I’ll be back with a breakfast/lunch post later, but I wanted to introduce my goal for this week before I headed out.
I’m challenging myself to eat a more healthy diet this month. You can check this post for more information, but essentially I am turning to the USDA’s food pyramid for inspiration. This week’s goal is to hit or surpass the daily recommended allowance of fruit.
Here is a chart from MyPyramid.gov with the recommended allowances –
Since I’m a woman in my 20s my goal will be to eat at least 2 cups of fruit each day this week. I actually think that cups is a pretty arbitrary size assignment, I wish that the pyramid would be updated to include weight measurements. Maybe when I’m an R.D.? For now I’ll work with what I’ve got; here are some examples of what “1cup” of means for the common fruits –
The website has good tips for including more fruit into your diet, and I’ll being give my own ideas this week as well.
[All images and facts in this post sourced from http://www.mypyramid.gov]
Eating Chalk 
What a great challenge! I think you’re right…a cup size of fruit is a little weird, but good luck anyway! I’m excited to see how it goes. Happy Monday!
when you are an RD please update it and refine it to add weight measurements. u’ll be a great dietician too btw!
lol i always laugh when i think of a cup of fruit.. some fruits i picture myself cramming into a cup or trying to chop up into a cup and think.. why cant they just say 1/2 a banana or 1 apple.. or w/e. simplicity is key.
xoxo ❤
Hey, love!
Great plan!
I just don´t really think you should worry about how much fruit do you eat… I mean, I´m 15, so I´m supposed to eat only 1 and 1/2 cups of fruit per day. It´s 1:40pm and, so far, I´ve had about 2 cups of fruit. And I don´t think that´s much!
🙂
Anyhow – wish you a great day, Emily.
Brazilian XOXO´s,
Gabriela