(Rage)'s Diet Journal

[Boss Man]

I don't think you had too many Carbs, but that meal with 55 calories was too low.

That needed to be at least 3-4 times the calories.

[(Rage)]

Oh no no! the whole meal wasnt 55 cals, just the yoghurt, which I ate a bit from. I ate rice, and meat, and and apple...it was at least 300 cals. Or about.

[Boss Man]

Excuse me then. The meal content was good .

I'm personally happy to see you're getting this stuff better controlled.

I won't go over old ground but to say, I know you are giving this a lot of your Heart, and dedication, and you can definitely continue to be proud of yourself.

Well done .

[(Rage)]

It was a crappy day.

Meal 1: bran cereal, lf lebnah and zatar in brown bread, green tea

meal 2: lw lebnah and zatar in brown bread, little carrots, 2 munckins from dunkin doughnuts. Wouldnt be more than 100-120 cals. I checked.

meal 3: turkey sand with halumoi cheese, little peanuts, soyben or whatever that has nacho cheese ( not a lot just few pieces ). 2 rice cakes.

meal 4: *coughs* freaking fried noodle w/chicken. A ate a bit alot. I keep telling them I want little amount, bu they put for me a full plate. Either ways I ate half of it.

Meal 5: tuekry sand with cottage cheese, green tea, candy the fruit thing (last piece i had), 1 rice cake.

meal 6: 1 egg (both white/yolk), all bran cereal, 1 cup of yogurt, tiny one. None fat though, 1 oat bran biscuit with lf lebnah on the top.

That's it. I wanted to ask, isnt eating too much ehh could cause high cholestrol? (sp)? Right? So how come some people eat about 4-8 eggs a day, with or without the yolk? How many eggs should I have a day, about at least? I usually have 2 tops, rarely 3.

So?

[Boss Man]

To my knowledge, Yolks contain LDL, Cholesterol, the bad kind, as opposed to HDL the better kind.

Some people might eat 4-8 Eggs in one go, with the Yolks, but it doesn't mean they should.

If you're going to eat a meal with 4-5 Whites, just have 1 Yolk, 2 tops, as there is Protein, and minerals in Yolks, plus Lutein, which helps protect part of the Eye, so one Yolk a day isn't going to seriously begger up your insides, but several at once might, over a prolonged period of time

[(Rage)]

Aha i see, i read sth abt ldl, and hdl somewhere...i dont really eat egg a lot. Just once, twice tops. with the yolk though, i like it, actually its the part i really like abt egg, especially when it's watery. b4 this week, i didnt use to ear eggs at all actually, it's just recently since i found out they have like grams of protien..but i dont over eat it.

When i eat scrambled eggs, well they are scrambled, the white and yolks get mixed up together, so? does it make a diff of eating one yolk a day or sth like that?

[Boss Man]

Keep the Yolks to one a day.

If you have trouble seperating Yolks, crack the Eggs, slightly and prize them open, so the Whites come out, the Yolks stay put.

[(Rage)]

oh yeah thats how i mostly eat it, but every once in a while i like it mixed.

[(Rage)]

9/4/07

Meal 1: all bran cereal w/lf milk. one lebnah and zatar in brown slice. mint green tea (fiber poweder added)

meal 2: one smoked turkey breast with halmoui cheese in brown bread. one apple. mint green tea (fiber powerd added)

meal 3: 2 rice cake. soybens ( a litle like 6-8 pieces, tny ones), about 6 pieces of salted peanuts. turkey sandwhich with lf cottage cheese. green tea.

meal 4: chicken ceasar salad with diet coke.

2 hours later had green tea.

meal 5: scrambled eggs in brown bread with lf cottage cheese. *coughs* about one whole scoop of ice cream.

meal 6: all bran cereal with lf milk. 50 grams of normal yoghurt. about one cup of boiled corn with vegetable oil (is veg oil bad?! and has a lot of calories, and saturated?) There was only little oil, not much.

about 2 liters of water. not fullt 2 close to 2 liters.

I need to learn to drink more water. In uni from 6 am till 2 pm i drink one liter, but the moment i step home...i fall back on it, i dont know why =S!

[Boss Man]

2 litres a day is a myth. 2 litres is lost by the body daily, as discovered by American scientists in the 50's, the myth was you need to drink water to get it back, but your water requirements can come from food.

Though getting more is a good thing. I suggest having a lass after meals, so it is easier to remember to drink it.

