Hey Chub2lose,

 I looked at my anaylsis from my food journal, and I am getting 72grams of sugar a day, and the ratio  is 72.1 carbs/  9.7%protein / 18.2% fat...thats not very good!  yet my anaylsis gives me a nutrition grade of A

I plan to cut down on the dried fruit and the fruit at breakfast now...but what to snack on  if its not fruit.. its hard to get natural foods if they're not fruit and raedy to hand. rice cakes?

I am studying at the moment so im hoping when i finish the snacking will reduce too!

Original Post by laoiselou:

...I plan to cut down on the dried fruit and the fruit at breakfast now...but what to snack on  if its not fruit.. its hard to get natural foods if they're not fruit and raedy to hand. rice cakes?

I love fruit too but I limit myself to a point because of all the carbs.  For snacks I eat low fat string cheese (8 grams of protien), almonds (about 10), maybe eat an apple with peanut butter to get some protien and balance out the diet, protein snack bars, and more.  I am not a huge fan of rice cakes but some people love them. :)

Ps. Spek = I would follow the same rule as stated about = If you are keeping your food intake ratio at 50/20/30 (give or take 5% either direction) for carbs/protien/fat I think you are ok.

to answer your question about the sugar turning to fat, only if your taking in more calories than your burning. Otherwise your body burns the calories that your taking in first. So only the excess is converted to fat, what your body doesn't use. So if your calorie intake is maintenance or less there's nothing to worry about.

I agree w/ gi-jane there's a lot worse foods to eat too many of. The only concern would be if you were missing out on other important nutrients that are in other foods.

it looks like your protiens pretty low, could try adding some nuts or dark leafy vegetables or beans to your diet. (I wasn't sure if you were vegetarian or not, if not could add some more meat too.)

thats a good thread too spek....i'm not an expert but i think too much fruit is worse than too muchvegetables...my friend is a dietitian (almost, half-way through university) and she said we can eat as much vegetables and potatoes as we like...and that if we knew how bad white pasta was we would be scared!she refused to tell us why. hope that doesn't scare anyone haha but as gi-jane and chubb2lose and spek all said, it is all about the balance.

it's interesting though...it has probably been less than a week since i have cut down on my fruit intake, especially in the morning with my breakfast but i feel better all ready if that is possible? especially concerning... to put it as nicely as possible bowel movements...which i have had issues with before.

so thanks for the replies guys!

the change but most importantly the improvements are visible already!

As for the vegetarian question by narfblast, yah you're right. i wouldn't say i am a vegetarian because i eat fish and meat occasionally too but i do need to pick up my protein levels, and the iron levels specifically too as i feel my energy can be quite low.

it's a learning curve for sure!

:)