Like a task is just too big to even bother getting started?

After Fridays icredibbly generous offer for me to review one day of your nutrition, I am indeed overwhelmed.

Partly by the number of requests but more so by just how bad peoples nutrition is.

I blame myself partly, the message obviously isn’t getting through so I am going to up my game.

It’s NOT your fault though.

There is just so much information out there and so many opinions it can sometimes be hard to know what to do.

Anyway, here is an example of one email I received and my views which will obviously help them but hopefully you too:

Hi Jamie, thought I’d take you up on your offer, so here is my average of my daily diet

Breakfast
Porridge with skimmed milk
Fruit juice (from concentrate)
Cup of tea with skimmed milk

Midmorning Snack
Banana

Lunch
Tin of Heinz Soup
Wholemeal Roll
Clementine
Fruit Yogurt

Afternoon Snack
1-2 Crackers with peanut butter

Evening Meal
Fish/Chicken/Turkey
Rice/Pasta/Potato
Broccoli, Green Beans, Carrots
Tinned Fruit
Devon Custard

Drinks
3-4 cups coffee (from vending machine)
4-5 Pints water

Where do I start?

Porridge, not so bad but replace the skimmed milk with whole for more energy and quality fat which helps with brain function.

Fruit juice – full of useless energy which will just lead to fluctuations in blood sugar and feelings of hunger, tiredness and lethargy probably around mid morning.

Heinz Soup – massively processed with low quality ingredients and limited nutritional value. The same for the roll and yogurt.  This meal will have low levels of satiety so you will likely be hungry shortly after

Crackers with peanut butter – OK

Evening meal – fairly decent but tinned fruit and custard is a poor choice (very high in sugar)

Coffee – try to limit to 2 cups and ideally from a decent source.  Try investing in an aero press and make it on your desk – it will taste a lot better as well.

As a whole the diet is low in good fat, high in processed ingredients and sugar.  Its low in protein which will impair recovery and feelings of fullness.

So what to do?

Obviously you can sign up for coaching from beginning of Feb but if you’re not serious or too much of a cheapskate, then do some research on the effects of calorie dense vs nutrient dense foods.

I’ll let you guess which is best.

I’ll try and respond to some other of the emails later in the week.