Food & Exercise -- 8/16/2004

Food:

6:15 (driving to gym): ready-to-drink chocolate protein shake
8:15 (diner w/ Tom): English muffin w/ butter; 2 fried eggs; 12 oz
grapefruit juice
11:45 (work, brought from home): 150g turkey meatloaf w/ 3 slices
melted f/f cheese
1:00 (work, from jar on my desk): 1 hard candy {I rarely eat these,
but my throat is sore and it was soothing.}
3:00 (work, brought from home): 1 peach
4:30 (work, from jar on desk): 1 hard candy
7:30 (home): 2 poached eggs on 1 slice whole wheat toast w/ 3 slices
melted f/f cheese {This dish, which I eat far too often, is for me
what our friends in England call "nursery food" -- sort of comfort
eating when I'm tired or feeling under the weather or just wanting to
indulge myself on a weekend morning.}
10:00 (home -- planned): 1/2 cup sugar-free vanilla instant pudding
(made w/ skim milk) {Sounds comfy for my sore throat.}

Totals: 1457 calories, 35g fat (22%), 168g carbs (46%), 110g protein
(30%)

Exercise:

6:45 a.m. -- Bench, etc.

5 minutes or so of treadmill walking, while waiting for Tom (I was
early)

Bench: 1x10x45; 1x10x65; 1x5x85; 3x3x105; 1x5x85 {Felt very off today.
I think I'm still fighting a cold.}

Machine shoulder press: 1x5x60; 1x5x70

Seated DB overhead triceps extension: 1x6x40

Lying triceps extension w/ EZ curl bar: 1x5x45

Triceps pressdowns: 1x12x80

Cable fly/press combos:
a) alternating fly/press -- 10 each, @ 40 lbs.
b) press upward with one hand and downward with other -- 10 @ 25
lbs.
c) press with one hand while doing fly with other -- 10 @ 25
d) flys with one arm while holding other in front -- 5 each arm @ 25
{These are more about core stabilization than about the weight.}

12:00 -- 3 mile brisk walk {Nice to be back to the walking, and it was
a gorgeous day!}

Chris
262/141/ (145-150)

Food:

Breakfast: cottage cheese w/Splenda

Lunch: stir-fried beans w/melted cheese
(1 can beans, 1 Ts olive oil, 2 Tbs tomato sauce, 1 Tbs Tamari soy sauce, 4
Tbs light cream, 1 slice cheese for toast)

Dinner: cottage cheese w/vanilla extract
(200 g cottage cheese, 10 g vanilla extract)

Water = 10.5 cups; vitamin C drink

Exercise:
walking during shopping - total 2 hrs:
active walking-pushing stroller - 1 hr

According to Fitday = 44 grams of carbs, and 190 calories burned from
exercise.

Elly
breastfeeding mom of a 10mo, following the balanced low carb WOE
Mid July 2004: 195.8 / 187 / mini-goal by August 22nd:
184.8 (to 187 lbs- reached)
sometime in the (distant) futu 150 lbs

Food:

Breakfast: cottage cheese w/Splenda

Lunch: stir-fried beans w/melted cheese
(1 can beans, 1 Ts olive oil, 2 Tbs tomato sauce, 1 Tbs Tamari soy sauce, 4
Tbs light cream, 1 slice cheese for toast)

Dinner: cottage cheese w/vanilla extract
(200 g cottage cheese, 10 g vanilla extract)

Water = 10.5 cups; vitamin C drink

Exercise:
walking during shopping - total 2 hrs:
active walking-pushing stroller - 1 hr

According to Fitday = 44 grams of carbs, and 190 calories burned from
exercise.

Elly
breastfeeding mom of a 10mo, following the balanced low carb WOE
Mid July 2004: 195.8 / 187 / mini-goal by August 22nd:
184.8 (to 187 lbs- reached)
sometime in the (distant) futu 150 lbs

Food:

Breakfast (about 8.30? I didn't notice!): 1 slice Granary bread spread
with Boursin au poivre. Small bowl fruit salad (as yesterday's)

Lunch (at about 2.00 pm): 2 slices Granary bread, one spread with
low-fat cream cheese and cherry jam, the other spread with La Brique
cheese. 1 tomato

Dinner (8.15 pm): Ratatouille and grated cheese served with coquillettes
(a type of pasta); small helping lavender sorbet

Exercise:

None (planned rest day)

Memo to self: write down day's food & exercise as it is taken, so as not
to have to rack brains next day!
--
Annabel - "Mrs Redboots"
90/88.5/80kg

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:17:42 +0100, Annabel Smyth
wrote:

Food:

Breakfast (about 8.30? I didn't notice!): 1 slice Granary bread spread
with Boursin au poivre. Small bowl fruit salad (as yesterday's)

Lunch (at about 2.00 pm): 2 slices Granary bread, one spread with
low-fat cream cheese and cherry jam, the other spread with La Brique
cheese. 1 tomato

Dinner (8.15 pm): Ratatouille and grated cheese served with coquillettes
(a type of pasta); small helping lavender sorbet

Exercise:

None (planned rest day)

Memo to self: write down day's food & exercise as it is taken, so as not
to have to rack brains next day!

Certainly sounds like a modest calorie level for the day. But it
seems like there's rather little protein. Opinions vary on how much
one needs, I know, but I'd miss it if I ate as you did yesterday.
(There's some in cheese, certainly, but it's hard to get enough unless
you eat quite a lot of cheese, which is rather high in calories.)

