Daily food journal

I'm enjoying these forums and caloriecount. It would help me to post a food diary and feel free to post yours. or comment.

I will post my intake as time permits.

So far I've had breakfast. Oatmeal, handful of blueberries, a few almonds & a little sugar. I also had a plum and coffee with milk and artificial sweetener. That was about 9:30 a.m.

Mine today has been

Breakfast.... a couple of slices of wholegrain pumpkin seed toast with some light margarine and cottage cheese

Lunch.... Tuna Pasta Salad.  A low-fat yoghurt

Snack... A piece of home-made Raisin and Apple Fruit Loaf.  Cup of tea

Supper.... Spaghetti Bolognese with peas

Hi. You posted for your future meals, too. Good for you! I'm not up to that yet. Your breakfast sounds delightful -- that wholegrain pumpkin seed toast (where do you get it?). Your menu sounds great. I can't imagine what I'm going to have for supper or lunch yet for that matter. Meantime, I weighed myself this morning before breakfast (196) and now. Now, approximately two hours after breakfast, I weigh 197.5. LOL! I'm going to keep track of this. Thank you for your reply. Let's keep talkin' if possible. BTW, I'm impressed with the home-made rasin and apple fruit loaf. Your menu sounds so good I might follow it.

i'm new to this . but you are doing great.

The pumpkin-seed toast is also homemade... bread machines are fabulous things!

I plan my menu in advance, usually a week ahead, because I have a reasonably full schedule and like to get thinking about food over in one hit.  Once done I can get all the shopping in which stops the... let's send out for pizza.. moments!   The Raisin and Apple Loaf is thanks to my (8 year-old) son who said he fancied baking a cake.  It's a chunky 200 cals a slice but it tastes pretty good.   The Bolognese is also because it's Saturday and I'm making a vat of the stuff to freeze in portions... saves time later in the week. 

BTW... I poked all of that into the food log and got an 'A' score.  Which goes to show that a slice of cake and healthy diet are totally compatible!  Wo-hoo!

Oatmeal, blueberries and almonds sounds lovely... keep smiling.

today for me has been:[or will be]

breakfast- deep chocolate vitamuffin, glass of organic milk.

soccer-workout snack- 1 banana.

lunch- asian garlic-veggie wrap, small mixed salad, black beans.

snack- satiety chocolate smoothie.

dinner- 2 scrambled eggs, 2 pieces of toast.

got it all planned out! ^^

i love planning my meals for some odd reason, like i already know what i'm going to have tomorrow. :P

Gi-jane:  If you ever post a recipe for the pumpkin seed toast PLEASE send me a link.  It sounds devine!

Assuming you have a bread machine..... Pumpkin Seed Wholemeal Bread 

I can recommend the exact same recipe using 2 tablespoons Caraway Seeds (Siya Jeera). In some folklore traditions the legend is that if you feed a guest caraway seeds they will return to your home in the future.  And I can testify that it works!

OK, well, here's the rest of my daily intake. I didn't do too well, but well enough I suppose since I didn't gorge out on chips.

Snack: plum

Lunch: 1/2 WW bagel with hummus & tomato

large salad, cucumbers

tea

Snack: 2 prunes (I was on the road)

Dinner: here's where I overdid it.

1/3 chicken marinated with yogurt and spices (cumin, lemon, etc.) It was pretty good.   Salad.   About 10 okras, also in that yogurt sauce. 2 pieces of chewy candy. Why do I say overdid it? Because I was going to have half of the portion, not the entire amount of chicken & vegetables. But I was desiring more. I guess not hungry, but it was so good that I had to have more. I'll work on it for the next time.

Meantime, I weighed in at 199.5 about 4 pounds more than when I started in the morning. (?) I don't want to become obsessed with weighing myself, but for the present time I'm curious for the next few days to see what's going on. Maybe by next week I'll be ready to weigh myself once every three days which seems reasonable to me.

Now I will have nothing until tomorrow except maybe hot water and lemon. :-) I look forward to my breakfast tomorrow, something I like.

Your posts have encouraged me to think in advance, and I will do this asap. (but not now probably)

Thanks, and good evening everyone!

You could have eaten more than you intended for supper because your lunch was too light?   Your supper also looks very, very light (no carbohydrates??).   Eating more vegetables is never an issue so bulk up your plate with lots more of those rather than eating sweets.  How many calories a day did that come to on the CC log?  I'd have thought you were aiming for around 1500-1600? 

BTW... Weighing too often is a diet pitfall because it can be dispiriting....  Your 4lbs 'gain' would just be the food you ate and water you drank.  Try to limit weighing to once or twice a week so that you see the true trend

My menu for Sunday....

Breakfast..... A bowl of 50g wholewheat muesli, some semi-skimmed milk.  A banana

Snack.... A packet of crisps

Lunch.... Celery and Potato Soup with some chunky wholemeal bread and some light margarine. 

