Wow. Awesome taking on all of the nutrients
. I'm nowhere near that stage yet, but what site do you use for it / do you need to manually input a lot of things?
I've slacked on inputting all of my input into my Sparkpeople over the past few months, but I feel motivated to start up again.
What website is that? I am intrigued. Also, what is their 'limit' for carbs per day?
The website is
http://caloriecount.about.com/
I love it!! It is free, and I don't have to do a lot of manual input. There is also a function to assemble recipes and meals. Before they had the recipe function, it was kind of annoying because for anything you cooked, you'd have to either enter each ingredient, or else add it up manually from the box labels and enter the whole recipe as a "Custom Food." And the Meal function is nice too-- in the winter I have oatmeal with dried cranberries, almond slivers and skim milk for breakfast quite frequently, so I made an "Oatmeal Breakfast" meal so I don't have to add each item separately.
As for the carb limit, it's based on the number of calories you are trying to stick to-- they have a calculator that helps you figure out the number of calories you need to lose, maintain, or gain based on your lifestyle and, body style and weight. But you can adjust it manually if you want a lower carb limit or whatever:
I sound like an ad for the site, but I really love it. I did WeightWatchers online for awhile, but this site is free and much better, I think.
Maybe I can report something better tomorrow! I went grocery shopping today and bought some healthier stuff, so.. We'll see.
We all have our off times!
I usually do really well all day, and then in the evening I either get hungry or get sweets cravings and give in. Yet again last night I had some ice cream in the evening and blew an otherwise pretty good day. But the purpose of this thread isn't to beat ourselves (or others!) up-- the important thing is just to try to eat healthier!
I'm going to cosplay as Lara Croft in June. While I LOVE my body, and the way it is now <3 fat-cells and all, I still want to trim it down a bit for that costume to add an extra ounce of confidence to it. I ALSO want to gain muscle weight. So, I'm thinking of aiming for a 1,200 calorie a day diet, emphasis on protein and vegetables.. but NOT count any vegetables and fruits in that calorie counter. (Translation: I can eat all of those that I want to my heart's content.)
Challenge accepted. While Easter will totally be a cheat day, I'll focus hard on it between now and June 10th. I think I may take before and after pictures too. :3 GREAT thread idea. !
Sounds intriguing... what's cosplay? I was thinking when you said 1200 calories that that sounded very low (although I don't know what type of body you have), but if you don't count fruits and veggies in there, no problem. Good luck!
My foods for yesterday:
Breakfast: Cheerios and homemade iced mocha
Snack: dried apricots and orange juice
Lunch: Banana, pinach salad with clementine, hummus and crackers, 3 Dove chocolate miniatures
Dinner:
Shrimp in Spicy Coconut Milk, canned spinach
Evening: 1/2 c Ben & Jerry's Fudge Brownie Ice cream....
but it was yummy!
About 2100 calories, went over in carbs, cholesterol (due to the shrimp, of all things!), and under in potassium, as usual.