What did you eat today?

[Catrin]

Yesterday, not enough calories...

B: 2 whole eggs, Kashi cereal with a few almonds, skim milk, coffee
S: non-fat Greek yogurt
L: green leaf salad (straight from a good friend's garden), roasted skinless chicken breast on Ezekiel bread
S: almonds with a few raisins
D: roasted skinless chicken breast, 1 slice Ezekiel bread, non-fat Greek yogurt

18 mile hot and windy ride - 2 shot blocks during, 1/2 cliff bar on the way home.

~1,450 calories, far from my 2K goal on a ride/exercise day - but I couldn't keep my usual routine.

[Crankin]

walnuts and dried apricots before gym class (weights and core)
B: oatmeal with blueberries, 4 slices of low salt ham rolled up with low fat cream cheese
L: left over chick pea, spinach, and whole wheat pasta soup, an apple
S: piece of Ezekial raisin bread at 2 and some nuts and cranberries at 4
D: (restaurant) half a roasted pear salad, salmon on a bed of spinach, pine nuts, and spaetzle (sp?), glass of red wine

[Reesha]

B: greek yogurt, granola, PB, honey parfait
B2: luna protein bar
Lunch: salad, side of pasta
Prework out: Gu
25 mile hill workout: another gu, 2 bottles gu brew
Post work out: luna protein bar
Dinner: sweet potato gnocchi made with quinoa flour with bacon + swiss chard

Crankin: oh yum... spaetzle!

[Crankin]

yesterday:
B: egg white scramble with lox and red onions, an orange, coffee
L: 2 veggie burger patties, cole slaw, cup of roasted red pepper tomato soup, an apple
S: nuts and cranberries
D: Ahi tuna marinated in garlic, red pepper, olive oil with yogurt-chili-mirin sauce, asparagus, avocado slices, 2 squares chocolate, glass of red wine
S: slice of Ekezial sprouted grain bread

[Reesha]

Let's just say that today was irregular. But I will post my recipes for my cinqo de mayo dinner:

TACOS!

Chop pork steak and fresh pineapple into bite size pieces. Toss in ancho chile powder and whole cumin with a few pinches of kosher salt. Pan fry them. Warm up some corn tortillas in a pan and serve with chopped onion and cilantro.

Margaritas!

2 oz tequila (I prefer Espolon or Leyenda del Milagro for taste and value)
1 oz cointreau
2 lemons fresh squeezed
splash of San Pelligrino aranciata for some fizz
shake with ice and serve with a salty rim!

[Catrin]

Yesterday:

B: 2 whole eggs, Kashi cereal with a few almonds, skim milk, coffee

26 mile bike ride - for some reason I was starving and ate an entire Cliff bar before the return part of the trip (HRM told me later I burned far more calories on this ride than expected)

L: Pro Bar Superfood Slam (still hungry afterwards but this packs a lot in one little bar - and there wasn't time for a real lunch)

S: almonds, raisins

D: roasted skinless chicken breast, small baked sweet potato, mixed fresh salad greens and a very small amount of fruited vinegar/oil dressing

Party! A little bit of this and that and 2 beers.

[Crankin]

Way too much.
B: 2 gg omelette with sauteed apple slices, cinnamon, brown sugar, and Greek yogurt, 3 slices of turkey bacon, coffee
S: slice of Ezekial sprouted grain bread with soy nut butter before 12 mile hilly ride
L: salad with romaine, spinach, turkey breast, grape tomatoes, red peppers, goat cheese, chocolate balsamic vinegar, cup of tomato soup
D: at restaurant with my son, tilapia with green chilis and peppers in a somewhat creamy sauce, black beans, 2 glasses of sangria

[Catrin]

B: 2 eggs, steel cut oats with almonds and dried cranberries, skim milk, coffee

S: Kashi Autumn Wheat cereal with skim milk...craving this for some reason

2 hour hike (quads were asking to do something other than to pedal)

S: sweet potato chips with a bit of PB

D: chicken breast, large mixed green salad with feta cheese, oil/vinegar dressing, skim milk.

