LynneA - What is a protein brownie? Is this something you made yourself and can we have the recipe? It sure sounds better than a protein pancake to me!
Luckily, I work from home so the food selection here at the "office" is great and there aren't any vending machines.
Here's the plan for today:
B - Go Lean cereal with soy milk
S - decaf coffee with sugar free syrup and milk, maybe a piece of fruit or bread
L - brown rice with cream of mushroom soup and chicken; tomato, cucumber, strawberry and basil salad with balsamic vinegar
S - fiber cake
S - NF yogurt with strawberries
D - barbeque flavor pork tenderloin, green salad, and maybe some double corn spoonbread (new recipe, I'm not convinced its going to turn out)
Exercise: woo-hoo, already done for the day!!! one hour cardio (stair machine, elliptical, and treadmill) plus 15 min abs. I love having my exercise out of the way!
Blue, I'm one of those who loves loves loves getting exercise done and over with in the morning. Not because I hate it, in fact I feel great after my runs and I find myself more alert, BUT I don't have to think about it for the day and force myself to go when I'm tired and all I want is a hot dinner and bed.
I also love the friendship, confort and support found here. This site has such a wonderful vibe to it! I am also really proud of myself today, since I got up extra early this morning and ran 2.6mi. I am training to run in Columbus' Annual Turkey Trot race on Thanksgiving morning. It is a 5mi run. Not a 5k mind you (that's 3.6mi), it's 5mi. My sister and I have signed up, so wish us luck!
I hope to continue my clean, healthy eating...
B: 6 oz low carb/low cal yogurt (80cal), 1 med apple (80cal), 10 almonds (60cal)
L: Lean Cuisine ck & spinach (180cal), sm salad w. lots of veggies and some beans w. f.f dressing packet (100cal)
S: baby carrots w. 1 triangle of laughing cow light cheese (85cal)
D: spaghetti squash w. veggies, 1 chicken sauage link, sm amt of sauce (250cal)
S: f.f cottage cheese w. pumpkin, splenda (175cal)
Workout: Ran 2.6mi this morning, teach 1hr yoga class tonight
Blue, I took the protein brownie recipe from the ladies who lift forum, I believe Mel posted it first (might be wrong here):-
Pumpkin Protein Bars
8 egg whites
1/2 C low fat cottage cheese
2 C oats
1 C canned pumpkin
4 scoops vanilla protein powder
1/2 C water
1/2 C splenda
1 tsp vanilla
2 tsp pumpkin pie spice (cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, mace, ginger…)
1 tsp baking soda
Mix together in blender and pour in 9 x 12 pan, sprayed with Pam. Bake at 350for 20 minutes. Cut into 6 bars for a complete 240 calorie meal.
If you want these crunchy, then take the bars and cut in half then slice down the middle. Spray cookie sheet with cooking spray and place cut side down. Re-bake at 375 for so minutes until brown and crunchy.
Chocolate Flavored Protein Bars
Use same recipe as above, but substitute 2 tbs. Dry cocoa powder instead of pumpkin pie spices. Use chocolate protein powder.
I haven't made the pumpkin one yet, I go straight to the chocolate one. One thing I have found though. If you keep these in your fridge or pantry they go a little funky on top. By that I mean the brownies develop this film, almost a slimy consistency if left in pantry or fridge. Makes eating them difficult in my case. This time round I froze them the day of baking. I'm having one later so I'll let you know if the slimy film is still there, I think it's the protein powder causing this. They taste like regular brownie to me, you wouldn't think there is no flour at all in the recipe.
I absolutely have no appetite today due to a sinus infection, but I'm trying.
B: Apple, Green Tea 32 oz
S: Kashi Go Lean Crunch 1c
L: Deer Chili 1c and 2 tbsp cheddar
S: Apple, Green Tea 32 oz
D: Either deer chili with cheese or some spaghetti, whatever is readily available
I'm going to encourage you all to come back the next morning and tell us all how your day panned out. Plans change, life happens and I think the folks who read here might be interested to know how you cope.
With an add in of pizza! I ended up at 1622 cals. I had two protein pancakes and several of my veggies servings were squash.
My plan changed slightly. I ended up having just the strawberries for my am snack, no apple at lunch and instead of the protein brownie for my pm snack I had the banana. Oh and I did have 4 marshamallows before dinner and didn't have any extra veg with the stew.
one hour cardio (stair machine, elliptical, and treadmill) plus 15 min abs. I love having my exercise out of the way!
and didn't have any extra veg with the stew.
