Nutrition - an example day's food

note: This post may be updated further once I have confirmed the actual brands used for food and their nutritional details.

As a check on the typical calorie intake I have I used FitDay (which is free) to catalogue what I've eaten and determine the total calories and split by carbohydrates, protein and fat. This is a one-off exercise as I don't plan to track to this level each day, however in terms of a representation this gives a very good sample of a typical days food for me.

I'll need to verify some of the details however this suggests I'm taking in around 2,000 kcals a day. This is a little bit higher than my target of 1,800 kcal due to drinking a reasonable amount of fruit juice mixed with water. The one man variable is the lentil soup, which is a guesstimate as it is home made and the recipe does not include nutritional information. The majority of the remaining items have been updated to include the nutritional information from the labels. I may be a little out on portion guesstimates however this won't be significant and may actually result in the daily calories really being a little lower than the figure below.

FitDay also provides an summary of calorie breakdown by Protein, Carbohydrates and Fat.

The ratios of protein, cabohydrates, fat are 26%, 54%, 20% respectively which doesn't put me in the Fat Shredder phase of the P90X nutrition plan. I'll probably need to revisit my nutrition and increase the protein ratio.

A useful exercise! I will reduce the fruit juice and increase the protein intake.