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| So far so good. I hope I am not eating too much. But I've been looking on here and go alot of answer to my questions. Only thing I've been nervous about is my dinner last night. I made a taco salad minus the taco and used black beens, letttuce, tomatoe, cheese (Not FF :( ), FF sour cream, black olives, ground turky, and all nature salasa. i hope I didn't go over board with the ingrediants. Please tell me what you think. I really want to do this. I am only 32 years old with high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and very over weight (5'5, 240 pounds) |
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Thu May 08, 2008 2:34 pm |
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| Magna
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This could be fine, or it could be really unhealthy. Just naming foods doesn't tell us enough. The information we need is, what did you eat (meaning, what were the ingredients), and how much?
For example, a taco salad made with lean turkey, seasonings and salsa with no sugar added, and reasonable portions of protein and dairy products (meat, cheese, FF sour cream) would be fine. Even if the cheese were high fat, it wouldn't be very bad if you only had a little.
On the other hand, a taco salad made with lots of full-fat turkey, lots of high-fat cheese, a lot of sour cream (even if FF), and seasonings and salsa with added sugar would be very unhealthy. Too many beans and olives, even though these are healthy foods, would also add more calories than you want. If you used iceberg lettuce, try another kind next time. (Iceberg lettuce isn't unhealthy, but its nutritional value is very low compared with almost any other kind of lettuce.)
Since you've already eaten it, there's nothing you need to do to fix the situation, except learn from it. Here's some things you'll want to consider:
How much fat was in the cheese? (6g per 1 oz. or less is OK for SBD.)
How much fat was in the turkey? Did you drain the fat off after cooking?
Was there any added sugar in the seasonings or salsa? (Read the labels.)
And, most importantly, how much of everything did you eat? Did you measure? If you didn't measure, you might try putting what you think was the same sized portions of things on a plate or in a bowl and then measuring. (You don't have to use the exact same food - just something that's the same size.)
Measuring your food is a helpful practice, at least until you get used to estimating portion sizes. Advertising and restaurant portion sizes give a false idea of how large a serving of food really is. A lot of people are surprised at how much they are actually eating.
On the good side, you made the taco salad yourself, so you know what went into it. It's also good that you were eating lettuce and tomato (especially if the lettuce was something besides iceberg). You can pretty much eat as much as you want of these foods. |
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Thu May 08, 2008 6:06 pm |
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