Keeping up the Carbohydrates

You wouldn’t know it from the final figures but I struggled quite a bit yesterday with my nutrient balance. With no dense carbohydrates at breakfast or in my morning snack, and the turkey cottage pie having only 300 calories and a goodly portion of those coming from fat, I was quite short of carbs and calories before my afternoon workout. Actually, everything I had that morning seemed to be high in fat, such as the two full eggs (reminding me why I usually only have 1 egg yolk in 3 egg whites) and pecans I had for my morning snack. For the same 17g portion as cashews they have an extra 4g of fat! So I spent most of the day playing catch up with the carbohydrates, having popcorn after lunch and rice with dinner, followed by chocolate mousse.

   

The problem with not getting enough carbohydrates is that they are the body’s main energy source. While the body can get energy from fats (and proteins) it takes longer and tends to make you feel sluggish. I am trying to get my body used to using fat for fuel, in order to reduce my body fat percentage, but I still need enough quick energy to power my workouts and keep me from feeling tired. And while you can get some carbohydrates from fruits, vegetables and dairy products, you have to eat quite large quantities to equal the amount of carbohydrates, and calories, found in potatoes, grains, rice and such.

Overall though a better day and back on track with the calories and exercise, so just a little work to be done on the balancing front.

The Score:

Calories:	Protein:	Carbs:	Fat:	Alcohol:	Fibre:
1739.31	106.93g	206.46g	61.16g	0	27.39g
	24%	46%	30%
Calories burned through exercise:		305

What I ate:

Time	Item	Amount
07:30	Vitamins - Centrum Advance A to Zinc, 400iu of Vitamin E, 1000iu Vitamin D3 and 500mg Glucosamine sulphate	1 each
	Cold water	200mL
	Scrambled eggs	2 eggs
	Heinz Beanz, reduced sugar and salt	185g
	Mushrooms	100g
	in butter	5g
	Sainsbury's pure squeezed pineapple juice	200mL
08:30	Black Tea	500mL
09:30	Raspberry and Echinacea tea	250mL
10:30	Brazil nuts	6g
	Pecans	17g
	Fresh raspberries	90g
11:30	Twinings Camomile, honey and vanilla tea	250mL
13:00	Turkey cottage pie	270g
	Butterkist butter flavour microwave popcorn	25g popped
13:30	Green tea	250mL
14:00	Weight routine
	Lemon lime Nuun electrolyte tablet in water	750mL
15:30	Total Greek yoghurt	125g
	Sainsbury's frozen mixed blueberries and strawberries	100g
	Sponser vanilla Recovery Shake	20g (1 scoop)
	mixed with skim milk	150mL
18:45	Orange, mango and cinnamon tea	250mL
20:00	Baked salmon	90g
	Long grain and wild rice	50g dry weight
	Kraft Light Honey Mustard dressing	10g
	Steamed broccoli	108g
	Sainsbury's Be Good to Yourself chocolate mousse	62.5g
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.