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2001 Volunteer Leader Training Guide
Healthy Weighs Eating Well, Living Well
How Much Are You Eating?

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Directions: On the bottom of this page, list all the foods and beverages you have consumed in the past 24 hours. Start with the last thing you ate today, then go backward writing down everything you ate or drank back to this time yesterday. Next, write each food you ate or drank in the correct section of the Food Guide Pyramid on the next page. Compare what you ate to the Food Guide Pyramid recommendations on the bottom of page 2. How balanced was your diet for one day? Did you eat too much from certain groups and not enough from others?

Write down the names and amounts of the foods you have eaten in the last 24 hours.

• Find all the foods that fit in the Bread group. Write them in the section titled "Bread Group."
   

• Next add all the vegetables to the "Vegetable Group" section.
   

• Then, write all the fruits in the "Fruit Group."
   

• Now, add all the meats you ate to the "Meat Group."
   

• The "Milk Group" is next.

If you ate something that had foods from more than one food group, put each main item in the food group to which it belongs. For example: spaghetti and meat sauce – spaghetti goes in the Bread group, meat goes in the Meat group and tomato sauce goes in the Vegetable group.

• Finally, write down all the fats, oils and sweets you ate in the tip of the pyramid.
   

• Add up the number of servings for each group.

Did you eat at least the recommended number of servings from each food group?  Yes______ No______

Did you eat more than the recommended number of servings from any food group?  Yes______ No______

What changes can you make to improve your diet? What changes can you make to cut calories?

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