Getting the Timing Wrong

As part of my yearly health check up, I had a fasting blood test yesterday. This means going without any food or drinks (besides water) for at least 12 hours before the test. While I know I was given the first appointment that morning, I still found it screwed up the timing of my eating for the rest of the day. As I had breakfast so late, I decided to skip my usual morning snack and go straight to lunch. This would have been fine except I had a business appointment at 3:30pm which meant I had to have my run at 1:30pm so I could be stretched, showered, dressed, blown dry, made up and out of the house by 3pm. I meant to take a second afternoon snack with me but was in a hurry so I forgot, so my only afternoon snack was a recovery shake at 2:15pm – a good 5 hours before I had dinner at 7:30pm.

Needless to say, by the time I got home at 7:15pm I was exhausted and ravenous. Thank goodness my husband was cooking and had gotten home early enough to make a beautiful fish pie from scratch (with plenty of cream and a perfectly browned mashed potato crust, the secret of which is ample butter, I'm told). I gulped down my first 300g portion of fish pie in record time, decided I was still hungry, so had another 175g. If there had been dessert in the house I would have had that too! An hour later I was so full I could hardly move and was experiencing classic indigestion. I would have been far better off having another 200 calorie snack at 5pm so I didn’t get too hungry, then sticking to the 300g portion of fish pie (with about 400 calories), rather than downing almost 500g of pie and 650 calories in one go. A perfect example of why I try to eat every three hours, and what happens when I don’t!

The Score:

Calories:	Protein:	Carbs:	Fat:	Alcohol:	Fibre:
1791.42	107.9g	197.31g	64.93g	0	24.06g
	24%	44%	32%
Calories burned through exercise:		388

What I ate:

Time	Item	Amount
08:45	Fasting Blood Test
09:00	Sainsbury's pressed apple and cherry juice	200mL
09:30	Vitamins - Centrum Advance A to Zinc, 400iu of Vitamin E, 1000iu Vitamin D3 and 500mg Glucosamine sulphate	1 each
	Cold water	400mL
	Mattesson's Turkey rashers	3 rashers
	Bob's Red Mill Pure Oats	40g
	with raisins	20g
	and walnuts	10g
	Seedless Red Grapes	100g
10:15	Black Tea	300mL
11:15	Black Tea	300mL
12:15	Spinach	25g
	Tomato	90g
	Kraft Light Honey Mustard dressing	10g
	Lee's Hippy Farm Beans (from Leon's recipe book)	320g
	Genius brown bread	1 slice
	Alpro Soya Original	200mL
13:00	Green Tea	250mL
13:20	Easy run, 28 minutes
14:00	Citrus Nuun electrolyte tablet in water	750mL
14:15	Sponser vanilla Recovery Shake	30g
	in Skim milk	225mL
19:30	Home-made fish pie	475g
21:30	Ellactiva Chocolate Calcium Chew	1 chew
	500mg Glucosamine sulphate	1 pill

Plus 500 to 1500mL of cold water sipped from a water bottle throughout the day.