Healthy diet?

[karohemd]

Watching Eat to Save Your Life (Channel 4, with Jamie Oliver and Gunther von Hagen, how's that for a combination) while nibbling on a bit of dark choc and sipping a glass of red wine (which should have taken care of my antioxidant intake), I had a quick review of what I've eaten today:
- Breakfast: bowl of unsweetened muesli (other than various cereals also containing a handful of mixed nuts and a handful of raisins), with half a teaspoon of cocoa and organic full fat milk.
- Snack during the morning: an organic apple
- lunch: baguette with garlic sausage, cream cheese and salad (lettuce, tomato, cucumber)
- in the afternoon: a slice of berry cake from the sandwichman (a bit too sugary for my taste but nice)
- dinner: steamed broccoli, kale, mushrooms with a white sauce (made with a butter roux, full fat milk, salt, pepper, dried herbs, mustard) and a few strips of ham and boiled potatoes.
- drink throughout the day: about four pints of OJ/water (1/3 pure OJ, 2/3 water), two mugs of green tea

Not brilliant but not bad, either. I think it's reasonably balanced. A reasonable amount of fresh vs. processed food (the garlic sausage and the cake).

Ooh, what I just liked is that they proved BMI is absolute bollocks. The allegedly obese guy had very little body fat but lots of bulk muscle while the slightly overweight guy had loads of body fat.

Comments

[sarahloo.livejournal.com]

I've met Gunther von Hagen, he came to my university!

I do like Jamie Oliver, but I'm getting a bit bored of these healthy eating programmes and shock tactics now. We *know* we have to eat more fresh fruit and vegetables and less ready meals....... : )

[ginasketch.livejournal.com]

Ha! I watched that program and it made me want red wine in my hand as a security blanket. D:

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

It was a shame that they didn't directly cut from von Hagen saying "Zis is ze liver of a 25 stone man who ate himself to deaz" to Jamie slicing and frying a piece of foie gras. ;o)

I agree but it seems they think scare tactics are the way forward.

One programme I really quite like was the Cook yourself thin vs. celebrity recipes one on Tuesday. They have the right attitude to dieting: don't deny yourself the stuff you love, just make sure you don't overdo it and you add other things for balance.

[mr-malk.livejournal.com]

Hmm, that makes me wonder what I've actually eaten today...
Let's see...
A bowl of cornflakes with semi-skimmed milk.
1 Bacon butty (brown, possibly malted roll, butter substitute, tomato sauce, 2 slices back-bacon)
1 panini (that sounds Italian, shouldn't the singular be "panino"?) with tuna, mayonnaise and sweetcorn.
1 pot of plain, sweetened yoghurt with museli and honey
1 packet salt & vinegar crisps
I am expecting to have a lamb balti and pilau rice later this evening, with a slice of an undetermined type of cake.

Drinks:
2 cups of pineapple juice.
I've lost count of how many black coffees, certainly more than 5.
2 double espressos
Probably at least 2 more mugs of coffee and a cup of tea when I get home.

Hm. Not that great.

Yesterday was better, I had some salad on my lunch yesterday!

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

that sounds Italian, shouldn't the singular be "panino"?
Sì!

Proper "five a day" (especially five different colours) is quite difficult to do every day even for someone who tries getting a balanced diet but I'm making a good stab at it.

I'm not religious about it, I just try to be sensible without denying myself the things I love (and crave) and there are of course days I won't manage, at least one a week, I'd say.