Body Composition Challenge (Page 12)

Wow--very cool perspective!

But a bit of protein (with portion control) is needed cause carrots are high glycemic index.  They'll shoot your sugar up but not sustain it.  Portion control is difficult at best sometimes.....but we won't change body composition without BOTH regular exercise as well as the dietary changes needed (whether that be quantity or quality...)

I know you don't want to hear this but bread is bad if you are watching your weight.  It has a lots of simple carbs (sugar) in the processed grains that go unnoticed (http://www.livestrong.com/article/6682-understand-nutrition-facts-labels-bread/).  I suggest sprouted grain breads (http://www.foodforlife.com/our-products/sprouted-grain) as a more healthly alternative.  Toast it and add a tablespoon of natural peanut or almond butter and you have a great and filling snack.

8 slices of anything with carbs is too much in my opinion--eat some nuts with a small chuck of dark chocolate instead.

There a lot of good carb alternatives (potatoes, wild rice, green veggies) but I stay away from pasta, breads, and white rice when I am trying to change my body composition.

YES!  Add the protein back!!!!!

Not such a great day for nutrition....networking breakfast for work was scrambled eggs and 3 cubes of cantaloup (Add that word doesn't look right, but I suck at spelling and that's what spell-check is telling me so I'm going with it!)  It was from a buffet so no clue what the content was from a fat perspective.

Onto lunch with my boss.....he wanted Indian, probably one of the hardest places to eat at when watching diet.  I ate 2 of these appetizer things, fried that had cauliflower in it, uggggg!  Lunch I had prawns in a tomato-based sauce (lots of sugar in tomatoes) and of course Naan bread.

On the way home I stopped at Whole Foods and they had almond-butter samples and I was starving, so I had 3 samples which were served on crackers....ugggg......but damn they tasted so good!  (As I mentioned I can no longer keep Almond or peanut buter in my house due to my half-a-jar habit) If it would not have been completely gross to do this in public, I would have licked the almond butter off the cracker on tossed the cracker, but I have manners

Tomorrow is supposed to be my cheat meal.....may need to rethink that now.

Shake it off Abs!  It happens.  My nutrition sucked today also.  Majorly craving carbs.  Had a ham sandwich and baked chips for lunch, followed by an afternoon snack of chicken breast with tomato sauce, onions, & provolone cheese.  Not bad, but I followed it with goldfish and Blue Moon Beer.  Dinner?  Oats with cranberries & walnuts,  LOTS of carbs today.....  Tomorrow is another day - Fresh start!

ewwww.  weird.

That's a lot of bread! Have you thought about other carbs? Maybe some brown rice with your tofu & greens?  Maybe make yourself some bean/rice dishes you can just nuke when you are hungry? I like gallo pinto - rice with cumin & onion, black beans and I just scramble an egg on top. Gives you all your protein and carbs and keeps you feeling full for a long time. Very easy to reheat and eat.

I was good yesterday... until the cork popped out of the bottle... red is a very pretty colour!

Okay, today is a new day.  Back on the plan.  I got me some goals to achieve!

10/31/11 Goals:
139 lbs
25% bf
In my size 6 jeans (publicly!)

I WILL reach my goals!