Sunday, February 28, 2010
Reflections

And now...finally... it's reflection time!! XD

1. What have you learnt about your eating habits?
I learnt that my eating habits are quite consistent. During lunch and dinner, I will surely eat either rice or noodles. I also have quite a hearty breakfast as this gives me the energy to start off the day. However, sometimes I take in too much meat, more than I require, and that is a bad eating habit I have.

2. Do you consider you diet a healthy one? why?

I do not think my diet is a very healthy one.For example, as I do not like to eat fruits, I tend to just not eat them, and try to eat more vegetables to make up for this. However, we should strike a balance between vegetables and fruits as both are equally important. Also, I take in too much salt. For example, I eat Mee Goreng about once a week, and it is very high in sodium (1,851mg). Even for chicken rice, the rice itself is already about 800mg in sodium. This warns me that I should be more cautious when eating food, and I should choose to eat food that have low salt content. Finally, omelette and green onions-a dish I LOVE eating is alarmingly high in cholesterol, which may lead to diseases in the future. This tells me that I should cut down my intake of it. Although I am in a sports CCA and therefore have to do a lot of strenuous exercise, I find that this is not an excuse to take in that much salt and cholesterol.

3. Are the suggested nutritional tools useful? Why?
Yes, they were really useful in helping me find out about my diet and eating habits. Without these tools, it would be very difficult and inconvenient for us to calculate the amount of carbohydrates, calcium, proteins etc. that we take into our body. However, we are able to do so just in a few minutes with these tools, and can see for ourselves which kind of food is healthier. The tools also gave us constructive information like the number of servings, which, for me, could be understood very easily.

4. Why is your suggested one-meal dish healthy?
As mentioned in the post below, instead of fried chicken chop, the chicken is replaced by boiled fish-much more healthier and richer in nutrients. Spring onions were added so that it consisted of more fibre too. The egg was also fried with less oil as at home, we are able to control the amount of cooking oil used. Thus there is less oil and more vegetables, making it a healthy one-dish meal.

-End of reflections!! :D -


emiheng wishes everyone a good day ahead (:
9:09 AM.
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My One-Dish Meal!
























Yes, this is my healthy one-dish meal.
It consists of onions and spring onions (vegetables), a fried egg, fish slices and white rice topped with some gravy.

This dish was not included in my three-day diet. However, most of the times, when I go to restaurants, I often see this dish, which consists of chicken chop and rice with an egg only. Thus, they are most likely to be more oily. I then modified it and added spring onions, so that this dish contains more dietary fibre now. I also changed the chicken chop to boiled fish so that it is more nutritious, and yet at the same time less oily and more healthy.


emiheng wishes everyone a good day ahead (:
8:51 AM.
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Further analysis

Now, after looking at some of the food I have eaten (in my previous blog post),
let us refer back to the Healthy Diet pyramid:

Here are examples of one serving from each section of the food pyramid:

Fats, Oils & Sweets
-Use sparingly.

-e.g. salad dressings, cream, butter, margarine, sugars, soft drinks and candies.

-have a lot of calories from fat and sugar, but few nutrients.

Breads, Cereals, Rice & Pasta

  • 1 slice bread
  • 1/2 cup cooked cereal, rice or pasta
  • 1 ounce dry cereal
Fruits
  • 1 medium whole fruit
  • 3/4 cup juice
  • 1/2 cup canned fruit
Vegetables
  • 1/2 cup cooked vegetable
  • 1 cup tossed salad
Milk
  • 1 cup milk
  • 8 ounces yogurt
  • 1 1/2 - 2 ounces cheese
Meat, Poultry, Fish, Dry Beans, Eggs & Nuts
  • 3 ounces cooked meat, poultry or fish
  • 3 ounces meat is about the same size as a deck of cards
  • 1 - 1 1/2 cups cooked beans
  • 2 tablespoons peanut butter or 1 egg counts the same as 1 ounce of meat (about 1/3 serving)
Source:http://www.heb.com/mealtime/CT-oneServing.jsp

I will be showing you the one-dish meal in my next post! (:


emiheng wishes everyone a good day ahead (:
7:46 AM.
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Analysis of my Diet

Based on the Calorie Calculator, My daily energy requirement is 1971kcal.
This is the amount of calories I need to maintain my body weight.

Here are some information on some of the food I have consumed within the 3-day diet:
(Using Tool:Energy and Nutrient Composition of Foods)

1.Omelette, with prawn and green onion
Description :N/A
Edible Portion :100%
Per Serving :181 g

2.Broccoli, stir-fried
Description :Broccoli, W/ ginger+soy sauce, SF
Edible Portion :100%
Per Serving :172.78 g

3.Cabbage with dried shrimp, stir-fried
Description :Cabbage cooked with grated carrot and dried shrimp, stir-fried
Edible Portion :100%
Per Serving :136 g

4.Tofu, soft, with minced pork + soyabean paste, fried
Description :N/A
Edible Portion :100%
Per Serving :247.16 g

5.Chicken rice (Rice only)
Description :steamed rice, with added garlic, ginger and oil mixture
Edible Portion :100%
Per Serving :295 g

6.Mee goreng
Description :Yellow noodle, W/ chye sim, egg, bean sprout, onion, cucumber, peas, tomato, cabbage,
cooked in tomato and chilli sauce
Edible Portion :100%
Per Serving :309 g

Click the picture to enlarge:
The table above shows the energy, protein, fat, fibre, carbohydrates, cholesterol and sodium I took in as I was consuming those food.


Yep that's all the next post will be more on my analysis of the food that I ate :)


emiheng wishes everyone a good day ahead (:
5:50 AM.
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My 3-day Diet!!

This is my 3-Day Diet.
It starts on 22 February and ends on the 24th of February.
Enjoy! :D

1st Day - Monday, 22/2/10
2nd Day - Tuesday, 23/2/10
  • Morning, 5.40am: 1 Chocolate bun with plain water (400 ml)
  • Recess, 9.30am: Kraft biscuits (1 packet) with packet Milo
  • Lunch, 12.50pm: -1 bowl White rice -Pork with gravy -110g Spinach
  • Dinner, 8pm: -White rice -Chicken soup -60g Cooked Lettuce
3rd Day - Wednesday, 24/2/10
  • Morning, 5.40am: Mee goreng
  • Recess, 10.30am: Strawberry-flavoured yoghurt (1 carton)
  • Lunch, 12.50pm: 1 bowl Fishball noodles
  • Tea break, 3.30pm: 1 slice of cheese
  • Dinner, 7pm: -1 bowl of Chicken rice -1 drumstick -150g Stir fried broccoli and cauliflower
Okay I shall analyse my diet in the next post :D


emiheng wishes everyone a good day ahead (:
5:18 AM.
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