I think I'm eating to many carbs!!

This is the crap my dh told me the other day.

I do all the shopping and cooking for us and hearing him say that made me want to wack him in the head. lol

I'll be honest, all I really care about when I go shopping are the serving size, calories, fat and fiber. I don't pay attention to the carbs.

M-F he eats the same thing for breakfast(except Friday) lunch and snacks.

He eats cereal for breakfast. Serving is about a cup(which I'm sure he has more that that) 170 cal, 1g fat, 10g fiber

For snacks baby carrots, apple, and a banana.

Lunch is turkey sandwich with a slice of cheese very little mayo with lettuce and tomatoes.

The bread is (2 slices) 220cal, 3g of fat, 12g of fiber.

Dinner is usually meats and veggies. taco night with fixings. turkey burger corn on the cobb with beans. grilled chicken salad.


DOES HE HAVE A CASE? SHOULD I CHANGE ANYTHING? I FEEL LIKE IM DOING RIGHT BY US.

btw, hes 6'3 at around 235 and works out 2-3 days a week.

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All sounds pretty balanced and healthy to me.

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Healthy? yes. A lot of carbs? Yes.

I'd switch out his breakfast....maybe eggs or a protein shake instead of cereal.

I'm recently trying to cut back on carbs too because I realized that that's basically all I eat. So I've switched from cereal or oatmeal in the mornings to hard boiled eggs, egg muffin (recipe I got here actually), or a protein shake. Makes a world of difference!

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That is a carbohydrate heavy diet. I would increase the amount of protein at breakfast and try to add some green leafy veggies or broccoli especially on the day that you have burgers because the roll, corn and beans are all high in carbohydrates. I would look at the carbohydrate content on the food labels often low fat foods are higher in carbohydrates.

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grrrrrrrr!!!!!
i hate being wrong.

i would tell him to have eggs for breakfast but i know he wont make them on weekday mornings and i sure aint gonna do it.

we dont have any buns when we have turkey burger night. maybe i'll cut out the beans and make that cole slaw with the light dressing.

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Roz, I got this recipe for egg muffins from the boards the other day and I made them yesterday. They're delicious and packed with protein. I made a batch of 12 and threw them in the fridge. This way I can take one to work with me everyday and not have to cook eggs every morning.

The same with hard-boiled eggs. I'll make 6-10 at a time and just keep them in the fridge for the week.

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Lauraaaaaaaa!!!!! This sounds awesome!!! Im getting tired of my high fiber oatmeal and this seems like it will hit the spot!

Silly question. What size muffins are these? No way is my fh going to have two tiny ones.lol

I can so see myself making a buttload of these on sundays.

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I have to say given his ht/wt and what you said he eats daily he isnt eating too many carbs.


edited to include: I agree with pp he needs more protein along with the carbohydrates.

Message edited 6/13/2011 5:22:53 PM.

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I think there is too much of a fear of carbs out there. I eat alot more carbs than that and I'm alot smaller than he is. I eat less carbs now, but when I lost the 60lbs three years ago I ate alot of carbs.
I do agree he would use more protein- but I don't think the carb amount is that overwhelming.

What you could do is sign up for a site like dailyplate.com put everything that he eats in for the day and it will calculate the total calories and macronutrients that make up those calories.

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Thanks for the info colleen. Im going to check out that site.

Now i just need figure out the nutritional info per muffin. Thats gonna be a pit.Lol

I do agree that we both can use some more protein.

Thanks everyone

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Shows what I know, I really didn't think that was a lot of carbs other than the cereal. Iknow carrots have carbs but I thought they were good for you

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