Healthy eating?!
Healthy eating?
Ok, here's my daily eating schedual (it is usually pretty regular) please tell me how healthy it is. Oh, yah, I run a mile a couple times a week, skateboard, and usually climb a lot of trees *smiles* so I usually get a lot of excersise, but I sprained my wrist and so the doctor said no more skateboarding or tree climbing. Anyway, here you go.
10:30: One bowl of Crispix cereal with organic milk, a glass of OJ
12:00: potatoe chips *blushes* I guess it's a pre-menstrul thing.
6:00: vegetarian lasagna, a salad, and some chocolate
7:30: some chocolate at the movie
What can I do better???
Answers:
for your first meal of the day, cereal isnt so bad, but try to eat an orange, or maybe an apple (and feel free to toss some peanut butter on it) with breakfast. its important to eat lots of fruit, and in the morning if you eat something with just a little fat in it (like peanut butter) your metabolism gets going faster. also, you need protein (peanut butter has it!).
instead of potato chips, look for "fruit ripples". they're these AWESOME little chips made from apples with a bit of strawberry. they're DELICOUS, and one little pouch is only 50 calories. they also count as a serving of fruit!
http://www.fruitripples.com/
when you eat dinner, hopefully you're starting with the salad(again, that will keep your metabolism going) and you've put some veggies in there (sliced red, green, yellow, or orange peppers, pepperoncinis, cukes, tomatoes.. etc... mushrooms, olives, carrots, etc.). the lasagna isnt bad, but if you can use wheat/whole grain noodles and/or lowfat cheese it'll be even better for you. maybe instead of just eating chocolate, try making some chocolate covered strawberries. everyone loves them, and then you're more likely to eat less chocolate on its own and more fruit!
and for the 7:30 snack, try (again) to stick with fruit if you can. its hard to get a healthy snack at the movies, but if you can pick something light, thats better. at the end of the day you're less active, so if you eat something heavy or with lots of calories you're probably not going to burn it off before you go to bed.
also, i'd try to toss a few more snack in there. you want to eat small amounts, but every few hours. that keeps your metabolism going, so you'll burn more. no-butter popcorn, fruits ( or chocolate covered fruit), veggies with fat free dips, celery with low fat peanut butter, etc.
it sounds like you eat better than average, but by adding little things, and making little changes, you can get even better results. also, avoid soda. one soda a day can add 15 lbs on to your body mass, and that just wont go unless you drop it. instead try to get low calorie iced teas or lemonades, or juices that are a high percentage of real juice, and NOT from concentrate.