Sharing-What's your favorite menu for training?

[AutumnBreez]

What is your favorite menu for Training?
Cut and paste

Breakfast:
Lunch:
Dinner:
Snacks:

Pre workout:
Post workout:

[snowtulip]

I'm a sweet hound, so I'll start by letting you know I eat a minature chocolate everyday (moderation is always good), it helps minimize major sweet attacks.

Breakfast - Oatmeal with skim milk, flax seed, and bananas (if I'm going to do a longer ride that day I'll also have a slice of toast with peanut butter, it's more sustaining)

Lunch - turkey and swiss sandwich (cucumbers, tomato), fruit, glass of milk

Dinner - I'm into black bean chili lately, if hubby is eating with me I'll add turkey, small salad, tortilla

Snack - nuts, or crackers with cream cheese, or a slice of bread with peanut butter

Pre ride - Usually am fine and eat what I normally eat

Post ride - Chocolate Whey smoothie (yummy)

Hydration: Plenty of water and Knudsen Orange Recharge (electolytes without the too sweet aftertaste I get from Gatoraid)

If I start to get bored, I switch around, but try to make sure I get some protein, complex carbs, and fat with every meal (It sustains me so much longer). If I have a craving, I follow it in moderation.

Enjoy!

[alison_in_oh]

Breakfast: Fruit or veggie, low-GI starch, protein source.
Lunch: Fruit or veggie, low-GI starch, protein source.
Dinner: Fruit or veggie, low-GI starch, protein source.
Snacks: Protein and fat source (nuts, cheese, yogurt, hummus, peanut butter)
Dessert: ICE CREAM!
Beverage: Hop Devil IPA. Or any hoppy fermented beverage.

Pre workout: Food. Not too much fat or other dense stuff right before a major exertion (save my energy for riding, not digestion!); preferably some starch a while before to help build up glycogen reserves.
Post workout: Starchy food.

On the bike: Clif bar or banana (you MUST eat if you'll be on the bike more than two hours)

Just so you know, in this house we bike to eat, not the other way around. The beauty of such a high-energy sport is that the weight WILL stay off as long as you are getting your rides in. We just follow some basic nutritional principles to make sure we're as healthy as we can be.

[Susan126]

Breakfast: Cereal and coffee
Lunch: Salad or a lean cuisine
Dinner: meat (usually chicken) vegies, salad, and rice
Snacks: fruit OR blue bunny ice cream's bunny tracks!

Pre workout: mocha and a pumpkin scone from Starbucks
Post workout: water and energy bar

mountain biking: sandwich . . . favorite is turkey with swiss and dijon mustard, lettuce and tomato . . . also almonds or trail mix.

road riding: same as above.

[trigurl]

hhmmm, I eat a lot more than most of ya'll

b: egg white omelet(2 eggs) with spinach and cheese, 1 banana

s: 1/2 cottage cheese and low sugar slim fast & 1/2 bagel with peanut butter ( I am hungry in the mornings - all morning)

L: 1/2 pita with spinach and turkey pepperoni, veggies, cottage cheese w/ fruit

s: whole grain bread w/raspberry preserves, probably a small cheese snack and today probably a yogurt

d: some type of lean meat w/ veggies

s: probably fruit and/or fruit juice - maybe a Kiss or two to get my 2000 calories in.

I am 4 weeks away from a duathlon so I am training pretty hard right now and I must be burning a lot of calories. I just read a good article from my triathlon training bible, that states women need from .022-.024 grams of protein for every pound of body weight which means I need 3-4 grams, so I have added in more protein this week, hence the cottage cheese, high protein in a small amount, altho animal protein is preferable. I love meat but was limiting it b/c of trying to lose weight, glad I read this article

[nuthatch]

Breakfast: Oatmeal, walnuts, blueberries, flax seed meal & tea with soymilk
Lunch: Tuna, salmon or legumes on brown rice
Dinner: Vegs, small meat portion, b rice, ww pasta or ww bread
Snacks: Apple, banana, orange, almonds & raisins - more tea with soymilk

Pre workout: (5am on weekdays) plain yogurt w/honey & flax seed meal
Post workout: Only on weekend rides (30+ miles) Balance Outdoors bars, peanut butter balls (honey, PB & soy protien powder), grapes, Propel.

