Nutrition calorie counter

tigerocket wrote:

My trainer as said that for the week before I race i should eat
Less than 20% fat of total calorie intake, 50% carbs and 30% protein

Your trainer is a goose. :roll:

tigerocket wrote:

Now then, does anyone know how I can find out the fat, carb and protein content of the food that I eat?

Not sure where you live but all packaged foods have this info on the label here in Australia. I'm sure fresh foods have it somewhere on the web although for many it's pretty obvious whether it's mostly carbs, protein or fat. We have a ready reckoner for our members but I doubt it'd be hard to track down something similar somewhere.

7-10g of carbs per kg of body mass per day (assuming a pre race diet loading). Protein maybe 15% of that. Fat - don't care as long as you are eating a normal healthy diet.

But don't take my word for it:

http://www.sportsdietitians.com.au/www/ ... hletes.asp

finelli.fi has an englsih website. Easy to use for none ready made stuff.

fineli
http://www.fineli.fi/index.php?lang=en
a Finnish site but good......

http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/
http://www.glycemicindex.com/
btw...that Finnish site is excellent.. Thanks

mita kuuluu....

I track everything at weightlossresources.com

It has a huge UK food database and the ability to set loss or maintenance targets. You can also add your calories burned off through exercise too.

It's a pay service (one or two days free) but it is worth it for me. The numbers do not lie.