Food

So today, all discouraged by my lack of progress, I decided to see what I could improve. I don't know why I didn't look these things up to start with. As you know from my background, this isn't the first time I've decided to change the way I eat. Every time I look at the nutrition facts in the food I'm eating, I'm surprised. EVERY. TIME.

So with the help of this website to figure out the nutrition facts in recipes, fruits, and vegetables, and this website to figure out what numbers I should be aiming for, I now have a plan. Good thing I only eat about 10 things... it didn't take so long to make a chart :)

I just did yesterday's for an example (mostly because I just googled how to make a table and I wanted to try it):

	Breakfast	Lunch	Snack	Supper	Snack	Total	Goal
Calories	358	491	116	450	96	1511	1200-1550
Carbs	58.5	51.5	14	76	25.5	225.5	163-236
Protein	11	13	7.5	16.5	.5	48.5	60-137
Fat	7.5	25.8	4.1	8.1	.2	45.7	32-56
Sat. Fat	2.3	10.6	.6	1.3	0	14.8	4

Obviously a lot of problems. For 1, I'd forgotten fruits have so many carbs. For 2, I didn't realize cheese had so much fat (and saturated fat). Not that either of those things would've saved me. I think I'm also going to look for a margarine that's slightly better.

The breakfast isn't super accurate, because I calculated for the granola and the milk, but I don't drink the milk in the end. So the only milk I drink is what is on my spoon and all the fat and sat. fat comes from the milk. I think tomorrow I'll measure how much I actually drink.

Who knew getting the right balance of carbs, proteins, and fats would be so difficult!