It doesn't take much food before a ride to give me that "oye, I'm gonna barf!" feeling during the ride. I never eat after 6 p.m. because of reflux and I think this really helps with keeping my weight closer to my goal. Saturdays are off days in the winter for riding and I eat popcorn as my treat food! I gave up chocolate 3 years ago (my hands shake just thinking about it - I had NO control).

[Veronica]

I'm a dietician's nightmare.

Breakfast - frozen Belgian waffle with an estimated 3 - 4 tbs peanut butter, and a tbs of maple syrup, coffee with whole milk, cranberry/raspberry juice or OJ or a combination of the two

Snack - peanut butter granola bar and sometimes a yogurt

Lunch - Dinner leftovers or a ceasar salad with bacon, parmesan cheese, almonds, and real dressing, one homemade cookie - either peanut butter or chocolate chip

Snack - Red Bull and another peanut butter granola bar. I don't always eat this. If I can get on my bike for a ride soon enough, I don't bother with a snack. My after work ride is only about 80 - 90 minutes and I drink Gatorade when I ride.

Dinner - If I've gone riding usually frozen pizza, unless I prepped dinner in the morning. If I haven't ridden than I cook some something. Chicken pot pie, chicken and dumplings, steak and potatoes, fajitas.

I tend to drink water with all my meals, except breakfast or when we have a pizza.

I like fruit, but I'm very picky about it. It can't be squishy and it doesn't stay fresh enough, long enough for me. I wish I passed a farmer's market on my way to work. We used to get a delivery of organic stuff every other week, but we couldn't eat it fast enough. And I'm too lazy (or too busy) to go to the store every other day.

In spite of what I eat, I am quite healthy. Calories in vs. calories out. I only eat when I am hungry and I stop before I feel full.

Weekends are different. I usually make sure we have bananas for our long weekend rides. Meals are always a little weird on the weekends too. A lot of the time we just eat two - no dinner.

V.

[CorsairMac]

What is your favorite menu for Training?
I don't train for anything - does it matter?

Breakfast: 2 egg whites, legumes, tortilla, hot tea w/soymilk, grapefruit

Lunch: 2 turkey hot dogs, a veggie, tortilla, apple, iced tea

Dinner: a meat, a veggie, pasta or tortilla, fruit, carbonated beverage (sweetened with Splenda, evap cane juice, or fruit juices)

Snacks: I don't get hungry between meals but I do try to eat about 8:30 at night, usually some type of fruit or I wake up ravenous.

Water from right after breakfast until I go to bed.

Pre workout: a normal meal or a Luna Bar

Post workout: I try to eat within 1/2 hr of a workout so a normal lunch or dinner for me. If I'm delayed, a tortilla with sunflower butter and fruit-sweetend jam.

[yellow]

Veronica: I'm like you with the PB except for me it's AB (almond butter)!
I could eat it all the time.

Breakfast: bagel with almond butter or soy "yogurt" and very, very strong coffee. On at least one weekend day I have Morningstar Farms sausage and a couple of eggs and very, very strong coffee.

Lunch:a salad of some sort or leftovers. Or almond butter and _______ sandwich (fill in the blank with either raspberry jelly, honey, or bananas). Water or juice to drink.

Dinner: whatever hubby makes. In the summer it's lots of chicken this or that (chicken caesar, chicken stir fry on the grill). And salads with either chicken or salmon. Rest of the year pasta at least one night with some sort of green vegetable (I always have to have something green) or some sort of ethnic dish (hubby likes to cook, thank goodness. If it was up to me we'd have burritos every night). No alcohol during the week unless it's been a particularly bad day at work and I need a half shot to "take the edge off" (I haven't had to do that too much in the last year).

Snacks: Lots of water, pretzels or Ak Mak crackers, bananas, apples (currently burned out on baby carrots). To satisfy my "sweet" urges, I usually have a DC (diet Coke) in the afternoon. Helps me make it through rest of the day as well. And mints...lots of mints.

Pre workout: tortilla with almond butter or bagel-Morningstar Farms-egg sandwich if I have time. I always have a Gu-like substance before starting any ride over 1.5 hours or so.

Post workout: the first thing I can get my hands on! No, really: water and some sort of crackers or bread usually do the trick (nothing too sweet right after a workout).

Can you say "carbohydrate freak"?

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