Raw Food Inventory
It’s been a while since I actually checked my daily caloric intake. Since I did most of my own food preparation today (and actually *KNOW* what went into my smoothie!), I decided to fill out my FitDay food profile for today.
Here’s how it looks so far (I may still sneak in an apple or pear before quitting time or a nut or three before bedtime):
10 bananas
16 oz. strawberries
3 medium oranges
2 cups grapes
4 medium stalks celery
.5 European cucumber
.5 red bell pepper
5 mushrooms
10 lettuce leafs
And the summaries:
Total calories: 1560
Fat: 10 grams, 88 calories, 6% of total calories
Carbs: 388 grams, 1336 calories, 88% of total calories
Protein: 24 grams, 97 calories, 6% of total calories
Not too bad. I have increased the total number of calories (I was averaging around 1100-1200 a day the last time I tracked it); that’s good. It also probably explains the continued weight loss. It’s not a concern, however; I’ve been as low as 180 pounds as an adult and still felt and functioned just fine. But I think it would be a challenge to increase that and still eat my daily salad (which normally has at least one small tomato in it; I still have two in my food bag but don’t know if I’ll eat them).
The salad fills me up to the point where I don’t want to eat anything else, pretty much for the rest of the day, so I eat it late in my day. I don’t know why the vegetables have that effect but the fruit doesn’t. Again, by shifting it to the end of my day, it helps ensure that I eat enough calories.
So there it is. My wife may be going to visit her mother for several days next week; if she does, I’ll be able to further track my eating for a few days and see where I stand insofar as calorie intake goes. I think that occasional checks on this are going to be important, but as I’ve mentioned several times before, doing it daily gets to be a drag.
If you want to see my FitDay profile, the link is to the right of this post (if you’re reading it on the main page). The date you’ll want to look for (to track the food I’m referring to in this post) is May 14, 2008.
Smacznego,
Tom
Hi Tom,
Looks like your greens consumption is a bit on the low side. That’s going to have to increase if you want to maintain good health over the long haul.
Just to give you an idea, I probably eat triple the greens you’ve mentioned at the very minimum. Sometimes I might eat 4 times as much greens as you do in a day.
It’s much easier I’ve found to eat more greens by incorporating green smoothies and eating blended salads.
I don’t think I could so easily consume so many greens by eating regular salads all of the time. I still get plenty of crunch and chewiness in my salads by dicing such things as tomato, cucumber, red pepper, celery and okra into my salads.
Whatever I have available I dice into the salad.
Roger