Are you still in the 3-5 day phase where you eat in your normal way? If so, you should not be getting a grade. If you are, ignore it - the program needs to know how you REALLY eat, not how you think you should eat.
Most people that do the 3-5 day trial phase come out with a lousy grade. PT is very big on protein, clean carbs, low sodium, low sugar and low fat plus all your vitamins and minerals each day. Most people eat more sodium and more sugar (even "good" sugar in the form of lactose/milk sugar and fructose/fruit sugar) than they realize.
If you're going to launch into conditioning and need some foods that will boost your scores, I made a basic grocery list when I was on PT:
Protein: turkey, white-meat chicken, low-sodium canned tuna in water, tofu, fish, veggie meat substitutes like seitan (watch the sodium), egg whites, low-salt cottage cheese, shrimp and scallops (watch the cholesterol), protein powder, hummus, nuts and nut butters in small amounts
Carbs: yams, potatoes, brown rice, lentils, beans, whole-grain bagels, oatmeal, All Bran or Fiber One cereal, shredded wheat, whole-grain pita, whole-wheat pasta, tortillas, soba noodles, rice cakes, couscous, English muffins
Veggies: cabbage, onions, squash, tomatoes, salad greens, broccoli, mushrooms, sundried tomatoes, packaged cole-slaw mix, cucumbers, bok choy, celery
Misc: olive oil, garlic, ginger, low-sodium low-fat salad dressing (or make your own), salsa, unsweetened soy milk, Splenda, bottled curry sauce (for flavor), pasta sauce
Obviously this is not a comprehensive list, but more a list of things that I like to eat and that worked well for PT. There were some "super foods" that I had almost every day because they boosted my scores - lentils, yams, potatoes, cereal (oatmeal, Fiber One or shredded wheat), egg whites, chicken and turkey. You'll probably need a multivitamin as well.
You'll find in conditioning that you don't eat too many veggies - you have to get in so many calories every day and eat so often that you'll focus more on high-density foods like bagels, potatoes and pasta with moderate amounts of protein. When you hit fatburning, you'll eat tons of veggies and protein, and your carbs list will whittle down.
Have you checked out the PT support group on Yahoo? It's great and gives lots of information.
Feel free to email me at
[email protected] directly if you want to - and good luck with PT.
Allison
Edited to add: you'll be able to squeeze in some fruit in conditioning too - all fruit works but high-sugar bananas and dried fruit are harder to fit in. Fruit is very hard to eat in fatburning because the amount of sugar you get each day is very low.
