What did you eat today?

[Owlie]

hehehe, of course I meant Bran cereal

I know. It was too funny a typo to pass up. Pity I couldn't come up with anything wittier, though.

[Anelia]

1. protein shake
2. fatty chicken (in fact: hen's) soup with vermicelli - 3 dishes
3. small apple, small pear, walnuts
4. chicken with mushrooms and cheese
5. curd and walnuts

[Reesha]

atlantic salmon with sauteed spinach and roasted sweet potatoes for dinner.

I had three slices of whole wheat toast this morning toast is a serious weakness of mine!

[Owlie]

There is nothing wrong with toast. Enjoy the toast.
I'm coming to the conclusion that the only way that I can make oatmeal a workout-friendly breakfast is to put so much peanut butter in it that it becomes akin to eating peanut butter out of the jar, except without the guilty pleasure. And there's a bowl full of it.

B: Oatmeal with almonds and dried cherries.
28 minutes on the trainer doing resistance intervals. And now I know that my side still isn't up to doing that.
S: 3 fun-size Snickers bars.
L: Mac and cheese with broccoli.
S: Apple with peanut butter and caramel sauce (I alternated the two); tortilla chips and salsa
D: Turkey soup
Reese's cup, another Snickers.

See what oatmeal does to me?

[Catrin]

Owlie, is that steel-cut oats or regular oatmeal? I find the only way I can stomach rolled oats is with LOTS of peanut butter. With steel-cut I can limit that to 1 teaspoon of PB, or a couple (5) almonds or walnuts and a few blueberries and skim milk. Yum!

You might want to consider pairing the oatmeal with more protein, perhaps a couple of scrambled egg whites or a slice or two of turkey bacon? It may just be my body and blood sugar issues but I do much better the rest of the day with something like this for breakfast. PB does have protein of course, but not all that much...

[Catrin]

B: Steel-cut oats with 1 tsp almond butter (blech), scrambled egg whites, skim milk, coffee

S: apple

1 hour on the trainer

L: a bit of brown rice with left-over crawfish etoufee, skim milk

S: apple

D: roasted skinless chicken breast with roasted carrots and broccoli, brown rice, skim milk

[Crankin]

I ate way too much yesterday. Breakfast was fine, 2 egg omelette with cheese and salsa, 3 slices turkey bacon, 2 skim milk cappuccinos

then I went to my monthly peer consultation group meeting, where I had more coffee, 2 very small scallion scones, about half a cup of wheat berry salad, and mostly the fruit off of the top of some pastry thing.

came home and ate 3/4 of a Luna Bar before a 20 mile ride. It was freezing out, about 33, and riding in the cold makes me ravenous. When I got home I finished the Luna Bar, had a whole wheat deli flat and a piece of low fat Havarti cheese

went out to dinner for my anniversary at a very nice restaurant in Newton, that I've been wanting to go to for , oh, 15 years. I had a salad with pears and walnuts and wild sea bass on a bed of pureed butternut squash, with more pieces of squash around it. Also had one roll and butter and we drank about 3/4 of a bottle of red wine. We shared an apple crisp with sour cream sorbet on top. I guess it's OK, since not too many people reach 32 years of marriage, but, still.

[Owlie]

Owlie, is that steel-cut oats or regular oatmeal? I find the only way I can stomach rolled oats is with LOTS of peanut butter. With steel-cut I can limit that to 1 teaspoon of PB, or a couple (5) almonds or walnuts and a few blueberries and skim milk. Yum!

You might want to consider pairing the oatmeal with more protein, perhaps a couple of scrambled egg whites or a slice or two of turkey bacon? It may just be my body and blood sugar issues but I do much better the rest of the day with something like this for breakfast. PB does have protein of course, but not all that much...

Steel-cut. I hate rolled oats, except the way DBF makes them, and even then, I'm not eating them pre-workout! I'm finding that I need fat and protein before a ride (or trainer workout), and all the fiber in oatmeal just sucks everything up. If I'm not riding/spending quality time with my trainer, oatmeal with almonds and dried cherries is fine.

[Owlie]

B: Cereal w/ 1%, almonds
S: 1 fun-size Snickers bar, more almonds
41-minute trainer workout
L: Small bowl of turkey soup
S: Another Snickers bar, black tea with milk and sugar, a couple of shortbread cookies
D: Veggie (bamboo shoots, baby corn, green bell pepper, onion, carrot, broccoli, snow peas) and chicken stir-fry over brown rice.

I'm getting red meat cravings. Thanks, ovaries.