A Departure from the Routine

My husband and I had tickets to see A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Globe theatre last night at 7pm. It was a lovely play, very well done by the actors, with a few modern touches that heightened the comedy without changing the feel of the play. But it meant I had to have dinner before I left for the play but after my 4:00pm meeting, so around 5:30pm. This in turn pushed everything back, plus I decided the best way to make sure I got a run in was to do it in the morning after breakfast then have an early lunch.

So keeping to my usual eating every 3 hours schedule was not really an option. I try to do this in order to keep my blood sugar levels stable, in an effort to prevent myself from getting too hungry (and tired and moody) then overeating and/or snacking. Not to mention that I make the worst food choices when I am starving! I usually try to eat breakfast about 7:30am, with a mid-morning snack at 10:30am, followed by lunch about 1pm. This gives me enough time to digest before doing a workout or run in the afternoon, and means my recovery shake or bar becomes my afternoon snack about 4pm. In an ideal world we would then have dinner at 7pm but it’s rare for my husband and I to both be home before 7pm, so it’s usually closer to 8pm before get dinner. With dinner so late in the evening, the good news is that I am less likely to snack before bedtime. The bad news is that I often arrive home around 6pm tired and hungry with more than hour before dinner. This is when I am most likely to hit the junk food, and once I start on the chocolates or Doritos, I find it really hard to stop!

Far better to stick to my routine so I am not tempted to start on the junk foods!

The Score:

Calories:	Protein:	Carbs:	Fat:	Alcohol:	Fibre:
1945.75	117.10g	234.71g	59.42g	0	28.57g
	24%	48%	28%
Calories burned through exercise:		396

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
	Mattesson's Turkey rashers	3 rashers
	Mesa Sunrise cereal	60g
	Alpro Soy milk	120mL
	Sainsbury's Orange, Mango and Passionfruit juice	200mL
08:30	Black tea	500mL
09:45	Hill run
10:45	Strawberry lemonade Nuun electrolyte tablet in water	750mL
11:15	New Covent Garden Mexican chipotle chicken soup	300g
	Genius brown bread toast	1 slice
	Waitrose half fat Mature Farmhouse Cheddar	40g
	Fresh blueberries	100g
	Muller rice pudding smooth toffee	190g
12:45	Green Tea	250mL
14:45	Sponser Protein Snack bar	1 bar
	500mg Glucosamine sulphate	1 pill
17:30	Homemade chilli	400g
	Skim milk	200mL
22:00	Lindt Excellence 70% cocoa dark chocolate	40g
	Twinings Camomile, honey and vanilla tea	250mL
23:00	500mg Glucosamine sulphate	1 pill

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