Jun
21
A Day In My Life - Thursday
Filed Under Eating Healthy, Weight Loss
Today was rather busy, so I just jotted down some notes on what I ate without looking into the nutritional details. Now that I have a bit more time, I’m going to look at the specifics. If you’re doing your own food journal, make sure to write down everything as it happens, even if you don’t have time for the calorie numbers. Just write it all down and look at it in detail later. If you don’t, you’ll forget, and that’s when you tend to miss the little things that can really ruin your healthy eating habits.
7am Breakfast
Small portion of leftover pasta and a peach. You can see the pasta nutrition here and the peach one is the same as yesterday’s breakfast. So that’s 200 calories, 5g of fat, 34g of carbs, 5g of fiber and 5g of protein for the pasta, plus 59 calories, 14g of carbs, 2g of fiber and 1g of protein for the peach. Total is 259 calories, 5g of fat, 48g of carbs, 7g of fiber, and 6g of protein. Not too bad. I don’t usually eat pasta for breakfast but it was leftovers from my fiance’s dinner and it would have gone bad otherwise.
Snack
Twix Bar. Twix bar nutrition is here. At 284 calories, 14g of fat, 38g of carbs and 3g of protein, the twix bar is definitely not healthy. Still, I like them too much to quit and so I plan around them. Again, don’t kill yourself over the occasional bad snack, just acknowledge and plan your eating habits accordingly.
Lunch
Veggie Burrito (Can you tell I like Mexican Food?) Nutrition facts can be found here. 692 calories, 27g of fat, 91g of carbs, 22g of protein. Fiber number unknown but I’m guessing at least 10g. Not too bad by itself and I made sure to stay away from the chips and guacamole, as we discussed yesterday.
4pm Snack
Cottage cheese in a whole wheat wrap. These were leftovers from Tuesday’s lunch. the wrap was 90 calories, 3g of fat, 15g of carbs, 9g of fiber and 9g of protein. The cottage cheese was 90 calories, 2g of fat, 4g of carbs and 13g of protein. All told, this meal was 180 calories, 5g of fat, 19g of carbs, 9g of fiber and 22g of protein.
By the way, you may have noticed that I like wraps, either home made or as things like burritos. Wraps are a great alternative to bread. They provide the same texture and do a great job of holding things together like a sandwich would, but they can be far healthier. There are a variety of low fat wraps on the market with really nice fiber and protein numbers.
6:30pm Dinner
Chow mein noodles and steamed vegetables. Nutritional information for the noodles can be found here. I used the 1 cup serving and then multiplied by two since I had a large serving. That means 474 calories, 28g of fat, 52g of carbs, 4g of fiber and 8g of protein. A bit high in carbs but paired with the veggies, it made for a good meal.
I found the nutritional information on the veggies here. This isn’t an exact match to what I ate but it’s close enough to use. Again, I multiplied the numbers by three since I had a large portion. So for the veggies it was 150 calories, 6g of fat, 24g of carbs, 9g of fiber and 6g of protein. Making the total for the meal 624 calories, 34g of fat, 76g of carbs, 13g of fiber and 14g of protein.
Totals For The Day
Calories - 2039
Fat - 80g
Carbs - 272g
Fiber - 39g
Protein - 67g
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