02/02/08 - Meals for the Day

JenniferLaycock Submitted on February 2nd, 2008

Ok, going to try shoving all of my meal posts for the day into one big post. We haven’t been able to figure out how to have only the most recent post from each person on the front page and I don’t want to monopolize it.

02/02/08 - Breakfast

Mmmmm…..I’ve restocked the pantry with boxes of Kashi GoLean Crunch Honey Almond Flax cereal. Apart from maybe Life cereal, it’s my favorite.

It’s also jam packed with fiber, protein and Omega 3’s. It’s fairly high in carbs, but it’s entirely whole grain, so they’re good carbs. I’ve paired it with hormone free skim milk for more protein boost, but not much fat boost.

Breakfast: 265 calories, 4.5 grams fat, 44 carbs, 8 grams fiber, 15 grams protein

02/02/08 - Snack

Another Zone bar. This time Chocolate Peanut Butter. I’ve found the handy thing about Zone Bars is they require you to drink a lot of water. I can easily down a 20oz bottle of water while eating one. They’re tasty, but they dry you up.

I paired it with a Forelle pear. Tasty, but it wasn’t ripe yet, so again with the dry.

Snack: 260 calories, 7 grams fat, 38 grams carbs, 5 grams fiber, 14 grams protein

02/02/08 - Lunch

Giant salad. Huge, big, ginormous even. Waiting on Greg to come home from some deal at the church so I can hit the gym. This one was a little high on calories, but it was super high on protein.

Baby spinach, red leaf lettuce, baby greens, green onion, red onion, celery, carrots, tomatoes. This time I topped it with hard boiled egg, cheese, grilled chicken and a tiny bit of bacon. Low-fat three cheese ranch on the side.

In retrospect, I could have used half the amount of chicken and egg. It was a little heavy on both. Doing so would have shaved off around 90 calories and 7 grams of fat.

Lunch: 589 calories, 24 grams fat, 19 grams carbs, 6.5 grams fiber, 42 grams protein.

Dr. Atkins would like that meal.

02/02/08 - Dinner

Dinner tonight was a whole lotta new things. I bought some organic texmati brown rice to try in my rice cooker and topped it with some soy sauce for flavor. (Did you know soy sauce has just 10 calories per tablespoon but has 2 grams of protein?) You’ll also see a piece of potato crusted cod (which was not at all tasty) and a stack of asparagus I pan roasted with fresh garlic and some olive oil.

Dinner: 410 calories, 10 grams fat, 48 carbs, 4 grams fiber, 29 grams protein

Exercise

I did finally make it to the gym this afternoon. Logged 30 minutes of cross training on the Ellipital and about 20 minutes on the weights. Total calories burned: 400+

Daily Total: 1534 Calories, 45.5 grams fat, 149 carbs, 23.5 grams fiber, 100 grams protein

Of course I burned an extra 400 at the gym, so my daily calorie count comes down to 1134, which makes it REALLY tempting to go eat some raspberry newtons, but I shall abstain.

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