Help me clean up my diet?

If you want to clean this up using the foods you provided:

Eat more of the bread, blueberries, watermelon, chips and salsa, pasta(not including the hamburger meat), mushroom soup, salad(without the dressing, assuming it is oily).

Eat less of the other foods in your example.

imainteemo wrote:

I am a high school runner running about 50 miles weekly. I know that fueling is a critical part of how you run, and I was would appreciate if anyone had some tips or advice on my diet, such as if it is good or how to improve it. Today I ate:

Breakfast

2 eggs, 1 glass skim milk, 1 slice banana bread, blueberries

Lunch

Hamburger, 2 cups watermelon, tortilla chips w/ salsa, 1 serving ice cream

Dinner

2.5 servings pasta and ground hamburger with mushroom soup, 2 cups green salad mix with dressing, diet root beer, 1 serving ice cream

skip the banana bread, cut up fresh banana and put it into a half cup or so of oatmeal with some peanut butter. put the blueberries in too if you want. save the eggs for lunch, make a spinach omelette or something, dump the salsa on top, skip the chips. try frozen yogurt or greek yogurt or something instead of ice cream.

go with whole wheat pasta, 2.5 servings may be a little much, but probably OK. put in the hamburger and some tomato sauce. greens, carrots, whatever in the salad. try some beets if you're adventurous, they're good for endurance. skip the root beer, no harm in some ice cream there. snack on fruit and veggies through out the day.

I'm convinced that just about every literate American already knows what is and isn't healthy. Those that don't eat well in spite of this knowledge simply don't like nutritious foods, don't care what they put in their bodies, or--like you--don't know how to turn their knowledge of healthful ingredients into actual meals of substance.

My solution to this is ridiculously simple: make a list of some of your favorite healthy ingredients--maybe start with fruits and vegetables, since you can't really go wrong with those--and then visit a site like foodily to see literally hundreds of ways to incorporate these foods into your diet.

Oh, for this to work, you have to either be willing to cook or lucky enough to have a parent who's up for trying some new things.

I don't feel like arguing with subsequent posters, so I will just give you a link about Kenyan athletes' diet. In sum, consistently eat a large amount of carbs from pasta(as you mentioned), rice, corn etc. and keep fat low(which was the biggest issue with your diet). Low-fat would typically mean less than 15% of total cals, but you don't have to worry about that as long as you are eating the high carb foods mentioned above and in the article Re Kenyan athletes.

http://www.active.com/a3_articles/ec50000d-c263-4b72-9418-34be06fd6585/1?page=1

Do high school students really drink diet soda? I mean you had ice cream for lunch and dinner and then you had a diet soda.

Yup. It's what my parents buy, so that's what I drink when I drink soda.

Where is X-Fit Guy vs. T-Rexing in this diet thread?

stop eating ground beef. (If you must, make it twice a week, not twice a day.) Choose lean proteins like broiled chicken and fish. Eat a lot more fruit and fresh vegetables like carrots and broccoli. Add yogurt -- even a few spoonfuls a day if you don't like it. If you won't eat fish, take a fish-oil capsule daily. Try brown rice, oatmeal, and whole-wheat breads. Eat all you want if you're training regularly, but eat better. Substitute iced green tea for the soda; sweeten it with fruit juice. As a previous poster said, there are many, many websites to guide you. You don't have to be a perfect eater, but you can improve a lot quite easily. Don't deny yourself the foods you love, but eat the bad ones in moderation and sub some healthier choices. (I understand that you're at the mercy of your parents. You could work on them to do a little better too).

to hijack this thread, how does my diet look?

breakfast:

an apple, wheaties and milk with cut up banana, coffee. another apple on my way to the pool (where i swam, lifted for about an hour)

lunch:

bowl of oatmeal w/ cinnamon/honey, 2 eggs scrambled, another apple

Snack: baby carrots

dinner:

like 8 oz grilled chicken, 1 grilled sweet potato (sliced), spinach salad

ice cream for dessert

What this guy said. Also, it' a good idea to try to have more carbs in the morning and protein later in the day. That's just a matter of proportions, not adding in extra protein with your plate of pasta.

Eating three apples per day is going to turn you into a goddamn sexual tyrannosaurus. That is all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=NrDG4sPul8w#t=14

Lol better than mine!

You guys realize that as long as your getting enough food and it's not complete junk then your good to go right?

imainteemo wrote:

Breakfast

2 eggs, 1 glass skim milk, 1 slice banana bread, blueberries

Lunch

Hamburger, 2 cups watermelon, tortilla chips w/ salsa, 1 serving ice cream

Dinner

2.5 servings pasta and ground hamburger with mushroom soup, 2 cups green salad mix with dressing, diet root beer, 1 serving ice cream

Bfast

2 eggs good

1 glass skim milk bad

1 slice banana bread good

blueberries good

Lunch

hamburger bad (unless eating bunless, grass fed beef)

2 cups watermelon good

tortilla chips bad

salsa good

ice cream bad

Dinner

pasta bad

ground hamburger good, if grass fed

mushroom soup good if you made it yourself using real ingredients

green salad good

dressing bad, unless using olive oil + vinegar

diet root beer bad

ice cream bad

Basically your diet sucks. Way too many "bad" items and not enough "good" items. Work on it.

edit: banana bread = bad

eat real bananas straight up = good

Try excluding wheat (go for oats or rice) and dairy (get calcium by other means like fortified orange juice). This and soda/candy are the main things that make Americans fat.

Also, exclude beef and pork. Have a non-mammal diet. Eat Poultry and Fish. Eat eggs. Eat fruit and oatmeal.

Save your bread and pizza for once a week or something like that. Exclude all soda.

I basically avoid most processed food unless it is wheat and dairy free. The food companies know how to make foods with wheat and dairy in such a way that it is addicting. Same with soda.

this is stupid. Runners should not be eating low carb as your post implies, and unless the ground beef is lean, it's not particularly good for a runner.

good: lots of veggies and fruit, fish, nuts, seeds, eggs, whole grains (brown or wild rice, quinoa, whole wheat pasta, whole wheat bread, oatmeal, cherios and other low sugar, whole grain cereals)

bad: foods high in saturated fat, sugary stuff, highly processed carbs

Why are you eating two servings of ice-cream a day. Your diet would vastly improve if you cut the ice-cream and replaced it with fresh fruit. Some lean red meat is fine, but hamburger twice a day is overkill. Replace with fish or shrimp. Tilapia is inexpensive, so is canned tuna or canned salmon, and they taste surprisingly good in tomato sauce.

Switch out the chips for some roasted nuts, walnuts are probably the healthiest but almonds are also very good for you, other nuts are also OK.

itsbeensaid wrote:

Try excluding wheat (go for oats or rice) and dairy (get calcium by other means like fortified orange juice). This and soda/candy are the main things that make Americans fat.

Also, exclude beef and pork. Have a non-mammal diet. Eat Poultry and Fish. Eat eggs. Eat fruit and oatmeal.

Save your bread and pizza for once a week or something like that. Exclude all soda.

I basically avoid most processed food unless it is wheat and dairy free. The food companies know how to make foods with wheat and dairy in such a way that it is addicting. Same with soda.

Why do you recommend eliminating wheat but recommend oats? Most people with celiac disease avoid oats so this makes me curious.

help full links

Naturalnews . com with mike adams

Food Babe . com Vani Hari

Dr. Edward Group's website

Robyn O'Brien website