How Kathar Shall Regain Her Old Self Back
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Dinner: A smoothie with light tofu, a banana, and a tablespoon of peanut butter, with 3 packets of Splenda and water to make it an actual smoothie, instead of gloppy tofu. This was surprisingly really good. Reminds me of the banana smoothies I used to make when I was a kid.
Total so far:
1135 calories
Fat: 30g, 25%
Carbs: 165g, 46%
Protein: 82g, 30%
After dinner I'll have a yogurt and some string beans to top off the day around 1300 calories.
Total so far:
1135 calories
Fat: 30g, 25%
Carbs: 165g, 46%
Protein: 82g, 30%
After dinner I'll have a yogurt and some string beans to top off the day around 1300 calories.
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austin_88
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Sounds like you are back on track! Well done! Keep it up!
Thanks. I weighed myself today and I'm 137. Which means no net loss from the last time I weighed myself, but all the weight gain, at least, is reversed. If only I looked thinner.
After dinner:
1228 calories
Fat: 26g, 20%
Carbs: 151g, 38%
Protein: 127g, 42%
Breakfast: Cereal
Lunch: Tuna pouch with a tangerine; one lavash spread with goat cheese
Snack: Peanut granola bar with a plum tomato
Snack: 1 cup blueberries mixed into the rest of the silken tofu
Dinner: Grilled chicken breast with carrots
Dessert: Rice pudding cup
Looking at my food, it seems like the calories should be higher... I mean, it looks like a lot of food. also, I need to eat something with lots of carbs in it sometime tonight. No idea what. Possibly another lavash, except those have protein and I think I've eaten quite enough of that today.
I also made two other grilled chicken breasts for work tomorrow and Wednesday. I work from 1 to 9:30. I'll eat breakfast at home first, go work out, come back and eat lunch, go to work, and eat my snack and dinner there.
After dinner:
1228 calories
Fat: 26g, 20%
Carbs: 151g, 38%
Protein: 127g, 42%
Breakfast: Cereal
Lunch: Tuna pouch with a tangerine; one lavash spread with goat cheese
Snack: Peanut granola bar with a plum tomato
Snack: 1 cup blueberries mixed into the rest of the silken tofu
Dinner: Grilled chicken breast with carrots
Dessert: Rice pudding cup
Looking at my food, it seems like the calories should be higher... I mean, it looks like a lot of food. also, I need to eat something with lots of carbs in it sometime tonight. No idea what. Possibly another lavash, except those have protein and I think I've eaten quite enough of that today.
I also made two other grilled chicken breasts for work tomorrow and Wednesday. I work from 1 to 9:30. I'll eat breakfast at home first, go work out, come back and eat lunch, go to work, and eat my snack and dinner there.
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What ratio / target are you aiming for?
Fruit's pretty good for straight carbs. Or soda / candy, if you don't get thrown off track by junk.
Roughly 50/25/25, as someone mentioned earlier. I ended up having a navel orange, though. I don't drink soda - haven't for years - and there's some chocolate in the house but I don't know how many calories are in it, and besides, the orange lasted longer. I'm at about 1300-1400 for the day.
Just retail, but the bright side is I'm on my feet almost the entire day, and it keeps me from eating.
Yesterday:
Total: 1364
Fat: 27g, 19%
Carbs: 185g, 44%
Protein: 126g, 38%
I've also found a new thing to snack on when I'm bored. It sounds stupid but bear with me: romaine lettuce. No, seriously. It's crunchy, it actually has a taste, the leaves are ENORMOUS, and it's ridiculously low in calories.
I'm not composing my entire diet of romaine, of course, but if I'm going to snack at night, I might as well not kill my diet in the process.
Yesterday:
Total: 1364
Fat: 27g, 19%
Carbs: 185g, 44%
Protein: 126g, 38%
I've also found a new thing to snack on when I'm bored. It sounds stupid but bear with me: romaine lettuce. No, seriously. It's crunchy, it actually has a taste, the leaves are ENORMOUS, and it's ridiculously low in calories.
I'm not composing my entire diet of romaine, of course, but if I'm going to snack at night, I might as well not kill my diet in the process.
No Just about it -retail is a great place to start to build skills to put on a resume..
