Day 17 – Stuart

Breakfast – same as 12 or so of the last days!

Lunch – oops…grabbed a Clif Builders Bar

Dinner – fish tacos

Day 16 – Stuart

Breakfast Pre race – muesli, coffee, Cytomax

During race – Clif Shot…should have had gels, see race report

Post race – banana, Clif Builders Bar, Clif Roks – basically anything at the race end

Lunch – Cheesemelt Sandwich

Dinner – …can’t remember!

Day 15 – Stuart

Breakfast on the road!

Lunch -  Reddiegg omlet, avacado, salsa

Late night snack – breakfast!

Day 6-10 - Barb - Catching up

OK I thought I could do it, but it's super hard to post here every day. So here's my weekly catch up post.

I'm doing really well on my week day eating - simple breakfast of plain yogurt and coffee every day.

Lunch - usually my homemade Vegetable Bean Barley or Quinoa Soup and fruit, sometimes a few falafels thrown in there. Most nights, I adapt the meal I make for the boys and eat a meat free meal - sometimes my caloric intake is a little higher than I want tho.

Also I'm often really hungry after school and one small snack isn't enough. I've been finding that if I eat half my dinner calories right after school, and half at dinner time, it's working well for me.

On Friday night, I had the usual steak dinner but I only had a 3-4 oz piece of meat and no baked potato (extra veggies), but I did drink wine and eat too much baguette with butter.

I've had a few treats now and again but not much over all. For the most part, my caloric intake has been around 1600 calories a day. For my height, weight, and activity level, this should enable me to lose 1/2 - 1 lb per week. However, I haven't been burning enough calories this week, so my weight has remained the same. I guess I should be happy that I haven't gained any more weight this week....

Next week's goals

- log my food every single day.
- continue to eat more fruit and vegetables.
- no white bread at all this week.
- eat too large snacks instead of dinner.
- get some aerobic exercise every day.

Day 14 – Stuart

Photos AWOL!

Breakfast – Muesli

Lunch – Cobb Salad

Snack – Clif Bar

Dinner – Crockpot Chicken Curry

Day 13 – Stuart

Breakfast 1 – 4am! Oatmeal…what else!

Breakfast 2 – bagel and fruit, around 8:30am

Lunch – Breakfast Burrito

Snack – oh yeah!

Dinner – like it says on the box and rice!

Day 12 – Stuart

Breakfast – well what do you think???

Lunch – go on what did you think I would have!?!?

Snack – ‘tis good!

Dinner – chicken tostada salad

Day 11 – Stuart

Breakfast – the usual!

Lunch – pretty sure it was a Cobb Salad!

Snack – Hot and Sour Soup…spicy!

Snack 2 – I <3 Clif!

Dinner – Butternut squash soup, and yes that is the largest spoon in the world!

Day 10 – Stuart

 

Breakfast – the usual, no pic running late!

Snack – Clif bar…yum!

Lunch – old faithful; Cobb Salad

Snack – Wasabi Peas

Snack 2 – Rice cracker and PB

Dinner – Pilau rice and chicken curry

Day 9 – Stuart

Breakfast – 1/4 waffle, egg, and a half bowl of muesli, coffee, juice

Cheese and pickle sandwich

Dinner – on the road…Veggie burger with ‘shrooms cup of veggie soup…and a couple of spoonfuls of kids’ desert! Shhh!

Day 8 - Cie

I planned to run today, 10 miles of hilly trails.

 

 Standard breakfast. Then an hour later out for the run, and it was hard, I had no energy. Made it back completely exhausted. Trying to shed pounds and train is a very fine balancing act which I simply don't have a grip of.

Lunch - Big bowl of soup to warm me up, and a plate of salad to fill me. Even so, I flaked out for 30 mins mid afternoon.

Dinner - Look at all those carbs!

Day 8 – Stuart

Breakfast - Home made waffles and pancakes!

Lunch - Subway BLT

Snack – no photo, Kettle chips and and a Clif Bar

Dinner – was roasted chicken and quinoa with veggies, followed by SF chocolate jello and bananas

Today was the first day I maxed my daily calorie count!

Day 7 - Cie

Standard breakfast #2

Birthday lunch out, and this was on offer, but I had the salad instead (which I didn't finish), whew! 

Dinner was "Highlander Broth"

Day 7 – Stuart

 

Breakfast – the usual, had it at work, the downside of trying to fit your runs in before breakfast and having to leave the house at 7am!

Lunch – Burrito and one taco, this thing was the size of my hand! I ate about a third of it!

Dinner – Spinach Lasagna, spinach salad and coleslaw all from WFs…it was ok!

Day 6 - Cie

Stodge day - started well, ended poorly.

Brekkie - Cup of porridge with fruit juice.

 

Lunch - leftover lasagne.

Dinner - Sausages with vegetable mash.

All in all... meh, this week has shown that I need to plan meals in advance.

Day 6 – Stuart

Breakfast - Yes it’s the same picture as yesterday..I had the same thing!

Lunch – well…so here’s the deal the best to reduce calories on a salad, have the dressing on the side and dip your fork in it. Look how much I actually ate of the two servings they gave me! And I had dressing in nearly every bite!

Rice cake and PB

Dinner – this over Jasmine Lime Rice!

Day 5 - Cie

Long run day - I think I probably over eat when I'm going to be putting a lot of effort in, this logging should help to prevent that... hopefully.

Brekkie - oat crunch with yoghurt (I don't do milk) and some OJ 

Lunch - salad of course, can't really justify much else sat at a desk all morning. Yes there are grapes in there, adds a little burst of sweetness every now and then.

Run fuel - I'm outta gels, so this is 3 slices of bread with PB&J the plan being to eat one every 30 mins on the 12 miler (planned time of 2 hours).

Post run snack to keep me alive until something more substantial is ready, half an avocado, some salt, cayenne pepper and olive oil. Mash and scoff. It's one of Coach Brett's ideas 

Dinner - pizza, chips and a biiig salad. Still hungry, and stiffening up nicely!

Day 5 - Barb

I had another good day today. No pictures for you though - I'm sorry - if you want to kick me off the blog, I'll understand. :)

Breakfast - plain yogurt and coffee

Lunch
- Homemade Tuscan Vegetable Bean Soup
- 1 banana
- 1 pear
- 2-3 small baked falafel

Dinner
- sourdough english muffin
- home made hummus
- 1 cup grapes
- 6 almonds

Snacks
- Kashi bar
- 1 Tbsp peanut butter
- 1 small piece of chocolate
- coffee with cream and sugar

Day 5 – Stuart

 

Breakfast – home made muesli…hey I mixed it up and heated it up! Grapefruit joice, Coffee, Multivit, Omega 3,6,9, B+

Lunch – Chinese Chicken Salad with Satsuma's and wontons

Snack - Rice cakes and homemade PB

Dinner - Chinese Casserole and brown rice

oh and this turned up from Clif! Snacks now sorted for the rest of the month!