can someone please evaluate my food intake today?

Just looking to see what you think I should change/alter as I'm not sure if I'm getting the proper nutrition at this point.

Breakfast: 12pm (woke up late (10:40ish) , went for a 3 mile run, showered, then ate)

I had 1/2 old fashioned plain oatmeal mixed

1/4 cup plain non fat yogurt

handful of blueberries topped with a sprinkle of some fiber one caramel delight

cup of white berry tazo tea

Lunch: 4 pm

slice of fiber one bread with 1 tbs ff cream cheese and 1 tbs smuckers no sugar added strawberry jelly

1/2 cup ff cottage cheese

1 and 1/2 grapefruit (one was pretty big and the other was 1/2 leftover from yesterday)

couple more blueberries thrown in there

i chopped up like 5 almonds for an extra crunch

and then had a small peach after

dinner: 8 pm

1/2 black beans with a little bit of chopped onion/red pepper

5oz boneless skinless, grilled chicken breast

1 serving of brussel sprouts (its the one you steam in the microwave (50 calories) and maybe like 1/2 or 1/4 cup (somewhere in there) mixed veggies which means kale, green peas, green beans

cup of plain green tea

 

k well thats it i hope i didnt forget anything else. i havent done much at all today besides the run in the morning and since then i have been on my ass all day working on all my summer online classes. :/

im still debating if i should have a mango later at like 10ish with a cup of warm skim milk or maybe ill skip the mango and just have the milk.

 

what do you guys think? is this good enough? should i go ahead and have that later at night?

also, this has nothing to do with my post but does anyone know how to measure a serving of pasta? i think its 2 oz but how would you go about measuring that? i think i have a food scale but i really wouldnt trust it its definitely very old and cheap and i think only meant to like measure something like a block of chocolate and not something like pasta.

i forgot to mention i am 5' 2.5

Looks like a nutritionally good meal plan -- I didn't add up the cals, it does look a little low -- you might not want to skip the mango.

As far as the pasta goes -- that is 2 oz dry -- if the scale can weigh a block of chocolate, it can weigh dry pasta.  You could test it by placing something that you know the weight of (something with the weight on the label).  Wet pasta is about a 1/2 cup -- which is actually more difficult to measure and less satisfying.

thanks for your reply. :) i probably will go ahead and have my glass of milk and mango.

the scale is very small and i'm afraid the pasta will just slide right off of it. unless maybe i tie some together with a rubber band. yes i might just go ahead and do that. guess i just answered my own question. well thanks for the help!

Aren't you HUNGRY???!! like starving???!!! If I ate that little I would be doubled over in starvation pains!!!

Nutritionally -

breakfast was perfect

lunch needs to contain some sort of protein, what you had for dinner could also be your lunch...as in, the same thing for both meals

dinner looks great

Calorie wise, it looks pretty low

So to make this day's meal plan better I would suggest:

-having a small snack in between your big meals so that you're eating every 2-3 hours to keep your metabolism revving

-incorporating protein into each meal

 

 

If you log your food, you can use the analysis tool to get a calorie and nutrition count in addition to a food grade for the day.

Original Post by 2loveandbeloved:

also, this has nothing to do with my post but does anyone know how to measure a serving of pasta? i think its 2 oz but how would you go about measuring that? i think i have a food scale but i really wouldnt trust it its definitely very old and cheap and i think only meant to like measure something like a block of chocolate and not something like pasta.

 Get a digital scale and weigh out the dry pasta before you cook it.  If you are cooking more than one serving, weigh out the total amount, cook it then divide it equally into servings.  Otherwise, pasta is hard to measure because if the different shapes and thicknesses.

You need more healthy fats in your diet.  The only thing with fat is the chicken (which is still low) and the few almonds.  Add olive oil to the chicken or have an avocado instead of one of the fruits.