Runners that need some nutritional accountability
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Dinner is 200g lettuce (yes iceberg cuz i love the crunchy goodness!) with 100g each of carrots, celery, radishes, cherry tomatoes and cucumbers. 5g of walnuts, 50g avacado with 85 g ckn breast (already cooked) thats been marinating in soy sauce today.
I will dribble a bit of the marinating sauce and 70ml of pinapple salsa over the salad as a dressing and I know I may not even be able to finish it all.
467 cals
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Tonight was breaded cod filets that were truly awful! But, the zucchini was good and I had some cottage cheese and fresh mango for dessert. Fresh mango is amazing. Not the most calorie friendly fruit, but it was so sweet and drippy and juice, so I made the executive decision to go over my carbs and ate a whole mango. Every last drip was worth it.
Also did the psoas release video of Yoga with Adriane. I'm not very good at yoga, but the stretches sure did help!1 -
fitoverfortymom wrote: »Tonight was breaded cod filets that were truly awful! But, the zucchini was good and I had some cottage cheese and fresh mango for dessert. Fresh mango is amazing. Not the most calorie friendly fruit, but it was so sweet and drippy and juice, so I made the executive decision to go over my carbs and ate a whole mango. Every last drip was worth it.
Also did the psoas release video of Yoga with Adriane. I'm not very good at yoga, but the stretches sure did help!
I've learned that if I can reach it, I can usually address an area. I need to set aside just one day, 30 minutes and take care of some super sore spots.
So glad it helped. I just dig in to the soreness and try a trigger point release. I think my psoas pain/tightness was psoas/TFL.
Mango carbs are a good choice if you gotta go over
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Another day, another opportunity/attempt to do better!
As expected I ate what DH brought home from Sam's. Which we're too many parmesan cheese crisps and kombucha. Least we're past packages of cookies, and chips.
Breakfast- just coffee
Lunch--- ? Let me think on that. I haven't finished my coffee.
Dinner--- I'll probably fix the caccatorie.
Today's do better goal is water. I can't believe I've let myself neglect my water intake.0 -
I did pretty well yesterday in sticking to my plans. In addition to what I had pre-logged and posted on this thread, I had one mini Hershey's bar (77 calories) and a glass of peach nectar with soda water to keep me from making a cocktail.
Today I had the same breakfast as yesterday, left over vegetable and tofu curry for lunch, and blueberries with plain Fage Greek yogurt for a snack. Tonight I am making Tzatziki chicken bowls with quinoa from the Skinnytaste.com website. I will probably have a cocktail as well because we are grilling and that is my biggest weakness
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@Elise4270- Yum, chicken caccatorie sounds delicious. What time is dinner?1
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@lporter229 your chicken tzatziki looks awesome. I'm adding that to a weekend meal! Mmm! Mmm! I love Greek/Mediterranean food!0
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Dinner is 200g lettuce (yes iceberg cuz i love the crunchy goodness!) with 100g each of carrots, celery, radishes, cherry tomatoes and cucumbers. 5g of walnuts, 50g avacado with 85 g ckn breast (already cooked) thats been marinating in soy sauce today.
I will dribble a bit of the marinating sauce and 70ml of pinapple salsa over the salad as a dressing and I know I may not even be able to finish it all.
467 cals
You rabbit.
it all sounds good, if someone else is doing the prep work haha! Iceburg use to bother my stomach. But I can eat it now fine. They say don't eat it because there is "nothing" in it, but isn't that the point when watching calories? So I don't shy away from it like I use too.
I'm spoiled. If I can't throw it in to one pot, I'm not likely going to make it. I did snack on carrots (and bugged @sarahthes) the other day as I patiently waited for dinner to be done.0 -
@lporter229 That Tzatziki bowl looks fantastic. I really wish I liked tomatoes. Hubby and my son do, but I always sub tomatoes for cucumbers (except in Greek food where there are already a lot of cucumbers). This is definitely going on my list for the weekend. I wish there was a viable tomato alternative.0
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fitoverfortymom wrote: »@lporter229 That Tzatziki bowl looks fantastic. I really wish I liked tomatoes. Hubby and my son do, but I always sub tomatoes for cucumbers (except in Greek food where there are already a lot of cucumbers). This is definitely going on my list for the weekend. I wish there was a viable tomato alternative.
