The General Diet & Emotional Support Thread

Eric_Pisch

Sunnyday wrote: »

I`m liking Erics way of doing things, sounds really good. My problem is working out the percentages of carb/fat/protein, i make lots of home made stuff and then stare at it and don`t know where to start Sounds thick i know but thats how bad i am

SD

it will take a fraction longer to do, you should know what you have put into individually so you just itemise by element

here is a tuna stir fry i had on tuesday, you could easily batch make this and freeze them

most of these food diary programs have the facility to add an item once and then call it up from its list, such as the reggae reggae sauce





heres my monthly split, i dont aim for 33/33/33% every meal but rather over each day / week



creating a food diary maybe a pain to get started with, having to weigh and portion things, having to add new foods to the database, but you get fast at it after a couple of weeks but more importantly you are teaching yourself portion control and how to estimate calories in a meal

one of the biggest problems for us overweight people is we are hopeless at estimating how much to eat and how many calories are in things, keeping a food diary will start to address that

alona1

I walked home from work yesterday as my exercise, 1hr10mins it took in torrential rain! I was sodden! Lol. Hope it did some good.

sweetserendipity

Hiya peeps :hello:

The snot-busting chilli didn't work And I couldn't taste it anyway as my sense of taste has completely gone now - damn this cold!! :mad:

Have made veggie & lentil soup today, thought I'd add some curry powder & ground ginger to spice things up a bit but I still can't taste a bl00dy thing!! :rotfl: Very comforting to eat though.

Eric, thanks for posting that info, I'll have a look at the links later as I make a lot of stuff from scratch as well.

mazzers, you sound really down atm, are the extra hours at work to blame?? Hope you get your va va voom back soon!!

Hope everyone doing ok today :wave:

mazzers

Thanks for that eric

I have a food database on fitday (all lc tho) but for me it's getting the pecentages right i spose.

Also, i think men are more determined when it comes to weight loss, most women i know couldn't cope without treats (prob why we fail long term)

I actually like healthy foods (brown rice/all veg/ all fruit/multigrain bread/etc never add salt at the table either, what i need to do is cut out the sweet things i have in the evening after work as i think thats the culprit.

I also thought that all the extra hours of being constantly on the go would help, but maybe my over indulging in the eve is ruining it. A notebook as a food diary is a good idea and will prob shock me.

Sweet, im quite happy in general atm.
Enjoying my job and quite happy in work... mostly.
I've had my meds doubled again tho (twice now) as my bp is still too high, so i think thats why i'm so tired, but i am getting used to it.

aliasojo

Hi honey(s)...I'm home!

My house is unliveable, the work that was done is crap...I'll need to fix it, and I've put on ALL the weight I ever took off. In fact, I wont be standing on the scales as I don't need anything else to pee me off right now. :rotfl:

We have no beds as the rooms are stacked with furniture and only a few of the rooms have doors, but hey ho, I'm happy I'm home tbh. It wasn't easy driving up the A9 every time I had to see the joiner or taper chappy.

I'm also knackered as I had no sleep last night...I slept on the bottom bed of bunk beds and I got paranoid about

a) the top bed falling on me
b) bed bugs dropping from the underside of the top mattress onto me and into my mouth especially, in the night
c) the creepy girl from the film 'The Ring' being under my bed and crawling out during the night. (There were mirrored sliding wardrobe doors at the side of the beds and I'm sure I could see moving shadows.

Yes, I realise I need help. :rotfl: However that doesn't change the fact I didn't sleep a wink and am like a half shut knife today. (Stupid saying that, isn't it )

sweetserendipity

aliasojo wrote: »

Hi honey(s)...I'm home!

And about time too!! This place has been like the Marie Celeste since you went away!! :rotfl:
Hope you get your house sorted asap.

mazzers, glad you doing ok I just thought you sounded a bit flat of late.

I can finally taste food again - woohoo!! The spicy soup I made yesterday is really nice, has a bit of a kick to it, will definitely make it like that again (added a teaspoon of curry powder & a teaspoon of ground ginger to bog-standard lentil & veg soup).

Chilli again tonight (for the 3rd night running ), I'm so glad I made it the other night before I was really full of cold, it's so easy to just heat up & scoff, real comfort food

Happy days everyone :wave:

funtime.franki_2

I have noticed that I typically eat a similar diet from week to week!!!

