If you’ll remember my post from about this time last week my daily diet plan did nothing but continue on the same course as it had been the week prior, which was fine, I was getting used to the course sizes and I was doing my best to mix it up to keep it from getting boring (although I do tend to have the same breakfast most days since I’m still too drowsy to really care about variety).
Yes, I realize I’m making it sound like there’s been a world rocking new development in the project, my part of it at least, but really that hasn’t been the case. Not at all really. There have been some changes--some minor, some that will take some getting used to--but all in all it should make for an easy transition within the next few days, luckily for me because the diet changes have been some of the harder parts of this project for me (for some weird reason).
So here you have it, the newly improved diet plan, we’re really cooking now...(a bit much? Yeah, I thought so):
Breakfast
80 g carbs
100 g fruit
150 g veg.
[nothing new here]
a.m. snack
100 g fruit
half spoon of protein powder [haven’t had to do this before, luckily it’s only a half scoop, otherwise...]
Lunch
170 g carbs [20 more grams than the last version]
250 g veg.
1 spoon of protein powder
afternoon snack
100 g fruit
Dinner
80 g carbs
200 g veg. [100 more grams]
p.m. snack
2 bananas
1 spoon protein powder
In addition, have two spoons of protein powder within 30 mins of finishing your workout.
So, as you can see, there hasn’t been any huge or drastic changes there with my daily meals since the last version.
Except for my dinner meal. Yesterday was my first official day with these updated measurements and, by and large, it was easy and I was filled up after every meal. There wasn’t much added to any of those meals to make me take a step back from my counter and go, “Wait, wait, wait a sec, Patrick, why the heck are you trying to pull here, eh?” Except for my dinner meal. As you can see above, I am now eating 200 grams of vegetables every night for dinner. I had been used to eating 100 grams each night for dinner but now I have to kick it up a notch; my stomach’s going to be in for a wild ride in the evenings.
Of course it’s doable but there must have been a look of shock on my face when I saw how much was on my plate for dinner. Now, I know that I eat fifty more grams of vegetables a day for lunch but that’s for lunch, my eyes aren’t used to seeing that much food in the evenings anymore so there’s a bit of shock going on there.
And I’m still laughing at myself for being so shocked and full after my meals considering that 200 grams of anything before the project would have just been a starter meal on my way to the main course for dinner. Now 200 grams has me floored and wishing for 100 grams again. How odd.
It will be nice, however, to have a full regular sized meal for dinner on the weekends with the family. 100 grams of vegetables and a mere 80 grams of carbs just wasn’t saying “cozy meal with my loved ones”. Now I’ll have something resembling more of a usual Sunday night meal to enjoy in the company of people that I enjoy.
Have a fantastic day.
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3 comments:
Sean,
Do you just mix the protein powder in water?
Sometimes. Every once in a while I'll mix it with soy milk if I'm not in the mood for pure evil because, and listen closely, water mixed with two big spoonfuls of soy protein powder is without a doubt one of the most awful things imaginable that you could subject yourself to.
Also I can rest easy knowing that I get all of the other bodily requirements (calcium, vitamin B12, etc.) that I don't think I can get from anything else on my version of the diet.
That's a good point and a good idea. I have only had protein powder in a smoothie and couldn't taste it, not to mention in a high calorie smoothie it probably did no good, but I have always heard it is the essence of gross by itself in water. Soy milk rocks.
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