Tuesday
What I ate:
- Smoothie: juice of two small oranges, one whole orange, 1/2 bulb and stalk fennel, lots of chard! (yum!)
- Raw juice made from: large bunch kale, juice of one lemon, 2 asian pears (YUM) (also no way to accurately put this in nutridiary so I tried but I know it’s not exactly accurate)
- Entire avocado w/ bit of sea salt
- pomello (entered as grapefruit in nutridiary)
- 2 oranges
- ugli fruit (entered in nutridiary as grapefruit)
- soup made from a teaspoon of garlic infused coconut oil, and LOTS of sweet onions (too many). This tasted really good and satisfied the hunger craving I was having and I stayed full a LONG time … but too full feeling later when running
this was even though it was less coconut oil than the previous day. - cucumber, lime, romaine green juice
Nutritional analysis for the day (nutridiary):
- 73% carbs, 7% protein, 20% fat
- 1416 calories
- short on my goal for protein of 10% as well as slightly short on my iron goal, but everything else was exceeded as far as what it tracks for
Fitness was a 2.5 mile hard run — hard as in I kept wanting to stop — until I was done and then I felt great! I wonder if it was eating the coconut oil within 2 hours of the run that made it harder? Hmmm… will have to experiement on that one.
Wednesday
What I ate:
- Smoothie: 4 Bananas, 2 cups spinach, 4 celery stalks
- Cup raw carrots
- 2 small zucchini, 400g mixed lettuce and spinach greens, bit raw onion all w/ a creamy dressing of blended cashews, nutritional yeast and mustard seeds , and some sunflower seeds on top
- 1 tomato, 1 orange, 1/2 cucumber, 2 stalks celery smoothie (was supposed to be dressing but when I used the nut sauce instead, I sipped on the dressing just as I would a green smoothie)
- orange
- supper salad: orange pepper, 1/2 large cucumber, handful greens, half avocado, juice of one lime and bit sea salt
- 1/2 orange
- Also few bottles of water throughout the day
I did only about 5 minutes of rebounding so I didn’t log it; for running I did 25 minutes of speed work — up to 6mph for 2 minutes at a time 3 x and 5.5 a couple of other times while alternating slow jub and fast walk at other times.
Nutritional analysis as done by nutridiary:
- For the day: 54% Carbs, 11% protein, and 35% fat (nuts, seeds, and avocado — no OIL today)
- 1432 total calories
- 54% of my calories were consumed at lunch (and I could tell — I felt HEAVY afterward – don’t know if it was plain overeating or too much fat/nuts)
- all of the nutrients it tracks (sadly not all I would like to track) showed me exceeding daily limits, including Iron and calcium.
I felt great all day except for the heavy feeling after lunch. I think it helped that I at lunch a bit earlier than the day before and may have been part of why running was easier today (no oil/fat late in afternoon). Otherwise my eyes were itchy in the evnening and I had to blow my nose a few times (including while eating supper) but that’s it. I do wonder soemtimes if I need to cut back on peppers / night shade plants and if they could be bothering me some. I have been eating A LOT of colored peppers so after the ones I have are gone, I’m going to try to cut back for awhile. It can be challennging to keep things simple and easy and yet rotate my food choices.