How many calories have I eaten today?

Question

1 bowl of porridge made with skimmed milk and a banana

1 low fat/low calorie mushroom cup soup

2 small bread rolls with half a red onion and 35g cheese

1 apple

is this ok? And is it healthy? I know cheese is "fattening" but I need the calcium as there is osteoporosis (brittle bone disease) in my family.

How many calories should I have for dinner? And have you got any ideas on what I should have? I don't eat meat but do eat fish :o)

Thanks

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Answer 1

Ok all those other answers were just crazy and went overboard.

I don't know exactly how many calories you've eaten today but from what you said it sounds nice and healthy. Also there is nothing wrong with the cheese that you ate. For dinner I suggest you have something that has meat and veggies because your list seems to be lacking those. How about a small salad with fish, some broccoli and a bit of pasta? After wards for desert you can have some fruit like an apple or grapes.

Anyways keep up the good work!

**Edit** I understand you don't eat meat as in beef, chicken or pork but fish is still considered "meat" :P

Answer 2

First, get a calorie king to count your own calories

Second, a good thing to follow is a 1500 calorie plan, 500 calories for each meal.

Or, a 1,200 calorie plan, which could be a mixture of calories.

You should also write down what you eat, so you can see if you went over.

I know it's a hassle counting and writing, but then you can really get an image of what you're eating in a day, and what to cut down on.

The fact you're trying to keep it low-fat is good, they do make fat-free cheese you know.

Answer 3

That listing of food you ate tells me you are starving yourself and counting calories like that will point you in the direction of disease.  If you are concerned about gaining weight, that diet will harm you more than help you.

When you get your calories primarily from carbs, as described in that diet, your fat tissue produces a hormone called leptin that regulates your metabolism down because it believes you are starving, and you are.  Low fat diets are destructive and the people promoting them are just IGNORANT and have no clue how the body works.  Skim milk is a joke.  It is being promoted as a good thing, but it is total junk and definitely not good for the body.  The butterfat in milk if it is raw, nourishes the body and provides many necessary fatty acids used by the body to make necessary fatty acids to keep you healthy.  

When they make skim milk, they remove the butterfat that turns the milk blue.  They have to add white coloring to it to make it look like milk again.  Then they pasteurize it and destroy the calcium structure and make it undigestible, so they have to add vitamin D to force your body to absorb it; if they don't, you can get rickets!  The homogenization process crushes any butterfat and makes "chards" of foreign amino acids that elicit homocystein responses in your body causing allergic reactions to take place.

The low fat/low calorie mushroom soup is loaded with chemicals that damage your DNA and actually shorten your life.  The bread rolls have soy in them and the goitrogens in that junk slow your thyroid down.  The cheese is most likely the Kraft type that is "one day" cheese.  They make it in one day by adding accelerators and other chemicals to preserve it so it can sit on a grocer's shelf for a long time.  This junk is loaded with lactose because it is not aged and it is also pasteurized and so it is loaded with dead bacteria and is definitely not nourishing your body.

Calcium deficiency is generally not due to the lack of calcium in the diet, but one or more of the 7 different cofactors required by the body to digest it is typically deficient.  Taking calcium supplements will NOT keep you from getting osteoporosis as a general rule.  

Not eating meat generally means you are very deficient in vitamin B-12 to start with.  I don't blame you for not wanting to eat meat found in American Mausoleums where dead food is held in state.  It's important to eat high quality meat derived from grass fed cows that is healthy for you.

I strongly suggest you get educated from people who understand nutrition.  That is certainly NOT doctors, drug companies, pharmacies, so called "food experts" that are nothing more than "hired guns" of the food industry that have been dressed up to look credible, but are just glorified sales people for the food industry's junk.

A good place to start is to find a Certified Nutritional Therapist that can test you and determine exactly what nutrients you are deficient in and then recommend a good diet for you and possibly some supplements.

I also recommend you read a few books.  This will help put you on the road to learning what is good and bad for you.  To manage your weight properly, you will need to know your "metabolic type."  This will help you to determine what foods you can eat that will support good metabolism and help you to avoid those foods that your body is not designed to utilize well.

I suggest you purchase these books to get you started:  "Nourishing Traditions" by Sally Fallon and Mary G. Enig, Ph.D.; "Life Without Bread" by Christian Allan, Ph.D.  Those two books will help you with your weight issues and give you a good basic understanding.

good luck to you