. Also, please notice that the total calories are the same between the two; this alone tells you that what was taken out was replaced by another macro. Get some Smucker's Natural PB, or hit a store where you can grind your own.

You have a LOT of unnecessary sugars in your diet. Are you trying to gain size right now?

Kudos to you on all the veggies. Good stuff.

 

[jenscats5]

I'm trying to lose bf.

I left the natty PB in the fridge at work -- the rf pb is all I had in the house! (hubby usually eats it doesn't like the natty stuff) I normally don't eat PB&J but had a craving.

Where is all the sugar from? The bbq sauce & spaghetti sauce & jelly? The preworkout meal was the turkey sandwich and I went to workout at 1:00 E time & had dinner at 4:30 then the protein shake at 6:00 & the PB&J at 9:30.

I'll post what I eat today too. Thanks!

 

[JJFigure]

More fibrous carbs in all the meals. You don't even have to track them (unless you're doing a keto) since the kcals are so low and fiber content is high.

Ditch the milk with the protein drink; maybe replace with a little flax or Udo's oil.

For ~1700 kcals, you're not eating much quantity. If you ditch some of the processed stuff (potato chips, pizza crust, etc), you'd be able to eat a lot more food. I'm a big quantity person when it comes to dieting; the more I can eat, the less hungry I feel. Your protein is probably low, as well. I usually bump my protein when cutting, your body works harder to digest it, so you get a thermogenic boost every time you eat protein.

 

[Puddles]

Jen, if your're trying to loose fat, increase the protein and lower the carbs...about half of the total cal's came from carbs yesterday. Carb foods are good if you're bulking, but not if you're trying to lower bf. Protein is super important in building and maintaining your muscles. Don't starve them!

Also, the pb&j sandwich is bad because you're mixing fats and carbs in one meal...ideally they should be seperated by at least 2 hrs. Same thing with your first meal...bannana and bread in the same meal is not a good idea.

Ditch the baked lays chips! No nutrition in them at all.

You definitely need to increase the protein. Instead of 3 oz's of turkey, you could have much more (say 6 oz's) and just drop the breads, you'll probably feel more satisfied too.

What's a Viactiv chew?

You'd be better off with just protein instead of carbs in that last meal...maybe try some chicken or turkey dipped in mustard. Carbs late at night tend to not be too good when you're trying to loose fat.

Really try not to skip that first meal...breakfast is really important! Even just a simple protein shake in the AM would be good. I'm usually rushing around all day and I can't tollerate processed protein, so I just grab a chicken breast or burger and eat it while I'm driving...no bread, just protein.

Read the labels on stuff like bbq sauce...they tend to have a lot of sugar in them. Breads are usually made of white flour, not really a good choice, try brown rice or sweet potatoes instead. Even some of the small specialty shops have whole wheat pastas, and pasta's made with other ingredients that will increase the protein in them instead of making them just nutritionless carbs. Spatts mentioned lentil rice once...my mom found some orzo pasta for me that is made with lentils...keep your eyes open when you shop and read the labels.

Are you drinking your water?

Good luck and keep up the hard work...the women here will help you get your diet going in the right direction...just ask questions if you don't understand something. Some of it can be confusing at first.

 

[jenscats5]

Thanks for the suggestions!! I got up at about 10 am which is why I ate the sandwich instead of breakfast. The sandwich was my breakfast. LOL

RE: bread, is it ok to have on the weekend as like a special thing?? I usually have it then or pancakes w/protein powder in them cuz I don't eat bread stuff during the week.

I'll post what I ate today under a separate thread since I think I did better today.

 

[jenscats5]

Oh, a Viactiv chew is a chocolate flavored calcium supplement, 500 mg of calcium w/Vitamin D.

 

[Sassy69]

RE: bread, is it ok to have on the weekend as like a special thing??

A good way to maintain sanity while trying to lose bodyfat is to schedule a cheat meal or a cheat day (depending on how aggressive your dieting / goals are) once per week. That would probably be the best time to schedule your bread if you have the craving. Just to match your regular daily life, usually a weekend day is a good day for the cheat so you can really enjoy it (e.g. bbq, night on the town, whatever). And a cheat meal / day is good because it shocks your body a little with some wild food so you don't just get used to the regular diet regimen and eventually it loses its effectiveness.

 

[Deleted member 33117]

Hmmm...back off on the carbs, especially the higher GI one's (the baked lay's and the pizza crust) and the fructose (banana and naturally sweeted jelly). Fructose when eaten chronically as a signifigant % of your calories will slow down metabolism.

You need more fat. Stay away from the reduced fat peanut butter it has transfatty acids. Go for the full fat natural peanut butter. If it doesn't say natural peanut butter on the front, it will have hydrogenated oil in the ingredients on the back. Where are your omega 3's? I see no fish oil, flaxseed oil or even some walnutts on there.

Also, check the turkey lunch meat for nitrates in the ingreadiants. They will inhibit fat loss.

The nice thing is at least you are eating veggies, but you could stand to increase those. Raw, fibrous green veggies should be considered freebie foods, unless you are trying to stay in ketosis, in which case you need to count the absorbable carbs.

Your protien intake is fine.