How's this look so far?

[F0ldorDie]

Besides my cheesy screw-up, I think I'm following the basic guidelines....

Day 1:

Breakfast
2/3 cup mozzarella (read the rules incorrectly, thought it was CUPS not ounces )

Lunch
6.5 oz lean ground beef (raw weight)
2 cups salad mix
1 cup cheese

Dinner
6.5 oz lean ground beef
1 cup salad mix

Post-dinner snack
3 Italian sausages

64+ oz water


Day 2:

Breakfast
2 Italians sausages

Lunch
Grilled chicken strips
2 cups vegetables

Afternoon snack
2 slices cheese

Dinner
6.5 oz lean ground beef
1 cup salad mix
1 Italian sausage
5 slices bacon

[*Emma*]

you know you did wrong on cheese on day one, but thats not too bad a thing - we can get over that... other than cheese everything looks great on day one

Day 2 - what "vegetables" did you have? it should be 2 cups salad veggies and one cup "other" veggies - you may be totally correct as long as your "vegetables" are on the salad list!

have you been using fitday.com to input your foods? what are your percentages like?

How much do you have to lose? its 64oz plus a further 8oz for ever 25lbs you are overweight.

whats in y our italian sausage? is it home made and all legal? or is it store bought?

[F0ldorDie]

Thanks for replying Emma

I wasn't aware I had to 'mix up' veggies. I've been eating a store-bought salad mix

The sausage had me worried. I looked up the ingredients on the website because I threw out the package.

Pork, Water, Less Than 2% of the Following (Salt, Corn Syrup Solids,
Dextrose, Spices, Flavorings, Citric Acid, BHA, BHT).

I'm thinking about stopping the sausages since it has dextrose and corn syrup solids.

The bacon I bought has these ingredients:

CURED WITH WATER, SALT, SUGAR, SODIUM ERYTHORBATE (MADE FROM SUGAR), SODIUM NITRITE.

It lists 0 carbs though, but I wasn't aware of the sugar rule. Thoughts?

This is the Day 2 stats:

grams cals %total
Total: 1653
Fat: 109 983 61%
Sat: 43 387 24%
Poly: 1 13 1%
Mono: 16 141 9%
Carbs: 15 41 3%
Fiber: 5 0 0%
Protein: 147 588 36%


Thanx!

[soliwit]

There are actually a couple of bacon brands you can buy that have 'no sugar added', I buy the one from a brand named plumrose at wallymart, but there are several others out there, just check in your store if they have one.
Looking at your fitday you could ad a bit more fat so that would lower your protein intake, you should aim for 30% protein and 65% fat, but for the rest i think you are doing pretty fine.

[sallyseachange]

Not sure about Italian sausages in the States but here in Italy they have no extra additives. The butchers make them out of meat only...but they do have loads of salt. So, even if you get some without dextrose etc. you might have to watch the salt.

[F0ldorDie]

Thanks for the replies soli & sally

I went to the grocery store and essentially all the sausages & bacons had sugar or dextrose as part of the ingredients.

I'm trying to add more fat to get to 65% by buying chuck meat and other fattier meats...