Good evening bloggies! Let’s go back to breakfast …
1/3 cup oats, 1/4 cup skim, 1/4 cup water, other half of my pre-run Macintosh, cinnamon
Lunch was eaten at work and looked like this:
Repeat pic – Blueberry Chobani and Kashi Honey Sunshine
I also had a huge Macintosh and Candy Cane Lane!! It was pepperminty and sweet – not exactly like a candy cane, but pretty close! Leaving work at around 3:45, I had an Emerald Nuts 100 calorie pack of almonds and walnuts. I’m not so good at portioning nuts (who is?) so I love these, especially the cocoa roasted almonds – sooo chocolatey and yummy!
Dinner was a huge d-hall salad from a different dining hall than I usually eat at. On my plate, I piled
- Romaine
- Baby spinach
- Cucumber slices
- Jalapeño pieces
- Broccoli florets
- Red pepper strips
- Red onion
- Kidney beans
- Chickpeas
- Sunflower seeds
- Balsamic vinegar
They didn’t have salsa OR hummus! Ahh! I was hungry two hours later. Really, it’s because I had no hummus. I actually can’t remember the last time I didn’t have hummus with dinner … With some time to kill in between dinner and chapter, my little and I stopped at Starbucks. I wanted something sweet and warm, so I got a tall caffé misto with skim and two pumps of sugar-free cinnamon dulce syrup. It could have been a little sweeter, but it was still just what I wanted.
I use the dining hall to supplement my fruit stash. Tonight I swipe two small bananas, a Granny Smith, and two teeny apples. Look how cute and small!
As soon as I got home, I knew I wanted a snack with yogurt and apples and grapes. When I opened my fridge, I realized hummus was completely missing from today. A snack plate fixed all these problems:
Vanilla Chobani, grapes, teeny apple (+ cinnamon added after), carrot and hummus
Ate it all. Loved it all. Especially dipping the apples and grapes in the Chobz. Mmmm : p
I really tried to limit my sodium intake after last night’s dinner of salt broth and I think I did a pretty good job! I also have drank (drunk? I feel like I should know this as an English major) more water than I normally do, but not as much as I wanted to. I did eat A LOT of watery foods though – romaine, apples (3 in one day – it’s an addiction), grapes, etc. Hopefully my salt-induced puffiness will be gone tomorrow!
I’ve realized lately that I don’t eat 3 large meals a day, but 4 smaller one with 1 or 2 snacks – generally before working out in the morning and something in the afternoon. This is what works for me, especially since I get extremely snacky at night, whether I’m truly hungry or not. By spacing out my calories like I do, I’m able to eat more at night and be satisfied, other than just randomly snacking later on because of boredom, tiredness, or whatever the reason is I always feel like eating at night. I think a lot of times, people think that they should be eating what and when others do – forgetting that everyone’s body is different. I think that is why the majority of diets fail – they are not custom-made for anyone, but marketed for mass “production.”
What works best for you? 3 big meals? Multiple snacks? No snacks?