After all you wash up in a kitchen sink, so the tap water should remind you to get some water, though drink bottled if your tap water tastes a bit blerrch, even though Tap water is supposed to be potable probably in every western countries laws.

[(Rage)]

I dont drink water after food, because, well im not sure, some people say: water after food, slows/stops digstion. So I drink it before food. And I drink water after one hour from having ate food, if heavy a little more. If not, a little less time...
And im fine with it, drinking enough and all.

[Boss Man]

Drinking water before food is less benficial.

You can end up expanding the Stomach lining, and feel fuller before you eat, this then makes some people want to eat less, when they start feeling bloated, thus getting inadequate nutrition.

I've not hear of the reduced absoprtion theory drinking water after eating.

Here's one way opf looking at it.

Water has no calories, so if you had some after meals, you would probably absorb most of the water into the undigested food.

The water has less molecules in it, being liquid, than food will, so despite the Stomach contents gaining more volume, as a result of adding in water afterwards, you could say the overall molecular structure is less rigid, and more flexible, helping to give better breakdown.

Especially give nas I sai dater has 0 calories, so that wouldn't result in increased absoprion time, in the intestines.

The only way I can see if water was to affect absorption, is if the increased food volume in the gut, when water was added, seperated the nutrients a little bit further from each other, possibly meaning the food was absorbing over a larger area of the gut, and utilising more Villi, thereby not allowing the Villi to function at maximal capability.

The other thing to bear in mind is, most food doesn't process in the Stomach anyway.

The Stomach acts as a holding zone, and at regular intervals it releases bits of undigested food matter into the Duodenum, and then into the Illium, where the little Villi assist in the processing of the nutrient content.

So even if you drank water 1 hour after a meal, instead of straight after, bearing in mind most food nutrition is processed in a 3 hour time span, you'd effectively be slowing down the absorption of 2/3 or 66.66% of your food, if the theory is true, abou water slowing food absorption down.

You would then have to make sure that absorption thing wasn't happening by drinking water 3 hours after meal, which]

A: won't work if someone eats every 2-2.5 hours

B: even on a 3 hour meal space, you'd be filling up with water before your next meal, and then eat food, getting that partial bloat sensation / effect, I described earlier.

[(Rage)]

Aha, I see, it just that the dieition at our university told me to drink water before I eat so i get full, and dont eat too much, but to be honest, I'm not the kind of person if i drink a whole bottle of water at once, it will stop me from eating what I want to eat in the amount I want..I just like to eat as much as I want at the moment, as long as it's not tooooo much. Of course.

Today's food. Pretty crappy in the end...

M1: Bran Cereal with no lowfat milk (didn't have lf atthe time, and it wasn't much). 1 Egg. 2 pouri, with normal cheese (craft). Pouri is something made out of flour, and i dont have it a lot, I used to have it a lot before, not anymore.

M2: rice with grilled chicken. Broccoli, and corn, a small amount of each.

M3: Not really a meal, just protien shake with low fat milk.

*dumdumdum*..here is whe nthing gets shitty.

M4: a cup of corn w butter,lemon, pepper, salt. some nachos with cheese.

M5: Small chicken Ceasar salad with fat free dressing from UNO. Then *coughs*. Ice cream, Jamoca almond fudge to be exact with chocoloate sprinkles. About 300 cals?! Haha, andthe ceasr god knows...600-700? It was small so maybe 500...

I dont wanna Stress about it, eho cares, i ate what I felt like eating for the day, big deal! Damn.. I need serious "Stick to the diet" sort of thing!

[Boss Man]

Re the water thing. Yes drinking Water beforehand, would make you feel fuller or bloated, and less inclined to eat more, but in some cases it will have the effect that you don't eat enough.

It would depend on the size of your food portion. If you ate something like several Egg Whites and a Yolk, and some Rice Carbohydrate, you may have less weight of food, than A Chicken Breast, and 2 small Baked Potatos, so then you have a case of whether the weightier meal is going to be finished when you're partially full, from a glass of water beforehand.

Whereas a lighter meal could be finished off more easily, as you wouldn't feel as full afterwards.

[(Rage)]

Aha I see, so it doesnt really mean water after food slows digestion, but the problem is my stomache is really sensitive...anything i eat, drink, makes my stomache makes voices..i swear...i dont know why..it bothers me...a lot. Sometimes even after I frink water, i feel some sort of discomfort...and when i first wake up in the morning (not hungry voices), but weird voices,..i don't know what;s up with that... any idea?