What did you eat today, and are you fat?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I've worked with diet and nutrition for a long long time, not just a few paleo books. I'm not saying that you don't feel bad---I'm asking what your actual blood glucose is at the time that you feel bad. True hypoglycemia isn't solved by eating "protein" because protein takes too long to metabolize.

Holy crap, you must be suck at your job! I hope you are not licensed. The more responsible advice would be to recommend that the poster avoid foods that create a spike in blood sugars or when consuming those foods to balance them with proteins. Ignoring the shaky and feeling faint feeling is not smart, what is smart is gradually changing your diet to one that is healthier and avoids these spikes. Extremes are bad on any end, this includes dumb diets that tell you to eat only protein or eat only fruit or cleanse your body with just water.... just as much as only eating high sugar foods!

So check your sugar when you feel shaky, before attributing that shaky feeling to actual hypoglycemia. I've know diabetics who usually live at 250 to feel shaky at 175...what I am saying is that you may well not be dropping to a level that is actually hypoglycemic, just enough to be hungry. You have the capability to ride out the sugar waves absent actual sugars below 50.

[Anonymous]

Yesterday I had two sausage patties for breakfast. A peanut butter sandwich for lunch. Two small bowls of thin spaghetti with meat sauce for dinner. After dinner, a few bites of a leftover chocolate dessert from Cheesecake Factory. No, I am not fat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yesterday I had two sausage patties for breakfast. A peanut butter sandwich for lunch. Two small bowls of thin spaghetti with meat sauce for dinner. After dinner, a few bites of a leftover chocolate dessert from Cheesecake Factory. No, I am not fat.

Do you eat any vegetables and fruits? Have you seen the research linking meat consumption to cancer?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yesterday I had two sausage patties for breakfast. A peanut butter sandwich for lunch. Two small bowls of thin spaghetti with meat sauce for dinner. After dinner, a few bites of a leftover chocolate dessert from Cheesecake Factory. No, I am not fat.

Do you eat any vegetables and fruits? Have you seen the research linking meat consumption to cancer?

Yes I do eat those things. I did not yesterday. It was the first day of my period. I wanted comfort food. Everything is linked to cancer these days, so spare me the meat rhetoric.

[Anonymous]

Doing Weight Watchers. Down 7 pounds, 10 more to go.

Chobani and blackberries for breakfast

Ham and cheese sandwich for lunch.

Peach for snack

Dinner was steak, salad and a glass of red wine.

Ran 4 miles.

[Anonymous]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/health/research/red-meat-linked-to-cancer-and-heart-disease.html

Vegetables and whole grains aren't linked to cancer, as far as I know! I was not trying to be snarky, but I didn't know if you saw the new Harvard study.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, op. I usually split a bagel with one of my kids. And fast food and deli food are only on road trips.
Here's what I ate:
Breakfast: homemade bread with nutella and sliced banana, tall glass of skim milk
Snack: string cheese, lots of water
Lunch: leftover bean and veggie soup
Snack: 2 oranges
Dinner: watercress soup, brown rice, steamed broccoli, stir fry cabbage, steamed egg
Dessert: Milano cookies
I'm at a healthy weight.

What a sad life.....I'm a healthy weight too, but at least I enjoy food. bread and soup? Yuck!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, op. I usually split a bagel with one of my kids. And fast food and deli food are only on road trips.
Here's what I ate:
Breakfast: homemade bread with nutella and sliced banana, tall glass of skim milk
Snack: string cheese, lots of water
Lunch: leftover bean and veggie soup
Snack: 2 oranges
Dinner: watercress soup, brown rice, steamed broccoli, stir fry cabbage, steamed egg
Dessert: Milano cookies
I'm at a healthy weight.

What a sad life.....I'm a healthy weight too, but at least I enjoy food. bread and soup? Yuck!

She ate nutella, cheese, and Milano cookies also. It doesn't sound like she's "not enjoying food."

[Anonymous]

OP, women between 31 and 50 need 6 ounce equivalents of grains per day, according to the new My Plate guidelines. At least half of them should be whole grains. A regular-sized bagel is 4 ounce equivalents, leaving you just 2 ounce equivalents of grains for the rest of the day. Take a look at choosemyplate.gov. It provides a lot of information about portion sizes.

[Anonymous]

Are people so mean on some of these forums because they are chronically hungry? Might go a ways in explaining some posters.

[Anonymous]

Breakfast: Whatever Kashi's equivalent of Special K Red Berries is with 1% milk
Snack at around 8:30: Kashi granola bar
Snack at around 11:00: Pretzels and a handful of M&Ms.
Lunch: Deli meat chicken sandwich with lettuce, tomato, onion (no mayo) and half a small bag of chips
Afternoon snack: baby carrots, pretzels, and an orange
Dinner: Lasagna

Size 2.

[Anonymous]

Breakfast: Omlette with swiss chard, turkey sausage and cheddar. Probably a gallon of coffee.
930AM: chicken salad, pasta salad, cheese cubes, and apples dipped in caramel sauce (someone brought this crap into the office)
2PM Lunch: can of tuna mixed with half avocado over crackers.
5PM: weight watchers brownie
8PM: turkey sausage with tomato sauce over spaghetti squash. The other half of my avocado mixed with salsa then eaten with tortilla chips.
NOW: a few Andes Candies
Prune Juice
5'9" 145#s. I eat a lot, but I exercise a lot. I could stand to lose 5#s, but don't want to compromise my desires.

[Anonymous]

Breakfast: No food. But "good" hot chocolate made w/ skim milk and dark chocolate nibs. Lunch: Green apple. Dinner: 1 cup rigatoni pasta w/ delicious eggplant parmesan, and a side of steamed spinach (plain.) Dessert: Warmed-up brownie w/ mint chocolate gelato

[Anonymous]

Oh, and I would like to lose 10 lbs.

[Anonymous]

Breakfast: blueberries, kashi cereal, a handful of walnuts, almond milk

Lunch: sweet potato, spinach, black beans, a little cheese and salsa

Snack an apple

Dinner: curry apple chicken over quinoa with broccoli

i may have a snack soon, I'm feeling hungry. Not sure what.

I'm a size 8...could lose about 10 lbs, but I wouldn't call myself fat.