A cup of coffee

When I start out the day I take a look at the diet my model is recommending. Since I'm still adding food items, and correcting errors I might have made in nutritional data, and changing prices to reflect current market conditions, the recommendations aren't the same every day, but they're close.

Today the menu was

CarbWatch yogurt	0.77	containers
bananas	0.17	items
scrambled eggs	2.49	items
bread	3.00	slices
apricot	2.07	items
navybeans	2.51	serving
carrot	38.96	items

Of course I'm not going to eat 40 carrots today, and I'm not going to eat 1/6th of a banana. But this model isn't a menu dictator, it's a tool for menu planning.

Today I'll show you a little bit about how to use it as a tool.

While looking over the recommended menu and trying to decide what to have for breakfast I had a cup of coffee. That's not on the menu but I'm going to drink it anyway. Putting 1 cup as a forced lower bound for coffee in the model gives me a different recommended menu for the day.

		after 1 cup coffee	containers
CarbWatch yogurt	0.77	0.68	containers
bananas	0.17	0.98	items
coffee		1.00	cup
scrambled eggs	2.49	2.45	items
bread	3.00	3.00	slices
apricot	2.07	1.34	items
navybeans	2.51	2.55	serving
carrot	38.96	34.74	items

That doesn't really change things all that much, although it is recommending fewer carrots I'm still not going to eat that many. Maybe another cup of coffee will help






items

		after 1 cup coffee	after 2 cups coffee	containers
CarbWatch yogurt	0.77	0.68	.60	containers
bananas	0.17	0.98	1.79	items
coffee		1.00	2.00	cup
scrambled eggs	2.49	2.45	2.41
bread	3.00	3.00	3.00	slices
apricot	2.07	1.34	.61	items
navybeans	2.51	2.55	2.59	serving
carrot	38.96	34.74	30.54	items

I do have some leftover meatloaf in the refrigerator that needs to get eaten. I don't normally make meatloaf, but my girlfriend brought some over the other day (I think she must be of the mistaken impression that she's the beneficiary on my life insurance).

So I reran the model after forcing a serving of meatloaf, to see who eating that for breakfast would effect the menu plan of rh for the rest of the day

Again, a slight chance in composition, but not really a substantive change. Because of my high blood pressure I try to limit my daily caffeine intake to two cups of coffee a day. So it's time to eat something.

		after 1 cup coffee	after 2 cups coffee	after 2 coffee +meatloaf	containers
CarbWatch yogurt	0.77	0.68	.60	0.0	containers
bananas	0.17	0.98	1.79	.58	items
coffee		1.00	2.00	2.00	cup
scrambled eggs	2.49	2.45	2.41	0.0	items
bread	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	slices
apricot	2.07	1.34	.61	0.0	items
navybeans	2.51	2.55	2.59	2.72	serving
key lime (juice>				2.72
cheese				1.28	slice
carrot	38.96	34.74	30.54	32.7	items

That's a little better. but Only a little. I'm eating the meatloaf.

She had about a 1/2 serving of Brussels sprouts in the container with the meatloaf. I ate that also. So, let's rerun the model reflecting the Brussels sprouts, the meatloaf, and the two cups of coffee.















1.43

	after 1 cup coffee	after 2 cups coffee	after 2 coffee +meatloaf	after 2 coffee meatloaf brussels sprouts	containers
CarbWatch yogurt	0.68	.60	0.0	0.0	containers
bananas	0.98	1.79	.58	0.85	items
coffee	1.00	2.00	2.00	2.00	cup
scrambled eggs	2.45	2.41	0.0		items
bread	3.00	3.00	3.00	3.00	slices
apricot	1.34	.61	0.0		items
navybeans	2.55	2.59	2.72	2.56	serving
key lime (juice>			2.72	2.15
cheese			1.28		slice
carrot	34.74	30.54	32.7	31.75	items

I'm going to have to go off into a corner someplace until I figure out why this model keeps telling me to eat so many carrots.