How about this meal plan?!
Question: How about this meal plan!?
BREAKFAST: Whole-grain toast with peanut butter and a glass of fruit or vegetable juice!.
SNACK: Canned fruit snack pack
LUNCH: Sourdough rye with roast beef, horseradish, sliced tomato and snow pea sprouts
SNACK: reduced fat cheddar cheese with an apple and whole-grain
crackers
DINNER: Baked whitefish fillets with chopped parsley!. Served with
chopped spinach and lemon, yellow squash, carrots, and a couple of baby new potatoes!. Serve with low fat yogurt
Does this meal plan mirror the 40% protein, 30% low GI carbohydrates, and 30% healthy fats!?
If not what is the best way to know if your getting 40% protein, 30% low GI carbohydrates, and 30% healthy fats in your diet!? How would you calculate that, if that makes sense at all!?
Thanks ahead of time!!Www@Answer-Health@Com
SNACK: Canned fruit snack pack
LUNCH: Sourdough rye with roast beef, horseradish, sliced tomato and snow pea sprouts
SNACK: reduced fat cheddar cheese with an apple and whole-grain
crackers
DINNER: Baked whitefish fillets with chopped parsley!. Served with
chopped spinach and lemon, yellow squash, carrots, and a couple of baby new potatoes!. Serve with low fat yogurt
Does this meal plan mirror the 40% protein, 30% low GI carbohydrates, and 30% healthy fats!?
If not what is the best way to know if your getting 40% protein, 30% low GI carbohydrates, and 30% healthy fats in your diet!? How would you calculate that, if that makes sense at all!?
Thanks ahead of time!!Www@Answer-Health@Com
Answers:
Breakfast:
Your breakfast could definitely be made better!. Forget fruit and vegetable juice, they are processed, you want to avoid processed foods when on a diet and even if you aren't trying to lose weight!. Processed foods aren't healthy, period, nor necessary for humans at all!.
Your breakfast lacks sufficient protein, a better breakfast would be oatmeal mixed with 2-3 tablespoons of peanut butter (you need the healthy fat), and an egg or two!. I would recommend you remove the toast also!. Also, you want fruit with your breakfast, preferably high GI!. Usually you aim for low GI carbohydrates, but post-workout and upon awakening are when high GI carbohydrates are fine and won't be stored in adipose (fat) tissue!.
This is because glycogen (sugar) levels in the muscle and liver are depleted during the nighttime when you aren't eating, and when liver and muscles are empty of glycogen, glycogen is stored there first, rather than as fat in adipose cells!.
First Snack:
Canned fruit isn't healthy!. You want fresh fruit, not canned fruit!. Canned fruit is processed!. By the way, processed means that man adds chemicals and preservatives to the food that are unhealthy, nor necessary for the human body!. A better snack would be oat bran bread and a serving of lean chicken!.
Lunch:
That sounds pretty good, I would replace the sourdough bread with oat bran bread!. Also, when you consume meats, they should be lean, so the beef should be lean beef!. Truly, I would recommend you have lean beef alone for lunch, you could have a larger serving if you are still hungry!. You don't want to go overboard with carbohydrates (from the bread)!.
Second Snack:
I would recommend that you either have a small serving of fish here, or you can have a protein supplement (Whey is the best) mixed with all natural peanut butter, water/milk, and possibly fruit too, especially if this is after a workout!.
By the way, if you decide to take this snack post-workout, Whey should be mixed with water, not milk, milk makes it slow-digesting, and water makes it digest quickly!. Post-workout you want protein delivered to your body quickly!.
Dinner:
Your meal for this is fine, remove the potatoes though!. I wouldn't really recommend yogurt, again, yogurt is processed!. I would also add a serving of nuts and seeds for healthy fats!.
--->Please note, I'm not sure exactly how many calories and fats and carbohydrates and protein are in all of these foods (I don't memorize things like that, lol)!. If possible, try and read the ingredients of these foods when you start the diet like the one I just listed above!. Note the total amount of grams of fat, grams of protein, and grams of carbohydrates!.
A gram of fat is equivalent to 9 calories, and a gram of protein/fat is equivalent to 4 calories!. Using this, you can figure out if your diet is or is close to 40% protein, 30% carbohydrates, and 30% fats!.
Don't worry about bothering to check the types of carbohydrates and fats the foods contain, the foods I listed are all the healthy type (primarily low GI and healthy fats)!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Your breakfast could definitely be made better!. Forget fruit and vegetable juice, they are processed, you want to avoid processed foods when on a diet and even if you aren't trying to lose weight!. Processed foods aren't healthy, period, nor necessary for humans at all!.
Your breakfast lacks sufficient protein, a better breakfast would be oatmeal mixed with 2-3 tablespoons of peanut butter (you need the healthy fat), and an egg or two!. I would recommend you remove the toast also!. Also, you want fruit with your breakfast, preferably high GI!. Usually you aim for low GI carbohydrates, but post-workout and upon awakening are when high GI carbohydrates are fine and won't be stored in adipose (fat) tissue!.
This is because glycogen (sugar) levels in the muscle and liver are depleted during the nighttime when you aren't eating, and when liver and muscles are empty of glycogen, glycogen is stored there first, rather than as fat in adipose cells!.
First Snack:
Canned fruit isn't healthy!. You want fresh fruit, not canned fruit!. Canned fruit is processed!. By the way, processed means that man adds chemicals and preservatives to the food that are unhealthy, nor necessary for the human body!. A better snack would be oat bran bread and a serving of lean chicken!.
Lunch:
That sounds pretty good, I would replace the sourdough bread with oat bran bread!. Also, when you consume meats, they should be lean, so the beef should be lean beef!. Truly, I would recommend you have lean beef alone for lunch, you could have a larger serving if you are still hungry!. You don't want to go overboard with carbohydrates (from the bread)!.
Second Snack:
I would recommend that you either have a small serving of fish here, or you can have a protein supplement (Whey is the best) mixed with all natural peanut butter, water/milk, and possibly fruit too, especially if this is after a workout!.
By the way, if you decide to take this snack post-workout, Whey should be mixed with water, not milk, milk makes it slow-digesting, and water makes it digest quickly!. Post-workout you want protein delivered to your body quickly!.
Dinner:
Your meal for this is fine, remove the potatoes though!. I wouldn't really recommend yogurt, again, yogurt is processed!. I would also add a serving of nuts and seeds for healthy fats!.
--->Please note, I'm not sure exactly how many calories and fats and carbohydrates and protein are in all of these foods (I don't memorize things like that, lol)!. If possible, try and read the ingredients of these foods when you start the diet like the one I just listed above!. Note the total amount of grams of fat, grams of protein, and grams of carbohydrates!.
A gram of fat is equivalent to 9 calories, and a gram of protein/fat is equivalent to 4 calories!. Using this, you can figure out if your diet is or is close to 40% protein, 30% carbohydrates, and 30% fats!.
Don't worry about bothering to check the types of carbohydrates and fats the foods contain, the foods I listed are all the healthy type (primarily low GI and healthy fats)!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Sounds pretty well balanced to me!. Keep up the good work!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
yes it is but change it every 3 day so it wont get boringWww@Answer-Health@Com
sounds right
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