I am eating like a horse to fuel these triathlon training workouts. I am totally exhausted! Two weeks to go...

Saturday:
B1 - raisin bran, skim milk
B2 (pre-brick) - raisin bran, skim milk
S - 3 clif shot blocks while on the bike
L - more salad w/grilled chicken, probably something else I forgot too
S - small DQ oreo cookie jar blizzard
D - pasta w/sauce made from broccoli, garlic, onion, jarred sauce, parmesan, cannellini beans
E - brick workout -- 1 hour interval bike ride (13 miles) immediately followed by 30 min negative split run (2.5 miles). Too hard, I almost puked on the run.

Sunday:
B - raisin bran, skim milk, blueberries
L - big bowl of leftover pasta and broccoli sauce
S (pre-bike) - half a clif bar
S (post-bike) - other half of the clif bar
D - DH is cooking me chili (OM NOM NOM) which will be served on elbow macaroni, plus we've got corn on the cob (I ate 1.5 cobs) and I bought a loaf of crisp-in-the-oven bread (ate 2/3 of it, it was small). Quite a feast but I'm starved after today's workout.
S - chocolate milk
E - swim in the reservoir for about 20? minutes (no watch, not sure), immediately followed by biking home from the reservoir, 16 miles of the hilliest terrain you can find in central Indiana

Sunday

B - Trader Joe's fat free yogurt with honey, half a pack of strawberries

L - packaged baighan bharta, half a container of rice

S - cherries

S - latte

D - panera - cup of chicken tortilla soup, half a turkey sandwich on whole wheat with tons of veggies and spicy mustard, tiny apple

Well, Sat went downhill after I posted. Yesterday was pretty much OP except for a G&T before dinner.

Monday
B - 1/2 cup cottage cheese; nectarine; ww toast with pb;
L - salad with either grilled chicken or egg salad; avocado; red peppers
D - grilled salmon, sweet potato, broccoli
S - protein shake; yogurt with strawberies
Ex - LBWO with a short cardio warmup

Jessica, you're working hard!
Weekend was so/so. Not perfect, not horrendous.
Yesterday:
1/2 sweet potato, 2 eggs
1 hr weights
salmon salad with tomato
meatballs, zucchini, watermelon
3.4 mile run

Monday:
B - raisin bran, skim milk, blueberries
L - my once-a-year family recipe of steamed yeast dumplings with blueberry sauce. No idea how many I ate, but it was quite a bit. That is why it's a once-a-year recipe!
D - cooking light baked stuffed shells
E - rest day for once. Actually it wasn't supposed to be but I was too tired to do anything else.

Tuesday:
B - scrambled egg beaters (=2 eggs) with some sauteed peppers, toast w/butter, nonfat yogurt w/honey and blueberries
L - leftover shells
S - peach, apple
D - leftover macaroni & chili
S - leftover dumplings w/blueberry sauce
E - 1 hr interval bike ride this morning (12.6 miles), dog walk this afternoon

Wow. Now I can't get the thought of those smores out of my head...

Weekend catch up -

Finished Saturday well, spaghetti instead of meatloaf to carbo-load for the race Sunday. Like Jessica, I have been crazy staving the last couple of days.

Sunday -
B - pb&j before race
S - mini ice cream sandwich, mini rainbow popsicle, 190 cal bag of mini sandwich cookies, 1/4 small plain bagel, 1/4 banana (of course I tossed the healthy stuff and ate the ice cream and cookies...)
L - 1 svg leftover spaghetti
D - cookout at the neighbors - 9 doritos, bubba burger on bun, chicken & spinach sausage on bun, 2 spoons of roasted red potatoes that we brought so not too bad, 2 brownies (Duncan Hines, cut into 36 per pan, so smaller than normal), 1 lemon bar,3 shots of apple brandy
E - Peachtree Road Race

Monday -
B - greek yogurt, thin bagel, coffee
L - 5 ounce angus steak, roasted red potatoes, roasted veggies, 1.5 yeast rolls, pilsbury brownie bites (3, one serving)
S - peach, coconut chocolate nest from Easter candy
D - my ground turkey enchiladas, rice, 5 ounces cabernet franc
S - light ice cream bar
E - yoga

Today -
B - greek yogurt, black tea
S - peach
L - grilled chicken salad
S - kashi go lean or luna protein bar, maybe a starbucks iced via
D - pasta with veggies in red sauce, or maybe salad
S - light ice cream bar
E - still pretty sore from Sunday, some yoga planned and maybe some light strength training, but no run yet I don't think

