OneEyedJack's Zero Sugar Journey

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LaMaria said:
I´m an SI units person, so much easier. I don´t really try to understand when people start with cups, miles, gallons and pounds :p Unless I´m trying to copy a recipe, then I´ll take the time to convert. About the yogurt: I live in Austria, so my brands won´t mean anything to you. Just look at the label and see if they´ve added anything to the milk beside yogurt cultures. Proper yogurt doesn´t need anything more.
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I get it....lol. I feel exactly how Hale feels when I see a bunch of metric measurements. Thanks for the info on yogurt. I just worked out so I'm off to buy some.
 
My yoghurt doesn't have any sugar added to it. I was assuming you meant the lactose. My mother was lactose intolerant, but could eat yoghurt without any problems.
 
cate said:
My yoghurt doesn't have any sugar added to it. I was assuming you meant the lactose. My mother was lactose intolerant, but could eat yoghurt without any problems.
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I thought all yogurt had sugar added. Anyway, I got a big tub of plain yogurt. I ate a small container with several blackberries for lunch.
tonight I ate a salad.
But still I only consumed 809 calories. I should be taking in 1990.
 
Some days are like that. I had a day last week where I was around 1,000, but should be around 1,700 with my activity level. Just don't make it a habit.
 
-Cory- said:
Some days are like that. I had a day last week where I was around 1,000, but should be around 1,700 with my activity level. Just don't make it a habit.
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Actually...that is wrong. I kind of ODed on Brown Flax Seeds. I wrote the info down wrong in my app I guess.
1717 total calories...so...oh boy...those flax seeds have a lot more calories than I thought!
 
The problem I seem to be having...and it is just because I am ignorant...is matching up all my nutrition 'goals' on my app. This is only the second day I've been doing this...so...I'll give myself a break...I do want to get it all matching up right? I mean, clinically that is what a healthy diet is correct? Or am I making too much of all that?
 
Ohhhhhh yeah. Anything that's a seed is going to add up FAST. I'll make overnight oats with Chia seeds in them sometimes. 1 tablespoon has like....70 calories in it. That's on par with freaking ranch dressing.
 
To address your second comment, don't take on too much to fast. I think it's fantastic that you've started to use the app in the first place. Why not spend a week just using it to track calories and explore other features as you become more familiar? I assume that you mean your macros when you're talking about nutrition goals. That's some next level shit right there that lot of people don't even focus on until they get to their goal weight or unless they have specific goals regarding muscle gains that require tracking how much protein you eat or are tracking carbs because they're trying to eat low carb.
 
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Ohhhhhh yeah. Anything that's a seed is going to add up FAST. I'll make overnight oats with Chia seeds in them sometimes. 1 tablespoon has like....70 calories in it. That's on par with freaking ranch dressing.
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Yeah that dinner salad I thought was 425...but I noticed I hadn't put any numbers in for fiber...and it wouldn't let me so I deleted it and put it in again...straight from the website....so the salad turned out to be 1360. lol
 
-Cory- said:
To address your second comment, don't take on too much to fast. I think it's fantastic that you've started to use the app in the first place. Why not spend a week just using it to track calories and explore other features as you become more familiar? I assume that you mean your macros when you're talking about nutrition goals. That's some next level shit right there that lot of people don't even focus on until they get to their goal weight or unless they have specific goals regarding muscle gains that require tracking how much protein you eat or are tracking carbs because they're trying to eat low carb.
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Great! I will take your advice...I never paid any attention really to all that before now. but yeah...the macros...when it tells me I need way more potassium and I am way over on cholestrol and under on this and over on that....but I understand what you are talking about.
So...I think all that is important...but God! What would my macros must have looked like 'before' I started on this journey! Yikes!
 
Macros would be protein, carbs and fat while what you're worried about are MICROnutrients. I still agree with Cory that you may want to give it a week with the things you think you want to be eating, then check if there are any nutrients you're consistently low on. Hardly anyone hits every goal every day but you should try and do so on average, if that makes sense.
 
I really don't know much about it...so, thanks! It's kind of like writing a killer essay and getting dinged for misspelled words and sentence structure. I'm just feeling all groovy-fied that I had lost an acutal pound when I woke up this morning. I'm calling it an actual pound because...well...it was a pound not 6! Plus, I worked out yesterday.
I am going to see what I can do with this unprocessed oat bran for breakfast..thinking I'll add some fruit and yogurt to it...hopefully it will be edible.
 
Okay, so, I studied up on the wonders of Oat Bran! I'm going to start with 1/2 cup (25 g) cooked with yogurt and fruit.
 
Not exactly the tastiest thing I ever experienced...I think next time I'll use a little less bran and a lot more fruit. But it was filling.
 
Don´t fret too much. These things can be overwhelming if you´ve never considered them before. So many different things to consider! But you´ll get used to it soon enough. Certain kinds of fruit (usually berries) have lots of fiber as well, by the way.
 
Right...I got some blackberries yesterday at Wholefoods...I'm planting some BB bushes this spring...I planted some where I used to live. Only got like 30 berries the first year...but the next...oh wow, it was like 300.
 
fibre can be a little difficult to track, if your eating anything packaged, different countries have different labeling laws for fibre.
 
Trusylver said:
fibre can be a little difficult to track, if your eating anything packaged, different countries have different labeling laws for fibre.
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In addition to fibre being difficult to track....
I have discovered something that has made me just a tad angry! I have been using the nutritional charts from myfitnesspal.com and I have found that a lot of the information they have put out isn't exactly accurate. I was putting in the info for rice...and it said 1 cup of rice had over 5000 calories. Then I tried inputting information for the Navy Beans I just cooked and it had zeros in everything except calories...so...I found another nutrition website that is incredibly comprehensive... http://nutritiondata.self.com. So now I am busy changing all the information I have for everything I already put in. It's okay though. I just like to have correct numbers on whatever I m working on.

Anyway, I've had a busy day....cooking Navy beans and grilling salmon...and of course cleaning the kitchen up.
Got a lot closer to all my goals...nutrient and macro and calorie. So I'm feeling pretty good with that.
Right now I'm about 500 calories from my max. And I'm pretty much good for the day.
 
Trusylver said:
when logging food you need to be careful to choose between cooked and raw, a cup of uncooked rice is vastly different to 1 cup of cooked rice.
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Oooh....good point. Now I need to go back and review everything....thanks alot! :svengo:
I probably put uncooked navy beans....oh well...life is good and the information I am getting from you and others here is beyond good...it is outstanding.

Phew....I'm good! I only had two cooked items in their...grilled salmon and Cooked navy beans.
Thanks for keeping an eye out for me...I'm real smart sometimes but I can be soooo dumb. Typical human. :beerchug:

In the next post I included a screenshot of the white rice...steamed white rice...5603 calories for .75 cup
 
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