Sport Is this a good balanced diet ?

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Breakfast - 6 weetbix + lite milk (400 calories

Morning tea : Apple (80 cals)

Lunch : Chicken cheese and lettuce sandwich on white bread (350 calories)
mamee dried noodles (125 calories)

Afternoon tea: Nutri-grain bar (125 calories)

Tea: whatever is cooked for me (usually pasta or meat and veggies)
 
No, it's not balanced... There is a lot of sugar and processed carbs... very lacking in the veggie and fruit department.
 
Here are a couple of handouts that I use regularly with my clients to give them a better idea of how to create balanced meals... these are not specific ingredients, but in general how you should balance your veggies, proteins, and grains/starches.

http://www.diabetes.ca/diabetes-and-you/nutrition/portion-guide/

There's a note at the bottom to include some dairy and fruit with your meal... this really depends on how you space your meals throughout your day and your caloric needs and goals. If you're trying to cut down on calories, sometimes I would suggest to skip the fruit and dairy at your main 3 meals, but have them as one or two snacks between meals. The other thing is breakfast... Not everyone could eat a breakfast balanced this way. A dietician that I work with says to try arranging your plate with 1/3 fruit, 1/3 protein, and 1/3 starches/grains in the morning.

For example, for you I might suggest arranging your day this way:

Breakfast: 1/3 fruit, 1/3 protein, 1/3 grains/starch (maybe berries, milk, and a small amount of cereal/granola/oatmeal...)

Morning tea : piece of fruit or some veggies with a protein food (apple & cheese, apple & peanut butter, carrots & greek yogurt, etc.)

Lunch : 1/2 veggies (at least 2 kinds), 1/4 protein, 1/4 grains/starches (if you have to do the sandwhich, go for WHOLE GRAIN bread, chicken, cheese, lettuce, and add more veggies like tomato, sprouts, or whatever you like. Use minimal sauces/dressings. Ditch the noodles! If you feel you need something more, try having veggies and a small amount of dip or greek yogurt on the side)

Afternoon tea: piece of fruit or some veggies with a protein food (Ditch the nutrigrain bar or any other bar for that matter)

Tea: 1/2 veggies (at least 2 kinds), 1/4 protein, 1/4 grains/starches (just really focus on the portions of each food group if at all possible - sometimes it comes down to keeping the ingredients separated instead of mixing everything in one pot. Often with pasta, there ends up being 3/4 pasta and 1/4 sauce and other ingredients)

How much control do you have over the groceries and meal cooking? That's where it can get tough to have those balanced meals... you might know how you should eat but the person doing the cooking might not, or might not agree, or they might not have the same nutritional goals in mind.

Hope that helps a bit
 
I think I'd be on the verge of passing out by lunchtime if I followed your diet, Rooster. Although I used to be fine eating like that 30kg ago.

The fact that you're eating some form of meat and vegetable more than once a day is good, but I'd definitely go for more salad on that sandwich. Even McDonald's has more salad than that. If it were me, personally, I'd probably scrap the noodles and have another sandwich, too. But I don't know what your appetite and fitness goals are.

Cereal is a pretty crummy way to go for breakfast, but if you're going to eat it anyway, I'd go for a cereal that's got lots of ingrediants in it. I'm more likely to go for a cereal that includes seeds and fruit than just a pile of wheat meshed together. It still isn't perfect, but it's probably got more nutritional value than weet-bix.

For snacks, if it were me I'd be eating even more fruit, and probably some nuts. I personally find that 2 serves of fruit and 1 serve of nuts, washed down with some water, will usually keep me going until I get my lunch. Then my lunch is usually so filling that all I need is some milk between then and dinner to keep me going. But again, that's my body, I can't speak for yours.

As PLB indicated, pasta dishes aren't great for a balanced meal, but if you only have them occassionally, if you add in some more vegetables on the side, you could do worse. Meat and 3 veg is pretty easy to organise into a balanced meal, as shown above.
 
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