Monday

B - 1/4 cup steel cut oats, 2 big spoonfuls of apple butter

L - went to Stir Fresh Mongolian BBQ - shrimp and veggies over a tiny scoop of rice

S - latte

S - cherries

D - small steak, small sweet potato, big pile of roasted brussel sprouts

Hi! Just started easing into maintenance, so I'm going to go ahead and join in, if that's OK with everybody. I tend to eat four to six times over the course of the weekdays, when I'm home alone, and back closer to 3 a day over the weekend, when my husband is here.

Breakfast: Black cherry smoothie. They're cheap and in season, so I am eating a lot of them right now.

Snack: Homemade guacamole, 2 sesame Ryvita.

Lunch: Indian stir-fried cabbage, cantaloupe

Dinner: 2 egg + asparagus frittata, steamed broccoli, large green salad

Snack: 40 grams All-Bran, 1/2 cup strawberries, 1/2 cup unsweetened soy milk

Weekend was mostly OP despite the BBQ - did healthy stuff, but did have 2 light beers. Took a water aerobics class yesterday...fun!

Went this morning for what is hopefully the last round of horrific injections so I have a few days of intense pain ahead of me. Sigh. Luckily we set ourselves up so we don't really have to cook dinner by making a "salad bar" for the fridge...carrots, black beans, leftover grilled chicken and corn from our 4th BBQ, cucumber, sauteed zucchini, steamed broccoli, and lots of romaine.

Plan for today:

B - Bagel thin w/ turkey, cream cheese
S - Fruit Salad
L - Salad from fridge stocks
S - Protein shake
D - Salad from fridge stocks
S - NSA Ice Cream

E - 60 min treadmill, water aerobics tonight if shoulder can possibly stand it.

Yesterday went pretty much as planned, though I subbed applesauce with the yogurt instead of strawberries

Amanda, my summer "go to" salad for potlucks is black beans, corn and diced tomatoes with jalepeno (usually the canned ones, drained). FOr myself I don't add anything, though for a potluck I may add a little EVOO. Everyone loves it, and it's soooo easy.

B - 1 egg scrambled with a little crumbled sausage, ww toast,
L - spinach salad with grilled chicken and whatever else I come across in the fridge
D - hmmm, DH is sick and probably won't eat much. I'll like clean up whatever leftovers are there.
S - Greek yogurt and the first strawberries from our garden

Ex: 1 hour bike ride

Hey Catherine

B - 1/2 cup oatmeal, apple butter

L - in an effort to clean out our pantry before we move, I had some packaged Benagli lentils (320 calories) + 1/2 container of brown rice (170 calories)

S - latte

S - cherries

D - something easy, will post later.

Hiya Catherine! What do you put in your Indian stir fried cabbage?

I use about 2 teaspoons of ghee (any oil would work, I just find ghee easy to measure when I've kept it in the fridge and it's gone solid), a mixture of whole spices - either panchpooran, or roughly 1/2 teaspoon each of black onion, fennel, cumin and mustard seeds, several minced cloves of garlic, a small, thinly sliced yellow onion, thinly sliced cabbage and then I finish it with a bit of cayenne pepper, a teaspoon of garam masala, and the juice of about half a lemon (or lime, if that's what I've got on hand). You just heat the oil, chuck in the whole spices, add the onion and garlic when the spices start popping, let them start to soften, and then put in the cabbage and stir fry until everything goes wilty and starts to brown, and then you finish with the cayenne, garam masala and lemon juice.

I probably eat this at least once a week, I love it so much.

That cabbage sounds exciting! (and yes, I did just use "cabbage" and "exciting" in the same sentence!)

Today:
1/2 sweet potato, eggs
peach
meatballs, zucchini
greek yogurt
avocado
bite of brie to keep from inhaling the kitchen while making dinner
hamburger over veggies
watermelon

exercise will be a 3-3.5 mile run.

Exercise yesterday was not a run. Wound up walking 1 mile while DS (7) rode his scooter and we cheered and danced for DD (17) while she did her training run. It was fun!

Scale down 3!

Today:
morningstar patties, pepper jack, strawberries
strawberries
veggies, hamburger
greek yogurt
dinner?
exercise: run of some sort. DD is doing speed intervals, maybe I will too!