Runners that need some nutritional accountability
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Fun fact, I'm still hanging out here at 154 with a goal weight of 147-152 with crazy fluctuations all the way up to 161 (yikes) because carbs and feelings.
Being on hiatus from running is actually helping me dial it in a little better because I'm not batting the rungries. Using this PT-era of my life to stay on point with eating and hopefully get a little recomp out of the deal.1 -
@midwesterner85 - I mix it directly into my coffee. The Tera's mixes really well and if anything it clumps a little in cold liquids but if I keep mixing it it dissolves. I used to use Cyto Sport and it was terrible for clumping even in my smoothies. Bonus Tera's tastes better too
@fitoverfortymom - this is a good time to refocus on your diet but for me I seem to just get frustrated with what I can't do and want to eat just carbs... it doesn't help when DH brings home doughnuts and the like....0 -
@shanaber I'm still in the "I'm really excited about rehab" phase of my injury. I haven't gotten to the "To heck with it, I can't run anyway so might as well eat a doughnut (or 5) anyway." Part of it is I know that one doughnut won't do it and I actually want ALL the doughnuts and then I remember that's just ridiculous. I have had a few moments where I just ate everything because I was mad at the injury, but snapped back to it.0
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I learned today that a peice of pizza has 400+ calories.
Hmm, I'd been logging it as 250.. might be why i cant lose weight eating pizza. 🤣0 -
@shanaber I like to eat my frustration with not running too.
But I finally have a running plan so it's making it easier to stick to goal, oddly enough. Still having trouble dialing in a good distance that doesn't hurt that I can build from. Sigh. Sunday was too long so today I aim for 400-800m shorter.
Also my physiotherapist gave me 2 new exercises today. She's mean; they're hard.1 -
I still haven't heard from the Ortho office... I will call them tomorrow again after my dentist appointment. My foot was really sore even at strength training tonight. Hurts to do planks, hurts getting up off the floor... trainer had me doing squats in the Smyth machine but with my toes up on a bar so the force was on my heels more and that really helped.
I have done a good job with my diet the last couple of days... Hoping to keep at it all week and not let it get out of control... doughnuts are all gone, DH brought home a box of bakery goodies from a luncheon and fortunately I didn't like any of them... they were from an Asian bakery we really like but were very strange. I have oatmeal made for breakfasts and need to make some more granola. I also have dinner planned for most of the week, except Thursday I am going to a concert with some friends (my trainer and his girlfriend) and we are going to dinner but I don't know where yet. I am hoping for a burger at a gastropub or maybe tapas... in any event I will enjoy it!1 -
Look at us all, making plans and doing better!
I'm going to have a very fresh salad today from the vegan place. Figure I'll grab a protein shake for mid morning so i don't feel lunch is depriving me of sustenance.
We do blood work once a year at work, my cholesterol is higher than its ever been with this high fat diet haha! Its 185, usually 150ish or 130 on a vegetarian diet... So i dont know if I'm going to clean up the fats, maybe try to replace that taco fat with olive or coconut... I suppose the cholesterol will still be up though. Interestingly my good cholesterol is still low, its always low, but hasn't changed. I've added a lot of grass fed fats so... Guess that will just be what it is. My triglycerides are up too, last year think it was 87?, This year 120ish.. so that is flagged as "high" Then i think I'll have bw done with the doc in April to see if i like the numbers better. I think there's opinion that cholesterol levels aren't what they once thought, some rethinking on it.. but i dont want to let it get too high. i do feel better eating high fat... (Yes, pizza still hass got to go-last night was pizza again , but it was free... Soooo
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Salad today! I'm going to do better.0 -
I did it. I forgot my protein shake, but luckily dd needed her scripts refilled and i dropped by aslo grabbing a protein shake (but it had milk in it and im dealing with that..)..
I did eat a salad! Yay!2 -
My boss surprised us with pupusas and tacos in our staff meeting today. I had packed my lunch, so I'm shifting half my lunch to my afternoon snack and should net out even, depending on what I throw together for dinner (was supposed to be tacos).1
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Monday: 1900 calories. No workout, but active person # of steps, so that's a deficit.
