Wednesday, May 6, 2009

What I Ate: 5/6/2009

  • 2 oz. Rachel's cottage cheese, cucumber dill flavor (44 kcals, 5.5g protein)
  • 4 oz. Nectar fuzzy navel protein shake (90 kcals, 23g protein)
  • 2 oz. tuna/artichoke salad (about 60 kcals, about 9g protein)
  • 2 oz. asparagus baked ricotta (about 45 kcals, about 3g protein)

Total: 239 kcals, 40.5g protein, 66.8% kcals from protein.

Calories were lower today than I intended. I'd planned to have a Lean Dessert fresh cinnamon roll protein shake for my last meal, but I wound up getting home really late. I'm scheduled to have the shake at 11:30 pm (I'm behind schedule on food, as usual), and then I'd need to stay up to let it digest a bit. I would rather go to bed and sip some Crystal Light - I'm exhausted.

I think I need to adjust my food scheduling. I am supposed to eat at 4 pm, but I usually don't eat until 5:30 which pushes dinnertime from 7 or 7:30 to 8:30 or 9! And there's still a shake time after that! Tomorrow I'm doing to try this timing out: 7 am (shake), 10 am, 1 pm, 5 pm (shake), and final meal at 8:30 or 9 pm.

My protein is also lower than I'd like, but it's not so low that I'm worried about it. I figure I can compensate for the missing 9.5 grams another day.

At the gym today, I did 36 minutes on the elliptical for a supposed calorie expenditure of 334 kcals. Still moving slowly and getting tired quickly. But I did it!

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