New Tool - Diet Spreadsheet

[donnnnay]

ok question about this... so i've made a diet spreadsheet using the brands etc of what i eat usually (recording everything off the exact labels of the packages)... then i figured out that i need 35g of protein, 58g of carbs, and 10g of fat per meal. my question is: what if i cannot fulfill these requirements in a meal? like what if i get all of it in my first, third, and fifth meal, but my "snack" meals are lacking in grams. how do i balance my meals etc so i can get them all equal or is it ok to not have them all be equal? ahhh im so confused

[Doug]

Originally Posted by donnnnay

ok question about this... so i've made a diet spreadsheet using the brands etc of what i eat usually (recording everything off the exact labels of the packages)... then i figured out that i need 35g of protein, 58g of carbs, and 10g of fat per meal. my question is: what if i cannot fulfill these requirements in a meal? like what if i get all of it in my first, third, and fifth meal, but my "snack" meals are lacking in grams. how do i balance my meals etc so i can get them all equal or is it ok to not have them all be equal? ahhh im so confused

Ideally you want to get each meal approx the same, so your food choices have to be selected for each meal. If you use the information in This Article then you will have all the food choices, and each food is given in ounces (28g). so if you are short in one meal then you can add an ounce or two of certain foods, you will soon get used to doing it, once you have done it once or twice you will know exactly what you need for each meal........

[donnnnay]

so should i scrap all the P/C/F calculations / label reading i've done and go according to the article? i dont know how it will be close to the brands i eat etc... what do you think i should do? this is so frustratinggggg

[Doug]

Originally Posted by donnnnay

so should i scrap all the P/C/F calculations / label reading i've done and go according to the article? i dont know how it will be close to the brands i eat etc... what do you think i should do? this is so frustratinggggg

Whats frustrating...if you need so much protein per meal then thats the protein requirements per meal, just look in the list for protein foods, look at the content of the food per ounce and then thats the amount of food that you want, (as per the meal example, if you need 36g of proten in a meal, and your going to use beef then thats 4oz). then do the same for carb foods...etc etc

What do you mean by brands....processed foods...!! look at the label and write down the nutritional information, deduct that amount from what you require in the meal and then if you are short of something then add something off the list to the meal....

[chicky]

Saurus this is what I needed! I have about 3 different spreadsheets going at the moment I don't know why I just love them. I mean I hate them coz I have to use them at work every day but I love them for Food and exercise tracking! Well I use one for tracking weight loss and BMI, I would love one for tracking measurements but I'm kinda working on this but I'm not good at making them. I have one as a sort of timetable with my work out days, and pics of my work outs. And now going to use your PCF/Cal spreadsheet yay!

[beefy]

aw wats a spread sheet.......?? na just kidin ive learnt that u cant wing this shit u gotta plan if ur trying to get fitter, i am a very unorganised but for my body buolding i am not i got a whole book i write in and record even tips on how to perform reps on certain exercises! pretty ,much everything i can think of

just read tadolfi mans sig.....

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by Saurus

Yeah, Guys

If anybody can make the spreadsheet a little more user friendly or useful, please do. The whole idea is to get a good working spreadsheet which everybody can use to get complete and easy info about their diet.

There's already one which works on portions (mine, which seriously needs to be made more user friendly) and another very nice one which works on weight. Please feel free to improve on either of them, and post it up. I'll ask Damien to upload and replace the existing one with any better version...

Saurus
Thanks for the spreadsheet
I had some ample time yesterday & tweaked to fit my types of food.
It really I think is user friendly as it stands now
Saves time for me and can get the portions all well in line
I used the chart for c/p/f from the article that Doug wrote on how to build a diet.(who is that little guy holding that dumbbell on that page anyway)lol
transferred the numbers I needed to your chart and it works great saves time!
"time isn't something we can put in our back pocket and save for later"
So once again thanks and rep+ to ya

Kevin

[mrxg4]

Saurus, thanks for the spreadsheet!

I'm sure I will find it very useful in the next few weeks, and don't worry, it does seem quite user friendly, no worries..

thanks again

[Ticaler]

This will help you find the caloric content and nutritional value for foods you want to add onto the spreadsheet.


http://www.atkins.com/carb-counter

[darshan]

Calories for the day
Calories from protein and percentage protein
Calories from carbs and percentage carbs
Calories from fats and percentage fats
Total fibre

Hey Saurus. I have a question.

For Calories for the day should we remove the Fiber * 4 from this total.
Also when working out the percentage of Carbs, again do we need to remove fiber from the carb total. My understanding was that fiber was not really part of the macros, but wasnt sure.