Just my personal preference -- YMMV.

Chris
262/141/ (145-150)

Chris Braun wrote in alt.support.diet on Tue, 17 Aug 2004:

Certainly sounds like a modest calorie level for the day. But it
seems like there's rather little protein. Opinions vary on how much
one needs, I know, but I'd miss it if I ate as you did yesterday.
(There's some in cheese, certainly, but it's hard to get enough unless
you eat quite a lot of cheese, which is rather high in calories.)

And the egg whites in the sorbet, don't forget. I know cheese is high
in calories, but I do still like it! :-)

Still trying to decide what to have for dinner tonight - the choices are
either a fish pie made with coley and calamari, butternut squash risotto
(probably tomorrow), and microwaved or grilled Alaska Pollock with a
tomato-onion-and-marrow sauce and rice. Probably the latter, and the
others for Wednesday and Friday (Thursdays we don't get in until much
later, so usually have something fairly quick, or something cold,
probably ham and salad).

I have bought myself a pedometer which, unlike the last one I bought,
actually works! It will be interesting to see if it knows I'm moving
when I skate.
--
Annabel - "Mrs Redboots"
90/88.5/80kg

lets see.
when I first get up 2 scoops of whey protein powder and some berries and some
homemade kumbacha tea blended up. a vitamin and 4 fish oil capsules.
9 am 5 slices of bacon and a sausage cooked in the oven.
10:20 am 10 mile bike ride to work going as fast as my lungs will let me.
11:15 a apple when I get to work.
12:30 a ride to a lunch place.
1/4 pound of salami and a little less Swiss cheese. (I also on some days have
stir fried veggies and meat with no rice)
3pm a couple scoops of protein powder and an apple and banana and 4 fish oil
capsules.
5pm ride 10 miles about 1/2 up hill
7pm some taco meat over sugar free coleslaw and a big bowl of green beans with
some bacon.
a snack of some mixed nuts.
I loose about a pound and sometimes more a week on this.

--
Knight-Toolworks & Custom Planes
Custom made wooden planes at reasonable prices
See http://www.knight-toolworks.com For prices and ordering instructions.

lets see.
when I first get up 2 scoops of whey protein powder and some berries and some
homemade kumbacha tea blended up. a vitamin and 4 fish oil capsules.
9 am 5 slices of bacon and a sausage cooked in the oven.
10:20 am 10 mile bike ride to work going as fast as my lungs will let me.
11:15 a apple when I get to work.
12:30 a ride to a lunch place.
1/4 pound of salami and a little less Swiss cheese. (I also on some days have
stir fried veggies and meat with no rice)
3pm a couple scoops of protein powder and an apple and banana and 4 fish oil
capsules.
5pm ride 10 miles about 1/2 up hill
7pm some taco meat over sugar free coleslaw and a big bowl of green beans with
some bacon.
a snack of some mixed nuts.
I loose about a pound and sometimes more a week on this.

--
Knight-Toolworks & Custom Planes
Custom made wooden planes at reasonable prices
See http://www.knight-toolworks.com For prices and ordering instructions.

On 8/17/2004 7:17 AM, Annabel Smyth wrote:
Food:

Breakfast (about 8.30? I didn't notice!): 1 slice Granary bread spread
with Boursin au poivre. Small bowl fruit salad (as yesterday's)

Lunch (at about 2.00 pm): 2 slices Granary bread, one spread with
low-fat cream cheese and cherry jam, the other spread with La Brique
cheese. 1 tomato

Dinner (8.15 pm): Ratatouille and grated cheese served with coquillettes
(a type of pasta); small helping lavender sorbet

Exercise:

None (planned rest day)

Memo to self: write down day's food & exercise as it is taken, so as not
to have to rack brains next day!

I have a question about this. In your introduction you stated that you
were cutting back on carbs. Is that still your plan? What are you
replacing the carbohydrates with? Fat? Protein? Also, I am not
familiar with Granary bread. What kind of bread is that? I mean, what
type of grains is it made from? How much fiber does it have per slice?

Also, I see that Chris mentioned something about your protein intake in
her response. I think that she is right, it would be good if you could
consider increasing your protein intake. That is especially important
for your athletic performance.

--
jmk in NC

On 8/17/2004 7:17 AM, Annabel Smyth wrote:
Food:

Breakfast (about 8.30? I didn't notice!): 1 slice Granary bread spread
with Boursin au poivre. Small bowl fruit salad (as yesterday's)

Lunch (at about 2.00 pm): 2 slices Granary bread, one spread with
low-fat cream cheese and cherry jam, the other spread with La Brique
cheese. 1 tomato

Dinner (8.15 pm): Ratatouille and grated cheese served with coquillettes
(a type of pasta); small helping lavender sorbet

Exercise:

None (planned rest day)

Memo to self: write down day's food & exercise as it is taken, so as not
to have to rack brains next day!

I have a question about this. In your introduction you stated that you
were cutting back on carbs. Is that still your plan? What are you
replacing the carbohydrates with? Fat? Protein? Also, I am not
familiar with Granary bread. What kind of bread is that? I mean, what
type of grains is it made from? How much fiber does it have per slice?

Also, I see that Chris mentioned something about your protein intake in
her response. I think that she is right, it would be good if you could
consider increasing your protein intake. That is especially important
for your athletic performance.

--
jmk in NC