What did YOU eat today?

So I thought it would be fun to start a thread to see what everyone is eating, and what/how much exercise they do. So fess up what did you eat today, and what did you do for an exercise. :)

UD

are we loving yogurt bc im rt there w/you

BFAST-bagel+PB, blueberry yogurt, apple

LUNCH-pastrami+edam cheese sandwich, fage 2%, strawberries, chocolate muffin top spread w/almond butter+trail mix

SNACK-granola+trail mix, cup of milk

DINNER-veg salad w/almond butter, egg salad sandwich (real mayo), cooked carrots

SNACK-bakery PB cookie, yogurt, apple

WO-danced around the house a bit but nothing really

Breakfast: Protein Pancake (2 egg whites, 1/4 c pumpkin, 1/4 c oats), tea

Snack: Espresso & Fiber One bar

Snack: Broccoli Cole Slaw w/ Walden Zero Cal Dressing (no mayo)

Lunch: 2.5oz Chicken, 2/3 c green beans, 1/4 c black beans

Snack: Espresso w/ sf caramel & splash ff milk

Exercise: Spin Class 60 mins

Snack: 1 Scp IsoPure Protein Powder & FF-SF Jell-o

Dinner: Lentil Burger, 4.03oz Flounder fillet, 2oz ff Cream Cheese, 4 Tblspoons exxxxtra hot salsa

Deficit: 1250

Looking at Alevin's food maksa-mia-hungray! lol!!! My question is are you finding you are loosing (body fat or lbs) with a smaller deficit?

Yep, yogurt is awesome. Except I am under no illusion that Frozen Yogurt from FroYo places is healthy, but it tastes good. :)

littlemalynda: Umm that is waaay too high deficit you should really decrease it to something around 600. You are at risk in putting your body in to starvation mode if you keep that kind of deficit on regular bases. You will also hit a plateu sooner. Unfortenatly I am talking from personal experience on this one. :( I hit a plateu and just got stuck there, then I started to eat more and lost more weight.

UD

UMNEY-agreed, also,

the deficit is way way too high, ever, and im not sure but i thought i read that you dont really have that muchm if any, weight to lose MALYNDA?

post foods in a bit..

Hi Umney & agruskin,

Yeah i really don't have much weight to lose... I put on there "goals" to get to 125 but at 135 now and I really don't mind much staying at this weight. Really, I have actually been at this weight now for about 1 year. I joined the gym (never active before then) in Nov 2007 and have been actively working out 6 days a wk since. I had an approx body fat of 27% now I'm around 18-19% range....

At this point (and actually previously) I don't really have any goals. I guess I would just like to get rid of the tiny bit of cellulite I have on my upper thighs. (and it's getting smaller and smaller every month)... so idk, I guess at this point I am really just eating as clean as I can... I find as long as I don't stray from my diet much and I don't take in much toxins (i.e. pot and alcohol consumption) I generally feel 110%. Normally do not like to run that big of a deficit either but I ran out of food early... lol. I am one of those people where if it's not health food & I'm sober, it won't go in my mouth. lol. Food guilt I guess?

But so you know I do "break the mold" once every 10 days or so.... for today I attended a baby shower so I ate 1/2 a bagel w/ regular cream cheese (!?!?!) and a handful of fruit w/ yoghurt dip. That will be in addition to the rest of my normal food day... I'll post my stuff later :). And today I am not doing any cardio. Weights for 75-90 mins (chest, tri's, shoulders) so not as much cal expenditure. :)

whats wrong w bagel+cream cheese?

Nothing is really wrong with it... it's just not something I like to put in my body... idk I have weird quirks with certain foods.

Bagels are "ok" I guess, but the only time when I would feel it's acceptable to eat one is carb-loading the night/morning before a big run. And even then i don't see those carbs as valueable... I would rather go for oatmeal, whole wheat pastas, or maybe some barley instead.... and as goes for the cream cheese, why eat full-fat cream cheese when the ff tastes just as good and is way better for ya? :) Just my reasoning.

