What did you eat today?

Adding to yesterday: Small bowl of Greek yogurt with granola and pomegranate seeds

B: 2 whole grain waffles, plain. Latte.
L: Water with a squirt of lemon juice; mac and cheese. Wasn't hungry, really;
L2: Bowl of penne with vodka sauce. (Last of it...sniff.)
S: Chai with half and half and sugar. One green tea shortbread cookie and a mini peanut butter cup.
D: Cereal w/ 1%. "Light Butter" popcorn (now I remember why I don't buy it...), pomegranate seeds.

I have all this food in the fridge (I made a chicken and rice dish last night, and I have meatballs from earlier in the week), and no motivation to eat it. Weird.

B: eggs, lox, and onions, coffee, an orange
L: sliced tomato with basil, 3-4 pieces of fresh mozzarella, red leaf lettuce, pine nuts, drizzled with olive oil, cup of sweet potato soup (low sodium)
S: nuts and cranberries, slice of whole wheat bread and soy nut butter
D: chicken marsala (one chicken breast) with baked fennel topped with fresh parmesan, salad with goat cheese and cranberries, one piece of dark chocolate
S: 2 dried apricots

B: oatmeal, strawberries, bananas, 1%milk, coffee
L: leftover rice and artichokes with tomato sauce
D: 1 piece of pizza, salad with vinaigrette and blue cheese crumbles, 2 glasses white wine

B: stir fried pepper and zucchini, topped with egg whites, coffee
L: tuna salad, made with Greek yogurt, mixed with a Pink Lady apple
D: stir fried chicken sausage and veggies (green beans, pepper, onions) with a salad of red lettuce and marinated artichoke hearts, 1 piece of dark chocolate
S: cup of non fat Greek yogurt, with blueberries

B: 1 piece of coffee cake, coffee
Snack: cherries and 1 banana
L: salami and cheese sandwich on wg bread
D: 1 bowl of chili
Dessert: 1 bowl of cheerios 1 % milk

B: stir fried low salt ham, peppers, zucchini, with low fat melted cheddar, coffee
L: salmon salad made with Greek yogurt on lettuce and grape tomato, balsamic vinegar, almonds, cranberries, and blueberries mixed in a bowl
S: piece of Iberico cheese
D: (restaurant) salad with red leaf lettuce, pears, beets, wine/vinegar dressing, sliced cod with tomatoes, and zucchini. I ate one of the small roasted potatoes, 2 glasses red wine. Decaf

B: 1 piece of coffee cake, coffee
Snack: 1 banana
L: peanut butter crackers
D: hamburger, french fries and a beer

Yesterday:
Coffee and a doughnut. I need to actually eat breakfast at home.
Cheese ravioli with meat sauce
Most of a beer
Two plain wg waffles
French onion soup out of a box, with barley thrown in

Yesterday:

B: steel-cut oats with blueberries, PB, skim milk, coffee
S: 1 slice sprouted bread toast with PB
L: Luna bar with 1 cup skim milk
D: Small serving of home-made bean soup, hot turkey wrap on Trader Joe's whole wheat tortilla, 1 beer

Today

1 hour on trainer before breakfast
B: 3 egg-white omelet with a bit of shredded sharp cheddar cheese, two slices of turkey bacon, small amount of steel-cut oats, skim milk, coffee
L: Luna bar (no time for anything else)
30 minute moderate weights workout (called short due to complaints from the neck department)
S: fresh blackberries with a bit of fat free Greek yogurt

Haven't decided what dinner will be, but leaning to making some fresh chicken salad (with almonds, cranberries, and apple) and salad greens. Perhaps some roasted pepper/tomato soup. We will see...

I prefer Cliff bars to Luna - but since my activity level is a bit lower in the winter, it makes sense to move to a less robust bar...No long hours on the road or trail right now :(

B: Irish oatmeal with some soy nut butter, blueberries, cranberries, and 1% milk mixed in, 2 slices turkey bacon, coffee
L: salad with black beans mixed with green chili salsa, tomato, avocado, low fat cheddar. An orange, which was horrible, so I ate about half of it.
Snow shoeing for about 50 minutes
S: Greek yogurt, almonds, blueberries
2 pieces of Iberico cheese and 3 whole wheat pita rounds a little later
D: 2 very small/thin pork chops, coated with a rub of chopped cashews (peanut sub), cumin, pepper, and a bit of sugar. Stir fried bok choy and whole wheat soba (about an ounce), with a sauce of rice wine and oyster sauce.
one piece of dark chocolate

one dried apricot before bed.

Crankin - congratulations on being able to snow shoe! My body is asking for something different to do...but with the weather we've been having all I can do is to ride outside/inside, or go hiking...I can't run and I won't learn how to swim (and my new gym doesn't have a pool anyway, but that isn't a problem).

It was nice to do something different, albeit, right in my own neighborhood!
We are going cross country skiing today (about an hour away in southern NH), and who knows when we'll be doing that again, as tomorrow and the next few days will be almost 50 degrees and rainy. Hoping the rain will not reach north of here, so we will still have the possibility of going further north or west next Saturday and ski.
I know this is the food thread, but I can't seem to separate my exercise from eating. I had my first piece of bread this morning, in 2 weeks, in preparation for some good climbing today.

B: 1 piece coffee cake, coffee
3 hours tennis
L: late, 1 piece of pizza
D: bowl of beef vege soup, onions, carrots, cabbage, beef, carrots, green beans, red potatoes; 1 piece of WG bread, 1 glass red wine
1 pumpkin custard

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Originally Posted by Crankin

It was nice to do something different, albeit, right in my own neighborhood!
We are going cross country skiing today (about an hour away in southern NH), and who knows when we'll be doing that again, as tomorrow and the next few days will be almost 50 degrees and rainy. Hoping the rain will not reach north of here, so we will still have the possibility of going further north or west next Saturday and ski.
I know this is the food thread, but I can't seem to separate my exercise from eating. I had my first piece of bread this morning, in 2 weeks, in preparation for some good climbing today.

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I can't separate the two either, one informs the other...

I did make chicken salad for dinner last night as I speculated and put the chicken salad over salad greens (no other dressing required), finished off the half of the apple that didn't get chopped into the chicken salad, and two small glasses of beer.

The Machengo cheese is fine, but a bit mild for my taste. Currently trying a Wisconsin sharp white cheddar from Trader Joe's, and also picked up some good smoked Gouda (which I love). I will try another imported cheese once I've gone through these.

B: egg whites and one egg scramble with 3 slices Canadian bacon, one piece of whole wheat "small slice" toast with margerine
L: (after 2.4 hours of x country skiing) half a sandwich with soy nut butter, bowl of butternut squash/apple soup, half a packet of nuts and cranberries
S: piece of low fat Gouda cheese, 2 whole wheat pita rounds
D: scallops, baked and then broiled with parmesan over a bed of spinach, with sauteed zucchini, one piece of chocolate, glass of red wine

Yesterday:
Bowl of cereal, tea with sugar and half and half
Half a roast beef sandwich from Panera (beef, cheese, lettuce, red onion, tomato, horseradish sauce), and a cup of broccoli-cheddar soup, Dr. Pepper
Cheese (Cotswold, and Red Dragon) on whole wheat toast, water.

I keep forgetting that calories (or a deficit thereof) carry over to the next day. It seems like dinner on Friday night wasn't adequate (not enough protein, I guess?) I went to the mall and my head was spinning by the time I left, even though I ate breakfast. :confused:

Today:
Bowl of cereal, tea with sugar and half and half
30 minutes on the trainer
Tortilla chips and salsa, the entirety of a chocolate bar (one of the thin flat ones, so probably not as bad as it could have been!)
3 meatballs, 1/3 c (dry) brown rice, and a salad. 1 inch-square piece of baklava and a large apple for dessert.

B: bowl of shredded wheat, strawberries, 1% milk, coffee
L: rice with italian sausage turkey, tomato sauce, mushrooms, yellow peppers and onions
D: same as lunch
dessert - pumpkin pie with whipped cream

B: 5 slices turkey breast (Boar's Head) and half a cup of cottage cheese with almonds, half a cup of whole wheat flakes with 1% milk, blueberries, coffee
L: homemade chicken salad with Greek yogurt, cranberries, walnuts
S: slice of whole wheat bread and soy nut butter
D: one piece of veal (like the really little and thin kind) sauteed in olive oil with melted fresh parmesan, stir fried pepper and mushrooms, salad with goat cheese and almonds, fig dressing, piece of dark chocolate and half a Cara cara orange

I have no idea what's up with my body today. I actually ate dinner last night. I ate breakfast. I ate lunch. I had a snack. I was starving by the time I got home. I had another snack. It took me another two hours to get dinner ready. I'd think it was lack of sleep, if I didn't already know that lack of sleep has the opposite effect...

B: 16oz of tea with sugar and half-and-half. Large-ish bowl of cereal with 1% milk
L: Brown rice mix, with almonds, honey-Dijon chicken, broccoli and pomegranate seeds
S: Peanut butter M&Ms
S2: Hot chocolate, square of baklava
D: 6 coconut-crusted chicken fingers (I was getting tired of meatballs and rice) with sweet chili sauce, an apple
3 chocolate digestives.

B: 1 egg, 1 piece wg toast, oj, coffee
Snack: 1 banana
Lunch: bowl of beef vege soup (homemade), 1 brownie
Dinner: 1/2 rainbow trout filet with mushroom prosecco sauce, rice pilaf with pumpkin seeds and veges, sauteed green and yellow summer squash, 1 very small piece of wg bread with artichoke hummus, 1 glass prosecco

B: egg whites and one egg omelette with Mexican cheese and salsa, 3 slices of turkey bacon, coffee
L: finished the home made chicken salad and ate half an apple
D: one boneless chicken breast with provencal sauce (plum tomatoes, onions, thyme, olives, mustard, balsamic vinegar, olive oil), brown rice. DH made a salad of sliced tomato and fresh mozzarella, which probably wasn't good for me, but tasted great. One glass of red wine, one square of dark chocolate.

tonight pan seared rock cod with pan roasted carrots, steamed broccoli, seared oyster mushroom, and herbed mashed potato. quick and easy. wedge of lemon for the rock cod.

simple quick and good.

B: 1 chobani greek yogurt (peach)
L: 1 bowl of beef vege soup
1 orange
D: salami and cheese sammy on one piece wg bread, glass of prosecco

B: low fat/no salt cottage cheese with blueberries, almonds, cranberries, 4 slices low salt deli ham with melted Havarti, 2 cups tea
L: salad with romaine, goat cheese, red pepper, turkey, cup of sweet potato soup
S: pack of nuts and cranberries
D: swordfish with a stir fry mix of whole wheat soba noodles, bean sprouts, red pepper and mushrooms in a sherry/ginger sauce
1 piece dark chocolate

B: Ezekiel Bread toast with egg+egg white, Blueberry Coffee (yummo!)
L: UM Shake and a salad
S: Greek Yogurt+PB
D: Mexican Salad (lots of greens, spicy black beans, salsa)
ES: Green Smoothie

Munchies: 10 almonds, mini raisin pack, veggies, 1 90% Chocolate square

B: corn chex, 1% milk, coffee
L: 1 piece WG bread, slice of cheddar and salami
D: roasted chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans, 1 glass white wine

Limewave, where do you find 90% chocolate that tastes good?

B:handful of walnuts and cranberries before strength/core class
2 eggs, over easy, 2 pieces turkey bacon, handful of blueberries, cup of ginger green tea
coffee
L: salad with spinach, tuna in olive oil, grape tomatoes, low fat Gouda with balsamic vinegar, Pink Lady apple. I am obsessed with those.
S: pack of nuts and cranberries
D: 5 oz. of hangar steak, half a sweet potato, asparagus, salad with lettuce, tomato, avocado slices
piece of dark chocolate

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Originally Posted by Crankin

Limewave, where do you find 90% chocolate that tastes good?

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I didn't say it tasted good. I normally get the 85%. But DH did the grocery shopping and that is what he came home with. So now I have 3 giant chocolate bars to eat up. I'm kind of hoping that I'll acquire a taste for the really, super dark stuff.

Todays menu:

B: Ezekiel Bread Toast, Eggs, Turkey bacon and COFFEE
S: Banana
L: Ultrameal Shake, Veggies
S: Greek Yogurt + PB
D: Butternut Squash Chili and a Salad
ES: Green Smoooooooothie

Munchies: Almonds, veggies, 90% Dark chocolate, more coffee, frozen peas

mmmm Dark Chocolate...haven't had any for some time, thanks for the reminder:

Yesterday:

B: steel cut oats with egg whites, skim milk, coffee
S: tiny apple and 6 almonds
L: home made bean soup with chicken sausage, 1 rice cake
D: Turkey Bacon BLT on sprouted wheat bread with added sprouts, skim milk

75 minutes spinning

S: tiny apple with cottage cheese

So far today:

Greek yogurt w/honey and almonds
small cup of unsweetened apple sauce

B: shredded wheat 1% milk, coffee
L: mashed potatoes and tomato sauce with veges and turkey italian sausage
D: Roasted chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans

B: before spin class, 2 dried apricots and a handful of almonds, after class, whole wheat tortilla with melted Mexican low fat cheese, a couple of slices of avocado, black beans, and salsa, Cara Cara orange, coffee.
L: 3 slices low salt ham with melted low fat Gouda, handful of blueberries, cole slaw
S: packet of nuts and cranberries
D: veggie burger with no bun, with melted low fat cheddar, big salad with spinach, romaine, goat cheese, cranberries, walnuts, cup of low sodium tomato soup, half a glass of red wine, one piece dark chocolate

Today:

B: Bran cereal with almonds and raisins, skim milk, 2 slices turkey bacon
S: strawberries and no-fat greek yogurt
L: 1/2 roast chicken po'boy with a little bit of mushroom etoufee
S: banana
D: big salad with mixed salad greens, one boiled egg, almonds, blackberries, tomato, olive oil/balsamic dressing
S: 6 almonds and two small dark chocolate covered peanuts

PT today, so no exercise. I've learned the hard way that I cannot exercise on the same day I have my neck PT. Sad...it was >40 here today and even saw some sunshine!

B: Pecan bun and tea with half-and-half.
L: Rice with broccoli, chicken, almonds and pomegranate seeds. Guess I have to cook again.
S: Peanut butter M&Ms, a couple of fruit snacks (offered by a friend).
1 3/4 beer (the whole one was a pale ale, the 3/4 was a lager) with my advisor and lab mates. It turns out that that was a little bit too much...:rolleyes:
Green tea frappucino while waiting for the beer to wear off so I could drive home.:o
1-hr trainer workout
D: Caesar salad, Greek yogurt with granola and pomegranate seeds.

Today....bad Catrin :rolleyes:

B: steel cut oats, egg whites, skim milk & coffee
S: small apple
L: Wound up hitting the Noodles & Company for lunch - their food is like crack for me, got the Whole Grain Tuscan Linguine with Parmesan-encrusted chicken. I also got a piece of flatbread, though thankfully I only ate about a third of it. Still...

1 hour workout with weights

D: Just couldn't face cooking...Trader Joe's chicken sausage with a slice of smoked gouda, 1 slice sprouted wheat bread, 1 cup roasted pepper/tomato soup.

1 hour on the trainer

S: 1 beer

Tomorrow will get back to normal.

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Originally Posted by Catrin

Today....bad Catrin :rolleyes:

B: steel cut oats, egg whites, skim milk & coffee
S: small apple
L: Wound up hitting the Noodles & Company for lunch - their food is like crack for me, got the Whole Grain Tuscan Linguine with Parmesan-encrusted chicken. I also got a piece of flatbread, though thankfully I only ate about a third of it. Still...

1 hour workout with weights

D: Just couldn't face cooking...Trader Joe's chicken sausage with a slice of smoked gouda, 1 slice sprouted wheat bread, 1 cup roasted pepper/tomato soup.

1 hour on the trainer

S: 1 beer

Tomorrow will get back to normal.

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OMG Noodles and Company. It's good. I like their mac and cheese.

B: Cereal, tea with half and half
L: coconut-crusted chicken fingers, an apple, part of a mint crackle cookie
S: Peanut butter M&Ms
D: I broke down and went to Five Guys for dinner. Single-patty bacon cheese burger, with onion, lettuce, jalapenos and bbq sauce. Thing was gone in five minutes. :eek:

Yesterday:
B: egg whites
L: turkey sandwich on multigrain
D: green curry with shrimp

B: 1.5 buttermilk waffles with blueberries, almonds, 2 slices turkey bacon, coffee
L:"Mexican" salad, with lettuce, chopped tomatoes, black beans, roasted chicken, low fat Mexican cheese sprinkled on top, oil and vinegar
20 mile outdoor ride
S: piece of whole wheat bread with soy nut butter
D: (at friends' house) 2 glasses red wine, vegetable soup, salad, one boneless chicken breast with parsnips, whole wheat cous cous
decaf, and one very small chocolate chocolate chip cookie

B: one slice pumpernickel bread with whole fruit spread
L: edamame and half a spring roll
S: cutie orange
D: corn tortilla with black beans, Daiya cheese, lettuce
S: homemade chocolate pudding (SUPER delish- made with an avocado, almond butter, cocoa powder, agave, & vanilla)

yesterday

b: oatmeal with dried cranberries and 1 T. walnuts
ride fuel: 3 shot blocks, 1/2 clif bar (skimpy for 3 hour/ 54 mile ride!)
l: veggie egg & cheese scramble, raisin toast, nonfat mocha
s: cranberries & walnuts, cheese popcorn
d: Trader Joe's ginger-soy cod, stir fried sugar snap peas, onion, red pepper and mushrooms, rice
dessert: 1 oz dark choc hazelnut