Customer Service
Dealing with difficult people
Multi tasking
Working on a schedule
Lots of things...
austin_88
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Your macro nutrient ratios look really good, it's good that your getting heaps of protein!
You could up the fat intake a bit though with healthy fats? Nothing is wrong with keeping it low however.
That's awesome about the job! Retail is great, I used to work at Kmart on the floow, running around checking prices and stocking shelves, I was TINY then! Now im stuck in an office where I am too busy to get my butt off the chair!
Keep it up your doing great!
uyis11
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I agree, you are so on target. More fats? If you please, but I find keeping fats really low allows me to eat more volumes of food without using up all my calories so fast. I don't know much about macros, but I do know that <50% carbs like you've been doing is a good ball park indicator of a balanced diet. Usually diets high in carbs are a sign of low protein, but your protein intake is looking great. Staying 100+g of protein per day while staying below 1500cal takes some finesse & you've got it. You're going to notice differences in the mirror at the end of June and then look like a different person at the end of the July.
Thanks. Hopefully I'll start seeing results soon, because I'm not seeing anything now. I'm going to the gym 4-5 days a week now. The minimum is 4, since I work four afternoons and I go to the gym before work in the mornings now. The rest depends on whether I'm willing to go on my days off.
Mainly I've been getting the protein in by eating tuna of some sort for lunch and grilled chicken for dinner. To be honest, I usually find myself scrambling to get more carbs in to fix the percentages. This is more difficult than it looks, because almost everything I eat has protein too. Usually it means eating a lot of fruit at night.
Today, however, is going to be a problem. I had planned my entire food intake around eating more grilled chicken. So I was at about 700 before dinner. My mother then informs me we're going out to eat, then calls me "unreasonable" after I protest. Even with minimal damage control, here's what I'll have eaten after dinner and after eating an orange afterwards (assuming the nutritional info is 100% accurate, which it usually isn't):
Total: 1169
Fat: 39g, 30%
Carbs: 127g, 35%
Protein: 101g, 35%
Which is too much fat and too few carbs. I've tried different things to fix the percentages and not much works.
Mainly I've been getting the protein in by eating tuna of some sort for lunch and grilled chicken for dinner. To be honest, I usually find myself scrambling to get more carbs in to fix the percentages. This is more difficult than it looks, because almost everything I eat has protein too. Usually it means eating a lot of fruit at night.
Today, however, is going to be a problem. I had planned my entire food intake around eating more grilled chicken. So I was at about 700 before dinner. My mother then informs me we're going out to eat, then calls me "unreasonable" after I protest. Even with minimal damage control, here's what I'll have eaten after dinner and after eating an orange afterwards (assuming the nutritional info is 100% accurate, which it usually isn't):
Total: 1169
Fat: 39g, 30%
Carbs: 127g, 35%
Protein: 101g, 35%
Which is too much fat and too few carbs. I've tried different things to fix the percentages and not much works.
If you ate zero carbs, your body would continue to work just fine, which isn't the case if you ate zero fat or zero protein. No harm comes from eating too few carbs, and neither 127g or 35% of calories is "too few" from a physiological standpoint.
Total calories is far more important than macronutrient ratios for weight loss, and your total calories are fine. Protein is the most important macronutrient for preserving lean mass, and your protein is fine. No need to stress too much about the rest - eat more carbs and less fat tomorrow to balance things out if you like, but don't beat yourself up for today.
Total calories is far more important than macronutrient ratios for weight loss, and your total calories are fine. Protein is the most important macronutrient for preserving lean mass, and your protein is fine. No need to stress too much about the rest - eat more carbs and less fat tomorrow to balance things out if you like, but don't beat yourself up for today.
Never mind. It turns out we're going to Panera instead, which means I need to recalculate my calories. AGAIN. I hate living with other people.
At least that solved the fat problem. IF the nutrition information is accurate. (I'm using the Strawberry Poppyseed salad, with chicken.
Total: 1017 calories
Fat: 21g 191 19%
Carbs: 140 442 45%
Protein: 87 347 35%
At least that solved the fat problem. IF the nutrition information is accurate. (I'm using the Strawberry Poppyseed salad, with chicken.
Total: 1017 calories
Fat: 21g 191 19%
Carbs: 140 442 45%
Protein: 87 347 35%