It’s an acronym for “Inflammation Factor” – a new food
grading scale (see below) that assigns a number to each food based upon its
chemical structure and how it promotes or prevents an inflammatory response in
our bodies. Anyone who has arthritis (like myself) can really appreciate this
new concept in food selection. Now that I’m aware of this I’m going to try and incorporate many foods from the positive
list.
Here’s how the scale works:
200 or higher
|
Strongly anti-inflammatory
|
101 to 200
|
Moderately anti-inflammatory
|
0 to 100
|
Mildly anti-inflammatory
|
-1 to -100
|
Mildly inflammatory
|
-101 to 200
|
Moderately inflammatory
|
-201 or lower
|
Strongly inflammatory
|
If you’d like to look
up foods on the IF Scale – here’s the link that will show you thousands of
foods: http://inflammationfactor.com/look-up-if-ratings/
Now for my daily update. I was pretty hungry today. I had a
filling breakfast and lunch and was still on track – but… I made the rookie mistake of buying 10 Multi Grain flat bread (220 calories each) while
lunching at Cosi Café. And so I come home and start to prepare dinner – but first
I need to freeze some of the flatbreads – but they looked so appetizing and I was
hungry and well I started eating one flat bread while cooking dinner. Then I had
another with dinner. So my calorie tracker is much higher than it should be for
today – lesson learned. I will use the flat breads for lunches twice a week which
was the intention. I’ll make the same sandwich I get at Cosi. That’s
it!
Daily Calorie Tracker:
| Calorie Tracker | Calories | DATE | TDC | Daily Blog Postings February | |
| WEDNESDAY 2/26/14 | |||||
| Breakfast 7:30am | |||||
| 1.5c Raisin Bran | 285 | ||||
| 3/2c Skim Plus Milk | 83 | ||||
| Breakfast Calories | 368 | ||||
| Snack | |||||
| Kind Bar | 200 | ||||
| Lg. Coffee w/ND creamer | 50 | 25-Feb | 2188 | http://loriliny.blogspot.com/2014/02/whats-if-total-daily-calories-2123.html | |
| Snack Calories | 250 | 24-Feb | 1448 | http://loriliny.blogspot.com/2014/02/walk-and-fast.html | |
| 23-Feb | 1944 | http://loriliny.blogspot.com/2014/02/target-list-for-sunday-21614.html | |||
| Lunch | 22-Feb | 1650 | http://loriliny.blogspot.com/2014/02/personal-insight-total-daily-calories.html | ||
| Cosi Club MG Flat Bread Turkey, L&T, red onions | 455 | 21-Feb | 1848 | http://loriliny.blogspot.com/2014/02/lost-and-found.html | |
| Cosi Kettle Chips (2oz) | 300 | 20-Feb | 3317 | http://loriliny.blogspot.com/2014/02/gone-fishin_21.html | |
| Water | 0 | 19-Feb | 1880 | http://loriliny.blogspot.com/2014/02/stressful-but-productive.html | |
| Lunch Calories | 755 | 18-Feb | 1767 | http://loriliny.blogspot.com/2014/02/selfie-case-study.html | |
| 17-Feb | 1675 | http://loriliny.blogspot.com/2014/02/tuesday-218.html | |||
| Snack | 16-Feb | 2077 | http://loriliny.blogspot.com/2014/02/monday-monday-21714.html | ||
| Sm.Coffee w/ND creamer | 30 | 15-Feb | 2400 | http://loriliny.blogspot.com/2014/02/my-first-blog-post.html | |
| Naval Orange | 65 | ||||
| Snack Calories | 95 | ||||
| Dinner | |||||
| Lori McMuffin (MG flat bread, 1 egg, bacon) | 400 | ||||
| 1 extra Flat Bread | 220 | ||||
| Bowl Salad no dressing | 0 | ||||
| Dinner Calories | 620 | ||||
| Snack | |||||
| Med. Coffee w/ND creamer | 40 | ||||
| RD Apple | 60 | ||||
| Snack Calories | 100 | ||||
| Exercise: (no time) | |||||
| Total Daily Calories | 2188 | ||||
