Someone calorie help please seriously?!
Question: Breakfast: SMALL BOWL Cereal and skim milk
Lunch: ONE TIN Tuna with some sesame bread sticks (the little ones)
Dinner: Steak(ONE PIECE) green salad and little bit pasta salad(ONE SCOOP)
Grapes (HANDFUL)
and I had a handful of natural fruit juice lollies and half a glass or so of fruit juice
I WENT FOR A RUN
can some one tell me how many calories in this please?
is this tooooo much food?
should I cut out a meal or so?
how many calories should I have a day?
Im 17 120lbs 5'5
Answers: Breakfast: SMALL BOWL Cereal and skim milk
Lunch: ONE TIN Tuna with some sesame bread sticks (the little ones)
Dinner: Steak(ONE PIECE) green salad and little bit pasta salad(ONE SCOOP)
Grapes (HANDFUL)
and I had a handful of natural fruit juice lollies and half a glass or so of fruit juice
I WENT FOR A RUN
can some one tell me how many calories in this please?
is this tooooo much food?
should I cut out a meal or so?
how many calories should I have a day?
Im 17 120lbs 5'5
First your weight is PERFECT for your height. So maintaining is all you need to do in terms of weight. Counting calories is really not necessary until you begin to pass your ideal weight. Just stay toned.
Was the tuna in oil or water? Water is best for low calorie.
Was the pasta salad made with mayonnaise or an oil based dressing? Needless to say mayonnaise and oil based dressings are high calorie. (but you do need some oil in the salad to make it good) and be healthy. Olive oil is excellent.
What size was the steak you had? They say the size of a deck of cards is perfect. Animal fat is one of the worst things you can put in your body, no matter how great it tastes.
A light tuna salad is good, if you toss the tuna in the pasta salad, it adds flavor and lightens the dressing load. Just be sure to use water based tuna.
Fruit juices are good for you but high in sugars, I lighten mine with Crystal light drink mix, it lightens the sugar load and by using the right favor with the right juice, you don't really even notice.
For your age and weight, I would think that you should be eating 1500 to 2000 a day. It takes calories to grow and support exercise. When you are through growing and doing no exercise, then you need to watch the calorie intake.
Food is the coal or electricity for our bodily furnace, we MUST have it to function properly.
Your diet looks really healthy. Your doing a great job.
to me (not know whether the tuna is canned in water or oil, and not knowing the exact amount of food as in 1 cup or 200 grams... etc),
that barely looks like 1200 calories... which is on the low side for someone who is 120 lbs at 5'5...
what i noticed is your carbs run the majority of your calories... from what i see, it's around 800 calories of carbs alone!! which is 66% of your intake!!! that's too much. protein looks minimal at 360 calories, which is around 27% of your intake... and i don't see much fat there (healthy fats are good for you and will help you burn fat)...
try a ratio of 33% protein, 33% carbs, and 33% fat at 1500 calories instead of 1200... i assure you, the results will be better, and you'll actually have more doors open to cope with your body's adaptation later on when you stop burning fat...