Tuesday: 2100 calories, short run plus active person # of steps. Still a deficit.
Today: 900 calories so far. Lightly active person # of steps. Garmin says I'm allowed another 500 calories or so to stay under my goal.
2.2 lbs lost since Sunday but mostly water I'm sure.
I'm feeling in the zone as far as tracking, eating right, and making my goals is concerned. As long as I keep moving forward with my running rehab and at least seeing a path forward even when there are delays I think I got this.
But I think I'll run into problems with adherence again if I get any new stressors in my life. Will cross that bridge when I come to it.2 -
I am doing well too although I didn't go to the gym today but kept my calories in check to allow for that. I am thinking @elise4270 that I need to start having salads again for lunch. I actually like them I just get too lazy to make them.
Tomorrow I have early training session and hopefully on Friday I will get into see the doctor about my foot.
@sarahthes - I think the more you adhere now and it gets comfortable the easier it can be when things get stressful. At least for me having that bit under control and manageable was a big help when everything else felt out of control.
@fitoverfortymom - nice boss!0 -
I am doing well too although I didn't go to the gym today but kept my calories in check to allow for that. I am thinking @elise4270 that I need to start having salads again for lunch. I actually like them I just get too lazy to make them.
Definitely going to have to fall back on them. They are nutritient dense and low cal. I just have to find away to add protien.
Think today I'll do a protein shake (if there are any left) and Chick-fil-A soup. i keep over eating and not exercising... 😒 Im up early enough to get on the bike... But I'm lazy. Dh is trying to sleep, I'd make a lot of noise adding air to my tires and getting my shoes hanging in a plastic bag on the bed. I could instead jump on the mill for even a mile.. i just got the "dunwannas".
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@Elise4270 I dunwanna neither! I only need to run/walk 20 minutes with my reduced distance but here I am laying in bed surfing MFP and being lazy...
(I hurt everywhere. My new physio exercises are a pretty decent leg workout in their own right...)1 -
I'm travelling to Las Vegas this weekend to help my sister move from Nevada to Wyoming. A healthy lifestyle isn't exactly something she adheres to. Our last road trip together was pretty junky. Hoping to hit a grocery store before we head out of town so I can at least keep breakfast/lunch in check so that wherever we stop for dinner allows me some liberties. Probably won't get much exercise (not like I can do much right now anyway).
I'm at 154.6 at the moment, which I'm not unhappy with but would love to see that number closer to 150.
My birthday is the end of the month and I'm really trying to keep things locked down because birthdays are for eating all the foods and I have a day of burritos and pizza planned.1 -
@Elise4270 - could you try adding steak, roast or even grilled fish to your salad for protein? I add chicken to mine but I know you don't like chicken much. I also like quinoa with a bit of lettuce and a bunch of chopped up crunchy veggies, olives and leftover steak or chicken or ?
@sarahthes - PT exercises can be tough and make you sore!
I don't have the "dunwannas". I have the "wannas" and I can't. It has been beautiful and cool in the mornings here (in the 50's) and I really wanna run or even go for a walk. Being in a stuffy, smelly gym sitting on a bike just doesn't do it for me!0 -
@sarahthes I get you on the PT soreness. I did some indoor cycling yesterday and one of my video workouts for core in addition to PT exercises and I am really feeling it today.
@Elise4270 I love a good protein shake, especially chocolate/banana/peanut butter ones (made with PB2). I toss in some spinach, too, and use greek yogurt.
@shanaber I miss exercising outdoors. I did schlep to the gym last night for a cycle session, but dear lord, I dislike the gym. I do enjoy group exercise classes, so trying to get my schedule adjusted to take advantage of some of those. I just want to RUN!1 -
I've done fairly well tracking calories again, though last night my son came home from college and I forgot to log the beer and the snacks we had while we chatted. And a few times I find myself grabbing a handful of this, or a drink of that without measuring it so I have to guess. Progress though.
One thing that makes this challenging is that I'm using my Garmin Vivosmart as step tracker and the software does a horrible job with estimating burned calories. It is so inconsistent it's crazy. What I've decided to do is to go with 2000 calories per day as a baseline, plus 135 calories x the number of miles I run to get the total burned for the day.
