A little over a month ago, I posted my nutrient breakdown from FitDay. Jenjen asked me to list a breakdown of what I actually eat to hit those nutrient levels. So here are five days of eating, pulled from July 14-18. Just click on the thumbnails and you’ll get a lightbox with the full-sized picture.

July 14
 

July 15
 

July 16
 

July 17
 

July 18
 
It was actually tequila with lime juice, not whiskey with lime juice, but FitDay doesn’t have tequila. I figured it was close enough.

The thing I don’t like about FitDay is that most of those foods were combined. I try to keep them all grouped though. So if you look at July 14th, you see “Lettuce” then a few vegetables and then “Vinegar”; that comprises a salad (plus the two eggs down below that I forgot to add earlier). Then you have chicken and chard cooked in coconut oil. Then there’s soup, which is comprised of homemade chicken broth, chicken, carrots, zucchini, onions, wakame (or some other seaweed that I had). Also blueberries in coconut milk and a sweet potato with coconut cream and coconut oil. So you can kind of figure out how I put things together from this.

Nutrient Breakdown
So when we look at the nutrient breakdowns, you can see that I fell short on a few days this week, mainly in vitamin D and calcium. This was actually an odd week as I ran out of eggs and sardines. I get a good bit of both of these nutrients from those two foods, calcium especially from the sardines. However, here’s a shot of the report for the previous month.

As you see, I met all categories except calcium with no problem over the course of the month, which is really more important. The body doesn’t work on a daily basis. It’s the average over time that matters most. I’m also not concerned about the calcium. As I’ve discussed before, there’s far more to bone health than calcium intake.

There’s also no guarantee that the nutrients are 100% accurate. My homemade chicken broth was comprised of two chicken carcasses boiled down. I can tell you that much less bone came out of the pot than went in as the long boiling with a bit of apple cider vinegar added to the pot disintegrated about half of each carcass. That seems to make a much richer broth than FitDay probably gives credit for.

Also, I made my journal public, so you’re free to dig around in there if you have an interest in seeing any other days. Saturday, July 19th is the last day that I’ve recorded data for and probably will be for a little while. But you can look at that and see that I actually drank a small Gatorade G2 Saturday (only had an hour between events, so not enough time for solid food), along with some beers before crashing way early. Feel free to dig around in the archives.

But Let Me Tell You What I Ate Sunday
I didn’t record my eating for Sunday. Here’s the story: I got up, ate a few hardboiled eggs and some sweet potatoes, then went to the track for Sunday’s running events. After that, I drove the hour or so back home from Lexington and had absolutely no desire to even look at an oven. So I decided that I was going to celebrate the culmination of three months and a pretty successful track meet. And what did I want to celebrate with? Tons of meat, some crappy carbs, and dessert. I picked Golden Corral.

After a huge salad with eggs, bacon, steak, and blue cheese, I went through two plates of meat, totaling about 12 oz of steak with onions and mushrooms and half a chicken, plus a bit of turkey with gravy, and 1.5 of those huge rolls doused in butter. And after that, I had a big slice of chocolate cake with ice cream and a bit of hot fudge. It was delightful. Yes, occasionally it’s just fine to go out and just have an absolute blowout. Just get back on the wagon the next day and make sure the things you gorge on are worth it.

Anyone else care to share their daily intake?


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