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First Published: 17 January 2025

Draft 2: 17 January 2025. Realized that I want to make sure I’m getting the proper micronutrients from fruits and vegetables, and wanted to start listing that

I just finished meeting with a nutritionist. In general, the advice was good, practical, and not particularly enlightening.1 That being said, I was advised to generally eat more often, which is absolutely a good idea. I’d like to plan to start eating lunch and dinner daily, along with two snacks of peanuts and maybe a fruit. The macro breakdown in draft one shows me that’s probably doable, and so now it’s time to make sure I get my recommended plants.

Of course, frozen fruit is an equally viable option. The site claims I should shoot for about 4.5 cups a day of fruits and veggies9 The book I was using for macros does not provide specific guidance, so that seems like a reasonable enough goal. Writing my shopping list for next week, then:10

My lunch each day will shoot for 30 grams of protein, and I’m hoping for it to include:

The snack container, having just been measured, is about 3.5 oz, so my snack(s) will be:

Here we go!

Daily Notes:

I only drew once, on Sunday, but I did manage to write and send out a letter22.

Draft 1: 17 January 2025

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I just finished meeting with a nutritionist!24 In general, there was nothing particularly life altering about the advice she gave. I feel mixed about that, as I tend to when no easy solutions present themselves.

On the one hand, it’s nice to know that I wasn’t just failing to do the proper research or draw the correct conclusions. On the other, it’s kind of frustrating to go into a situation with a  problem and leave the situation with the same problem.

That being said, though, there were three pieces of advice that she gave which I think may become helpful for me in the coming weeks.25

Other pieces of advice that I found useful, though less so:

Let’s see what peanuts29 are like in terms of their protein efficiency. Looks like it’s around 17030 calories per ounce, and about 7 grams of protein in that same space. Converting to grams, that means I’d need about 364 grams of peanuts a day, or about 13 oz.31 That’s really not bad!

So, assuming that I eat two meals32, if I’m awake for 16 hours a day, I should be eating at least two snacks. I’m going to start shooting for 3-5 ounces33 of peanuts at each of these snacks. That means I’ll be getting between 21 and 35 grams per snack, for a total of 42 to 70 grams per day. Oh, yeah ok if I can eat 10 ounces of peanuts a day, I should have no trouble finding the other 20 grams from somewhere. Looking at the price per gram of protein, it’s about 2 cents an ounce.34

Since I will generally be in my office from 8:30 to 535, I can do two snacks and a lunch36, which is great. Assuming that I can manage 25 grams of protein in the lunch37, I only need that much again for dinner! That’s so much easier, and if I make my lunch:


  1. not in a bad way, just in a “oh good I’m not horribly off base with my estimations”

  2. that I enjoy enough to consider having as part of a daily lunch or snack

  3. though other sources disagree with that

  4. which is not beta carotene, containing a hydroxyl group on one end.

  5. cancer stoppers I guess.

  6. make me life forever

  7. I wonder why those in particular

  8. onions, mmmm, keeps me from tumors

  9. nine servings, I imagine, though Harvard seems to disagree Green, vitamin C, and beta carotene seem to be the important things for that. Ah, one cup of each is considered a serving, other than fruit juice and dried fruit, which are both halved.

  10. this is more a journal entry than blog post, but

  11. maybe

  12. because I’m going for a snack board kind of vibe

  13. I forget the specific term

  14. I do also own green tea, which I should remember to consume during lunch

  15. about 20 grams of protein

  16. 10 grams protein

  17. probably prune

  18. stuffed? I never know what it means when people say a loaf is studded

  19. dietary info to come, might mean I need less of the chicken or cheese?

  20. about 24.5g, 600 calories (wow that’s a lot of calories

  21. and staying out too late

  22. also on Sunday

  23. did absolutely write 2024 at first, did have to correct myself

  24. there are a number of unseen benefits to continuing education. This was absolutely one of them

  25. no, “don’t worry too much” was not one of them

  26. When awake, though I didn’t ask about what happens when I wake up in the middle of the night

  27. I should also be eating breakfast, but that’s its own issue

  28. nuts and seeds were examples of high protein snacks

  29. the cheapest nut, by far

  30. plus minus ten

  31. I did not convert back, but I did redo the math without the conversion because I still consume my food in ounces, in general. Or, at least, I feel like I can estimate an ounce better than 30 grams, even though they’re the same amount

  32. because shooting for two a day is a good starting goal

  33. which is .75 to 1.25 cups, which might be FAR too much, but who knows

  34. which I only now realize I calculated in the second posting

  35. I feel like these hours are generally decent, and somewhat reflective of reality

  36. starting next week, since I’ll be able to do my pseudo meal prep

  37. I’m thinking part of rotissiere chicken, fruit, and probably bread (it took me far too long to remember that bread exists), which is a fun thing that is full of tactile sensation and also requires effectively no prep. Since I do also want to hit the other two kinds of vegetable (I don’t care about starchy, and peanuts are legumes)