Weight-Loss My Daily Diet -- your opinions please :)

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chunkmonster2

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Hey Again,

I have but yet another question -- I am full of them.

I have set up my daily schedule for eating *it won't vary too much except breakfast and dinners... some mornings it could be eggs, oatmeal or cereal... dinner same thing, some nights it may be steak or lean beef*


Breakfast - 4 Slices of Chicken Bacon
Morning Snack - Celery w/Peanut Butter
- half of protein shake after morning jog (full protein shake includes half a banana, one cup of skim milk, one cup of protein powder)
Lunch - Tuna wrap (2 cans of tuna, 2 table spoons of mayo, pepper, lettuce on a whole grain wrap)
Afternoon Snack - Protein Bar
Dinner - Chicken Breast (some unknown spice or sauce with it). Broccolli and carrots along with it.
Evening Snack - After my main work out - Second half of protein shake from morning. Apple

I put it into myplate online to see the amount of calories.. It came out to be about 2000 which I am sure it will be a couple hundred over... so about 2200 cals.

I will be doing about 1hr and half of exercise a day. My job isn't real demanding but my BMR worked out to be 2300cals a day.

Now for the big question.... is there anything anyone sees that obviously should be changed or tweaked. Lemme know any suggestions I am up for antyhing. Thanks again

B
 
Breakfast - 4 Slices of Chicken Bacon
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I've honestly never heard of chicken bacon - although I have heard of turkey bacon. I had to search for it in Google to find any nutritional info. It actually looks pretty good nutrition wise, but you really should be eating more for breakfast than just 3 strips of bacon.

Seems like a lot of protein shake/protein bars in there and it would be better overall if you could get more of your protein from real food. I personally do have a protein shake after my workouts, but it's a small fraction of my daily plan ... really I get the vast majority of my protein from real food.

I also think you could really increase the veggies and fruits ... adding in an apple for a snack and some fruit in the mornings would help with that.
 
Thanks a bunch Kara!

I think your right - I kinda felt the same way (about the too much protein from not actual food). I was trying to meat a protein requirement for the exercise I am doing -- maybe instead of a bar I should just go with more bacon or eggs in the morning with breakie -- that would help. Also maybe I could have another veggie or fruit in the morn with breakfast.

My friend told me breakfast is suppose to be a fair sized meal - I have such a hard time eating in the morning (up till now I didnt even eat breakfast). I will have to try and work up to adding a bit more then cause I do know its essential.

Thanks for all your tips, its greatly appreciated!

B

EDIT: I had never heard of chicken bacon either -- I was looking for turkey bacon cause that was what was recommended to me... but I couldnt find any... all I could find was the chicken so I hoped it would subsitute haha.
 
My friend told me breakfast is suppose to be a fair sized meal - I have such a hard time eating in the morning (up till now I didnt even eat breakfast). I will have to try and work up to adding a bit more then cause I do know its essential.
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Yeah, to be honest, I never was much of a breakfast eater, but I've found that eating a good breakfast really makes it easier for me the rest of the day. I generally have yogurt (Greek style, which has a lot more protein in it) and fruit (usually blueberries) and sometimes even oats added to that.

If I eat between 300-500 calories for breakfast, I tend to not crave things the rest of the day, and I also tend to not be hungry in the afternoon and get tempted by the vending machines at work.

It takes a while to get used to eating that much in the morning, but in my experience it really does help!
 
Yeah that's pretty much what she was telling me.
That definitely needs to be a goal for me to set to work towards for sure! I am very thankful there are no vending machines at my work -- minus for pop which I don't drink anyways..

Kara I have another quick question for you - where is a good place to look to pick up a food scale? I have never had one before or anything but if I wanna get quite serious about knowing exactly how much my calorie intake is I will definitely need it (I watched the video and it totally makes sense). I noticed in your journal you said you have one...

Do places like walmart have that type or thing? Or is it more of a specialized thing you need to pick up at a cooking store... I am totally cooking illiterate so I have no idea
 
I think I got mine at Target, but I know Walmart carries them too.

My recommendation would be to get a digital one - make sure that you can measure in both oz and grams, and make sure it has a "tare" function - which means you can put a bowl or cup or plate on it an zero it out, then measure just the food.

You should be able to get something decent for around $25 or so.
 
ahhhh...
sweet deals!
Thanks for the quick info -- I'll try and pick one up tomorrow. Simple reason - my diet expects me to know how many oz of meat I am eating and I said "how the hells am I a'spose to do that"

then i read your journal where it says that there is technology that does this for us..... see how lame I am with cooking and cooking utensils..

definitely going to have to check your blog for different ways to cook meat too cause I have no idea.... and unfortunatly my apartment doesnt have a oven... only toaster oven. My father tells me it is okay to cook meat in a toaster overn but I dont necessarily trust him since he is where I developed my cooking skills *or lack there of* from haha
 
Hehe!

FWIW, I cook in my toaster oven all the time - especially in the summer when I don't want to heat up the kitchen by using the big oven or when I'm just cooking for myself. Fish, a couple of chicken breasts, a steak, etc. ... they all do really well in the toaster oven.

Heck, I've even roasted a whole (small) chicken in the toaster oven and it came out great!
 
Ah.... so he WAS right....

just like he was right that my ipod was lost in my room.....

there ain't no way I am admitting it, I will just secretly cook my chicken in the toaster oven and pretend that conversation never happened with him.

I don't know how he manages to be right about these things - I swear to you when him and my mother divorced all he knew how to cook was anything seafood *hes a fisherman*, meatloaf and macaroni and tomato soup. Since me and my lil bro dont like seafood it was meatload and macaroni alternating nights for well over a year....

thanks again Kara ;)
 
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