Gazelles On Crack

You Are What You Eat

May 13, 2009

Breakfast: instant oatmeal with peanut butter; 16 oz. fat-free latte

Morning sipper: green smoothie made with green apple, spinach, mixed frozen fruit (berries & pineapple), flax seed & vanilla soymilk

Lunch: 3/4 cup cottage cheese; 1 slice wheat bread with 1 serving deli turkey & honey mustard

Dinner: Chicken & mixed vegetables, couscous w/ black beans & 1 slice of bread, 2 glasses of wine (3/10)

Water: 32 oz (boooooo)

Exercise: 40 minutes swimming (1250 yds)

May 12, 2009

Breakfast: 2 multi-grain waffles with PB & apple butter; coffee with soy milk

Morning snack: vanilla yogurt with cereal (waited too long for this snack, am very hungry)

Lunch: Moroccan stew (ate slowly, didn’t finish), baby carrots

Afternoon snack: pumpkin banana muffin (wish I’d eaten my afternoon banana, I was starving when I got home)

Dinner: couscous with wilted spinach & poached egg; 1 beer (1/10)

Water: 64 oz

Exercise: none

May 11, 2009

Breakfast: coffee with soymilk; oatmeal with PB

Morning snack: banana pumpkin muffin

Lunch: baked potato with cottage cheese

Afternoon snack: vanilla yogurt with cereal

Pre-run snack: 1 thin slice wheat bread, 1 TB peanut butter, 1 banana (PB & banana sandwich = yum!)

Dinner: moroccan stew, 1 glass of grapefruit juice

Water: 96 oz.

Exercise: 3 miles, slow & easy

May 10, 2009

Breakfast: coffee with creamer, 1 omelet (finished most of it), hashbrowns with ketchup, 2 pieces of wheat toast with butter & jelly. I was hungry!

Lunch: 1 granola bar

Dinner: mac & cheese with tuna; 1 muffin; 5 saltines with cheese & salsa; 1.5 beers (15.5/10)

Exercise: I moved about a bit. did a little weeding. planted some stuff. stood up occasionally. I am SORE!

Water: 100 oz at least - SO THIRSTY!

Definitely a big fail on the alcohol consumption this week, although a success for cutting back on my PB intake! This week should be better on the alcohol, and we’ll hold steady with the peanut butter. I may also consider cutting back on my cheese intake. maybe.

May 9, 2009

Breakfast: waffles with PB, apple butter; coffee with soy milk

Pre-race: small (yay me!) fat-free vanilla latte

Race: 1 gu

Post-race: 2 cinnabon bites, 1 dinner roll, 1 small jamba juice

Lunch: thin crust pizza, 1 banana, 1 beer (12/10)

Afternoon snack: saltines & salsa

Dinner: tortilla chips with a couple different dips, 1 snickerdoodle, 2 chicken tenders, 2 beers (14/10)

Water: lots

Exercise: half marathon, bitches

kind of a fail for both my training plan AND my alcohol intake this week.  Damn. Will have to to better next week!

May 8, 2009 (weigh-in)

breakfast: waffles, peanut butter, apple butter, coffee

lunch:pumpkin mole enchiladas, beer (8/10)

snack: sangria (10/10), chips & salsa

dinner: pizza & beer (11/10)

water: 80 oz

exercise: stretching

Weight: 144.6 (-1/-8.2)

May 7, 2009

Breakfast: 2 multi-grain waffles with peanut butter & apple butter; coffee with soymilk

Morning snack: banana

Lunch: schnitzel, spaetzle & green beans, diet dr. pepper

Dinner: wine; cheese sandwich

Water: 80 oz

Exercise: Yoga, 90 minutes