Thinking about making some changes to my diet. I eat fairly healthy but have a couple of things I need to address. Namely the occasional McD’s visit and my last meal of the day is always after 8 oclock at night. I have tried to eliminate that but it doesn’t work. I teach from 4-8 or 9 pm every weekday, even if I have a big meal at 3:30, I am still starved when I get out of classes. This is often the motivator for some bad eating. I’m tired and hungry and don’t want to cook. My basic diet plan is no processed food (this is why the McD’s has to go) lots of lean protein, mostly fish and lean pork (I hate white meat chicken) and lots of very colorful vegtables. I tend to stay away from a lot of starches except day before a race. I pretty much know what I want to do, I was just wondering what everybody else eats.
lot fat granola, and skim milk for b-fast, sushi for lunch, protein and fruit shake for post workout and afternoon shake, then some salmon and rice for dinner, then a late night snack, usually cereal. Some greens throughout the day in various meals. I usually use gels and gatorade for anything over 45 min (cept swims).
Taco Bell, McDonald’s, power bagels from Einstein’s. My diet is quite poor.
I usually have four or so servings of fruit, 2 glasses of OJ, some nuts, crackers & nutella, 4-6 PB&J or turkey or ham sandwiches, a gallon of milk, a quart of a fruit juice and then whatever I want for dinner. Dinner is usually rice or pasta, with some peas or other green veggie, maybe some bread with a thin layer of butter on it. Desert is yogurt or a smoothie depending on how I feel. Cereal sometimes replaces dinner when I just don’t have time. I also eat tequitos sometimes when I do not have time to cook. My dinners are usually around 9-11pm. I do not get home from swimming until them, and the nights I have my daughter I am on the trainer until then after she goes to bed.
Fast food happens about twice a year for me. During the holidays (US Thanksgiving to Christmas) I have no real diet. I eat just about whatever I want. That is the end of the CX season though.
Man, tell me you don’t drink a gallon of milk every day.
I’m not going to talk about what I eat during the day (not too bad, but not great either), but at night (i.e., after eight), I too am always hungry and have never been able to resist the urge to eat. Instead of the junk I used to eat, I now eat oranges, yogurt, apples, and dry cheerios. Watch excessive cheerio consumption the night before a long run; my experience tells me all that fiber can create an “incident”.
breakfast: cheerios, 2% milk, glass of OJ, protein shake with soy milk
lunch (spaced out throughout the day): PB&J, yogurt, banna, Powerbar Harvestbar
post-workout: glass or two of gatorade, and some source of protein (< 10g) such as cottage cheese or a protein shake if I didn’t have one in the morning,
Dinner: this varies alot, but I eat alot of turkey and chicken, try to get some fish, usually have some sort of vegtable. Dinner is the hardest meal for me since it is usually around 8:00 at night, all I want to do is lay down. This is where I get the most junk-food like pizza or chinese delivery. I’m trying to work on it though.
Last night, for instance I had meatloaf (half hamburger, half ground turkey), red-skin mashed potatoes, and green beans, and a small slice of bread.
I have a real problem with sweets like chocolate and ice cream, but I have been pretty good lately about wheening off of them.
I am japanese an vegetarian so my diet may not help you but this is my plan (i do eat fish)
I try to do a bunch of cooking o the weekend so that there is food in the fridge.
I have a rice cooker which can be set on a timer. So I alaways have rice available.
Mornings I like to have an egg or two with my rice and maybe some fish (japanese grocerys will often have good precooked fish in different sauces in a can)
Lunch… whatever drug lunch is available… I try to be as sensible as possible.
Dinner… There is a great asian grocery near my house which stocks pre coked chinese dishes like hot and sour tofu, vegetarian wishes, etc. moslty tofu stuff
The key for me is to know that I have food ready to go at home or else I fall into the trap of eating crap… The biggest thing that works for me is to not have crap in the house to begin with… hey if there are no chip in the house its pretty hard to eat them
Good luck