While in D.C. for AdvoCare work recently, a team member told me about an AdvoCare friendly weight loss tool that I wanted to share!
www.myfooddiary.com is a website that allows you to log your daily food intake and exercise then provides you with reports containing feedback and motivation that you need to keep going. While there are many similar websites out there, I particularly like this one because their food database contains over 70,000 foods including AdvoCare shakes, bars, and vitamins so you do not have to manually enter them. The report then gives you smiley faces for consuming adequate, nutrients, calories, fat, cholesterol, protein, carbs, etc.
Here is what my food diary and report looked like yesterday...
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Breakfast:
Advocare ~ Spark Energy Drink ~ Mandarin Orange
1 scoop
Advocare ~ Meal Replacement Shake ~ Vanilla
1 pouch
Advocare ~ Rehydrate ~ Citrus
1 pouch
Advocare ~ Metabolic Nutrition System ~ Basic
1 4-packet strip
Snack:
Apple
w/ Skin ~ Raw
1 apple
Trader Joe´s ~ Peanut Butter ~ Creamy ~ Organic
2 tbsp
Lunch:
StarKist ~ Tuna ~ Chunk Light in Water (5 oz) with: Olives ~ Black, Green, Egg ~ Hard-boiled, Celery, Red Bell Pepper
Grapes ~ European Type ~ Red or Green ~ Raw
2 cups
Snack:
Advocare ~ Spark Energy Drink ~ Mandarin Orange
1 scoop
Advocare ~ Snack Bar ~ Double Chocolate Bar
1 bar
Advocare ~ Rehydrate ~ Citrus
1 pouch
Dinner:
Wine ~ Table ~ Red
10 fl oz
Trader Joe´s ~ Pizza ~ Barbecue Chicken
1/3 pizza
Snack:
2/3 medium size Banana
Raw
TOTALS:
Calories:1891
Fat:42.9g
Carbs: 236.2g
Protein: 98.6g
GOOD FEEDBACK:
You earned 440 extra calories through exercise . A high-fiber breakfast can help you lose weight and reduce your risk for heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes. Saturated fats only accounted for 6.0% of your calories. Good job staying below the 9% limit! You consumed 1277 mg of calcium. This is 128% of the recommended daily value (1000 mg) for adults under 50 years old. You consumed 881.6 mg of vitamin C. This is 801% of the recommended daily value (110 mg) for adult women who drink. You consumed 11974 IU of vitamin A. This is 399% of the recommended daily value for women.
BAD FEEDBACK:
You consumed 27g of alcohol, which exceeds the maximum recommendation for women (14g). Alcohol can increase your appetite and decrease the metabolism of fat. You consumed 2600mg of sodium. Ideally, this number should be below 2300mg. You exceeded the 300mg limit for cholesterol consumption by 49mg.
Alright, alright. Chill out on the 2 glasses of wine. My son's away on spring break so my social life picked up a tad. Give me a break! = )
www.myfooddiary.com is a website that allows you to log your daily food intake and exercise then provides you with reports containing feedback and motivation that you need to keep going. While there are many similar websites out there, I particularly like this one because their food database contains over 70,000 foods including AdvoCare shakes, bars, and vitamins so you do not have to manually enter them. The report then gives you smiley faces for consuming adequate, nutrients, calories, fat, cholesterol, protein, carbs, etc.
Here is what my food diary and report looked like yesterday...
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Breakfast:
Advocare ~ Spark Energy Drink ~ Mandarin Orange
1 scoop
Advocare ~ Meal Replacement Shake ~ Vanilla
1 pouch
Advocare ~ Rehydrate ~ Citrus
1 pouch
Advocare ~ Metabolic Nutrition System ~ Basic
1 4-packet strip
Snack:
Apple
w/ Skin ~ Raw
1 apple
Trader Joe´s ~ Peanut Butter ~ Creamy ~ Organic
2 tbsp
Lunch:
StarKist ~ Tuna ~ Chunk Light in Water (5 oz) with: Olives ~ Black, Green, Egg ~ Hard-boiled, Celery, Red Bell Pepper
Grapes ~ European Type ~ Red or Green ~ Raw
2 cups
Snack:
Advocare ~ Spark Energy Drink ~ Mandarin Orange
1 scoop
Advocare ~ Snack Bar ~ Double Chocolate Bar
1 bar
Advocare ~ Rehydrate ~ Citrus
1 pouch
Dinner:
Wine ~ Table ~ Red
10 fl oz
Trader Joe´s ~ Pizza ~ Barbecue Chicken
1/3 pizza
Snack:
2/3 medium size Banana
Raw
TOTALS:
Calories:1891
Fat:42.9g
Carbs: 236.2g
Protein: 98.6g
GOOD FEEDBACK:
You earned 440 extra calories through exercise . A high-fiber breakfast can help you lose weight and reduce your risk for heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes. Saturated fats only accounted for 6.0% of your calories. Good job staying below the 9% limit! You consumed 1277 mg of calcium. This is 128% of the recommended daily value (1000 mg) for adults under 50 years old. You consumed 881.6 mg of vitamin C. This is 801% of the recommended daily value (110 mg) for adult women who drink. You consumed 11974 IU of vitamin A. This is 399% of the recommended daily value for women.
BAD FEEDBACK:
You consumed 27g of alcohol, which exceeds the maximum recommendation for women (14g). Alcohol can increase your appetite and decrease the metabolism of fat. You consumed 2600mg of sodium. Ideally, this number should be below 2300mg. You exceeded the 300mg limit for cholesterol consumption by 49mg.
Alright, alright. Chill out on the 2 glasses of wine. My son's away on spring break so my social life picked up a tad. Give me a break! = )
