After signing up for the MMRF Race for Research 5k, I sat myself down and had a little talk…with myself. Maybe I was just feeling guilty from the 2 1/2 bowls of low-fat frozen yogurt I had eaten, or maybe I just realized it was time. I’ve plateaued for awhile now and I’ve attempted the whole, “Woe is me, I don’t know why this is happening,” blah blah, somebody call the waaaaambulance routine. The truth is, I could do better. I’ve worked really hard and gotten really far, but I know what my weaknesses are, I know where I could push myself harder and I can do better. So I started today.
I think that taking pictures of everything I eat is really tedious, but therein lies one of its benefits: it makes me think about what I’m eating, when and why. I am going to try to document my daily eats as much as possible for as long as I can before I get sick of it. Above on the left are the two tea bags I started my day with: a combination of Puuka Cleanse and Trader Joe’s brand Jasmine Green. On the right, though it’s hard to tell in the picture, I actually wore a skirt and cowboy boots to work today, and thus rode my bike in a skirt and cowboy boots. Not gonna lie, I felt badass.
I bought this box of instant oatmeal because it was on sale. I’m a sucker for sales and it shows: this oatmeal is not gluten-free. My bad. I’m still going to eat it this week, but I probably won’t buy it again to be on the safe side. For breakfast today I had a packet of the maple nut flavor.
Along with my oatmeal I had a side of Rainbow Light Digestive Enzymes. This one in particular received really good reviews. I started taking them over the weekend, so hopefully soon I will notice a difference.
For lunch I had the last of the leftover eggplant parmesan rolls with swiss chard and mint that Zac made for dinner Sunday night. This recipe is amazing and refreshing. Zac and I even agree that we like it better than tradition breaded and fried eggplant parmesan. I heated my leftovers and put it in the bowl with a couple of mixed salad greens. I was physically sad when I had finished eating.
B-a-n-a-n-a. Times this by three and please excuse my chipping nail polish. I also had one apple, one tangelo, and one clementine as snacks throughout the day. That’s…a lot of fruit. I think my problem with only bringing fruit as snacks is that it doesn’t give me any protein/fat to satiate me. Instead of so much fruit, I might try to bring say an apple and a tablespoon of almond butter to eat, because fruit might be healthy, but that doesn’t mean it’s not made with lots of calories. (Over 500 in fact for all the fruit I ate today. Yikes! :\)
Above is said apple and the third banana I ate today, around 2:30 when I also had a hankering for an iced coffee with cream. I managed to get halfway through the day without coffee, but there is just something about the 3 o’clock hour that screams, “NAP TIME!” to me.
When I got home from work I was feeling really dehydrated. I had two tablespoons of almond butter and a pinch of shredded coconut (not pictured) before working out. It is another beautiful, warm night, so I did Day 3 of Week 3 of my C25k plan. Earlier I figured out that I didn’t actually have enough weeks before the race to finish my plan as I was, so I created a workout plan for the next month so I can be sure to get all my runs in.
After I finished my run and showered, it was dinner time. I had mixed greens with an entire chopped green bell pepper, two carrots, a sprinkle of sesame seeds, and a tablespoon of Newman’s Own Light Balsamic Vinegar. I also had another enzyme tablet and some Tazo Passion iced tea that I made over the weekend. Sadly, this was all the calorie allowance I had left for dinner after eating all that fruit earlier. I’m going to plan better for tomorrow and in fact am boiling some eggs right now as I type.
G’night!
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