As a result, I’m not too bothered about being a bit down on the figures on fitday, however it did give me the focus to check it out. Vitamin A for example is 900mcg (0.9mg) in the US, but 700mcg (0.7mg) in the UK (I’m at 695). Long story short, I did some research into Vits A and E, and discovered that there is little consensus amongst the different health bodies in the US, UK and Europe, as to what these values should actually be. This alternative view helps to quantify this by making your nutritional intake look like a food label, with actual values: I know that not eating much cereals would limit my fibre intake but must confess to being a little surprised at the vitamin A and E. However there are 3 areas I should look at: Fibre, Vitamin A and Vitamin E. You can see that the graph shows that for the vast majority of nutrients, zoning my food provides a huge slew of nutrients that I eat a sufficient amount of. You can see then that anything that is below the 100 line is a deficiency: This is a very interesting chart too, it shows the cumulative nutritional make-up of my food, averaged per day and normalised to 100%. The big benefit here is this: I don’t need to feel guilty about that ice cream, chocolate or wine on a Saturday and Sunday. It also nicely demonstrates just how good the zone diet plan is, as I can pretty much eat what I like at the weekend without putting weight on long term, as long as I’m good during the week. That’s planning on around 14 – 17 blocks per day. A normal “good” zone day (during the week mostly) typically sees me come in at around 1,600 calories. What really comes through on that chart, apart from the obvious excesses at the weekend (I neglected to enter figures for last weekend on this graph), is evidence that the Zone Diet is really a low calorie diet. Calories burned is made up of a base of approx 2,500 calories for my basic activity profile plus boosts to take into account the activity reports I’ve entered for when I go to the gym to do Olympic Weightlifting and/or Crossfit workouts This is why the weight graph looks like it does, this is my calorie intake vs calories burned graph. I can only put that down to water retention due to increased carb intake at the weekends. As you can see, the weekends really show up as peaks in my fluctuating weight. I decided that I wanted to get down to 12st7 (175 lbs or 79.5 kg) and have been tracking my weight, nearly every day. Here are some of the great graphs and charts that I’ve got from the last few weeks, see if you can work out where the weekends were! □
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