Sooooo as I try to ramp up/be more consistent with training while building a base for my September IM, I find that I need a bit more fuel in my day.
The problem is, due to my job, most days I'm in the car, in and out of appointments, all day. This means I'm limited to food that (a) does not need heating, and (b) can be eaten while driving. (I'm pretty talented when it comes to b, although most of the time if I choose a salad for lunch, I will arrive at all afternoon appointments with a streak of dressing down my leg.)
I've been having real trouble lately getting enough to eat during the day. A lot of healthy choices don't seem to be filling enough at all, and I'll find myself toward the end of the day hitting up a drive-through for a chicken sandwich because I am way too hungry - legitimately hungry, not "ooh, mcchicken sounds good" hungry - to get through the rest of the day. Either that, or I will be STARVING by the time I get home for dinner. Sometimes a good, hard post-work workout is out of the question because I just don't have the energy.
This has been an ongoing issue - last year, for a bit, I was part of a running group that did hard runs (speed or hills) on Tuesday evenings right after work and I had a tough time not completely pooping out after a few miles.
Things I eat include turkey/chicken sandwiches on multigrain sandwich thins, celery with natural peanut butter (one of my faves, for taste and filling-ness), greek yogurt (also gets tricky while driving, but occasionally I can spare a few minutes in a parking lot), apples/bananas, and I drink V8 like it's going out of style, because I'm not a fan of raw veggies and they don't seem to fill me up as well (neither does salad). I drink lots of h2o too.
I'll do clif bars/protein bars/etc. but I hate feeling like I'm living on them and not "real food".
I'm hypoglycemic so I pretty much eat something every hour or two.
Got any more suggestions? I will eat most everything except I passionately hate cottage cheese!