Please Rate my Diet

tbernie07

Hi, i am a 25 yr old female 68kg and 5 4". I would be grateful if u wud give ur opinions on my diet and where i could improve. This is what i have eaten today.

9.00 Porridge and banana
11.00 Orange and apple
1.30 Dinner- Potatoes carrots parsnips and steamed chicken
3.30 Apple
5.30 Fruit scone with low low butter
7.00 Salad- Potato salad, lettuce tomatoes and ham
Probably some chocolate tonight.
Drink about 2 litres of water a day.

SunnyDub1

Diet is pretty poor, with too much unnecessary carbs and sugar.

Porridge is ok, but try having eggs instead.
Cut out potatoes (carbs) replace with sweet potatoes or extra veg.

How come you don't eat a lunch ?


Try eat breakfast, snack,lunch, snack dinner.
Snacks should be berries, nuts, Greek/natural yogurt.
Cut out the chocolate ,scones.
Also need for all that fruit, fruit also very high in sugars

Try base your foods high protein, good fats, low carbs.

Read the stickies.

Paddywiggum

have you tried calculating your calories taken in each day?
do you get any exercise in during the week?

tbernie07

I take in about 1400 calories a day, i play gaelic football do a lot of cycling and do some circuit training.

Paddywiggum

your calorie intake is low, even without that exercise. what are your goals?

tbernie07

Id just like to lose two or three kg.

homemadecider

Weigh your food and track it using myfitnesspal.com (it's free). I doubt you are only on 1400 cals from looking at that diet.

Sephya

SunnyDub1 wrote: »

Diet is pretty poor, with too much unnecessary carbs and sugar.

what unnecessary carbs? not enough carbs imo.

SunnyDub1 wrote: »

Porridge is ok, but try having eggs instead.

eggs seems to be the stock response. porridge is grand.

SunnyDub1 wrote: »

Cut out potatoes (carbs) replace with sweet potatoes or extra veg.

not much difference between potatoes & sweet potatoes. both are carbs (nothing wrong with that) as is veg.

SunnyDub1 wrote: »

Also need for all that fruit, fruit also very high in sugars

So what?

Paddywiggum

Sephya wrote: »

what unnecessary carbs? not enough carbs imo.



eggs seems to be the stock response. porridge is grand.



not much difference between potatoes & sweet potatoes. both are carbs (nothing wrong with that) as is veg.





So what?

have a read of this. Sunnydub gave good advice for someone trying to lose couple kgs.

http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=george&dbid=69

Sephya

Paddywiggum wrote: »

Sunnydub gave good advice for someone trying to lose couple kgs.

hardly. that poster has recommended low carb. fruits & vegetables are carbs so low carb = low fruits & vegetables = low fibre = constipation. not my idea of a good diet.

Paddywiggum

Sephya wrote: »

hardly. that poster has recommended low carb. fruits & vegetables are carbs so low carb = low fruits & vegetables = low fibre = constipation. not my idea of a good diet.

sunnydub recommended reducing sugar intake(unnecessary carbs) and taking in extra veg. non-starchy carbs(greens) and low sugar fruit is actually high in fibre.

http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/nutrition/p/fiberinfo.htm

perhaps offer the OP advice rather than criticising others who are trying to help.

El_Dangeroso

Sephya wrote: »

hardly. that poster has recommended low carb. fruits & vegetables are carbs so low carb = low fruits & vegetables = low fibre = constipation. not my idea of a good diet.

Utter nonsense.

Sephya

El_Dangeroso wrote: »

Utter nonsense.

how so? mark sisson says you gotta keep carbs under 150g per day or you risk becoming a sumo wrestler! 150g of carbs is pathetic.

El_Dangeroso

Sephya wrote: »

how so? mark sisson says you gotta keep carbs under 150g per day or you risk becoming a sumo wrestler! 150g of carbs is pathetic.

Huh? I was saying what I bolded in your post is utter nonsense. Which it is.

Sephya

El_Dangeroso wrote: »

Huh? I was saying what I bolded in your post is utter nonsense. Which it is.

low carbohydrate = a diet low in carbohydrate. fruits & vegetables are carbohydrates hence a low carbohydrate diet is one that keeps carbs low.

mark siison is a low carb guru who warns against going over 150g of carbs a day otherwise you will risk 'insidious obesity'. pure hyperbole on his part. i mentioned him because he seems to b one of the more popular l/c gurus.

El_Dangeroso

Sephya wrote: »

low carbohydrate = a diet low in carbohydrate. fruits & vegetables are carbohydrates hence a low carbohydrate diet is one that keeps carbs low.

mark siison is a low carb guru who warns against going over 150g of carbs a day otherwise you will risk 'insidious obesity'. pure hyperbole on his part. i mentioned him because he seems to b one of the more popular l/c gurus.

Have you ever read a book on low carb? Have you ever seen a low carb meal? Low carb diets have a tonne of vegetables and fruits. Most fruit and vegetables are low carb.

Sephya

El_Dangeroso wrote: »

Have you ever read a book on low carb? Have you ever seen a low carb meal? Low carb diets have a tonne of vegetables and fruits. Most fruit and vegetables are low carb.

whats tonnes? how much fibre does the average l/c person get? not a whole lot i'd say.

El_Dangeroso

Sephya wrote: »

whats tonnes? how much fibre does the average l/c person get? not a whole lot i'd say.

Tonnes = about half the plate, if not more.

