Shit diet or ok?

[EddieStobbart]

Breakfast - Big bowl of porridge made with jumbo and normal oat flakes plus pinhead oatmeal and flaxseed with Brazil nut mix and a few raisins. A cup of milk.

Lunch - Brie and aubergine quiche and salad. Didn't eat the pastry. Two cappuccinos.

Snacks - Half small bar of 85% sugar chocolate (about 15g). Two oatcakes and cheese

Tea - Vegetable curry plus salad.
Greek yoghurt and chopped fruit plus more flaxseed mix

2 glasses wine

Too much fat or ok?

[paxtecum]

Any other drinks?

[MegBusset]

Sounds delicious :) why do you ask? I guess portion sizes could be an issue if you 're trying to lose weight (true of anything though)

How big are the glasses of wine?

[fatlazymummy]

Sounds ok to me.
I don't understand why you use different types of oats to make porridge though.

[defineme]

Well you had cheese twice, but assume there wasn't much brie in the quiche . Women need lots of calcium despite what the dairy haters say. I assume you've having some water or something too. Lots of veg. I would like to have eaten that today.

[Sleepwhenidie]

I'd say generally pretty good - but what are you aiming for? It would be better with more protein and more veg (depending on what is in your salad) but its largely unprocessed food, nothing low-fat or sugar heavy. Fat is fine and I wouldn't worry about the wine if its not every night.

[Tweasels]

What are you after? A round of applause?

I don't get it.

[EddieStobbart]

FLM, love pinhead oatmeal but always forget to soak it . Like mix of jumbo and normal oat flakes. Am a bit obsessive about porridge really!

Wine - will prob = around half a bottle, maybe not that much

[ICanHearYou]

Makes a nice change from the 'I've eaten three cherry tomatoes and a diet coke' threads

Especially the ones explaining all the low fat stuff they give their kids.

I say this as a woman trying to lose weight

[EddieStobbart]

Yes. I'm after a round of applause. Obviously I'm the dogs.

Or something.

[luridshorts]

85% sugar chocolate

[EddieStobbart]

I'm interested in views as I was reading the kids breakfast thread and was struck how wide the opinions are. My friend has has a big diet conversion and has dropped her sugar intake drastically. She's convinced me to a large degree but I sometimes feel like forgetting about saturated fat can't be the right thing to do after years of paying attention to it.

[EddieStobbart]

Moser rosh. Lindt 90% is lush. Honest.

[luridshorts]

85%/90% cocoa solids though right? Not sugar?

[luridshorts]

Google "saturated fat latest research" - the jury's out on it.

[paxtecum]

Did you drink any other fluids, like water?

[CoffeeTea103]

This doesn't sound like something long term more like a fad. Rather try to have a healthy lifestyle overall with moderation rather than go all ott and binging in a week or two.

[redshifter]

Sounds fine to me unless you have thensame amountnof alcohol every night.

[EddieStobbart]

I've been doing this for a few months so not binging unless you count strawberries and lots of cream. Previously I would have felt like this was really porky but now I think it's healthy. Though previously I would have had a bowl of wholemeal pasta and a strawberry yoghurt and think that was healthier.

90% cocoa. The Lindt stuff has under 10% sugar per 100%.

[EddieStobbart]

Too old to drink every night.

[specialsubject]

not bad but could do with more complex carbs.

[WorraLiberty]

If people cut down portion sizes, stopped snacking so much and did more exercise, I think most people could eat whatever they want in moderation and still stay healthy.

Reading MN, it seems food has never been more complicated than it is nowadays.

[Tweasels]

Sorry for sounding harsh, I think I've got MN competitive diet brain. Every other thread seems to be people making uneducated ridiculous judgements on how people feed themselves/their children.

To me that sounds obviously very healthy and I (wrongly) jumped to the conclusion it was some smuggery. Apologies.

[EddieStobbart]

Tweasel, I know what you mean. I'm not a food fad person and I've never been on a diet in my life but on the one hand I think the low sugar/carb view makes sense but for years would have picked up a "go ahead" bar or the like if I wanted to be healthy and that idea is still in the back of my mind.

[EddieStobbart]

And I cringe at the "my children only eat toasted mung beans and hummus" assertions. Really? Good for you.

[lljkk]

If you could rate people's diets on percentiles, like 0% point was chips & chocolate & pepsi all day, and 100%tile was 100% organic macrobiotic paleo most nutritious ever veg heavy etc. -- rating everyone in the UK from 0 to 100-percentile.

OP's snapshot is about 97th percentile. I don't seriously know what the rest of you think is relatively healthy. A huge number of people eat true crud day in day out.

The meal in the breakfast thread is probably 50th percentile compared to rest of the population. I can't even understand that thread.