Perpetual Healthy Eating and Fitness Rant & Rave thread

[debbatx]

Excellent! I'll have to try that with the next smoothie. Thanks!

[Courtney]

Excellent! I'll have to try that with the next smoothie. Thanks!

I just used the last of my frozen berries this morning, so I need to get more before tomorrow!  I like to put a little crystal light flavor mix in some of them, too.  Sometimes it just needs a bit more tang to it, and that seems to do it.  I like lemonade or the orange.  But not everyone likes crystal light. 

[debbatx]

Good ideas - I usually do yogurt, OJ, bananas, strawberries, and blackberries. Reid can't eat raw blueberries.

[merigayle]

Talk to me about putting oatmeal in smoothies. How do you do it? Does it have to be cooked first?

i grind it in the blender first into a powder, then put everything else in and blend

I am channeling my inner Nancy Clark and I know that she would say 400 calories to fuel 2 runs in the morning is not enough.  How many total miles?   She would advise to eat more in the morning since you need to fuel your whole day.  Then later on in the day, eat less.  If you don't fuel enough, your body will hang on to every calorie it gets.

Following Nancy's plan, I will have eaten about 1200 calories by noon if I wake up at 6am to run 5-7 miles. (This terrified me at first because it seems like a TON!) Total for the day 2,000-2,200 (based on my height/age/weight/activity level at work) I'm not hungry at night now and the weight is coming off.

if i ate 2000 cals/day i would be an elephant! I am running 8-10 miles on average, total, sometimes closer to 12. Maybe I will aim for closer to 600 calories. I am also always hungry, so i try to space out my food, but maybe i should try eating less often and more each time? I can easily pare down dinner to fewer calories, my dinners are 3/4 steamed veg.

[caito]

How tall are you?   You are an active person aside from running.  You work, you care for a toddler, it's not like you're lounging around all day.  If you are running 8-10 miles/day, you are burning 800-1,000 cals/day in addition to your BMR and your daily activity.   You are more than likely burning well over 2,000-2,2000/day.

If you are frequently genuinely hungry, that means your body is asking for fuel. 

I will stop now because I don't want to nag or to presume that you don't know your body the best.   But I am concerned because you are very active, you've been struggling with your weight and I know how difficult that can be emotionally, let alone with the stress of a big race approaching.   Maybe after the race it may be a good time to assess what your strategy has been, what is working, and what's not working, and what you might be able to tweak to do differently?

 

[teetime]

i grind it in the blender first into a powder, then put everything else in and blend

 if i ate 2000 cals/day i would be an elephant! I am running 8-10 miles on average, total, sometimes closer to 12. Maybe I will aim for closer to 600 calories. I am also always hungry, so i try to space out my food, but maybe i should try eating less often and more each time? I can easily pare down dinner to fewer calories, my dinners are 3/4 steamed veg.

Have you ever experimented with feeding your hunger and spending time away from the scale and calorie counting.  I am sure it would be scary but you are already so frustrated and the idea of you running running running and being hungry all the time is painful to just read about.  I am sure you would still eat whole healthful foods but what if you let yourself eat enough of them?  After your race maybe?  A one month experiment?

[Ice Cream]

I am channeling my inner Nancy Clark and I know that she would say 400 calories to fuel 2 runs in the morning is not enough.  How many total miles?   She would advise to eat more in the morning since you need to fuel your whole day.  Then later on in the day, eat less.  If you don't fuel enough, your body will hang on to every calorie it gets.

Following Nancy's plan, I will have eaten about 1200 calories by noon if I wake up at 6am to run 5-7 miles. (This terrified me at first because it seems like a TON!) Total for the day 2,000-2,200 (based on my height/age/weight/activity level at work) I'm not hungry at night now and the weight is coming off.

This makes sense, but I would be terrified, too.  On the other hand, I trust Nancy Clark knows what she is talking about, and your experience confirms, it seems.

[merigayle]

Have you ever experimented with feeding your hunger and spending time away from the scale and calorie counting.  I am sure it would be scary but you are already so frustrated and the idea of you running running running and being hungry all the time is painful to just read about.  I am sure you would still eat whole healthful foods but what if you let yourself eat enough of them?  After your race maybe?  A one month experiment?

yes and then i gain and then if i think about what i was eating, it comes in around 1800 cals/ day. I am afraid to eat more because every time i eat even a little more i gain. I can try to experiment more after my race. On my long run days, I do eat 2500-3000 calories that day.

[merigayle]

making this for dinner, this was one of the first recipes i found on pinterest and it is a super winner---- http://www.weightwatchers.com/food/rcp/RecipePage.aspx?recipeid=126221 i do not use cheese, so even lower in calories. I may throw a little non dairy cheeze on top for the family.

[Bolloxd]

Hi ladies.   

Fairly active day for me since we took he kids to the local Sccience Center, lots of walking.   It was fun for all of us.  David squealed with excitement when he saw the dinosaur exhibit and made the staff giggle.   Then he saw them move and was scared to death.  They were well behaved at a restaurant too. Yay.

I picked wild black berries this afternoon and made a blissfully sinful cobbler.   At least we had a healthy dinner of pasts with tons of veggies.

Was hoping on a run but DH keeps saying he wants to run too.  OK,  fine,  but then do it and not back out leaving me with no time to run.   Ugh.  I'm just going to start doing it when I want/can and he can work around it.

[diablita]

mmm blackberries.  Ours need a few more weeks until ripeness.

[Magic Microbe]

Today was staff appreciation day at work. Apparently the university interprets this as feed us the cheapest grossest food possible...undercooked dry fried rice, a nasty cold egg roll, and a leathery chicken skewer. Of course I still ate it because I was starving. I did good with working out today. An hour on the treadmill. I always find it funny when skinny people get on next to me and try and compete with me. They look at my screen and then turn theirs up to just faster than mine...only they never last more than a few minutes. It cracks me up.

[merigayle]

my weight is back down. i just do not understand, however, i will say, DD got on the scale and it weighed her 2lbs heavy and we have an infant scale and we had just weighed her on that, and i trust that more, it was the same as the dr's scale. I did not make my 5am run because i was just exhausted yesterday, but i do have time for 2 runs today, but i wanted to run some errands before work instead of running. Oh well.

[merigayle]

how good does this look?

http://kblog.lunchboxbunch.com/2011/11/tofu-hash-brown-breakfast-pockets.html

[debbatx]

My alarm went off and as I was contemplating getting up, the dog started to barf. DH took her outside, which woke up Reid.

No run for me. Gym tonight, though.

[debbatx]

Oh, FFS. I'm on the verge of having to fire my trainer. Goddammit. Fuckity-fuck-fuck-fuck.

DO. NOT. NEED. THIS. SHIT.

Sorry, I'm in a mood right now. DH pissed me off and now this. 

Where's the chocolate?

[teetime]

Where's the chocolate?

Go power walk off your anger instead!

[debbatx]

I'm at work!

[Magic Microbe]

What happened with the trainer?

[debbatx]

Whenever he has problems with his fiancee, he gets flirty with me. They're on the verge of breaking up, if they haven't already, and he's sending flirty texts again. And yes, he knows I'm married. He used to train both of us. 

He's not flirty in person, usually, which makes it harder for me to handle the texts.