Breakfast - 8:15 (Kinda)
When you get up too late and destroy your oatmeal, you end up eating poorly. I’m just pointing that out.
1 Medium sugar free hazelnut latte
1 apple
Lunch - 1:15
5 ounces of tuna
1 ounce shreeded cheddar
1/2 pita
1 Apple
1 Bottle of water
(5 blocks)
I do want to try to take a real shot at the zone and see what it does. It will help keep things under control as well as get me in some better shape. I’m not going to be perfect on it, but it’s a start. I’m going to try to do 10 days and see how it goes, adhering as much as possible to the rules (probably a slip or two to be had somewhere).
Based on my calculations, I’ve got about 10% body fat, and require approximately 142 grams of protein per day (I’m using the very active profile considering the PF is very, very very very very very active. I need to be more consistent with my days away from PF, but I feel like if I don’t use this profile I’m going to get crushed going to the gym). Based on this, I’m going to need 20blocks of P,C and F each day, totalling 140, 180 and 30 grams respectively. I’ve decided to try to break-up the food as follows:
Breakfast - 5 blocks
Lunch - 5 blocks
Afternoon Snack (like when we were kids) - 2 blocks
Dinner - 6 blocks
Night Snack - 2 block
This translates to:
Breakfast - 35P, 45C and 8F
Lunch - 35P, 45C and 8F
Afternoon Snack - 14P, 18C and 3F
Dinner - 42P, 54C and 9F
Night Snack - 14P, 18C and 3F
I went to wholefoods to get some tuna and the like for lunch and then calculated just how much I get to eat. Needless to say, this was a little jarring and a bit of an eye opener, assuming I’ve done the calculation correctly, as to what I’ve been eating (YAY American sized portions!!!). So, I’ve got a mdeium container of tuna salad, which weighs .67 lbs. According to my math, 35 grams is equal to .08 pounds or 1.23 ounces of tuna for my lunch protein blocks, which is less than 1/10th of this container (.67 lbs*16 ounces = 10.7 ounces of which I get to just more than 1!!!!!!). Same goes for the salad, which has .69 lbs of salad, of which I am allowed to eat 1.59 ounces (still only about 1/10th). I have a horrible feeling that I am going to be starving if this math is correct (I’m pretty sure it is since I did it like 15 times since I couldn’t believe how little I was going to be eating). AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
I did try to do this a while ago, say 2 years, and I was STARVING a lot. Hopefully I can overcome this a little and not be totally wiped out for CF in the afternoons. If that happens, I’ll have to increase the amount of food and eat packets of sugar before I go. I’ll also be clinging to life in the workout, not fun! WHere my concern lies here is when I was training for triathlons in DC, I was following this diet and had cut back considerably on my carbs. Unforuntaely, I was just not able to get any kind of performance out of myself and it became clear, after talking to some nutritionists, that I needed to have some carbs in the system to sustain the energy for even a 1+ hour ride. I’m hoping that the math works out on this experiment without having to eat a candy bar before I get to class.
That’s about it. I’ve had my “lunch” and I’m not hungry anymore and I feel ok, but I also don’t feel like this will get me through an afternoon with Becca or Jonesy. I’m nervous to see how this goes. Hopefully I’ll see some measureable improvement in my performance, BS and overall how I feel. Here goes nothing!!
Breakfast - 8:40 am
1 Sesame Seed Bagel (cream cheese)
1 medium sugar free hazelnut latte
Snack - 11:12
6 pretzels
handful of nuts (peanuts, 1 brazil nut (I think that’s what that is), cashews and almonds)
1 bottle water
Lunch - 1:30
Tuna Salad (no mayo - YAY!!) call it 2.5 ounces (mainly protein)
Greek Salad (Bell peppers, cucumber, feta cheese, tomato and red onion) call it 2 ounces (Carbs + fat)
1 bottle water
Snack - 4:30
1 bottle water
1 balance bar Goal
Carbs 24 (18)
Protein 13 (14)
Fats 7 (4 sat) (3)
Dinner - 8:40
1 5 ounce chicken breast (5 blocks)
3 cups broccoli (1.5 blocks) - you’re kidding right. You want me to eat 10 CUPS OF THIS??? Ain’t hatnin’! Even if I liked it. A LOT. No way! Not sleeping in the bathroom tonight.
