This was a rather luxurious food week for me, very much the sort you might expect in December. Three times lunch or dinner consisted of various cheeses and pâtés with crackers and chutney, while I enjoyed a glass or two of wine or port five of the seven days. Not that this meant giving up my usual treats of fruit cake and dark chocolate, which I also had most days!
So as you might expect my average daily calories this week were about 2030, nowhere near my usual goal of less than 1800. Even worse in my estimation was the average daily protein being just under 20%. Now I don’t mind the carbohydrates being 48% or the fat being 28%, that’s pretty normal, but it was one of my harder training weeks so I really can’t afford to get much less than 25% protein. I still have another hard training week to go before a rest week, so if I am to adequately recover between sessions I really need to get my nutrition right. I’ve been lucky so far to not have caught a cold or the flu, since a hard training program can depress your immune system, especially if you don’t get enough rest or enough to eat (another reason why trying to lose weight by dieting hard while training hard doesn’t really work). On the plus side, I’ve been much better at getting more fruits and vegetables in my diet over the past couple of days, so maybe my usual five a day has helped keep the seasonal viruses at bay.
Ah well, all the pâté and most of the cheese has been eaten now and I’m out of gluten free crackers and Christmas cake. Once again, the simple way to prevent myself from eating these foods is not to bring them in the house, which will be the strategy this week. Hopefully I can have one last less calorific and higher protein week before the madness of Christmas truly sets in.
The Score:
Calories: | Protein: | Carbs: | Fat: | Alcohol: | Fibre: |
1867.40 | 78.41g | 234.33g | 67.63g | 0 | 21.29g |
17% | 50% | 33% | | ||
Calories burned through exercise: | Rest Day | |
What I ate:
Time | Item | Amount |
07:45 | Vitamins - Centrum Advance A to Zinc, 400iu of Vitamin E, 1000iu Vitamin D3 and 500mg Glucosamine sulphate | 1 each |
Cold water | 200mL | |
Sainsbury's Be Good to Yourself smoked bacon medallions | 50g | |
Gluten Free fruit muesli | 70g | |
Alpro Soy milk | 120mL | |
Sainsbury's pressed apple and cherry juice | 200mL | |
08:30 | Black Tea | 500mL |
10:00 | Raspberry and Echinacea tea | 250mL |
11:15 | Sainsbury's Freefrom iced rich fruit cake slice | 1 slice |
11:30 | Herbal fruit tea | 250mL |
13:45 | Lee's Hippy Farm Beans (from Leon's recipe book) | 315g |
Alpro Soya Original | 200mL | |
14:15 | Green Tea | 250mL |
16:30 | Bounce Peanut Protein blast | 49g |
Camomile tea | 200mL | |
18:45 | Caffeine free black tea | 450mL |
with skim milk | 60g | |
and sugar | 2 tsp | |
20:15 | Roasted butternut squash | 201g |
20:30 | Mrs Crimbles's Cheese crackers | 30g |
Waitrose Long Clawson Creamy Blue Stilton | 18g | |
Sainsbury's Italian Parmigiano Reggiano | 13g | |
Essential Waitrose Brussels paté | 35g | |
Waitrose smoked salmon paté | 30g | |
Waitrose Carmelised red onion chutney | 25g | |
Tomato | 76g | |
22:00 | 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.
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