Watcha eating?

[JDgreen227]

Just had a Wendys Chili.. I love that stuff.. but can someone tell me why sometimes the container if full other times it's an inch from being full other times a quarter inch from being full etc.. You never get the same portion size..

Read the disclaimer on the package of cereal or chips: "This container is packed by weight, not volume....some settling may occur...." Do you really expect uniformity in a container that is probably packed by a different Wendy's employee every time?

 

[txdon]

txdon..... So am I doing it wrong?

It depends on what you are trying to do or not do and it depends on who's information you value as being correct.

#1 The AHA will say that you should not consume more than 200 mg, cholesterol a day if you have heart disease - 1 large egg has 215mg.
If you don't have HD or any plaque build up you can have 300 mg - either way you are over.
#2 The American Cancer Society favors beans for daily protein requirements because of the vitamins, minerals and fiber that come along with the protein.

Peanut butter and lunchmeat, cheese, fish will probably put you close or over the max for fat for both the AHA and the ACS. The lunchmeat and cheese will be the biggies containing the saturated fat.

So do you feel that this was a normal eating day or a healthy eating day?
Looks great when compared to some others here, but If you have heart disease I would say you did not help stop it today.

The non-goverment health experts would say that you just ate a tad better than the Standard American Diet.

I'm impressed you had no alcohol and no sweets/deserts on a weekend - but it is early....

 

[JDgreen227]

It depends on what you are trying to do or not do and it depends on who's information you value as being correct.

#1 The AHA will say that you should not consume more than 200 mg, cholesterol a day if you have heart disease - 1 large egg has 215mg.
If you don't have HD or any plaque build up you can have 300 mg - either way you are over.
#2 The American Cancer Society favors beans for daily protein requirements because of the vitamins, minerals and fiber that come along with the protein.

Peanut butter and lunchmeat, cheese, fish will probably put you close or over the max for fat for both the AHA and the ACS. The lunchmeat and cheese will be the biggies containing the saturated fat.

So do you feel that this was a normal eating day or a healthy eating day?
Looks great when compared to some others here, but If you have heart disease I would say you did not help stop it today.

The non-goverment health experts would say that you just ate a tad better than the Standard American Diet.

I'm impressed you had no alcohol and no sweets/deserts on a weekend - but it is early....

I DO NOT eat sweets or desserts, period...my sole indulgence is an 8 ounce glass of wine with dinner every night. Red of course, which is said to be good for the heart. You could say this is pretty much a normal eating day for me....I just had a complete bloodwork profile done recently...my HDL cholesterol is a tad elevated at 41 (normal is 39) and my triglycerides are 165 which is also slightly elevated. Everything else is within normal ranges.

 

[CompactTractorFan]

WP, not to be critical of your choice but I for one have never understood the appeal of chicken wings. To parody Clara Peller: "Where's the meat?" Unless of course, you are referring to boneless chicken wings... but to me a real chicken wing is mostly skin and bones.

+1

I like all my meat "boneless"

 

[CompactTractorFan]

Chicken here too...but with a penne, tomato sauce, mozzeralla cheese and crushed red pepper!

:licking: :licking: :licking:

 

[J F]

+1

I like all my meat "boneless"

I don't know, bone-in ribeyes and nice thick bone-in chops are pretty darn good. :licking:

 

[jinman]

For breakfast this morning, I had a navel orange, a tangerine, and a Jimmy Dean Delight since it's Saturday and I splurge on Saturday. Even so, I think the total was less than 450 calories. For lunch I had. . . hmm. . . nuthin' because I went out to tractor. I just came in and was hungry, so I popped the top on a single Del Monte serving 100 calorie fruit cocktail. YUM! Tonight, we go out to eat Chinese. I'll have hot and sour soup as an appetizer along with half a dozen boiled shrimp. For the main course, a small amount of white rice, green beans, broccoli chicken, hibachi chicken, and a couple of pieces of sesame chicken (Do you see a pattern here?). For desert, I'll have. . . more hot and sour soup.:licking: I stay away from the fried won-tons, but occasionally have an egg roll. That's my restaurant meal for the week. We aren't going to Mexican tonight like we usually do.

If I get hungry before bedtime, I'll have one of the lite yogurts from Walmart (68 calories). I like the banana-creme pie or key lime pie flavors.

BTW: There isn't much meat on a chicken wing, but I think that wings are the very best tasting part of a chicken. I much prefer them to breast meat.

 

[txdon]

....and my triglycerides are 165 which is also slightly elevated.

The American Heart Association has lowered its recommendation for triglycerides to 100 mg/dl or less. It had been 150mg/dl.

"If your triglycerides are high, cut back on simple carbohydrates which would include alcohol, wine, beer, white flour products, sugars including dried fruit, honey maple syrup, molasses, rich desserts, fruit juice or an excess of fruit" - Dr. Esselstyn

I would not say drinking red wine is for the heart. Any of the heart benefits in red wine can be found elsewhere - without the alcohol. So, it even has + and - .

I also found that my triglycerides shoot up with alcohol.

 

[/pine]

I don't know, bone-in ribeyes and nice thick bone-in chops are pretty darn good. :licking:

We are in the 21st century and we still like to cook meat on open flames and chew it off the bone....

 

[J F]

We are in the 21st century and we still like to cook meat on open flames and chew it off the bone....

I do actually use a fork and knife from time to time. :laughing: