What did you eat today?

[Catrin]

Today:

B: Kashi Autumn Wheat cereal with skim milk, strawberries, whole eggs, skim milk, coffee
S: almonds and raisins
L: Roasted skinless chicken breast, brown rice, sauteed kale, 1 small apple
S: Luna bar

15 minutes Helix lateral trainer, 60 minute high intensity class, 30 minutes Bosu class & tomorrow is a riding day

Post-workout - Powerbar

D: chicken sweet pesto sausage, 1 slice Ezekial bread, small Romaine salad with balsamic vinegar and oil dressing, small tomato, couple of pieces of goat cheese, 2 squares 85% dark chocolate dipped on some great PB, skim milk.

I am still hungry and am short about 100 calories...hmmmm what is in the fridge? I should have eaten more for lunch - need to balance out my calories better - lunch tends to be too light I think.

[solobiker]

B: Oatmeal with some kashi mixed in

S: Apple

L: Ham with a small slice of wheat bread, some pretzles and veggies ( peppers, onions, zuch, carrots.)

45 min lower body weight workout and 45 min walk

S: Small square of dark chocolate

D: Broiled shrimp and a large salad

S: 1 graham cracker and some fresh strawberries.

[Antaresia]

So my roommate has discovered she's lactose intolerant, so I got her pasta&cheese-in-a-box. Made some for lunch with ham and broccoli added, omfg.

At the end of the work day I was RAVENOUS. Then I remembered something about carbs making you hungry...

so today:
commute to work (4.5 miles)
banana and trail mix
some crackers
pasta of doom
apple
commute home
SO HUNGRY EAT ALL THE THINGS

Never doing pasta for lunch again. It isn't really a part of my diet at all, so maybe it's worse if you're not used to it.

[Crankin]

B: 2 egg plus some egg white omelette with salsa, low fat cheddar, a couple of slices of low salt ham, 1/8 avocado, slice of Ezekial whole wheat bread, coffee. I thought I was going on a 45 mile hilly group ride, but I felt so sick from allergies, I ended up riding later in the day. Didn't need that big of a breakfast
L: salad with proscuitto, orange, walnuts, cup of tomato soup, handful of nuts, cranberries, chocolate bits
22 mile ride
S: piece of Sheep's milk cheese, 3 whole wheat pita rounds
D: 3 lamb meatballs, with mint pesto, stir fried zucchini in olive oil, salad, glass of red wine, 2 pieces of dark chocolate

[spokewench]

B: bowl of cereal, strawberries, 1% milk, coffee
L: salad with mayonnaise type dressing, herbs and dungeness crab, 1 glass prosecco - out to lunch
D: salmon, roasted yukon gold potatoes, broccoli, 1 glass red wine

[mandiam]

Hello girls...I thought this might be fun to post in on--so here's my first one!

Thursday Rest Day: (I felt good so I couldn't resist a light morning workout)

Morning Workout: Crossfit WOD and a run
Breakfast: 1/2 cup of almond/cashew mix with coffee
Lunch: PB&J (whole wheat, sugar free jelly, natural PB, with naner slices) and a sliced apple
Snack: 4 crackers and carrots
Dinner: DH had dinner waiting on me We had a salad with chicken and a BLT.
Snack: Cateloupe slices and nuts

Excited to read everyone's posts!

[Susan Otcenas]

Yesterday was a disaster.

5:00am Banana with almond butter
6:00am one hour cycling class
7:30am apple and 1% latte
8:30am met an industry colleague for breakfast at a cafe. This is where the day started to go sideways: omelette with smoke salmon and dilled sour cream. Grilled potatoes and fruit on the side. Declined the bread.
10:30 Another 1% latte. Sheesh.
12:00 The usual spinach salad with veggies, 2 oz. turkey
3:00 carrot cabbage salad and a pile of snap peas
6:00 I knew I wasn't going to have dinner for a few hours due to some scheduling issues, so I had another banana with almond butter. I really need to not have almond butter in house. There's no such thing as a little almond butter in my world.
8:00 Excuses excuses. Dinner plans fell apart and I had stuff to do, so I had a cup of yogurt and blueberries.
9:00 (ohmigod, I can't believe I'm admitting this...) Not one, but TWO vodka cranberries while working on deconstructing my bike in the garage. I'm getting ready to fly with it tomorrow and it needed to be broken down into the suitcase.
10:30 (ohmigod, I can't believe I'm admitting this, too...) I finish up in the garage, walk into the kitchen, and Jeff is baking brownies. Geez, louise, shoot me now. Needless to say, brownies were consumed.

Sigh.

But hey, on the bright side, I got my bike all squared away so I won't be up until midnight tonight doing it at the last minute. Instead, I'll have time to eat more brownies....

[GLC1968]

Ok, until the brownies, I was wondering what the big deal was?! The rest of that stuff was ok in my book. And you passed on bread? Really? You should get 'brownie' points for that anyway...so see...it all works out in the end.

