Yeah, its not the most interesting food log, but i've resolved to lose weight so i've been cutting back (probably a bit too much). Also note, that I i drink between one and two liters of water throughout the day.
Friday:
12:00pm 16oz soy latte from Dunn Bros. I was hanging out and doing homework at the shop, it was the only way I was going to do homework on a Friday.
8:00pm Tuna Club from Jimmy Johns and a peach. Feeling a bit lazy and didnt want to cook, so I figured it was close and relatively cheap/healthy.
9:00pm-11:00pm Three 12oz Summit Horizon Red Ale's. Out with some friends and said if I'm gonna drink beer..I'm gonna drink good beer.
Saturday:
11:00am 16oz soy latte from Dunn Bros. I was out job searching and was a little hungry/thirsty.
6:00pm 80z alaskan king crab legs, one cup of mashed potatoes and a little salad. I went home for the day and my mother made a delicious meal. I'm so lucky, thanks Mom!!
Sunday:
5:00pm 2cups broccoli/carrot/pasta with cheese at home. It was a frozen meal I bought at the store, claimed to be healthy--definitely lacked on taste but hey 500 caolories.
Wow, I really never eat food before like 6pm. meh.
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Wow, you really don't eat much at all it seems. I mean Sunday all you had was a meal at 5 PM that consisted of 500 calories? I understand the wanting to lose weight part, but you don't want to completely starve yourself throughout the day. Especially when we've got class, papers, exams, etc. going on all the time, which really requires a lot of energy.
ReplyDeleteGranted, I'm just going off of your post, and I have no idea how busy your days are or what you're doing/where you're going all the time, but I'd be one cranky bitch if I went that long without eating anything!
And I'm not saying that i'm never a cranky bitch without food! My friday/weekend I had not much to do so I'm not too worried. Now showing this to my mother, dietian, would make me worried AND get me in a bit of trouble. so everyone hush!!!
ReplyDeleteThe question of whether or not you are eating enough is a difficult one to address, but I hope that you average more than 1000 cals a day. I am an expert calorie counter thanks to my crazy dad, and to me it looks like you're not consuming much more than that. But 3 days isn't always a very representative sample, of course :)
ReplyDeleteSupposedly on a largely sedentary day, a 160 lb person should consume 2000 calories in order to stay at their current weight. Supposedly if you cut back like 3500 or so calories in a week, this could correspond to losing one pound - this is in the literature. But actually, it is much more complicated than that. You probably don't want to aim for losing 1 lb / week - it can be a lot healthier to set goals based on how you *feel* - are you more energetic? do you feel stronger? etc.
As Pollen points out, our brains may have evolved just to deal with the dilemma of what to eat. Additionally, we seem to have a very eating-disorder ridden society - cutting too many calories or eating twice as much as we need, cutting bread, obsessing over convenient ways to eat and then convenient ways to get skinny from all of that convenient eating. Beyond that, how your body responds to what you eat is tied very strongly to both genetic factors and your over-all lifestyle, which can be hard to characterize - ie, How active are you? How many calories do you burn in any given activity?
Two things, from my own experience, that I would like to mention - water fills your stomach, but it shouldn't take the place of food. Diet fads always say to drink tons of water but one theory is that our current "drink 8 glasses of water a day" fad was just a gimmick to get us to buy more bottled water.
If you starve yourself and your body goes into starvation mode, you can mess up your metabolism in such a way that it clings to calories and when you finally *do* eat again, you'll gain fat more readily because this is the hardest energy store to lose. You'll be sluggish and your brain won't function as well.
The other thing, is that I firmly believe that adding exercise is way more valuable than subtracting food. Increasing exercise will stimulate your metabolism and you'll probably see more results.
As we might see from the French, you can eat just about ANYTHING if you also walk, bike, dance, etc on a regular basis.
if you are interested in using calorie counting to help decide how much to eat, I recommend this website: http://caloriecount.about.com/
You can track everything you eat. It will give you a baseline, ie "do not eat less than this", and you can log all of the calories you take in and all of the calories you burn in any given day - if you walk 1 mile, you can put that in there and it'll add the calories burned from that activity to your total for the day. it isn't going to be 100% accurate, but it'll help you avoid both under-eating and over-eating. And it also grades the nutritional content of foods.
The website also includes forums and advice from nutritionists, and plans for easing into different exercise programs, etc.