How I Eat

This is not a food blog.  I would never want to post what I eat every day all of the time and I am seriously lacking in the cooking-skills department.  However, I thought it might be interesting to occasionally post what I have eaten in a day.  Right, here goes then.

[Note: this is what I ate yesterday.] 

Pre-run: two medjool dates.

Breakfast.I came back from my run quite late and wasn’t hungry.  Therefore I just made up a protein smoothie which contained:

• Half a sachet of Spiru-tein Vanilla protein powder;
• One and a half small frozen bananas;
• Half a teaspoon of Nesquik chocolate milkshake powder;
• A lot of water.

The smoothie was tasty and just what I needed to see me through until lunch, but only just – I pretty much ate at 12pm on the dot!I had a ‘Healthier Choice’ tuna salad pot from the supermarket and jazzed it up with some broccoli, houmous and fresh basil.  For dessert I had a pear and a packet of raisins.

I started to get peckish again at around 4pm, so I had a teacake spread with real butter.Then three hours later I had dinner.

A portion of wholemeal pasta with broccoli and homemade pasta sauce [it was made my the husband and contained tinned tomatoes, onions, peppers, garlic, fresh basil and a few more ingredients that I’m not sure of].  I stirred a tablespoon of nutritional yeast into it and topped with fresh basil.

Finishing off with dessert.Two dates – one stuffed with coconut butter and some Mexican Drinking Chocolate sprinkles and one stuffed with Dark Chocolate Dreams peanut butter, along with a mug of peppermint tea.

This was a good day regarding how healthy my food was and I think I did a reasonable job of matching my food intake to my hunger.  Sometimes I think I should be eating at certain time because I burned around 700 calories running.  For example, I felt like I should eat a proper breakfast but to be honest I wasn’t really that hungry for it.  Instead my hunger caught up with me in the afternoon so I had a large snack of a toasted teacake.  I need to learn to trust my body and I am making an effort to only eat when I am hungry and not because I think I should [or because I’m bored, lonely, sad etc].  Saying that though, I will always make sure I refuel with something after running, even if it’s just a smoothie because I do think it is important for recovery to get a good mix of protein and carbs after exercise.