Okay, first lets get one thing off the plate. Mom went back in for more cancer checks today and she now has an official-official clean bill of health!
So, I am starting to track my calories to make sure I am not eating too much or too little. Too much and I am going to gain weight, too little and I am not going to lose weight because I will put my body in to starvation mode. Another thing with too little or too much is your body does not perform at it's peak.
I have the weirdest problem, when I am working out, I have a really hard time getting in enough calories because I tend not to get too hungry most days. So, today I ate what felt like a ton! Here is what I ate.
Breakfast: 240 calories
- 2 protein breakfast bars
- 1 apples worth of dried apples, all natural (thank you Trader Joe's)
- 1/4 cup of high Omega Fat trail mix
- 2 ounces of turkey breast meat
- 9 cherry tomatoes
- 1 banana
- 2.5 ounces of turkey breast meat
- 8 cherry tomatos
- 3 pieces of fiber rye wafer (no yeast, very low carb, high fiber)
- 1 bowl of healthy choice clam chowder.
- 1 ounce of honey spread over 3 pieces of fiber rye wafer
- 1 fuji apple
- 1 banana
- 1 strawberry fruit bar, all natural
- Foot long sub from subway (Turkey and Ham, no condiments)
- 16 ounces of Orange Juice (Usually would not have OJ, normally I would have something else, but I chose this as it was calories and no caffeine)
For me, the hard part, I felt like I was constantly eating all day! It was too much damn food, but I was trying to actually hit my calorie goal.
I ate 2,540 calories, and I was still 225 calories short of my goal, which was 500 calories below my calories burned number. I burned 3,265 calories for the day after you include my daily calorie burn and the amount of calories I burned on my run today.
So, I am just bitching that I feel like I am almost force feeding myself and I have to eat a ton of food every day. Yes, I could easily get these calories in by adding a ton of carbs or fried foods in my diet, but I am not doing that.
So, it really isn't hard to be me, and I am happy I have my health, and I have the ability to be in this situation. However, today was really difficult to eat enough calories, and I am realizing I am drastically undereating again, so I gotta keep up on the calories. The other problem is now that I am tapering, it means I will not be working out nearly as much, so I have to be careful not to get used to consuming 2500 to 2800 calories a day and then drop my mileage, i.e. calorie burn, and end up gaining too much weight.
1 comments:
First, we are so glad to hear your mom is ok!
Second, while I realize you are probably only doing it out of curiosity, you don't need to track calories. At least that is my current opinion. Here is my typical breakfast: somewhere around 2 cups of veggies (onion, mushroom, and zucchini) fried in 3-4 tablespoons of bacon fat (a lot of fat - I don't measure, just use a lot) over medium heat, with around 3 slices of bacon (more fat), served with a piece of baked fritatta which has more veggies, about 2 eggs, and EVOO (more fat). I would call this a high fat meal. It keeps me energized and feeling good all day. I eat it at around 6 and if needed I can make it through until after work without eating again or dealing with my stomach grumbling. After your marathon, you should seriously try cutting all carbs, except maybe non starchy veggies, and increase your fat intake and see how you feel. What is working for me probably won't work exactly for you, but by being open and experimenting a bit you will figure out what is best.
Third, the idea that you need to consume less calories than you burn to lose weight is also BS. You can actually eat less calories than you burn and still gain weight (and feel like total crap to boot). This happens because of what you eat, not how much. Lots of sugar, and all carbs are sugar, leads to high insulin levels, which leads to fat storage. This is a cycle that actually gets worse and worse as we age. Once you find a sustainable diet you will begin to burn your stored fat, and you will lose weight, and you won't need to count calories because you'll simply eat until you are satisfied. I know you love bread - how much bread could you eat at a sitting? Now replace that volume of bread with a steak. Could you eat the same amount? I doubt it. Sorry to keep harping on the low carb/high fat stuff, but I feel so incredible now that I've found a lifestyle that works for me, and want to encourage everyone around me to do the same. Seriously, once you figure it out, you'll be completely amazed at how good you feel, you'll be pissed off for being mislead your whole life about what a healthy diet is.
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