Critique my sample day of eating
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Anonymous
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Breakfast: black coffee and 1 hardboiled egg
Snack: 1-2 apples and peanut butter Lunch: whole wheat + flax pita, with hummus, avocado and spinach Dinner: Lentil veggie stew (lentils, spices, carrots, potatoes, etc) Dessert: homemade chocolate chip banana bread |
Anonymous
| ^ to add, I'm not a vegetarian, but I just don't eat a lot of meat |
Anonymous
| Do you feel sated? I would feel hungry but thats why I'm 150lbs and not 140. |
Anonymous
| That seems like not enough food unless you’re sedentary or very very small. |
Anonymous
?! It's like 1800 calories. I exercise 6 days a week, including heavy weights + strength twice a week and 3-4 days of jogging/running. I am 5'2", however. |
Anonymous
| A lot of this depends on portion sizes. I would probably eliminate dessert and add back in those calories as whole grains in the morning. A bowl of steel cut oats with raspberries perhaps. But maybe you don't have much appetite in the morning. |
Anonymous
| You are consuming a lot of carbs. Ditch the pita or the potatoes or the hummus. How about just a salad with spinach, avocado, and roasted tofu with green goddess dressing. Then do the lentil soup at dinner. Throw in almonds or walnuts as a snack. Skip the choco chip cookie and eat some dried fruit or fruit leather instead. |
Anonymous
| Critique it for what? It’s relatively healthy. I probably wouldn’t lose weight on it, but your body isn’t mine and you didn’t tell us anything about portions. |
Anonymous
Right. Not enough information, OP. |
Anonymous
| Nowhere near enough protein |
Anonymous
Clearly, we are not related. |
Anonymous
Not OP, but I see an egg, peanut butter, chickpeas and lentils on that menu. Depending on OP's size and needs, this could be more than enough protein. |
Anonymous
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Not enough veggies and fruits or protein. Too many carbs.
I found this Yoplain yogurts that is super high in protein. This is what I do: breakfast one HB egg, Yoplait Yogurt (16 grams of protein) and a banana. Lunch (today) Progresso soup, Mediterranian Lentil 24 grams of protein. I add a cup of peas to it for volume and some green. Kiwi, blueberries. Snack - 1/4 cup almonds (7 grams of protein) Dinner: baked salmon, and farro salad (I cook it in chicken stock and add cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, artichokes, edamame, parsley and lemon). No desert. |
Anonymous
Ran this through my app
Daily total = 1775 calories / 65 g protein I am NOT an expert but if you are asking for random people on the internet to weigh in then I will agree with others that your protein is low, and a pattern of this could lead to muscle loss over time. I should note that your fiber intake was great!... but you were lacking in a lot of vitamins FWIW (Iron, Calcium, Vit C, folate, and potassium were all at around 60-70% of daily targets). |
Anonymous
What? Are you one of those crazies who considers apples, carrots, potatoes, and bananas to be "carbs?" |