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Is my diet well-balanced and am I eating enough?
I am 21, 5'1" and a half, 7st 13lbs and I walk a brisk 4 miles every morning.

An example of my diet:
Breakfast - All-Bran cereal (35g) with two dessert spoons of low-fat natural yogurt, 15 blueberries, 5 blackberries and some sliced banana. (215kcals)
Snack - Mandarin (24kcals)
Lunch - 1 toasted wholemeal pitta bread with lettuce, tomato, cucumber and a boiled egg. (269kcals)
Dinner - Tuna steak with broccoli, spinach, carrots and butter beans. (439kcals)
Dessert - A medium-sized apple. (81kcals)

Milk allowance for tea (61kcals)

Can anyone tell me if I am eating enough and getting enough vitamins/nutrients etc? I have been told previously that I am "starving" myself and will end up with a very slow metabolism but I do not feel this is true at all. Thank you.
asked in nutrition, nutrition and health, diets

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high1971 answers:

well you are allowed 2000 calories and from what you stated you are only having 1089 a day
this is only just over half your daily amount so my answer would be you are not having enough calories you could add another 400 a day and still be around the figure they say you should have to loose weight


3 years ago / reply

funrunna answers:

High's answer is "statistically" right but I do have an odd take on this.

Firstly. I hope you don't consume this same menu day in and day out!
So long as you vary your diet, I believe that anything goes. Even down to chocolate and other usually not recommended "goodies"

The example you've given is a sensible one but. Do you feel satiated? Since you exercise regularily, an increase of protiene wouldn't go amiss and perhaps some starch foods for energy!

Please don't get hung up about food... So long as you exercise, your body will tell you what you need to do!


Supplement from 08/08/2008 11:22pm:

Welcome (o, bienvenido) to Lycos IQ By the way!


3 years ago / reply

Russel.West answers:

Your diet could be made simpler - eat what you want from the following three groups - carbs, proteins and vegetables / fruits but only eat from two of the groups at a time, reduce your saturated fats but DO NOT CUT them out completely, use virgin olive oil and eat a varied but balance diet each day, food that are really good for you such a geen veg like broccoli should be eaten as part of your 5 a day, and regularly eat a healthy snack when you feel hungry also drink 8 glasses of water - not fizzy pop or diet drinks, if you like your water flavoured try fruit juice in it. - if you must calorie count then do so but aim for around 1500, if you want to loose weight then 3 times a week either brisk walking for 30 mins or cycling or swimming are good.
Get a pedometer and try to hit around 10,000 steps when you are walking, take the stairs too both up and down.

Find food which inspire you - nothing worse than eating food which feels like it's a chore to prepare and eat.


Recently I swapped cream in my cooking for creme fraiche I've reduce butter in my diet to 5g for the day, choc has been modified to to low sugar diabetic type.

For things like curries I use a recipie which is as follows
1 chicken breast, 2 large onions fried off half of which is kept back for the sauch in the end, some yellow spit peas letils which are cooked down to a mush, i tend to use mild korma for this dish.

Soo heat a large heavy pan, fry off onions and seperate out half, brown the chicken and rest of onions, add the Pataks mild curry pate and a chicken stock cude. if you like banana you can add them at the end but put in a small portion of creamed coconut, now for the sauce for it using a had blender and add the browned onions, the creme fraiche and if desired for a tomato base some cheap tinned toms and finally the lentils which should now be falling appart - blitz the whole sauce and return it to the meat reduce down hard the thickness of the dish for say 20mins and towards the end chop up banana and add it too, just the right amount of time to produce some excellent basmati rice cooked by the absorption method take on full cup for two people and add it to two same size cups of boinling water and on to full heat, put on a lid when boiled and turn the heat down - don't be tempted to stir it - cook for around 10 mins then fork it up and serve with complementary raitas, chutneys and pappads or poppadams


3 years ago / reply

siasl74 answers:

From a vitamins and nutrients perspective, it looks like a great diet. You may want to eat a little more of it, though, even if you are quite small to start with.

You'd be best consulting your GP, though.


3 years ago / reply

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