8-9 cashews (5 blocks)
1 Bottle of water
Breakfast - 8:15
Oatmeal (3/4 cup meal, 1/2 cup milk, 1 cup water, tsp cinnamon, tsp honey)
Coffee
Snack - 11:05
1 ounce peanuts
1 bottle water
Lunch - 1:05
1 lb tuna salad (tuna, mayo (Blech), celery onions, etc (did you know there is sugar in this, like added to it??)
2 muesli rolls (good except the raisins, which don’t jive with the tuna)
1 bottle water
Whole Foods has got to do something about the mediterranean tuna salad they have. The normal one is coated in mayo and the other one is just missing something. It’s almost bitter. Is that even possible??
Breakfast - 7:20
Oatmeal (splash of milk and 1/2 packet of splenda)
1/2 bagel with cream cheese (toasted goodness)
Snack - 10:30
6 wheat thins
diet dr pepper
Lunch - 1:30
Chipotle Bowl (tiny bit of rice, black beans, lettuce, steak, corn salsa, bit of cheese and touch of sour cream)
Diet Coke (wakey wakey)
Snack - 4:30
Dinner - 8:00 pm
AMBS - 86
PMBS -
I haven’t had chipotle for a long time now, like going on 4 months. I got stuck with the guys from the office and that was all that was available in rural Freemont. Tried to keep the cals low on it, as much as that’s possible, but it was tough. I dont’ miss it as much as I thought I would. Weird.
Clearly I am not ready to travel while focusing on my food intake. this is going to take some time to get used to doing to be prepared on the road. I wanted to eat breakfast but there wasn’t a thing to eat at the airport except McD’s and the sugary stuff at Starbuck’s. Not so long ago I would have eaten that stuff without a thought, so I’ve made progress there and I’m proud of that. But still, mornings with no breakies makes Ben a dull boy. Hopefully I can find something good for dinner. I will say that when I focus on getting the eating right, I am left a little peckish, instead of full (read: bursting), but also lighter on my feet. My better feeling!
Breakfast - 8:20
Berry Fulfilling Smoothie (raspberries, blueberries, ice, water, dairy base (WTF??))
(no juice, but left in the low calorie “dairy base” - better than yesterday’s)
Whey Protein Boost
Vitamin Boost
Lunch - 1:20
Mexican food with some broker in Vernon (wow, this place is jsut awful)
1 diet coke
3 smallish soft tacos (chicken, corn tortilla, lettuce, shredded cheese (just a little), pico de gallo)
Now that I’m back in the professional world, I have nothing better to do than sit in front of a computer all day. That makes this a lot easier to do.
Breakfast - 8:20
Jamba Juice Smoothie -
Berry Fulfilling 16oz
No juice or milk
Protein Powder
Snack - 11:20
1 Bottle water
1 ounce peanuts
Lunch - 1:00
Almond Chicken (chicken, brown sauce, almond slivers, bell peppers)
Brown Rice
Diet Coke
(went to lunch with senior office guy to PF Chang’s. Don’t like the sugar in it, so I tried to find the lowest one, but everything seems to ahve some kind of brown sauce. Crap.)
Snack - 4:00 pm
1 oz peanuts
1 Bottle Water
Petranek - 6:30 pm
Dinner - 8:15
2 Turkey Burgers (no pattie) with HP sauce and dijon mustard (there were bread-crumbs rolled in)
1 Large Bottle Sparkling water
Lunch - 2:00 pm (stuck in class all day)
Mexican Salad (estimates)
2 small breasts of chicken
2 Tbsp guacamole
Lettuce (shredded and it’s everywhere so hard to say how much)
1/4 cup cheese (maybe that much, unlikely)
1 tbsp sour cream
tomatoes
Dinner - 7:15 pm
2/5 loaf of whole grain bread (whole foods bakery)
4/5 container of tuna salad (with mayo since they didn’t have the one without)
tall bottle of arrowhead
Ok, this was harder to do than I thought, so we’re going to try it ONE…MORE…TIME!!!
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Breakfast -
1 cup oatmeal
1/4 cup milk (in oatmeal)
2 tbsp cinnamon
Lunch -
Medium plastic thingy of med tuna salad (no mayo but with other stuff (artichoke and the like)
1.5 whole grain pita
Tallboy SF Red Bull (READY FOR CLASS NOW BABY!!!)
