Breakfast
- 1 1/2 cups (2 servings, 1 serving really isn’t enough) of Special K Chocolately Delight cereal with skim milk - contains 18g sugar, 4g fat, and 360mg salt.
- Coffee with Splenda & skim milk
Ouch! 18g of sugar?! Are you kidding me? So, I have 12g of sugar to play with the rest of the day! Once this cereal is eaten up I’m looking for a new cereal to eat. I’d prefer to have a couple of English muffins smothered in butter, yes REAL butter - but that would kill the fat content for the next year or so! LOL.
Snack
It’s 11:30am & I’m hungry… My lunch is usually about 12:30, 1:00ish
I love organic baby carrots. Their flavor is sooo much better than regular baby carrots. Plus, I can eat them right out of the bag - kinda like potato chips - and they are crunchy. I like crunchy food. So, I looked at the nutrition label - they ARE veggies so they ARE healthy right?
Organic Baby Carrots - 3 oz serving size contains:
- Fat - 0g
- Sugar - 5g
- Sodium - 65mg
5 grams of sugar?! What?! So, I’m up to how many sugars? 23? Aw c’mon…. I was hungry, really. I was. I’ll eat these up & find another snacky type veggie to eat… I weighed out my 3 oz of carrots and ate them…
Lunch
Alexia Oven Reds - One serving is about 8 pieces. These are oven roasted red potatoes. Yummy.
- Fat - 3.5g
- Sugar - 0g - Did you see that? ZERO sugars! Oh snap!
- Salt - 270mg
Alexia Onion Rings - One serving is about 6 rings. Don’t worry, I bake these with the potatoes above.
- Fat - 12g — Rats. Maybe, I’ll eat just 3 tomorrow…
- Sugar - 3g — Seriously, does everything have sugar?
- Salt - 230mg
Instead of salt - which is what I normally dump all over these things - I’m putting Mrs. Dash Table Blend on them. It’s not bad. I prefer salt, but Mrs. Dash is a decent substitute.
Snack
- Bagged Salad - 2 Cups, no dressing (I don’t like dressings normally) - 0g fat, 2g sugar, 0g Salt
- 2 Rolls with 1 teaspoon butter - 7g fat (4 of these due to butter), 4g sugar, 260mg salt
Dinner
- 3/4 cup (dry) pasta - 1 fat, 2 sugars, 0 salt
- 1/2 cup Prego Traditional Pasta Sauce - 3 fat, 10 sugar, 580 salt (need to find another pasta sauce)
Daily Totals:
- Fat - 30.5 grams
- Sugar - 42 grams
- Salt - 1765 milligrams
So looking this over, I believe the sugars I should be counting would be “refined” sugars. Meaning the sugar that occurs naturally in veggies & in fruits really shouldn’t count. Of course, if I ate 10 pieces of fruit a day, that would be too much sugar or say drank a glass of juice those sugars are concentrated & I end up with a food coma later on in the day (about 1 1/2 hours later). So adding up just the refined sugar I get this…
Daily Totals: (not counting natural sugars)
- Fat - 30.5 grams
- Sugar - 35 grams
- Salt - 1765 milligrams
I get to discount 7 grams of natural sugar. Really, that is more realtistic and allows me to eat lots of veggies (need to buy more) and some fruit (need to buy more fruit).
So all in all not too bad for a first day. Yes, I’m over on the fats & the sugars. If I had eaten 1 serving of cereal & had a piece of fruit for the other serving my numbers would be…
Daily Totals: (if I had had only one serving of cereal)
- Fat - 28.5 grams
- Sugar - 26 grams
- Salt - 1585 milligrams
And that would meet my goal AND I’ve eaten 4 servings of veggies today! Yes, yes - I know the nutrition here isn’t the greatest. I’ll work on that as I go along.
What about meat? I don’t eat it. No cow, pig, chicken, turkey, fish, etc. If it walks, swims, or flies I don’t eat it. Nothing against meat, I just can’t stand eating it. I make meat for my family and even think it smells good. I just can’t stand the texture of it in my mouth.
