2/6 blog, eating, exercise
I decided that one thing I am still lacking is the accountability for my eating. I am starting today to blog about my eating and my workouts. Today wasn’t a particularly good day at the gym, I ran errands all day and didn’t get to the gym until 7pm. I did my biceps and triceps exercises and was able to increase my weight used by 5 lbs each respectively. But my running stank. I’ve been training for my first 5k and this week I did monday 20 minute run, tuesday intervals, wednesday off, thrusday incline running for 22 minutes and today was supposed to be another long run. It didn’t work out that way. I guess the incline took too much out of me yesterday, and I ended up doing intervals again for 25 minutes. Yuck. I guess it’s better to do something than nothing at all.
As for my eating,
Breakfast: oatmeal
morning snack:apple and natural peanut butter
Lunch: chicken wrap with a yogurt. This is where I strted to mess up. I brought an orange to have with lunch, but it ended up being bad and I was still hungry. So I was at work and I went over to the cupboard and got a pack of lorna doones and two packs of saltines… Bad choice, but I’m bloggin so that I have to be honest.
Afternoon snack: I forgot to pack one… poor planning… and bought a dove dark chocolate bar when I was grocery shopping.
Dinner: 2 - 93% fat free beef in wraps, 10 almonds and a spoon of light cool whip
post-workout snack: 1 cup cottage cheese
Part of my problem was poor planning today. The other problem was lack of choosing a better option. My work has a kitchen and I could’ve found better foods.
February 6, 2009 at 7:32 pm
hello im having similar problems too either though im losing the bodyfat and i too chose bad food groupings aswell but ive learnt to not beat myself too much because as long as your trying the best you can to follow your diet plan or to eat as clean as possible and remember everyone is built differently and react to food differently aswell. Takecare and have a great weekend just try your best to eat clean as possible ciao bella beautiful
February 6, 2009 at 8:48 pm
Just a point to try and help: Looking over what you consider to be the better part of your meal planning, I see a real lack of protein. Oatmeal is a complex carb, apples are a simple carb, and peanut butter is also a carb. The chicken contained within the wrap is about 30 grams of protein max. Remember to consume protein along with your carbs! It has a higher bioavailability this way and everyone is recommended to eat as many grams of protein as they weigh if they want to build muscle and burn fat. The carb intake is what you can adjust depending on your goals, but the protein intake should always ideally remain at this level. I see that you have and probably like cottage cheese. I used to eat 1 cup of cottage cheese every morning, which if I remember correctly, was about 30 grams of protein for the brand that I favored. You aren’t trying to reach 175 grams a protein a day, but a half cup along with other planned protein sources will do you some justice. Try that, or egg whites with your first meal and you will be on a road to a better planned nutrition.