Jun
19
A Day In My Life - Tuesday
Filed Under Eating Healthy
Monday’s post is complete now just in case you went to sleep before me. Now let’s get started on Tuesday.
Breakfast
3 vegetarian breakfast patties from Whole Kitchen. Each one has 80 calories, 4.5g of fat, 8g of protein, 2g of fiber and 3g of carbs. Throw in 1 medium banana, and we have a grand total of 345 calories, 13.5g of fat, 9g of fiber, 25g of protein and 36g of carbs. The patties have a higher calories from fat percentage than I usually like (50% of the calories in them come from fat) but my diet is usually low on fat so that should be ok. Toss in a One A Day vitamin supplement and my breakfast is complete.
Snack
Twix Bar, also known as, the sweet tooth strikes again! As I said yesterday, I love candy. Rather than struggle with this and end up feeling guilty, I just choose to control it. Instead of eating a whole bowl of chocolate, I went with 1 candy bar. Not healthy, but hey, life isn’t all about health, sometimes it’s about enjoying yourself. Twix bar nutrition is here.
As you can see, it’s pretty unhealthy. Again, that’s the whole point of this exercise, to make me aware of what I eat. at 284 calories, the twix bar is full of fat and sugar. It does have a slight bit of protein in it, but I would have been much better off eating a piece of fruit instead. Heck, for 284 calories I could have eaten a small sandwich which would have satisfied my hunger a lot better. Still, I don’t feel guilty, I planned out my eating plan to accommodate these little snacks. As long as I am aware of them and don’t overdo it, I should be fine.
Lunch
I went to Nob Hill food for lunch. I prefer doing that over a restaurant because it has better prices, more choices and I know exactly what I’m getting. At the same time, Nob Hill food also me to be social at lunch, while brown bagging it (bringing lunch from home) might not. They have a nice seating area where you can eat what you bought.
I ate 2 wraps low fat wraps for a total of 180 calories, 5g of fat, 30g of carbs, 18g of fiber and 18g of protein. I filled the wraps with cottage cheese and cucumbers. The cottage cheese was 180 calories, 5g of fat, 8g of carbs and 26g of protein. both of these items were clearly labeled with nutritional information on them. The cucumber added 45 calories, 11g of carbs, 2g of fiber and 2g of protein and I also added a nectarine for dessert. This added another 62 calories, 15g of carbs, 2g of fiber and 2g of protein. These numbers come from the ND website and can be found here(use the 1 cucumber serving size) and here(use the 1 medium serving size).
Grand total for lunch was 467 calories, 10g of fat, 64g of carbs, 22g of fiber and 48g of protein. By the way, for those curious about price, I paid $15 for this, which also included a frozen entree which I plan to eat as an afternoon snack. I have plenty of leftovers which should supply me with at least one more day of food. Which means I basically paid about $5 for my lunch. That’s very competitive with restaurant prices where I would have ended up with a $7 to $10 bill.
Snack
Afternoon snack to hold me over until dinner. Ate this one at about 5pm. It was a frozen lasagna from Amy’s. It had 310 calories, 11g of fat, 13g of protein, 6g of fiber and 41 grams of carbs. I like a slightly protein heavy snack in the afternoon, especially after I work out. Keeps me full until dinner. Otherwise, a rather unremarkable snack. Only thing to mention is that Amy’s line of veggie foods is excellent. Even you non vegetarians might want to give it a shot. Great taste without a lot of fat.
Dinner
Went to a volunteer meeting and they decided to feed us. Like most social gathering they went with something cheap and easy. In this case, it was Little Caesar’s Pizza. I ate three slices of the veggie pizza. Looking up the nutrition information here (using numbers for veggie, 14″ pizza). So adding up the numbers for three slices I get 720 calories, 23g of fat, 96g of carbs, 9g of fiber and 36g of protein. Interesting note here that an all meat pizza is really not that much worse than the veggie pizza. That’s not saying that all meat is good, it’s just saying that pizza in general is probably not food you should consider healthy, even if you smother it in tomatoes, artichokes and green peppers.
Total for the day
Calories -2136
Fat - 72g
Fiber - 47g
Protein - 125g
Carbs - 275g
Another interesting note. As a vegetarian, I am getting more than enough protein. That’s something I worry about on occasion but this little exercise is showing me that I’m doing fine and don’t need protein supplements.
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I come from the same dieting mindset. I al,low myself 200 calories of junk. It sets my mind free
Hi William,
Yah, I hate feeling guilty about my snacks. I know they’re a bit unhealthy but so what? If I plan my diet right I can be healthy and still enjoy the occasional bit of chocolate. Life’s too much fun to spend it feeling guilty all the time
Gal