This is because I'm a student (!!!) and usually am just cooking for one so it's difficult for me to meal plan/buy things in bulk.

If there's any nutrition know-it-alls about I'd love it if you could pick apart what I eat and tell me what you think I'm getting too much of or not enough of!

If anyone else would like to add their typical weekly diet please feel free!

Stats: Female, 19 years, Healthy Weight.

BREAKFAST, SNACK, LUNCH, SNACK
Always the same!!

Breakfast: Porridge with Raisins
50g Whole Porridge Oats (ASDA Finest)
200ml Skimmed Milk
25g Raisins
"Squirt" of Honey or Agave Nectar (depending on what I have)

Snack: Banana

Lunch: Pizza Toastie
2 Slices ASDA Fresh for a Week Wholemeal Bread
Tablespoon-ish of Tomato Puree
60g Iceland Cheddar Cheese
(Toasted without butter)

Snack: Apple

DINNER
Rotates!!

Sweet and Sour Chicken with Peppers and Rice x 2 a week
1/2 Jar Sainsbury's Basics Sweet and Sour Sauce
100g ASDA Frozen Diced Chicken Breast
100g Iceland Frozen Sliced Peppers
75g Brown Rice

Chicken Curry with Mushrooms and Rice x 2 a week
1/2 a Jar Sainbury's Basics Curry Sauce (you'll notice a pattern here)
100g ASDA Frozen Diced Chicken Breast
100g ASDA Frozen Sliced Mushrooms
75g Brown Rice

Vegetarian Spaghetti Bolognese x 2 a week
1/2 Jar Sainsbury's Basics Pasta Sauce
100g Sainsbury's Vege Mince
100g ASDA Frozen Sliced Mushrooms
100g Wholewheat Spaghetti

And then roughly once a week I'll go out to eat and stuff my face!

I also take and Iron supplement and a Omega supplement.

aliasojo

Lol sweet, you trying to say I'm gobby? :rotfl:

Tea break time again.......cuppa tea and some sour cream and chive pretzels. My bad. Oh well.

Feel better soon btw.

Bronnie

I think it's fairly balanced and probably a lot better than a lot of people your age are eating!!

I'm sure you find the sauces convenient but a bolognese for example is really easy and cheap to make with a tin of tomatoes and a shake of herbs and a squirt of ketchup. Do you use cookbooks or online recipe sites?
My main comments would be to say personally I'd add a bit more veg or salad on the side with lunch and dinner and that maybe vary the lunchtime sandwich filling.....some fish of some sort and eggs would be a good addition.
Is this it or do you sneak in some sweet treats too??

I think the premise of eating as wide a variety of healthy foods in turn is a really good guideline to keep in mind.

ETA are you just looking for answers from nutrition " know-alls " cos I don't pretend to be one of them!!

yummymummy79

At first glance I notice more fruit than veg, this would be reasonably easy to sort with a handful of any appropriate veg with those meals. I see you have mushrooms/peppers but another serving would be helpful too. Don't see a lot of fat either. People tend to shy away from anything with fat in it, but 'good or healthy' fats are essential for good growth and repair. The easiest way to add these in would be a few nuts with your morning/afternoon snack, use olive oil for cooking or as a dressing for salad (if you add salad in too!) or have a meal with salmon or another oily fish at least once a week.

Lunch doesn't look great either really, especially if it's a regular thing. Something like a tuna salad with a hard boiled egg and a yoghurt with berries for afters would be another idea, would also boost the protein content which is also helpful for growth.

With 7 days in a week, there really should be some scope for more than 1 lunch option! An omelette with side salad or even baked beans would be OK, or a jacket potato with beans, tuna, cottage cheese, chilli etc.

Seems that you've got the basics right though, breakfast is good. The dinners would benefit from more of a home-made element rather than jar sauces which can include all sorts of random ingredients, but the general idea is there anyway.

Just noticed the stuffing your face part at the end! Obviously going out to eat is fine, but not sure that stuffing your face is the best idea, especially if alcohol is involved with it too! If you are reasonably active then you may not notice problems on the outside with the size you are etc, but you can still store fat inside and be unhealthy, or be skinnyfat as it is known.