Just wondered if someone could advise on my diet. A typical day, take what I had yesterday for example:
On waking a glass of warm water with half a lemon squeezed in
Breakfast Porridge oats, with a sprinkle of cinammon a teaspoon of honey and topped with fresh raspberries
Mid morning: a banana and two satsumas
Lunch: homemade tuna pasta salad with pasta, tuna, sweetcorn, baby plum tomatoes, cucumber and a bit of mayonnaise followed by total 0% greek yogurt topped with blueberries
Afternoon snack: 9 almonds and an apple
Dinner: Chicken, sweet potato, roasted in oven with spray olive oil, stir fry veg - mini sweetcorn, mangetout, tender stem broccoli, spring onion and yellow pepper.. followed by total 0% greek yogurt topped with a few walnuts and a drizzle of honey.
Evening snack, one small slice of toast with seeded bread topped with a bit of peanut butter
Is there something missing from my diet to make me feel so tired or is it that I am just overdoing it with the exercise. I do have underactive thyroid and I am on 150mg on thyroxine per day, which I have been taking that dose for about 6/7 years now. I drink about 6 glasses of water per day as well as a few cups of tea and the occasional green tea.
Your diet looks excellent to me, if anything I would only check that you sre getting enought fats. Nine almonds and a little bit of peanut butter and spray oil might not be enough, even if bread etc have some fats.
This being said though, I would advise to try something that may sound strange to you. Try to, sometimes, have a meal consisting of something totally different of what you would normally eat. Even if you are eating very healthy, variety might "protect" you from maybe having some defficiency of a particular mineral or whatever.
You can also try a multivitamin multimineral supplement.
ps I dont know anything about the thyroid so in this regard I am sorry I cant give you any advice
No I haven't not recently, although about six months ago I was really tired and had lots of blood tests which all come back ok, I do take a multi vitamin daily but only started on that about two weeks ago
Thank you for your reply. I do tend to eat the same things sometimes, such as porridge for breakfast every day, but that is because i really enjoy it, and if I dont have porridge I crave it, sounds mad but whenever I decide to have something else like scrambled egg on wholegrain toast, I dont enjoy it no where near as much.
I have been exercising a lot, and I am exercising in the morning doing as I started doing the 30 day plank challenge, as well as squats and push ups etc, I then walk to work and back each day which is 20 minutes each way and then exercise in the evening so maybe although my diet is healthy I am not getting enough goodness for all the exercise I am doing? I dont know, I would like to lose about 7-10 lbs. I have been exercising in the evenings for 6 days a week, but I am thinking of cutting it down to 4 to see if I feel a bit better incase i have been overdoing it? I have started taking a multi vitamin with minerals for the last two weeks
Your eating plan sounds excellent. Are you using a calorie- counting Web site? I use one and it tracks nutrients so you can see if you are deficient in any major group.
I used to use My Fitness Pal, maybe I will start using that again, I took it easy with the exercise over the weekend and didn't do so much so feel better again today, maybe I was overdoing it?
I love oats and porridge in the morning too :-) Only switch to baby food (no sugar added) with soy milk when I "need" to change. Oats for too long make me go to the bathroom too often