What the Fork I'm Eating

 Stefanie Sacks's book, What the Fork Are You Eating?, supplied a chart to use to focus on what I need to work on with my dietary choices. It keeps track of what I ate for 4 days (it was designed for a week) and I shows me what I ate, when I ate, and how I felt afterwards. This lets me know how eating certain foods and certain times affect me. Sacks states that "simply recording what you eat for five to seven days will help you see what's broken" so that's what I did in 4 days (223). I filled out 4 of the charts supplied starting on Sunday the 17th.



This day was good and filled with physical activities (2 soccer games), so the food didn't make me feel bad in any way. I made pretty solid choices on what to eat because I didn't want to lug on the field.

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Wasn't feeling too hot this day. A bagel in the morning always bothers my stomach and I was sore from the day before, leading to poor, lazy decisions on what to eat like pizza. When I'm feeling like that I should make better choices on recovery meals.

 

Tired from the day before, stayed up late so I didn't have time for breakfast. I should always eat breakfast, so I grabbed a nutter butter for a snack. couldn't really find a better option for lunch because I had to eat school lunch. the rest of the day was good food-wise.



Having a smoothie before school is great but pizza is not good before soccer kids, don't do it. It made me sluggish and made me want to make bad food decisions for the rest of the night.

In conclusion, I figured out I base my food decisions on how my day is going, what's happening that day, or how I feel. I've decided I should always eat how I would on a game day because Sunday was the day I felt best and energized. I should pick foods that take longer, not ones that I can shove in the microwave when I feel lazy.


Do you try to keep track of what you eat and why? How?
Sacks, Stefanie. What the Fork Are You Eating?: An Action Plan for Your Pantry and Plate. New York: Penguin Group, 2014. Print.