What did you eat today?

[Catrin]

My trainer is also an athletic nutrition expert and he just reviewed my diet in detail. Tony gave it the sign of approval...outside of slapping my hands for not eating enough on rest days.

Yesterday:
B: eggs scrambled with spinach, 2 small slices fresh side, coffee
1 hour group training followed by a protein shake
S: strawberries and fresh pineapple
L: last of the beef brisket and roasted carrots from the night before
D: roasted chicken and a large salad with veggies, blue cheese, and a bit of hazelnut oil for dressing.

[spokewench]

Cereal, 1% milk, coffee
1 banana
L: 1 chicken thigh a few roasted potatoes and green beans
D: 1 margarita, small piece of leftover lasagna, 1 piece garlic toast
ice cream

[Crankin]

B: 2 eggs scrambled with kale, low salt ham, and a corn tortilla. bowl of strawberries and blueberries, coffee
L: salad with chicken, white beans, tomato, lettuce. an orange
S: Luna Bar and a few walnuts earlier
Went on a 2 mile walk with a client, followed by a 5.7 mile ride with another client. It's a rest day.
D: glass of red wine, left over veggie burger patty, sweet potato, salad with cranberries, almonds, goat cheese

[spokewench]

B: cereal, 1 % milk, coffee
1 banana
L: leftover lasagna, glass of cherry juice
D: sauteed chicken thigh with chardonnay sauce, brown rice, broccoli, 1 glass of white wine
ice cream

[Catrin]

Yesterday:

B: eggs with spinach, 1/4 sweet potato, coffee
1 mile run + mobility and flexibility work
L: roast chicken lettuce wrap, banana
D: sweet potato pancake 'sandwich' with grass-fed beef, oak leaf salad with hazelnut oil for dressing

Today
B: omelet and 2 small sweet potato pancakes (love those things, and so easy to make!), coffee
1 hour hard group training session followed by protein shake
L: sweet potato pancake 'sandwich' with grass-fed beef (last of both), and spinach/strawberry salad
S: small banana
D: Last of the chicken sausage in a lettuce wrap, roasted sweet potato, fresh strawberries/blueberries with 2 chopped squares of 88% dark chocolate (lovely!)

Thinking about trying roasted eggplant slices as my next "sandwich" material

[GLC1968]

I'm trying to reign in my eating again, so I'm posting here once more....

B: sausage, kale, chinese broccoli and onion fritatta topped with 1/2 avocado, black coffee
L: banana, big salad (lettuce, spinach, two types of sweet peppers) topped with other 1/2 of avocado and left-over gyro meat from a local place
S: apple, 2 squares of dk chocolate (soy free)
D: salmon, big greens salad, sauteed chinese broccoli

hoping to get in a quick run after work but it's bowling night, so I might not have time

[Catrin]

Chinese broccoli? I've not heard of that before, will have to look it up. I love the mixture of eggs and spinach so much that it is hard for me to mix up my morning veggies. I need to introduce more veggie variety.

[Crankin]

B: can of tuna in olive oil on sliced tomatoes, with melted cheddar, an orange, coffee
S: half a Lara Bar, did a 2.2 mile hill walk, fast, but had no desire to ride as it's threatening rain
L: the last left over veggie burger in a whole wheat pita, blackberries, cole slaw
S: coffee, then some Machengo, later
D: went out ith a friend to an Italian retaurant. Had an amazing dish of grilled eggplant smothered with arugula, fresh mozzarella, tomato, and fig vinegar, one glass of red wine
I felt good I didn't have pasta!

[GLC1968]

Crankin - that Italian dish sounds amazing and I generally don't like eggplant! Sarah Fragoso is coming out with an Italian inspired paleo cookbook and I can't wait to try it for recipes like that one.

Catrin - Chinese broccoli is a new discovery for us (our CSA grows it) and it's awesome! It's kind of like regular broccoli but the heads are much, much smaller, the stems are more tender and you eat all the leaves. It's almost like a combo of kale and broccoli in one veggie.

Today
B: chicken apple sausage, 1/2 apple, almond butter, leftover chinese broccoli sauteed in bacon fat, black coffee
L: homemade chicken salad over greens and red pepper strips, 1/2 apple
S: banana
D: baked chicken thighs, greens salad, stirfry of bok choy, carrots, scallions and purple sprouting broccoli

And lets be realistic - I'm certain I'll have some dark chocolate after dinner.

Activity - run after work (2 miles)

[spokewench]

cereal, 1% milk, strawberries, coffee
late lunch: leftover chicken thigh with wine sauce and brown rice
1 glass of cherry juice
D: 1 glass wine, hamburger with bun, tomato, avocado; roasted potatoes
ice cream

[Crankin]

1/2 a Lara Bar before boot camp.
B: egg whites, scrambled with kale, ham, corn tortilla, salsa, blueberries, coffee
L: salad with left over chicken salad with walnuts and cranberries, white beans, lettuce, an orange
S:nuts, cranberries at 3:00 and a Luna Bar at 5:15
D: I ate dinner at my last clients of the day. Dinner was delicious... petite sirloin with a turkey tip, a salad, and a little potato salad. The family therapy that ensued at the table was not so wonderful . But, I saw a lot...

[spokewench]

B: cereal, milk, coffee strawberries
L: liverwurst sammy with swiss cheese on wg bread
D: salad with chicken, 1 glass white wine

[Crankin]

My weight has been dropping like crazy since I dropped the Paleo and went back to my Mediterranean type diet. In fact, yesterday morning it was a little too low, so I had 2 "sandwiches."
B:low salt ham (3 slices) and cheddar on a whole wheat bagel, blueberries, coffee
3 mile run, that was mostly running, with a little walking
L: I went to the natural foods market and bought kale soup and curried tofu salad and ate all of it.
S: walnuts
D: chicken sandwich on spelt bread, with tomatoes, avocado, mustard, cole slaw, an orange, glass of red wine

[spokewench]

B: cereal, milk, coffee
L: ham and swiss sammy on wg bread (fresh from the bakery!)
1 glass prosecco with my friend after work
D: salad with blue cheese crumbles, slices of tritip steak, vinaigrette, 1 glass red wine

[Crankin]

B: egg whites, kale, cheddar scramble, an orange, 2 chicken sausages, coffee
I sort of took a rest day, but ended up walking on the TM for 25 minutes, with 3 run intervals and doing all of my PT stretches (which is turning into a full time job)
L: was out shopping, in the pouring rain, so ended up at Nashoba Brook Bakery, whre I had some kind of vegetarian sandwich; I seriously don't remember, except it had "guacamole" made of peas and some apple slices on whole wheat
D: salad Nicoise with fresh tuna, glass of red wine