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  1. #1
    Join Date
    Aug 2001
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    Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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    i'm gettting HUNGREEEEEEEEEEEE

    Ok so my breakie is:
    a bowl of fresh fruit
    and either Fiber one (1/4 cup, yes measured) plus milk
    or a piece of whole grain toast plus a tsp peanut butter
    and either a strip of chicken bacon or a poached egg (espcially if i have a full morning)

    If i am on the run, i will pack veggies, plain yogurt, nuts, some form of protein, either a tuna "snack" tin, or some cubed tofu with sauce, or...and a piece of toast or whole grain crackers (serving size 20 g of carbs)

    lunch is typically salad with whatever i feel like eating - shrimp with salsa, plain yogurt and brown rice (1/4 cup) is a favorite of mine.

    Dinner a favorite is chicken curry lots of veggies and millet (1/4 cup)

    If i am doing a long ride, i will pack bananas and granola bars.

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    Han
    "The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it."-Moliere

    "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." -Thomas A. Edison



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  2. #2
    Join Date
    Jun 2006
    Location
    Dallas
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    My favorite healthy breakfast. You can measure if you want, but I generally don't.

    In a bowl --

    Some lowfat cottage cheese.
    Frozen blueberries.
    Chopped nuts (or chunky peanut butter, better than you'd think)

    That's is. Protein, fruit, healthy fat. And if I want to make it extra delish, I put a lot of chopped mint on top.

    I also use this as a snack sometimes, or a light supper -- smaller quantities for snack, larger for supper.

    I'm not sure why, but it really hits the spot and is easy to have on hand.

    “Hey, clearly failure doesn’t deter me!”

  3. #3
    Join Date
    Mar 2007
    Location
    Brooklyn, NY
    Posts
    156
    Breakfast:
    Oatmeal with a handful of nuts, a handful of bluberries and a packet of splenda (sorry)
    Or
    Uncle Sam Cereal with some nuts and fruit - usually blueberries

    Snack:
    Lowfat liquid yogurt and piece of fruit

    Lunch:
    BLT with Turkey bacon OR
    Egg Salad on wheat bread

    Snack:
    Fruit or a yogurt
    little carrots while cooking family dinner

    Dinner:
    Big portion of Protien, usually chicken, and a large vegetable portion, like a whole container of rosted Brussel sprouts, or Kale sauted with Garlic.
    Recently I have been having my lunch carbs at dinner if I have a bigger ride the next day, like rice or pasta

    Sometimes if I get desperate I have one of those Weight Watchers deserts.

    Lost about 8 lbs in the last 3 months this way. I do find that when I increase my mileage, I get hungrier for a week or two and then it levels out.

  4. #4
    Join Date
    Jul 2006
    Location
    Ontario
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    178
    Well, I'm a student... so I don't do 'meals' so much as 'forage.'

    Breakfast is a must, and usually my biggest meal--but it's spaced over about 2-4 hours while I study as my classes are late in the day. I like to do some rice cereal with no-fat soymilk, or oatmeal with fruit on top, along with a cup of yogourt and something like 3 egg whites plus one whole egg mixed with mozza cheese and veggies.

    Later on I'll hit up some rice cakes with peanut butter, an apple, an orange, a pear, some grapes maybe... sometimes this all occurs within my 'breakfast' hours.

    Then I go to class, or sometimes the aforementioned paragraph happens after class... then I run, or bike.

    After excercise I stock up on protein--1 scoop of protein powder mixed with water and some salmon ala George Foreman grill. Sometimes I'll cook up a small potato to go with it. I guess you could call this dinner--it tends to occur between the hours of 3pm-midnight.

    My other 'dinner' favourite is making a pizza on a rice pizza crust with pesto and mozza and more mushrooms and broccoli than you can shake a stick at.

    Random snacks include a platefull of rice crackers with mozza and peppers melted on top.

    I recently affirmed that I have a wheat allergy. This was a huge adjustment as I lived primarily off of bread beforehand. For the first few weeks of the switch I tried to substitute rice bread, but man does that stuff ever have way more calories, smaller slices, and cost too much. I'm trying to wean myself off it.

    Another problem I have is that I am hungry ALL THE TIME now that food doesn't hurt to eat--when I was eating wheat, I'd spend most of the day in too much pain to want to eat anything. Sometimes in the morning I'll eat a bit of wheat just to curb my appetite. I don't need the extra food/pounds, and lord knows I can't afford it!

    Meat also doesn't much agree with me, but I'm learning to like fish just to get some more protein in me and curb my appetite further. I've also started with tofu in my eggs.

  5. #5
    Join Date
    Mar 2007
    Location
    Seattle, WA
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    Breakfast (during the week): Foofie salad! Where foofie salad is oatmeal (steel cut if I thought to start them the night before), lowfat ricotta (or cottage cheese if I'm out of ricotta), a handful of frozen blueberries, with a sprinkle of cinnamon and a pinch of Splenda (sugar gives me hot flashes, so I try to stay away from it unless I'm having the very occasional dessert treat or a serious craving for Sprite, because I know I'm going to pay the price later when I'm trying to strip off my clothes...not good when one is about to go to the office).

    Breakfast on the weekends usually consists of eggs, veggies, and cheese in the form of an omelette or frittata.

    Lunch is, um, pretty much always restaurant purchased during the week, because I can't seem to get myself to pack up food to take to work.

  6. #6
    Join Date
    Apr 2007
    Location
    Port Townsend, WA
    Posts
    152

    Love my coffee....

    My breakfast is nearly the same every day. One sliced banana topped with granola and Kefir. I'll add organic raspberries when the CO-OP has them. After that I make a latte from the best coffee beans I can find. Lately, I have been getting them from Princess Valient in Port Angeles. There has been some great stuff in Victoria, Salt Spring Island, and the vicinity. I am a big fan of Discovery Coffee, Fantastico, and Bean Around the world when I am in Victoria. Also, love Bubby Rose's for breakfast when I am there.
    Lunch varies from a sit down restaurant, lunch date with business partners or girlfriends to a power bar on the fly. That just depends on the day.

  7. #7
    Join Date
    May 2007
    Location
    Idaho
    Posts
    39

    jenn

    this is my first post. I am new to this but I would like to respond to Jenn and what she is eating. You said that your dad had you eating a certain plan and you were losing weight. I read what you were eating and smiled and giggled because it is what I eat everyday and in the same order. I am a competitive bodybuilder who earned her pro card in 2003. That is exactly what we eat when we are in diet mode for a show. I am giving duathlons a try this year because I love cardio(and weight training) I am a natural bodybuilder so I'm not one of those girls that looks like a guy. I would like to know the background your father has in nutrition.

  8. #8
    Join Date
    Jul 2006
    Location
    Ohio
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    Breakfast is fairly routine: Homemade whole wheat pancake with 1 Tbsp 100% pure maple syrup, 2 Morningstar Farms "sausage" links, yogurt, and coffee.

    Since I eat 5-6 meals a day, this holds me over through exercises until my first snack.
    Jennifer

    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    -Mahatma Gandhi

    "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit."
    -Aristotle

 

 

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