kaburns1214 Mentor Group 2012 Part 2 - CLOSED (Page 174)

As for nutrition, I'm with you Karen.  I'd look at calories, fat and sugar.  Not too much on the carbs.  It's amazing the stuff you've pointed out Kelly, all the bold items you list in food, is just another form of sugar.  That is crazy!!!

Today;

7:15 - 2 egg whites, 1 whole egg (i need some flavor) with spinach

9:30 - Celery with Nat PB

12:00 - Leftover Butternut Squash Soup I made last night - So good!!!!!

2:30 - Chobani Greek Yogurt - I can't stand the plain greek yogurt, it makes me gag. Is there a flavored greek yogurt that does not have the sugar content Chobani does?

Dinner - Turkey Burgers -

Snack - I'm not sure, lets hope it's not those PB M & M's sitting on my counter.  I wish people would stop buying those!!!!!!!

Morning sickness can have odd symptoms like that sometimes.....

That's not funny.

Here's my food for the day:

5:30 a.m. - Exekiel muffin & 2 eggs

6:30 a.m. -- Swim & Lift

8 a.m. -- Peach Fruition Bar

10:30 a.m. -- Carrots, Snaps, Yogurt w/ Cacao nibs & coconut

1 p.m. -- Salad w/ spinach, avocado, mushrooms, cucumber & chicken

4 p.m. -- Mango & cherries

6 p.m. -- Turkey chili & goat cheese

7:30 p.m. - Yoga

No, it's not funny.  The thought did cross my mind.  I'm going to go with stomach bug for the sake of my sanity.       

Tough crowd. I'll be here all week, try the veal.

Today Food Log:

7 AM- Granola

8 AM- whey, natty pb, almond milk

10:30- Banana

Noon- Leftover Stuffed Pepper, Salad

2:30- Tuna w/ 1 tbls of light mayo, handful of almonds

Dinner- spinach and goat cheese salad w/ grilled chx and balsamic

Snack- Organic vanilla yogurt & frozen berries

Nobody feel sorry for me, I'm fine.  My back does not even hurt (much), it's the darn sciatica.  Which has really improved the last few weeks.  Gone from an 8 out of 10 to about a 3, which is tolerable.  Anyway, my issues are trivial.  I just shared with you all the results since I complain a lot about my hamstring.

Jeff - I have not tried a chiropractor, but have thought about it.  If all those discs are jammed up in there, maybe it will help.  They kind of scare me though.  (Why a needle being pushed into my back, right near the spine does not bother me I have no idea.  The thought of someone cracking my back, and especially my neck, really freaks me out.  I'm a chiros worst nightmare, I tense up, and there's not easy cracking.  My husband is a chiros dream, they barely have to look at him and his entire back cracks.  Ha!)

Scott - what is natty butter?  Is it that powered PB stuff?

Today -

7 - coffee w/ unsweetened coconut milk (yippee, hubby finished off the soy milk)

8 - 3 eggs w/ mushrooms (yes 3, I was hungry!)

10 - greek yogurt

1 - salad with avocado, chicken, broccoli and walnut dressing, apple

3 - tangerine, pineapple, small handful of almonds, pistacios, cashews

Dinner - not sure but probably left over ground turkey w/ mushrooms, onions & stewed tomatoes

Oh yes, and I need to fit in a 13 mile run after work somehow since I did not get up early today.

Yah, not gonna happen!

just steer clear of the natural/organic stuff made in New Mexico, the FDA just shut down that plant (it was one of the ones making everyone sick). 

The goal of your max strength session is to work your muscles to failure (making them very sore).

A real deep tissue massage  (as compared to a sports massage or Swedish massage, etc. ) is going to dig hard into your muscles (making them very sore).  If you are too sore from the max strength to allow the MT to dig in as deep as she would have been able to "normally" dig, you're not getting the full benefit.

You know your body best.  I generally try to schedule massages on rest days or on swim only days so that the massage doesn't interfere with training and training doesn't interfere with the massage. 

I love Teddie Peanut Butter.

Yeah, it was a bit painful - note to self: avoid a workout the same day as a deep tissue massage...

Well the 13 miles didn't happen last night.  I tell you, my work place is just absolutely crazy!  You wouldn't believe half the stuff if I told you.  Very hostile environment, mentally, not physically, although that is debatable depending on who you talk to.  And there's a current "investigaton" going on regarding both the mental & alleged physical abuse.  It's almost comical.

Anyway, got in 11 miles this morning and felt fabulous to be out, I love running in the dark all bundled up.  It makes me happy to get a good workout in before work.

Hope everyone has a wonderful day!

Rest day for me, and it was glorious to get 8.5 hours of sleep  

Nutrition: 7 a.m. - 1 egg, 3 egg whites, spinach, and tomato + apple slices 
10 a.m. - grapefruit and cottage cheese 
12 p.m. - leftover white fish + leftover cauliflower rice mixed with shredded carrot salad 
3 p.m. - plain Greek yogurt with slivered almonds, shredded coconut, and flaxseed 
6 p.m. - chicken breast, streamed broccoli, and veggie salad with homemade dijon dressing

Got the 1:30 bike in last night with 10x30sec all outs with recovery. It almost didn't happen due to some saddle soreness. I really hope the Adamo helps that supposedly I am getting for Christmas . I am sure I will get used to it. I think it is just these are the longest rides I have done in aero and it is a 'new' area that has to be built up.

Food today:

Bagel w/PB

2 clementines for snack

lunch is turkey sandwich (real turkey not deli)

banana and maybe some wheat thins

dinner is still undecided, last night was my one time a week indulge meal and we had pizza and pulled out the Christmas decorations

I have a run and ZR bike tonight, I will get the run in before dinner hopefully and the ZR ride in while watching the Saints take down the dirty birds!

Hope everyone has a great day and thanks for the PB choices as well!

Hey Jen could I get your homemade dijon dressing recipe? Enjoy the day off, well from training anyway

Huh.  Kinda sounds like my place.  Currently my boss is playing managers against each other and seeing if someone will roll another under the bus for some issues we're having.  Good thing he's not good enough at it that we don't all laugh about it behind his back.

Hour on the trainer today.  Low HR.  Kinda boring but good to catch up on DVR'd stuff.

Nutrition plan for today:

7AM(post workout)- whey, oats, natty pb, almond milk

10- Egg white omelet with onions and reduced fat cheese

Noon- Boca Burger (2), greens, dressing

Mid Afternoon- ???

Dinner- Baked Chx Nuggets, roasted cubed sweet potatoes

Prebed- Organic yogurt, frozen berries.

My food:

5:30 a.m. -- Ezekiel muffin w/ PB & mango

Run

10 a.m. -- Carrots, snap peas, almonds & cashews

12 p.m. -- Lunch salad & cherries

4 p.m. -- Halo bar & banana

7:30 p.m. -- Turkey soup w/ spinach & carrots

Bike

Need some advice.  I need to 20 CEUs to keep my USAT Level 1 certification current.  Problem is the easiest way to do this is to view USAT webinars and then take the USAT quiz after watching the webinar (the webinar id $25 and the test is $10 -- so USAT makes $700 per coach of the process).  If these were meaningful educational opportunties it'd be worth the cost but a lot of them are high level overviews of specific coaches preferences.  I'm trying to make this process as meaningful as possible.  Below are the webinars I'm considering.  Thoughts?