Ok, so I am a vegetarian and I have a disorder called PCO's. I am currently on a low-carb diet and I want to know if this is a correct diet for me. I know all of it may not be the healthiest, but I'm 15 and try my best.Breakfast:
3 scrambled eggs
2 pieces of honey wheat toast
Occasionally 2 pieces of soy bacon.
Lunch:
A veggie (soy) burger, with mustard and half a slice of pepper-jack cheese.
Nature's Own Thin Whole Wheat buns
Veggie chips.
2 tablespoons of dip.
My dinner varies. I normally have:
whole wheat pasta, vegetarian tacos, brown rice, light soy sauce and veggies, veggie burger and a baked potato, or a veggie burger and sweet potato fried seasoned with salt and pepper or a veggie sub from Subway once every 2 weeks.
For snacks, I usually have a granola bar and low fat yogurt or fruit and low fat yogurt.
I don't drink any form of soda. I drink water and I'll occasionally drink tea or green tea with Splenda.
I don't eat sweets and the occasions I do are normally Starbucks runs (which happen mostly during summer) and on Thanksgiving, Easter, and Christmas.
I always try to get at least 8 hours of sleep. I'm not the type to stay up all night.
I normally eat the same meals everyday, considering my meals are limited and I make all my own meals. (I live with a carnivorous family.)
Any suggestions? Help?
John W - There are low carb breads that don't use flour. Honey wheat is good but it's not really low carb, just better than white bread, mind you honey wheat is my favorite. It's the wheat that's all the carbs but there are replacements for wheat.
ReplyDeletePeople underestimate the requirements of a true vegetarian diet, you don't get all the amino acids that you need from any particular vegetable and a soy burger does little for your nutritional needs, indeed you can use a portobello mushroom for a hamburger. You really need a wide variety of vegetables, beans, nuts and fruits not just a few shady meat look alike convenience items. That baked potato is a worse carbohydrate than eating pure sugar.
Three scrambled eggs is an awful lot, I usually make an omelette with just one egg. I only eat that many eggs for breakfast when staying at luxury hotels.
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Ben Trolled - Here's a site that will show you what is low carbs. All carbs are different so this one show you what the load of your carbs are..http://www.mendosa.com/gilists.htm
ReplyDeleteThis table includes the glycemic index and glycemic load of more than 2,480 individual food items. Not all of them, however, are available in the United States. They represent a true international effort of testing around the world.
The glycemic index (GI) is a numerical system of measuring how much of a rise in circulating blood sugar a carbohydrate triggers–the higher the number, the greater the blood sugar response. So a low GI food will cause a small rise, while a high GI food will trigger a dramatic spike. A list of carbohydrates with their glycemic values is shown below. A GI is 70 or more is high, a GI of 56 to 69 inclusive is medium, and a GI of 55 or less is low.
The glycemic load (GL) is a relatively new way to assess the impact of carbohydrate consumption that takes the glycemic index into account, but gives a fuller picture than does glycemic index alone. A GI value tells you only how rapidly a particular carbohydrate turns into sugar. It doesn't tell you how much of that carbohydrate is in a serving of a particular food. You need to know both things to understand a food's effect on blood sugar. That is where glycemic load comes in. The carbohydrate in watermelon, for example, has a high GI. But there isn't a lot of it, so watermelon's glycemic load is relatively low. A GL of 20 or more is high, a GL of 11 to 19 inclusive is medium, and a GL of 10 or less is low.
Foods that have a low GL almost always have a low GI. Foods with an intermediate or high GL range from very low to very high GI.
Both GI and GL are listed here. The GI is of foods based on the glucose index–where glucose is set to equal 100. The other is the glycemic load, which is the glycemic index divided by 100 multiplied by its available carbohydrate content (i.e. carbohydrates minus fiber) in grams. (The "Serve size (g)" column is the serving size in grams for calculating the glycemic load; for simplicity of presentation I have left out an intermediate column that shows the available carbohydrates in the stated serving sizes.) Take, watermelon as an example of calculating glycemic load. Its glycemic index is pretty high, about 72. According to the calculations by the people at the University of Sydney's Human Nutrition Unit, in a serving of 120 grams it has 6 grams of available carbohydrate per serving, so its glycemic load is pretty low, 72/100*6=4.32, rounded to 4.
Your diet is quite good . Breads are usually very high in carbs...
Take care
Ben Trolled