Hi everyone,
As usual I'm having some problem with my diet and could use our collective mind for help. If I stay OP at home then I can get to 163 within a week and a half. But then I have to do a 10 day work trip to Kansas and I jump back up to 169, and then work my way back down. Today I'm a solid 165 but I leave for Kansas on Tuesday.
I know my problem: I eat out too much while in Kansas. It's just dinner, but still, I'm pretty sure that I get in way too many calories and way too many starches.
In any case, this is my diet while in the field:
before work:
LF yogurt with fiber one, or kashi go lean AND
half a cup of oatmeal with splenda and cinnamon
snack:
gnu bar or an apple or a cheese stick
lunch:
either one of the South Beach lunches for 240 calories (~18-20 protein)
or
a tuna sandwich (tuna mixed with relish or LF LC italian dressing, healthy life 35 cal per slice bread)
or
PB&J sandwich (same bread as above, natural PB w/ omega 3's, sugar free preserves)
AND
carrot sticks
AND
gnu bar or an apple or a cheese stick
Snack:
I always take a gnu bar, apple, and cheese stick with me, so whichever one of those I didn't already eat.
Dinner: RESTAURANT PIG OUT FEST!!! With beer if it was HOT
Obviously dinner, is my problem. I have given up trying to control myself at the restaurants. First, I can't check their menu online (we all hate chain restaurants), and second I just came back from 8-9 hours in the heat, with mosquitoes/chiggers/ticks, walking around a prairie and if a girl wants a beer after that then she deserves it!
or not.
Anyway, I need some dinner ideas. The difficulty is that I'm in a hotel room, I have a mini fridge (with freezer) and a microwave.
I'm ready to take with me my spices so that I can microwave some frozen vegetables. But, what's my protein? I can't microwave an egg. I can't bring with me my toaster oven. Luckily I'm in Kansas and not in Kenya so just about everything is available to me.
Any other ideas or adjustments to my field diet would be greatly appreciated as well!
Thanks!