Maybe not exactly an alternative to tomatoes, but I think this would be good with roasted eggplant.0 -
@fitoverfortymom What about substituting tomatos with grapes? Or even blueberries or rasberries?0
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lporter229 wrote: »fitoverfortymom wrote: »@lporter229 That Tzatziki bowl looks fantastic. I really wish I liked tomatoes. Hubby and my son do, but I always sub tomatoes for cucumbers (except in Greek food where there are already a lot of cucumbers). This is definitely going on my list for the weekend. I wish there was a viable tomato alternative.
Maybe not exactly an alternative to tomatoes, but I think this would be good with roasted eggplant.
That could work. Not sure I've ever had good eggplant. I tried little grilled eggplant bits from Trader Joe's frozen section that was nasty, but I doubt it was representative of all of eggplant.0 -
@lporter229 - mmmmm.... that tzatziki looks amazing! Like @fitoverfortymom, I don't care for tomatoes either and I would just leave them out in mine and include them for DH. He loves tomatoes. Grapes could be an interesting replacement though.
Also I think I am one of the only people who doesn't like mango. It is more a texture thing I think, but I just don't... Glad you enjoyed it though @fitoverfortymom!
Last night there was no decision on dinner until too late to make much so I pulled what I could from the freezer. Trader Mings Chinese (teriyaki chicken and orange chicken) and veggies. I added leftover quinoa instead of rice. It hit the spot. Tonight we are all going out to dinner and tomorrow they want take out because they are flying on Saturday. Somehow they figure that is better than a home cooked meal. We had planned to bbq or smoke a turkey. Guess we will do that over the weekend once they are one their way as it is already defrosting. Our niece is staying a few extra days but she is vegan so it looks like hubby and I will be eating a lot of turkey.0 -
I am trying to do the DQS and hunger cues vs counting calories. I'm in the middle of Racing Weight by Matt Fitzgerald.
DQS is diet quality scale and you score your food. Then you try to improve your score by making better choices which should in turn fill you up.1 -
I made the chicken tzatziki bowls last night. They were sooo good. The chicken was delicious. I think my husband's words were " This chicken is *kitten* outstanding" and he never really says much about food, he just eats it. Needless to say, I have no leftovers for lunch today so it's going to be more tofu and veggie curry.
On a side note, I didn't stick to plan last night. I opened a bottle of wine to have with dinner and I ended up drinking half of the bottle and munching on granola with my husband while we watched Chopped. I need to leave the Food Network alone. It sucks me in and makes me eat. Oh well, May was not a good month for health and fitness, but I'm going to put it behind me and move onto June. We all need a little indulgent month now and then, right? Right?2 -
@lporter229 yes, we all need an indulgent month. Just like a cut back in running, there are times it's wise to eat a little more, helping us recover and get stronger.... A weak body is injury prone.
Least that's what I tell myself
Freakin' Friday Man! Whew!
I'm at a loss with what I should eat today. I feel like my weight (scale not moving but clothes fit different) is moving in the right direction. I typically indulge and think there's room for pizza or something stupid and set my oh so small progress back. So, this time I'm trying to me mindful that it's not permission to eat like a child.
I have a protein shake, not sure I'll drink it or just kinda tough it out and wait for lunch. I'm so tired of salad. I want a fat filled meal. Maybe a Subway tuna, but I'm not doing bread so that puts me back to salad. *Phhhht It'll probably be cheese sticks and a Coke.
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RunsOnEspresso wrote: »I am trying to do the DQS and hunger cues vs counting calories. I'm in the middle of Racing Weight by Matt Fitzgerald.
DQS is diet quality scale and you score your food. Then you try to improve your score by making better choices which should in turn fill you up.
I love the dqs system. I used the app for a while until it got slow and made me mad.0 -
@Elise4270 - can't they do a lettuce wrap with tuna at Subway? I know they also have the spinach tortillas for wraps that you could use just to hold the tuna together and pull off what you don't want? Or even just have the tuna and some carrots or celery with it?1
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@Elise4270 - can't they do a lettuce wrap with tuna at Subway? I know they also have the spinach tortillas for wraps that you could use just to hold the tuna together and pull off what you don't want? Or even just have the tuna and some carrots or celery with it?
All they have is shredded lettuce, so no wrap. I can't do flour tortillas (soy and cutting carbs). I can do a tuna salad... which is probably a "do better" than fried cheese and a Coke or red bull.
Tuna, carrots and celery? Not sure where to get that at lunch. Really I shouldn't be eating carrots either (braces). This is why I should plan my lunches better
I could go home for lunch and have tuna and black olives.... Mmm. Sounds acceptable.
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RunsOnEspresso wrote: »I am trying to do the DQS and hunger cues vs counting calories. I'm in the middle of Racing Weight by Matt Fitzgerald.