Have a good trip!


Yesterday -
B: two toasted slices of paleo banana bread with butter
S: coffee with half n half
L: chicken curry over veggies (instead of rice)
S: 1 oz raw cheddar, apple, 1/2 protein bar
D: grass-fed NY strip steaks with a big ole pile of broccoli
And I had a single tiny square of a new 72% dark chocolate bar I bought that is so freaking good that only one tiny square is actually enough. Unreal!

Today -
B: two toasted slices of paleo banana bread with butter
S: coffee with half n half, 1/2 protein bar (maybe)
L: 2 cup broccoli, pouch of tuna (we need to go to the grocery store!), orange
S: 1 oz raw cheddar, apple
D: uncured bacon and fresh eggs with piles of veggies in them
S: another square of that amazing chocolate!

[Susan Otcenas]

Ok, until the brownies, I was wondering what the big deal was?! The rest of that stuff was ok in my book. And you passed on bread? Really? You should get 'brownie' points for that anyway...so see...it all works out in the end.

Oh, my friend, let me count the ways.

a)I generally try not to drink my calories, so TWO lattes and 2 alcoholic drinks in one day is waaaay overboard.
b) nothing wrong with the eggs, salmon, etc., but it's really more an issue of volume. Restaurant portion sizes are too big, and I've never been good about stopping when there's still food on my plate.
c) almond butter is best eaten with a spoon, not a knife.
d) the brownies were over over the top. But Jeff threw away the rest of the pan this morning. We agreed they were too sweet.

AH well, today is a new day, right?

[GLC1968]

Yeah, I definitely understand the 'not drinking calories' thing, but I make an exception when in a coffee shop. A cup of coffee with cream (or a latte) is about a billion times better choice than a pastry and it makes me feel both indulgent and 'normal', so I don't feel guilt about it. For me, it's always been about the experience and not the calories (in that situation).

A big ole glass of OJ? Now that makes me feel guilty!

My point is that your day wasn't a 'disaster' my most people's standards. (Even with the brownies!) A disaster would be eating an entire large pizza by yourself and then consuming the free trial lava crunch cake too. Or finishing off an entire bag of Mini Eggs (not the individual serving size!) in one day. Or consuming a pint of Ben n Jerrys in one sitting and then following it up with a large stack of oreo's. Or filling a plate with deserts from a buffet to 'taste' them all and ending up gobbling them up even though you'd already eaten an entire meal. Or maybe eating all the halloween candy before halloween and having to buy more so your husband doesn't know about it. Don't ask me how I know about these types of days, please.

[Catrin]

Yesterday was baaaad...

B: Kashi Autumn Wheat cereal with skim milk, 6 almonds, 2 whole eggs, skim milk, coffee (so far, so good)

S: 1/2 cliff bar

L: Roasted skinless chicken breast sandwich on Ezekiel bread

S: remainder of cliff bar

Pre-ride snack: Powerbar

1+ hour easy mountain bike ride

D: Dinner? Who needs a real dinner...had some Kashi Autumn Wheat cereal with skim milk and a few almonds...

I DO have veggies in the fridge, but it was much too late to cook when I got home from the mtb trail...

[Crankin]

5 almonds and 2 dried apricots before very hard boot camp type of class at 5:30 AM
B: egg white omelette with left over mint pesto, half a grapefruit, latte with skim milk, then a coffee
L: left over lamb meatballs (3), an apple
S: nuts and cranberries
D: 2 pieces of sheep's milk cheese, 2 ww pita rounds
glass of red wine, swordfish with mango salsa, salad with veggies and fig
vinegar, 2 pieces of dark chocolate

[Owlie]

I am a piggy compared to most of you...okay, all of you.

B: Mango lassi (7oz plain Greek yogurt, one champagne mango, enough sugar to bring out the mango flavor (they're not great mangoes), and a bit of cardamom)
L: Peanut sesame noodles, snow peas with a little sesame oil and chili flakes (mm!), dried mango
S: A whole bag of Chex mix (okay, they're the little bags, but they're still bigger than a bag of chips!), a mini Toblerone, and a bottle of Lifewater
14-mile ride (Water, about 1.5 bags of sports beans)
D: Cereal, possibly followed by some bell pepper and radish dipped in hummus.

[Reesha]

I have a big ride tomorrow and I did 30 earlier this evening so I think I'm going to have a giant bowl of quinoa with scrambled eggs and parmesan... oh my god I can't wait.

[Crankin]

yesterday:
B: egg whites with red pepper, half a grapefruit, coffee
L: 6 oz. tuna in oil and a slice of Ezekial whole wheat raisin bread
21.5 mile slow but hilly ride with friend, lots of water; it was hot
S: pack of nuts and cranberries
D: (restaurant) whole wheat penne with sauteed artichoke hearts, tomatoes, spinach and olive oil (I ate about 2/3), salad with veggies, 1.5 glasses of red wine