Bites and calories

Have been preaching and pondering about calories. Here is a list of commonly eaten Indian food and the calories that it amounts to. Plan your day ;) Eat healthy !! Stay fit.
An ideal diet in a day for an average person can sum up to 1500cal along with some workout.


1 average sized chapatti with ghee- 105 calories
1 average sized chapatti without ghee- 90 calories
1 slice bread (white or brown)-100 calories
1 slice bread with 1 teaspoon butter- 145 calories
1 slice bread with 1 teaspoon jam- 136 calories
1serving rice- 100 calories
1 serving pulao- 180 calories
2 poories (medium sized)- 110 calories
1 parantha- 200 calories
1 serving( katori) dal (any)- 125 calories
1 katori mixed veggies- 125 calories
1 katori curd( full cream milk)- 140 calories
1 katori curd( skimmed milk)- 55 calories
1 homemade dosa- 120 calories
1 masala dosa (dine out)- 350 calories
2  small idlis- 100 calories
2 vadas- 195 calories
1 boiled egg- 85 calories
1 omellete( 2 eggs)- 280 calories
1 katori poha- 150 calories
1 katori upma- 180 calories
1 katori chicken curry- 280 calories
1 piece roasted chicken-125 calories
1 piece grilled fish- 70 calories
2 pieces glucose biscuits- 70 calories
2 marie biscuits- 26 calories
2 cream cracker biscuits- 60 calories
2 chocolate biscuits- 150 calories
2 pieces dhokla- 81 calories
4 pieces khandvi- 128 calories
1 plate bhelpuri- 250 calories
1 plate  papri chaat- 420 calories
1 plate aloo chaat- 450 calories
4 pieces golgappe- 110 calories
6 pieces steamed momos( veg)-280 calories
6 pieces steamed momos( non veg)- 400 calories
2 pieces spring rolls- 180 calories
1 bowl noodles( veg)- 220 calories
1 slice veg pizza- 293 calories
1 small bowl veg pasta in white sauce- 236 calories
1 small bowl chicken pasta in white sauce- 348 calories
1small bowl veg pasta in tomato sauce- 180 calories
1 small bowl chicken pasta in tomato sauce- 278 calories
2 slices garlic bread- 120 calories
2 slices garlic bread with cheese- 240 calories

*info based on search n health blogs

cheers!!

Evolutionary Psychiatry: nutrition and mental health

I’ve experimented with diet extensively now for several years and Chris Kresser’s work along with other research has helped me through the maze of learning to eat for my needs over the years. Now, Emily Deans work, too, has been validating and continues to inform my own experience with diet and nutrition. It can be rather astonishing to someone who’s not considered it how much nutrition can effect our health both mental and physical.

It’s worth mentioning that for those of us who have been deeply harmed by long-term psychiatric drug use and their consequent withdrawal, healing can take a long time, and supporting our bodies with deep nutrition is pretty much essential to the healing process. I’d also say that the autonomic nervous dysfunction  some of us deal with as a result of psychiatric drug withdrawal is DAMAGE…and so diet (and whatever other complimentary methods we use) takes time (sometimes a lot of it) as we give our bodies the foundation it needs to heal.

It’s very difficult for most people to radically change their diet, but the fact is once people do it they wonder why the heck they took so long to make the changes. Once health improves it just looks like a total non-brainer from the other side. Some key foods do, though, seem to feed our addictive natures (literally) like gluten and casein, both, for example, trigger the opiate receptors. I went through a freaky opiate-like withdrawal when I stopped dairy. It really freaked me out! But boy did it also enlighten my understanding of the “psychological” power of food, it’s pretty damn biological too. (As a point of interest and a side note, I’ve discovered I’m fine with cultured goat milk products and do eat kefir and yogurt made with goat’s milk. This is why individual experimentation is essential. No one can discover these things without paying close attention to their own particular needs via a long term process of experimentation!)

Take care of your diet!!