Critique a day of my diet

Hoping2BThinAgain

Hoping2BThinAgain

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I changed a bit my food intake, to this:

Breakfast
1/3 cup Quaker Quick Oats
1 cup Skim Milk
Around 5 Pecans
1/4 cup fresh Blueberries

Snack
1 carrot
1 Mini Babybel Light

Lunch
1 cup uncooked whole wheat penne pasta
4 Fresh Brussel Sprouts
3 Tomato
Around 12 shrimps

Snack
1 apple
2TB cottage cheese

Dinner:
1 cup Amy's Kitchen Organic Split Pea Soup

Cals 1,023
Fat 19g
Cholest 123mg
Sodium 1,613mg
Carbs 156g
Sugars 53g
Fiber 28g
Protein 67g



I am 169cm (5'6'') and weigh 72kg (158lb)


Please critique my diet.
 
I'm having a hard time reconciling your numbers with what you say you're eating. Here's what I come up with:

Cals 1,395
Fat 19g
Cholest 257mg
Sodium 1,400mg
Carbs 233g
Sugars 53g
Fiber 38g
Protein 90g

Now, none of that is bad - it looks reasonable to me. But that's assuming your measurements are accurate. I'm especially questioning the 2T of cottage cheese (that's barely a standard spoonful). Also the 1 cup of uncooked pasta is quite a bit. A serving of pasta is 2oz uncooked, which is a little over a cup cooked.
 
I was gonna say the same as Kara. I've eaten 1000 calories a day for weeks, and I was eating way less than that. But then I want to say you probably shouldn't be eating only 1000 calories a day.

I'm also not sure I understand why you are only eating 4 brussel sprouts at a time either. Not really anything wrong with that, just found it odd.
 
KaraCooks said:
I'm having a hard time reconciling your numbers with what you say you're eating. Here's what I come up with:

Cals 1,395
Fat 19g
Cholest 257mg
Sodium 1,400mg
Carbs 233g
Sugars 53g
Fiber 38g
Protein 90g

Now, none of that is bad - it looks reasonable to me. But that's assuming your measurements are accurate. I'm especially questioning the 2T of cottage cheese (that's barely a standard spoonful). Also the 1 cup of uncooked pasta is quite a bit. A serving of pasta is 2oz uncooked, which is a little over a cup cooked.
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I used thedailyplate.com and it gave me those numbers! Which calculator do you use? please let me know

Thanks for the pasta comment, I thought it was too much too. I am going with the 1/2 cup which I think it is going to be 1c once cooked.
As for the cottage cheese, so you think its a little?
 
Kayshiz said:
I was gonna say the same as Kara. I've eaten 1000 calories a day for weeks, and I was eating way less than that. But then I want to say you probably shouldn't be eating only 1000 calories a day.

I'm also not sure I understand why you are only eating 4 brussel sprouts at a time either. Not really anything wrong with that, just found it odd.
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Yeah, I am having a hard time knowing how much I should be eating. OMG ITS SO HARD!!

Anyway the 4 brussel sprouts were huge haha this is why I only selected 4
 
Hoping2BThinAgain said:
Thanks for the pasta comment, I thought it was too much too. I am going with the 1/2 cup which I think it is going to be 1c once cooked.
As for the cottage cheese, so you think its a little?
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Perhaps weighing the pasta, as opposed to using a measuring cup might not be such a bad idea as well.

I never understood how you were suppose to measure out tubular air filled foods with cups.
 
Knowing how much you should be eating is not that hard. :)

First of all, take your current body weight in pounds and multiply it by 10. That will give you a baseline number of calories to start with. (If you're weighing in kilos, then multiply your kilo weight by 2.2, then multiply that by 10). For example, if you weigh 150 lbs (68 kg), then you could start off with 1500 calories per day. Remember that's an estimate - so tweak it as necessary.

Within that range, try to make sure you get a healthy amount of protein, some healthy fats, and finish up with complex carbs.

It's not really hard. It's just that no one is taught the basics any more.
 
KaraCooks said:
Knowing how much you should be eating is not that hard. :)

First of all, take your current body weight in pounds and multiply it by 10. That will give you a baseline number of calories to start with. (If you're weighing in kilos, then multiply your kilo weight by 2.2, then multiply that by 10). For example, if you weigh 150 lbs (68 kg), then you could start off with 1500 calories per day. Remember that's an estimate - so tweak it as necessary.

Within that range, try to make sure you get a healthy amount of protein, some healthy fats, and finish up with complex carbs.

It's not really hard. It's just that no one is taught the basics any more.
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It gives me 1584Kcal.
So, to lose 1kg per week, how much should I be consuming?
 
It gives me 1584Kcal.
So, to lose 1kg per week, how much should I be consuming?
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That. :)

But keep in mind that you might not lose 1kg per week. Ideally you should lose about 1% of your overall bodyweight per week, so a more reasonable number for you might be closer to .6 or .7kg per week.

k.
 
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