Breakfast: Cinnamon raisin bagel w/ 1 tablespoon of 100% natural strawberry fruit spread, glass of original Almond milk

School- 3 floor building

School Lunch: Baked tortilla chips w/ salsa, 8 Cinnamon graham crackers, and Skim milk

Dinner: Veggie burger on ww bun w/ mustard and olive oil, Baked potato w/ pepper, and a Biscuit

Rubberband exercise- 1 hour

Snack: Maybe something from the vending machine at the YMCA (Will update later)

BFAST-bagel w/ PB, raspberry yogurt, apple

LUNCH-pastrami+cheddar on a roll, fage 2%, almonds, small chocolate chip muffin spread w/ PB, strawberries

SNACK-granola+trail mix, milk

DINNER-veg salad w/almond butter, salmon w/maple syrup, 3/4 large sweet potato

SNACK-apple, yogurt, TAKE 5 chocolate candy bar

WO-toning+light weights

Did not go to Jumpstretch, for a snack I had a bowl of oatmeal squares w/ real whole milk

Agruskin: I have thought about it and I think i'm just going to maintain for a while and see where that goes.

My meal plan for tomorrow-

Breakfast: Bowl of Total cereal w/ plain soymilk, Piece of toast w/ 2 tablespoon. of crunchy peanut butter

Morning basketball- 1 Hour.

School
Gym; Basketball-1/2 Hour.

School lunch: Huge peanut butter and Jelly uncrustable, Grapes, Skim milk or; Baked tortilla chips w/ Salsa, Grapes, Skim milk

Dinner: Slice of pizza w/ no cheese and topped w/ peppers and mushrooms

Snack: Coconut chocolate chew larabar

Around 1,700 calories

ICHI-him youre underweight, rt?  there is nothing to maintain then, thats not healthy, there are far too many health risks involved in that to name here, you really need to get to a healthy weight.  also, youre really young+w/ your level of activity you should most probably be able to eat more and still maintain your weight.  again, there are NO benefits to being underweight.

good luck

Ok so today:

Bfast: Protein Pancake (2 egg whites, 1/4 c oats, 1/4 c pumpkin) & tea

Snack: Espresso w/ splash of cream. 1/2 cinnamon bagel w/ 1oz reg. cream cheese & handful of cut fruit w/ tsp of yoghurt dip

Lunch: 2.5oz Chicken, 3/4c green beans, 1/4c black beans

Snack: 5oz (1 can) Chicken of the Sea Boneless, Skinless Salmon & 2 Keebler Club Crackers

Exercise: Weight Training 70 mins (chest, shoulders, triceps)

Snack: Isopure chocolate protein powder & ff/sf chocolate fudge jell-o

Dinner: Lentil Burger pattie, & Salmon Burger pattie w/ exxxxtra hot salsa on top

Deficit: 466

B: 12 oz brown cow yogurt, vanilla and coffee; coffee milk and sugar
L: whole foods salad - tuna, lima beans, mushrooms, roasted pepper, hearts of palm
S: zone bar
S: 1 oz smoked almonds, apple
D: 130G smoked sable, broccolini
S: 2 mandarin oranges

Workout:

NROLFW Stage 1, 8-rep squat day, treadmill intervals (30-45 sprint, 60 walk; hills and flat; and .25 pace for fun).  55 min in gym.

Update: 400 cal deficit

B - Pumpkin oatmeal with flaxseed, bran, cinnamon, raisins, almond butter, and made with skim milk; and an omlette stuffed with tomatoes, mushrooms, and onions.

S - Homemade bran muffin, peanut butter, an apple, and cottage cheese mixed with plain yogurt.

L - Homemade tofu "egg" salad sandwich on a whole pita, green beans, black beans, peas, and chopped bell peppers and onions.

S - Pistacio Lara Bar, half a banana, four hard-boiled egg whites, slice of Ezekiel bread.

D - TBD. 500 cals of somethin'.