Supper will be.... Vegetable Chilli (a portion I froze last week) with 2oz (dry weight) brown basmati rice.  Glass of red wine.  Strawberries and plain yoghurt.

Hi, gi-jane. I realize that weighing myself too often can be dispiriting, but I wanted to see what's happening for a while. Meantime, i'm thinking my scale is off kilter. I have one of those electronic scales and it tells me different weights at different places on the floor. So... thinking to buy one of those regular type scales. :-)

I haven't worked up the calories yet. I will when I have more time.

How do you do it? How do you figure your menu? (which sounds very good, btw, nice and healthful and you give yourself snacks you enjoy) What tools do you use to figure the count or menu?

It is now 12:30 PM by my computer clock. I had breakfast, which consisted of:

1/2 scooped out bagel. (Only the shell, not the bread)

touch of Smart Balance margarine

one egg fried in Pam

2 cups of coffee with S&L and 2% milk

I weighed 197.5 after that.

Now -- I will begin posting my menus because you people are encouraging me.

Snack: pear (which is going rancid so I've got to eat it. And a ripe juicy pear is so delicious!)

Lunch needs to be very small because we're going out with friends tonight for dinner. This will consist of a large green salad w/tomato & cucumber and a mug of vegetable soup.

Dinner is going to be a problem. Because we're taking friends out to a low-cost BBQ place. The food is good. I must gird myself up in advance to give away most of my sweet potato, corn bread & feast on salad and chicken.

I Guess I shouldn't have a snack after that at home and tea is a good option for keeping me satisfied these days.

I save dishes I eat frequently in the CC recipe database.  I tweak the dishes to be about 400 - 500 cals apiece.  That way I can use the CC food log to work out the calorie count for the day in advance e.g.  A 300-ish cal breakfasts, 400-500 cal lunch, same for supper... which gives me a baseline of about 1200-1300 in 'meals'.  Then if I want to lose weight I add about 200 cals of snacks (1400-1500 is my weight-loss amount for my stats)... if I want to maintain my weight I add more like 600-700 cals of snacks or other extras.  Works quite well.

I've been doing this for quite a while so I have quite a lot of pre-saved meals to choose from!  If I go out (which isn't that often), I simply try to stick to similar quantities and foods that I would cook at home and I don't fuss too much about the extra calories. 

To balance the meals and get to a 400-500 cal count I work on 1/4 plate complex carbohydrates (pasta, rice etc.) 1/4 plate lean protein (meat, fish, beans) and 1/2 plate vegetables/salads.... a small amount of oil, some fruit and some dairy products finish things off nicely. 

Electronic scales are most consistent on a hard surface like a tiled floor.  They're all over the place on carpet!

OK. I did pretty well yesterday, eating a little too much when we went out to dinner, but I was happy no one ordered dessert, so that temptation was out and I didn't really want it.

Today for breakfast I had:

water w/lemon

1/2 scooped-out bagel w/hummus & cheese spread

coffee w/2% milk & Sweet&Low

Lunch I expect to be: large salad w/low fat dressing

1/2 WW bagel scooped out w/ low fat mayo, ham & tomato

plum

Dinner: 1/4 chicken

vegetable

tea

fruit & cottage cheese

Are you logging the calories???   There's nothing wrong with your food choices - and I could be wrong - but it doesn't look like you're eating enough in total.

Maybe it is just me , but scooping the bread out of a bagel seems a little extreme. It is like eating bread crusts for breakfast. Respect the bagel, and eat it the way God intended. 

Sounds to me like you are all eating too little.  Are you going by what this website says (cc is usually off by a few hundred calories):

http://www.freedieting.com/tools/calorie_calc ulator.htm#

Original Post by gridder:

Maybe it is just me , but scooping the bread out of a bagel seems a little extreme. It is like eating bread crusts for breakfast. Respect the bagel, and eat it the way God intended.

Hmmm... you made me laugh ... HOWEVER, God made my fingers in order to scoop out the insides of bagels because that's the way I like them. Do you think he made my fingers perhaps just for that purpose? There's simply too much dough in a bagel and I really don't do it for the calorie count. Just like some people don't like milk in their coffee (ugh), I can't see how anyone could enjoy black coffee, but enjoy it they seem to. In fact, I'm enjoying the Weight Watchers' bagel even though it's plain because the outside is chewier than most. Usually I like sesame or poppy seed or whole wheat bagel crusts. :-) Filled with some delicious filling like hummus or margarine & cottage cheese. I get more in the cavity that way anyway. so there. I'm sticking to my bagel scooped out.

Hi, gi-jane. I don't log the calories, I know I have to start doing that. I kind of estimate. The calorie tool told me that I can have a measly 1350 calories a day because I am virtually inactive. Maybe I'll start counting calories tomorrow.