Food and nutrients
I found a tracker online through the USDA where you enter your daily intake of foods (they have everything in a database) and then it tells you how much of every nutrient you are getting. This is really great - I have seen these before for calorie tracker websites, but I'm not really interested in the calories so much as all the other stuff. Granted, it operates on the USDA food pyramid setup and their calculated RDAs, but I figure that at least the RDAs are as good a goal as any to try for.
I found that I need no help getting all the vitamin C and vitamin A I need per day - even in the bad fruit/veg days I surpass it. But I'm not eating very much cholesterol at all - which is worrisome because I don't know the baseline level my body produces, and eating only 17 mg of cholesterol isn't very much (the recommendation is to keep it under 300). I think I will see if Vaden checks cholesterol out. I do kind of like to have the ability to generate cell walls.
I've been wondering what the standard calorie intake for an average veganish vegetarian is. Because I don't see how I can stuff in the recommended 2400 (for my size and activity level) calories per day. Half that seems about right (I'm not hungry, I don't feel malnourished, etc) and that has been a lot of standard days of food intake for me, but I never realized it was so low. But to double my intake? God, I'm going to be uncomfortably stuffed all the time. Maybe because I eat a lot of raw vegetables, which are super-filling, but don't really have calories.
After panicking when I realized how low my intake was, I went to TJs and Safeway and got various proteiny bars. So if I eat one a day, that should help with that, I guess. I just got the stuff on sale, and some is good, some not so good.
I'm totally screwed for vector calc/linear algebra midterm on Thursday. I thought I was ok, until I realized that there were more chapters covered than I realized. Plus, I got a C on the other midterm, so I really really have to do well on this one if I want to never take this class again. Oh eigenvectors, how I hate you.
Off to Costco for more of my hippie yogurt - and standing in the long lines with one item.
I found that I need no help getting all the vitamin C and vitamin A I need per day - even in the bad fruit/veg days I surpass it. But I'm not eating very much cholesterol at all - which is worrisome because I don't know the baseline level my body produces, and eating only 17 mg of cholesterol isn't very much (the recommendation is to keep it under 300). I think I will see if Vaden checks cholesterol out. I do kind of like to have the ability to generate cell walls.
I've been wondering what the standard calorie intake for an average veganish vegetarian is. Because I don't see how I can stuff in the recommended 2400 (for my size and activity level) calories per day. Half that seems about right (I'm not hungry, I don't feel malnourished, etc) and that has been a lot of standard days of food intake for me, but I never realized it was so low. But to double my intake? God, I'm going to be uncomfortably stuffed all the time. Maybe because I eat a lot of raw vegetables, which are super-filling, but don't really have calories.
After panicking when I realized how low my intake was, I went to TJs and Safeway and got various proteiny bars. So if I eat one a day, that should help with that, I guess. I just got the stuff on sale, and some is good, some not so good.
I'm totally screwed for vector calc/linear algebra midterm on Thursday. I thought I was ok, until I realized that there were more chapters covered than I realized. Plus, I got a C on the other midterm, so I really really have to do well on this one if I want to never take this class again. Oh eigenvectors, how I hate you.
Off to Costco for more of my hippie yogurt - and standing in the long lines with one item.