S - Cup of yogurt mixed with half-cup cottage cheese, lots of ground flaxseed, walnuts, and the other half of the banana.

Exercise - TBD - I'll probobly do some sort of light activity, although I'm trying to gain.

It has began! lol

Breakfast: Serving of this almont "oatmeal" with PB2 on toasted Perfect 10 bagel

Exercise: 2h bike ride

Recover: 16oz glass of Horizon Low fat chocolate milk

Snack: Whole wheat dinner bun, with salmon pattie, with greens, with a bit of Greek yogurt and a dash of Wasabi.

Snack2: Half a cup of Dannon Light yogurt with few frozen berries mixed in.

Lunch: I made a burrito with stir fried onions, mushrooms in chicken stock with a splash of Xao Xin cooking wine, I mashed in Tex Mex veggie pattie, wrapped the whole thing in La tortilla Factory tortilla. For sauce I used greek yogurt and dijorn mustard.

Snack 3: A serving of Frozen strawberries.

Snack 4: Home made salad.

"dinner" So I went to this cooking class where we roasted a turkey and made some side dishes. I ate tons of turkey, White truffle mashed potatoes (about 5lbs Potatoes, 2 cups of whole milk, stick of butter, 3-4 tbs white truffle flavored olive oil), Green string peas caserole (green string peas in mushroom soup made from flour, mushrooms, whole milk, brie cheese and spices, we also added some more brie in to it, and some deep fried shallots. I went for seconds and thirds. :) Oh we also made cranberry sauce from scratch, and turkey gravy. I went easy on sauces but had bunch of mashed potatoes and turkey.

Snack 5: I wasn't all that hungry but was really craving more turkey, so I made a sandwitch with dinner roll and some turkey I brought back.

Ehh I am guessing around 3500 calories total today. On scales went from around 133 to 136+. Yes I know it's mostly just water gain and undigested food.

BFAST-bagel w/ PB, raspberry yogurt, apple

LUNCH-pastrami+cheddar on a roll, fage 2%, almonds, small PB muffin spread w/ almond butter, strawberries

SNACK-bowl of granola+trail mix, milk

DINNER-veg salad w/almond butter, fish sticks, big corn on the cob

SNACK-apple, yogurt, PB+J+raisins

WO -nothing much, danced around to music for a few mins

B: an acorn squash-like winter squash, coffee with milk and sugar
S: 1 oz almonds
L: turkey sandwich, 2 mandarin oranges
S: 2 luna bars <- vice, I was hungry
S: persimmon
D: 2 eggs, 1 really big artichoke, small apple

Exercise:  1.5 hour walk. This is a new approach for a post-weight-lifting day when I don't feel quite up for running.

Deficit: 250

• 1 Egg White & 2.5 oz Tilapia Fillet, espesso, black bean "brownie"
• CarbRite Protein Bar
• Lentil Burger, 1/3 c Peas, 1/4 c Black Beans
• BIG slice of Baskin-Robbins Oreo Cake (boss' b-day, can't say no )
• Exercise: 1 60 min Spin Class (using high weights rather than speed)
• 1.5oz Spinach (raw), 1 pkg of 90 cal Deli Meat (turkey) & Walden Farms no-cal dressing
• 3 Tbs Peanut Butter

Deficit 985. Tried to eat a little more yesterday but I just couldn't... my meals were so spaced apart that I had no hunger and I fought with my bf... Today I need to take in 1310 to make a 500 cal deficit. I will definitely shoot for it. .

oatmeal w/peanut butter & cranberries, 2 cups coffee

asian chicken soup w/red pepers & mushrooms I made last night

quick workout this a.m. eliptical 30 mins. and stretch.  Stressful morning.  Hoping to do more later.

Need some more exciting exercise plans...I have a stress fracture in my upper right dominant arm which still requires no weight bearing or lifting exercises for upper body.  Anything come to mind????

Probably legs... use the excuse to hit 'em hard. :)