{"id":798,"date":"2015-12-11T03:47:14","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T03:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cluckeyo.com\/blog\/?p=798"},"modified":"2015-12-11T12:45:14","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T12:45:14","slug":"nutrition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cluckeyo.com\/blog\/index.php\/2015\/12\/11\/nutrition\/","title":{"rendered":"Nutrition"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_799\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-799\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cluckeyo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ChooseMyPlate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-799\" src=\"https:\/\/cluckeyo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ChooseMyPlate.jpg\" alt=\"Choosing a Healthy Diet\" width=\"450\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cluckeyo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ChooseMyPlate.jpg 450w, https:\/\/cluckeyo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ChooseMyPlate-300x273.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-799\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Choosing a Healthy Diet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I rarely get hungry while counting calories. \u00a0One reason is, I don&#8217;t just count calories. \u00a0I also keep up with various nutrition counts. \u00a0This is important to my overall health during this time of weight-loss transition. Staying nutritionally balanced each day probably keeps my body satisfied, too. \u00a0There are several nutrients that I monitor:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fiber &#8211; I get 25 grams of fiber each day, without \u00a0fail. \u00a0It promotes a healthy heart and is healthy for the colon. Fruits, vegetables, beans, and whole grains are good sources.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Protein &#8211; It&#8217;s not hard for me to get in my daily allowance of protein. I usually go over. \u00a0It\u00a0is important for healing and I need 46 grams per day to maintain normal body function. \u00a0It is found in meats, fish, beans, eggs, dairy, as well as most vegetables. I use protein to combat the occasional hunger pang, too!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Fat &#8211; I have a current health issue which requires me to pay attention to my fat intake. I eat no more than 45 grams of fat per day, as suggested by my doctor. I eat as little saturated fat as possible. I switched to 1% milk. Most of the fat I get comes from that which occurs in the foods I am already eating. \u00a0For example, I choose the fat content present in a serving of my favorite whole grain crackers over adding butter and sour cream to my potato, most of the time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Calcium &#8211; I take a multi-vitamin in the morning, which has 50% of my daily requirement. \u00a0But I get the rest of my calcium from the foods I eat. I do keep a bottle of low dose calcium supplements on hand and if I fall short at the end of the day, I take one before bed. This rarely happens though. \u00a0When I was drinking whole milk, I wasn&#8217;t allowing myself to have that very often. \u00a0But a cup of 1% milk has only 110 calories and 30% of my\u00a0daily requirement. Calcium is also found in vegetables and breads, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At my age, I consider myself to be kind of fragile, especially in my current condition of unfitness. \u00a0The fifties seems to be when people start having more health problems. \u00a0I do want to lose weight, but I want to be very careful and prevent dangerous imbalances which might occur. \u00a0I don&#8217;t believe I have the luxury to just jump into the latest fad diet. \u00a0I want to be very, very careful! \u00a0So I try to cover the nutritional bases as much as I can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I rarely get hungry while counting calories. \u00a0One reason is, I don&#8217;t just count calories. \u00a0I also keep up with various nutrition counts. \u00a0This is important to my overall health during this time of weight-loss transition. Staying nutritionally balanced each day probably keeps my body satisfied, too. \u00a0There are several nutrients that I monitor: Fiber &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cluckeyo.com\/blog\/index.php\/2015\/12\/11\/nutrition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nutrition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-calorie-crusaders","category-helpful-tips","category-wellness","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cluckeyo.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cluckeyo.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cluckeyo.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cluckeyo.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cluckeyo.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/cluckeyo.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":821,"href":"https:\/\/cluckeyo.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions\/821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cluckeyo.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cluckeyo.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cluckeyo.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}