For instance:
Monday
6 miles run - 922 calories
12,500 steps - 861 calories
Wednesday
5 mile run - 640 calories
13,200 steps - 1119 calories
That just makes no sense. It's like it's counting my run steps twice. When I used a fitbit it was MUCH more consistent and my weight loss results were proof it was correct.1 -
We're not buying ao many groceries. Trying to motivate DD in to getting a job. So no leftovers.
Dd drank all my protein shakes because we don't have many groceries. I cant do pb or chocolate.. they have both betrayed me too many times.
I'm just lazy. I don't wanna cook. I'll get hungry and figure it out. I had thet dumb milk based protien shake yesterday... So... I gotta figure something out. Maybe just a Chick-fil-A soup today.. i ate Starbucks for breakfast today. 😇0 -
@7lenny7 I think something must have changed recently in the Garmin to MFP conversion because my 'running' days have looked really odd lately as well.
My deficit is set to 2 lbs/week though so I'm not too worried about it on my end. I have wiggle room. I was in the green by almost 750 calories on Tuesday but I only had 10000 steps and my run was run/walk intervals and only 3 km (2 miles...ish). No way could I have eaten 2800 calories and maintained a 2 lb/week deficit! I'm not that fat LOL...0 -
Also, yesterday was 4 days in a row of being on track. Scale this morning has me down 3.2 lbs from Sunday. Some of that is water retention. Still - I will take what I can get!
Ankle pain today is a fair bit lower than yesterday which makes me feel better about running tonight. It's almost more a sensation on the verge of pain instead of actual pain. Which is the fastest recovery from a run I've had yet. I didn't tape my ankle yesterday and I did today, so that might also be making a difference.
Right calf hurts from all the eccentric one-legged squats and calf raises (and dips) though. LOL.3 -
I had a pleasant "aha moment" last night. As I'm struggling to stay away from the kitchen, having used up all my calories, it occurred to me that I have a big race Saturday, a 12 hour trail race! I shouldn't be at deficit all this week. So down to the kitchen I went and ate guilt free.
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I had an "aha moment" too. Wondered why i was eating everything and tired and withdrawn...
Pms.
Hahahaha!
Oh I've seriously got to change my ways! More tacos today and no big race coming up. Well, i have a half but no way i can pull that off with this itb being dum.0 -
I have done ok other than the doughnut for breakfast that wouldn't have been a problem except I was starving after being at the doctor's office for 4 hours this morning and not having eaten before leaving because I slept in after being up too late last night. I should have gone to the gym and gotten on the stationary bike but I was too tired and too down all day. Now I am just waiting for the doctor to call me back and trying not to stress eat.
I did have a delicious burger (with bacon and bleu cheese) at a brew pub before the concert last night along with a glass of stout. Probably not the best choice when I am not doing much of any cardio but I did lift yesterday so there is that... oh and standing for 4 hours at the concert - that burns extra too, right?0 -
After a bit of a rough weekend (just a lot of food, not bingeing), back at it today. We are aiming for a mostly plant-based diet in our household with occasional chicken or bacon, so there are a lot of beans on my future.1
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Alright. What's on todays menu?
I had coffee. No lunch plans. Maybe some egg bites from Starbucks and Passion tea... light and filling enough. I did grab a protein shake and Siggis yogurt (DH found them out of town).
And i need to run-ish today.0 -
Tim Hortons for breakfast. Tim Hortons for lunch? Tim Hortons for supper...0
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I am debating making eggs this morning with leftover ham and sautéed mushrooms from our potatoes the other night... not sure what lunch will be as I have training at noon and dinner is spinach ravioli with homemade spaghetti sauce.
In other news - Hobbes gets his stitches out this afternoon - YAY! and we will find out what needs to be done going forward.
I haven't heard back from the doctor's office (they were going to try and get me into a different specialist office) so I am going to be following up (bugging) them today!2 -
Ate a lot of food this weekend moving my sister from Nevada to Wyoming. This week, back to eating not a lot of food. Not much prep happening, but I should be able to fudge it with the staples we have on hand.1
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Haha... Turns out prediction was right for 2/3. Baked tofu spaghetti leftovers tonight. Might run first instead of after.1
