Susan’s Diet – Up Close And Personal

I’m often asked what I eat on a day-to-day basis, so I decided to start giving CFB readers a glimpse into what my daily diet looks like by posting arbitrary days from my food journal.

I promise that this will not be a candy-coated (no pun intended!) picture of what I eat, but rather you’ll be able to see the good, the not so good, and the downright ugly. Yes, there are really ugly days - but that’s ok every now and then!

For starters I’m going with Monday, August 3rd. Monday’s tend to be one of my ‘healthier’ days of the week for obvious reasons (guilt!).

I want to point out that the week of August 3rd I decided to go gluten free for a couple of days to see 1) if I was able to do it (I was!) and 2) if it helped my endolymphatic hydrops (the jury is still out on this). As such, one of the staples of my regular diet, Ezekiel bread, does not make an appearance in my food journal on this day.

Now that I have regained the weight I loss during the early stage of my illness, and because I'm still very limited in regards to physical activity, I keep my daily calories between 1,200 - 1,400/day.

I'm pretty happy with my macro-nutrient breakdown for this day, and very happy with my saturated fat intake which I try to keep below 8%.

Due to the endolymphatic hydrops my goal is to consume no more than 1,000 mg of sodium per day. 717 mg is definitely an optimum day for me in regards to sodium intake. This last graphic is not a complete representation of my diet as I take vitamins and supplements and 80 oz of water which I do not include in my food journal.

If you're goal is to lose weight and you're not currently food journaling, you should be! To learn just how important food journaling is in regards to weight loss, check out CFB's August 10 posting on Food Journaling Doubles Weight Loss.

Train hard; stay strong.

Peace.

Susan