Breakfast- 2 eggs, 4 slices of bacon, 1 avacado.
dinner- 3 sweet potatoes, 2 chicken breasts
supper- 3 cups of greek yogurt
I'm just trying to be healthy and cut down on carbs as i was eating over 400g a day of carbs. this diet has around 110g of carbs.
Hi there, it's hard to say when we don't know what your goals are, apart from reducing carbs.
In my humble opinion, your diet lacks vegetables and variety. I know veg are carbs, but anything that grows above ground is lower carb and provides fiber and vitamins etc.
I personally don't cut back on veg (except potatoes), and focus more, on cooking from scratch, as I eat far less, when I'm not eating processed food.
Best of luck finding what works for You!
My goal is just to eat a healthy balanced diet, i heard low carbs was good but then again i just read now that its bad... this is so confusing and stressful.. Im just trying to find a simple food plan thats heathy and meets my nutritional needs. not looking to really lose weight, more maintain it.
I don't believe in diets, I believe in a healthy foods lifestyle. Any diet that restricts carbs, fats, all sugar, etc. will only lead to failure. If a food group is drastically restricted or even worse, eliminated all together, then it will not be sustainable.
Dr. Andrew Weil's Food Pyramid is quite helpful, in my opinion. Check it out. 😉
drweil.com/diet-nutrition/a...
yeah youre right but theres so much information that leads you in so many different directions that i dont even know what a normal healthy balanced meal plan looks like
Hi, I just added a link that you may find helpful in my previous post. Hopefully it will be helpful.
Here it is again drweil.com/diet-nutrition/a...
thank you i will check it out
Totally agree. I eat as much as I want on a “whole food plant based diet” and feel amazing with tons of energy. The rest is all fads. Read the China Study book. Not a fad, pure science with lifetime follow ups and the biggest human study EVER from some of the top doctors and researchers.
Interesting, Bekind36. Just a while back KBMosia and I were discussing this very topic. The movie Forks over Knives came up. The China Study was a large part of the discussion in the movie. youtube.com/watch?v=O7ijukN...
Hate to say this, but on the whole your plan is full of bad fats, and not at all balanced. Way too much chicken, ditch bacon, only 1 egg a week, 1 yoghurt a day, 😗 Google the DASH diet, South Beach Diet or Weight Watcher's to get an idea of what you should/shouldn't eat.
Can I check where the one egg a week recommendation comes from? The guidance has changed back and forth over the years, but I think they're now comfortable with recommending eggs more often?
I have been doing some research on this Cooper27. Here is just a portion of information that I have found, and it does make some sense, to me at least.
Although some studies have found a link between eating eggs and heart disease, there could be other reasons for these findings. The foods people typically eat with eggs, such as bacon, sausage and ham, might do more to boost heart disease risk than eggs do. Plus, the way eggs and other foods are cooked — especially if fried in oil or butter — might play more of a role in the increased risk of heart disease than eggs themselves do.
Information found here mayoclinic.org/diseases-con...
I think it was largely based around the old cholesterol causes high cholesterol idea, which I think they had declared incorrect at the last round of news headlines (but I know they might have changed their minds back again).
You are right. They seem to change their minds with the sway of the wind.
Eliminate all animal related products including dairy!
One egg per day is perfect acceptable and not at all unhealthy, it's is a good clean source of protein.
Might be worth entering your meals into Cronometer? It gives you a breakdown of the micronutrients (calcium, B12, iron, that sort of thing) so you can check you're ticking all the necessary GDAs 
it'd also show you your fat/carb/protein breakdown.
I agree with Finding_Fitness, You need veg for vitamins and minerals, e.g dark leafy green veg like kale will give you calcium and vitamin k2 which helps to lay the calcium in the bones and not in the cardiovascular system. The amount of carbs is about right for most people and adding in leafy green veg will hardly make any diference to that. Also you need a little iodine (Japanese nori or a sea kelp supplement) and fat as in oily fish ocasionally for omega3 fatty acids to support the nervous system.
I would suggest that your diet would be more balanced if you reduced the meat and increased the fruit and veg. For example, one chicken breast would be enough but take it with a selection of veg. Similarly 4 rashers of bacon is too much. Reduce this to 2 rashers but add some veg such as tomatoes or mushrooms. As another reviewer has said don't worry about specific diets, just concentrate on eating healthily and you can't go far wrong.
I eat a “whole foods plant based diet” and feel amazing! It’s Vegan without any processed food and no oil (sometimes I use olive oil so I am not 100%.). I am currently on vacation at an all-inclusive in the Caribbean. I’m trying to maintain a healthy diet but since I’ve been here, my tummy is achy after each meal. I really notice the difference. Is it the oil, is it the added extras because I could not maintain my diet. Food here is amazing but 85% leads to most disease we have in society today and people are filling their plates with it 3x a day and thinking it is OK. I am thoroughly enjoying my vacation but can’t wait to get back home to my kitchen and healthy wholesome meals. Read “The China Study”. It completely confirmed that I am on the right track with a “whole foods plant based diet”. This read is life changing.
I studied Nutrition at school (many years ago), and we were taught that there were five main food groups; Protein (meat, fish, nuts, dairy), Fats (Meat, Dairy, Fish oils, veg oils) Carbohydrates (Rice, Bread, Potatoes etc) vitamins (Fruit, vegetables) and Minerals (Meat, Fish, Nuts and some Fruits and Veg).
For health you should eat across the range of these five food groups, but adapt to one’s individual needs. A growing child might need more protein and more carbs for energy, whereas a retired pensioner will need smaller meals with lower carbs and fats if they are sedentary. A young adult might need more fat and carbs if training for a marathon, but less if they have a sit down job with little activity.
If your weight is good, it sounds like your balance for fat and carbs is about right, but you will improve your skin and hair and benefit your immune system if you eat more fresh fruit and veg, nuts and seeds for their range of vitamins and minerals!
That is a very big and fat rich breakfast. I would take half or all of the avocado away. Is this your breakfast every day? What are your goals? Switch it up a bit and have one chicken breast selection of vegetables, keep them green to begin with if the goal is weight loss. Maybe have yogurt one or two mornings with fresh berries in it and on those days have the avocado on a slice of wholegrain bread for 11's if you get hungry before lunch. A few nuts as snacks, an apple. Much of this could still keep you below 100g of carbs per day. Sweet potato is adding to that and there is not enough veg as a few have said. Nothing wrong with eggs, I find that they help me to lose weight and feel more satiated, unfortunately I just don't like them. Apples, berries, nuts(only a handful per day) fish, lean meats(including red if you like it), plenty of veg and water. Remember eating something too often and it ceases to be good for you. Diet is like homeopathy. Just because it's good for someone else does not mean its good of you and vice versa. Be careful which yogurt too. The proteins in a particular popular yogurt was reaking havoc with my hormones and I was stupidly having one every day, even though small. Took me 8 months to realise that was what was doing it(after much speech therapy)
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