1 Black Toad Dark Ale

[Owlie]

Uh, well.

B: 2% Greek yogurt with a generous drizzle of honey and granola

L: Turkish restaurant. 2 small falafel, a bit of a pepper-walnut-olive thing on bread, 2.5 pieces of beef/lamb kofta.
S: Small frappucino. Piece of chocolate
D: I haven't eaten it yet. I think I'm going to cut up the remaining kofta and put it over a green salad with goat cheese, radish and bell pepper.

[shootingstar]

B
cornflakes with skim milk, milk with tea

Snack/lunch (1/2 way during bike ride):
1 Middle Eastern flatbread with zaatar spice, warmed up. Yummmm.
1 walnut phyllo pastry
water

Snack (this is not good..)
1 spelt-blueberry muffin
Coffee with milk

Supper
light noodles stir fried with broccoli, gai lan and onion with green curry.
Tea with milk
1 kiwi fruit

[Crankin]

B: sliced tomatoes with tuna and a sprinkle of low fat cheddar, an orange, coffee, after Boot Camp class. I was so full from yesterday, I didn't even feel like eating before I went.
L: cup of tomato soup, 4 turkey breast slices rolled up with low fat cream cheese, an apple
S: nuts and cranberries at 2:30, 3/4 a Luna Bar at 5:00. I rode 5.5 miles with a teenaged client, who likes hills.
D: finished the chick pea, spinach, and whole wheat pasta soup, with some blueberries, 2 squares dark chocolate.

[Crankin]

3 dried apricots, 2.5 mile run on the treadmill
B: egg whites with lox, an orange, coffee
L: home made chicken salad with Greek yogurt, almonds
S: nuts and cranberries at 2:30, slice of Ezekial sprouted grain bread and soy nut butter at 4
D: spaghetti squash with ground turkey/veggie spaghetti sauce (tomato sauce, tomatoes, asparagus, Vidalia onion), 2 squares dark chocolate

[shootingstar]

B: cornflakes with skim milk and fresh blackberries, tea with skim milk
Snack: apple, 1 fresh kiwi, 2 coffees with milk
Snack 2: small cup of yogurt

D: less than fistful of lean beef stir fried lightly with onion, garlic, red pepper and gai lan veggie. Tea with milk. A large slice of cantaloupe.

I cycled to and from work...only 8 km. round trip.

[mandiam]

I am back--guess what everyone-- i had the chicken pox!!! Yes, i had them when i was younger too and nope--it wasn't shingles...it was actually the chicken pox again.

anyway, i'm back now!!

AM Workout: 1 hour of BODYpump class
Breakfast: 1/2 cup of almond/cashew mix with coffee and bottle of water
Lunch: PB&J (whole wheat, sugar free jelly, natural PB, with naner slices) and a sliced apple
Snack: Orange
Dinner: Hubby beat me home after our hair appointment date (yes we do that), and he surprised me with a steak dinner, THE BEST MUSHROOMS EVERRRR, sweet potato, and vegetables...ah lucky girl..
Snack: Mango

[Crankin]

spin class (it's been raining for like 3 days)
B: 2 eggs plus some egg whites in an omelette with green chili salsa and turkey breast, orange, coffee
L: cup of tomato soup, home made chicken salad with cranberries and almonds, an apple
S: nuts and cranberries
D: 1.5 tuna burger patties (with whole wheat bread crumbs, egg whites, dried mustard), sweet potato, tomato slices 1/4 avocado slices, glass of red wine, 2 squares dark chocolate

I am leaving early tomorrow for Grand Junction, CO for my former exchange student's graduation from university. Since he has achieved an incredible amount in the past 9 years (pro cyclist, started and continues a very successful coaching business, coach of the CMU racing team, 3 years of college totally paid for by the university, straight A average), I am going to sign off for a few days. I will be prudent, but might indulge a bit. We will do some hiking while there.