Yesterday was a good day overall; I put in 40 minutes of strength training in the morning and 25 minutes of cardio in the afternoon. My eating was right on plan, in fact a little less than usual since I didn’t have much proteins that I would normally have for breakfast or dinner.
At no point during the day was I famished, and only a couple of times did I notice hunger of any kind really. Nor did I ever feel disgustingly full. So let’s see what I eat on a pretty normal day:
Breakfast (430 calories)
1 medium banana (105)
1 11.5 ounce can of V8 (70)
1 Kind Fruit & Nut with Yogurt bar (210)
3 packets of sugar in a large and small decaf at McDonald’s (I buy the large and get the small for free) (45)
Seems kind of a weird breakfast I’m sure but I actually eat it in phases, the banana and the V8 before I leave for my 80 minute drive, and the bar and coffee about 40 minutes in when I stop at McDonald’s (just buy coffee and water, no more combo meals for me). I’ll phase the sugar out soon.
Morning snack (100 calories)
Popcorn (100)
Lunch (668 calories)
Bruegger’s Salt Bagel with jalapeno cream cheese and cucumbers (408)
Bruegger’s clam chowder soup (260)
Afternoon snack (170 calories)
Kind Almond & Apricot bar (170)
I keep this in my car and eat a bar before my ride home. It helps prevent me from thinking about stopping at fast food on the way home.
Dinner ( 425 calories)
1 medium banana (105)
Chopped salad of a cucumber, a tomato, some romaine, a jalapeno, a half bulb of fennel, a half a portobello mushroom and a green onion. Just a splash of balsalmic, plus salt and pepper. (150)
Bowl of Newman’s BBQ soy crisps (100)
Fat free ice cream bar (70)
Total calories for day: 1793
Now I am sure a nutritionist would just shoot that diet all to hell, but it sure beats eating three 2,000+ calorie meals which is what I would have done in the past.
So I know I said I prefer not to read blogs that just outline what was eaten on any given day but there I just went ahead and did it! I will do it occasionally and it will be interesting to see in time how this changes.
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