DQS is diet quality scale and you score your food. Then you try to improve your score by making better choices which should in turn fill you up.
I love the dqs system. I used the app for a while until it got slow and made me mad.
I got the app but only half completed yesterday. Much like my logging recently.
I'm at a deli for lunch today. Saving half my meal for tomorrow. Even though I'm starving. No breakfast due to blood draw which they didn't do right and I have to go back later this month.2 -
I ran my long run yesterday and didn't eat enough beforehand and afterwards nothing sounded good. I made a smoothie (yogurt, berries, peanut butter and protein powder) as my go to after long runs and it tasted so blah like nothing. I am not sure if it was me or the berries or what. I do usually add in banana and some kale neither of which we had. I really wasn't hungry the rest of the day and just wanted to rest. We were supposed to have dinner with the family from Dubai as they were flying out this morning... this time their late decision was that they had too much to pack to have dinner with us. It was too late for me to cook so we ended up having El Pollo chicken for dinner. I definitely didn't eat enough though and was so hungry in the middle of the night that it woke me up. I didn't get up and eat something, but maybe I would have slept better if I had.
Today in honor of Donut Day yesterday, my husband went to a favorite donut place (http://www.sidecardoughnuts.com) and brought me 2... they were still warm when he got them home
I was good and only ate half of each and still have the rest for whenever. I guess if were really good I wouldn't have eaten any but there are limits to my control
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Long run today which means maintenance and exercise calorie from the week eating. That also means take away BBQ brisket sandwich with mac n cheese and fried okra.
Tomorrow is meal prep day. Looking forward to a week of wedge salads (except Monday when I am meeting a friend for lunch).1 -
Lol, salad again for me today but I splurged on half a watermelon last night. So good! Stayed in cal goal too 0
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@Teerai I love watermelon! It's on the meal plan this week (and last) every day!0
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I've asked dh for another watermelon for the last week. Yes, I'm leaving it up to him to go to the store.. I've gotten addicted to it with fruit seasoning and fresh mozzarella. Even though all that watermelon makes me poo a lot.1
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@Elise4270 - have you tried Tajin on fruit? mmm - spicy but so so good!
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@Elise4270 - have you tried Tajin on fruit? mmm - spicy but so so good!
Yes! It's the same thing as the Mexican fruit seasoning. (I see my last post left out "Mexican"...blame auto correct) I use it on the watermelon and fresh mozzarella. It's good on anything really! Sometimes I have to wrangle it from dd's room.
I finally got another watermelon today and more cheese. DH is putting roast and veggies in the IP. I over ate so much yesterday, the roast doesn't sound appetizing. I accused him of being food obsessed as the second church was over, "what's for lunch?". Haha!
And I wanna nap.
I think he's going to walk or bike today. I may take the opportunity and take some pain killers and nap since tomorrow is Monday (yuck).
My food prep today need to be to clean out the fridge. After said nap.
Did everyone beast on this weekend? Bend it to your iron will that is to do better?1 -
No food prep for me today as lunch will be provided all week (due to my audit). The good news is I'm the one picking the menu each day. Tomorrow is sandwiches and a veggie tray. Although I will probably also bring in Timbits and coffee.1
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Last night wasn't stellar for me. Coming up on TOM so we'll see who will win the carb cravings: me vs. Mirena. I didn't win last night, but I'm determined to not let it happen again (consumed about 2500 calories over goal yesterday and I run only a very slight deficit).
I think I need some real tactics for when that feeling comes. It's such a weird feeling, too, an even stronger craving than pregnancy cravings and very specific to carbohydrates. I might try taking a walk. It's warmer now so it's easy to get out. Or even go downstairs and do a yoga video.
Any other tactics that work? Distraction does tend to work for me. And hydration.
Otherwise, I'm meal prepped for the week and have good dinners planned. I have an out-to-lunch with a friend today at a burger place, but I also have a trail run planned for tonight which will give me a little extra wiggle room. Otherwise, it's "chopped wedge salad" week. I love wedge salads, but they are tricky to eat, so I turn them into a chopped salad. It's tons of great volume.0 -
Hi everyone, I recently joined back in on the monthly running thread, but saw this one and it definitely sounds like what I need right now! I'm really hoping to lose these last 5-8 lbs before my marathon in October, but I've been having such a hard time the last two weeks staying on track with my eating. Especially because I am starting to ramp up the mileage, I seem to just eat and eat and eat! Anyways, hopefully commiserating with the rest of you will help! although so far all this thread has done is make me hungry for lunch 2