Sephya

El_Dangeroso wrote: »

Tonnes = about half the plate, if not more.

but that doesn't tell me anything. how big is the plate? how high is the veg piled etc? how often during the day are fruits & veg consumed and in what quantity etc?

you still didn't answer me on the fibre question.

doctorwhogirl

Sephya wrote: »

but that doesn't tell me anything. how big is the plate? how high is the veg piled etc? how often during the day are fruits & veg consumed and in what quantity etc?

you still didn't answer me on the fibre question.

If you want to get into particulars...

Half the plate is half the plate whether the plate is 20cm or 200cm. It's half the plate. It's a lot of veg. I haven't yet taken my tape measure out to see how high it is.

I'm fairly low carb. I get about 25-30g of fibre. And I don't really try and get in that much fibre, it just happens because I eat copious amounts of veg.

Sephya

doctorwhogirl wrote: »

If you want to get into particulars...

Half the plate is half the plate whether the plate is 20cm or 200cm. It's half the plate. It's a lot of veg. I haven't yet taken my tape measure out to see how high it is.

I'm fairly low carb. I get about 25-30g of fibre. And I don't really try and get in that much fibre, it just happens because I eat copious amounts of veg.

those measurements are subjective. i was looking for objective measurements.

25-30g of fibre is not that much tbh.

Paddywiggum

Sephya wrote: »

those measurements are subjective. i was looking for objective measurements.

25-30g of fibre is not that much tbh.

why are you fixated with fibre? have you suffered from a lack of it, you mentioned constipation?

most points youve made have been completely wrong, are you guessing?

see daily fibre intake:

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/fiber-table/

http://www.bupa.co.uk/individuals/health-information/directory/f/fibre

Sephya

Paddywiggum wrote: »

why are you fixated with fibre? have you suffered from a lack of it, you mentioned constipation?

because fibre is a carbohydrate and low carb people restrict carbs. i was just enquiring as to how much fibre the average low carber got.

Paddywiggum wrote: »

most points youve made have been completely wrong, are you guessing?

please explain the points i've made that are 'completely wrong'.

Paddywiggum wrote: »

see daily fibre intake:

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/fiber-table/

http://www.bupa.co.uk/individuals/health-information/directory/f/fibre

the rda for fibre is pathetically low.

cosbloodymick

tbernie07 wrote: »

Hi, i am a 25 yr old female 68kg and 5 4". I would be grateful if u wud give ur opinions on my diet and where i could improve. This is what i have eaten today.

9.00 Porridge and banana
11.00 Orange and apple
1.30 Dinner- Potatoes carrots parsnips and steamed chicken
3.30 Apple
5.30 Fruit scone with low low butter
7.00 Salad- Potato salad, lettuce tomatoes and ham
Probably some chocolate tonight.
Drink about 2 litres of water a day.

I think thats a pretty healthy diet. If you want to lose a kilo or 2 maybe cut out the scone between dinner and tea. Also potato salad if smothered in mayonaise is quite fattening so you could maybe pass on that.

doctorwhogirl

Sephya wrote: »

those measurements are subjective. i was looking for objective measurements.

25-30g of fibre is not that much tbh.

Oh good Lord., It's rare I get irritated on here but good God. If you are being that particular with the type of answers you're looking for write a detailed questionnaire because this thread is going nowhere.

*exits gracefully with all my fibre*

Paddywiggum

Sephya wrote: »

because fibre is a carbohydrate and low carb people restrict carbs. i was just enquiring as to how much fibre the average low carber got.



please explain the points i've made that are 'completely wrong'.



the rda for fibre is pathetically low.

nope, i was wrong, wrong to even get into this with you :rolleyes: exits.

Nonoperational

tbernie07 wrote: »

Hi, i am a 25 yr old female 68kg and 5 4". I would be grateful if u wud give ur opinions on my diet and where i could improve. This is what i have eaten today.

9.00 Porridge and banana
11.00 Orange and apple
1.30 Dinner- Potatoes carrots parsnips and steamed chicken
3.30 Apple
5.30 Fruit scone with low low butter
7.00 Salad- Potato salad, lettuce tomatoes and ham
Probably some chocolate tonight.
Drink about 2 litres of water a day.

If you want to just loose 1-2 Kg and your doing decent exercise then you don't need to do much...

9.00 Porridge and banana - lovely
11.00 Orange and apple - good, there is a bit of sugar in fruit, maybe just have one or the other.
1.30 Dinner- Potatoes carrots parsnips and steamed chicken - grand
3.30 Apple - grand
5.30 Fruit scone with low low butter - fruit scones can be demons... substitute to 2 slices of brown bread
7.00 Salad- Potato salad, lettuce tomatoes and ham - lovely just watch the mayo on the potato salad. Maybe some brown rice or couscous instead to mix it up a bit.
Probably some chocolate tonight. - obviously if you want to loose weight keep this to a minimum.

Anyway your weight/height puts you right in the healthy category so you don't need to do much. Don't get obsessed on carbs, if you are playing lots of sports you need carbs...

tbernie07

Thanks for all ur advice.

aquaman

It looks like a pretty sound diet to me. No heavily processed foods in there, a sensible mix of fruits and veg (I realise this is only one day but it is all that we have to go on)
Before going tinkering with carbs/fibre and other such complexities, if you are not losing weight as desired at current exercise levels, you have 3 options to achieve your goal:
1) Exercise a bit more and eat the same
2) Eat a bit less and exercise the same
3) Exercise a bit more AND eat a bit less

If you are going to eat less the obvious things to restrict are the scone and or the chocolate.
If you are going to exercise more I will not advise as have no idea what you already do.

Good luck