What's on the workout/healthy eating agenda today?

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parothdsue

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I'm hoping to learn from all of you healthy folks here and would love to know what you all are up to today? I think that I've read so much about health and fitness that I'm utterly confused so I'd like to see what REAL people do... What workout are you going to do today and what's on your menu? Sorry to be so nosey but hoping to learn......
susan
 
Hi Susan,

My day goes like this,

5:30 am- 2 slices peanut butter toast, with whole wheat bread and 1 cup of Folgers Cafe Latte Skinny Vanilla Vibe (my weakness!)
6:15 am- Back and Bis workout at gym
8:15- 1 and 1/2 cups Uncle Sam Cereal with skim milk and a few raisins
11:45- huge salad with spinach, diced ham, hard boiled egg white, 2 % shredded cheese, shredded carrot, a few sunflower seeds, cucumber, broccoli, etc. and fruit for dessert
3:30- Zone Perfect Bar
6:00- Teach my Turbokick kickboxing class
7:00- teach my PiYo (yoga and pilates) class
8:45- dinner- tonight it is healthy baked chicken nuggets with steamed broccoli and some black eyed peas.

I eat similary throughout the week, but I only weight train in the mornings 3x a week. I play tennis 3x a week, and teach step on monday evenings and usually try to squeeze in two more cardio workouts.

Cari
 
I did Frannie Whats-her-name's HiLo....don't know the name of it, but she intermixes kickboxing in it. That was the workout for the day (40 minutes worth).

My menu: Breadfast stage 1: 1/2 c. Fiber One & 1/2 c. Kashi Go Lean with 1/2 c skim milk. Stage 2 is a can of water packed tuna with mustard and Mrs. Dash

Lunch: Salad with Spinach, Veggie Mix, Grape tomatoes, 8 oz. white meat turkey, a fat free dressing and a whole wheat pita. I have 1/2 at 12:00 noon and the rest at 3:00 pm.

Dinner: 4 fat free hot dogs (160 calories) 1 cup of Bush's Baked Beans (300 calories) and to top it off 2 cups of Jello Fat Free Sugar Free chocolate pudding (made with skim milk) and 1/4 cup of Peanut Wonder mixed in.

My calorie allotment is usually 1622, but today it will amount to 1710. I don't fret going over by that much.

I eat more at night because I don't like to get hungry before bedtime. And I DON'T buy the notion that eating before bed makes you fat. I go to bed early, so it's always just 2 hours between dinner and bed time.

So there. My day, and wasn't it exciting?! I break all sorts of food rules, especially the tuna for breakfast deal, but I don't care. It works for me.
 
Most days of the week I follow this routine....somedays when i get up later I have to eat breakfast before I can do anything.
6:00 cardio/weights
8:30: 3 egg whites, slice of ww toast with peanut butter
10:30 protein shake
12:30 half of a chicken sandwich with broccoli
3:30: fat free cottage cheese and fruit
5:15: run 8 kms or weight train for 45 min
6:30 : some type of lean meat,a carb and a serving of veggies
10:30-11:00 bed time

This is what my schedule is like if I have to work in the morning, if I don't go into work until 1:00 then my meals are not at the sametime and my workouts don't start until 10:eek:o and I eat at 8:30.And then when I get off of work at 9 I go for a run and then go to bed.But then again this is just a sample,everyday can't be exactly the same now can it? That would be a little bit boring.
Lori
 
Honeybunch...............

You really scare me sometimes! :)
We already knew we had the "favorite lunch" thing in common, but do you know I just love the nights hubby works late and eats at work so I can have one of my favorite dinners: Bush's Baked Beans (fat free vegetarian) and Oscar Meyer's fat free hot dogs! And I thought I was the only one eating 4 at a time! :) They're pretty darn tasty for fat free aren't they? I just wish they were bigger! :)

Donna
 
Hi Susan! Today I'm working back and triceps and abs. Because I lift heavy I'll consume 110g of protein, 220g carbs and 30g fiber. My menu will be:

Meal 1: 2 eggs sunny side up w/2 slices of a high fiber whole wheat bread w/no sugar raspberry jelly and a cup of coffee
Meal 2: 1/2 c of cottage cheese (no fat kind) & 1/2 cantaloupe
Meal 3: 3 oz. of tuna w/mixed green salad w/oil & vinagrette dressing
Meal 4: 1 string cheese & an apple
Meal 5: scallops w/brown rice & asparagus
Meal 6: post workout protein shake

Hope this has helped you, Kathy
 
RE: Honeybunch...............

If you were my room mate, we certainly wouldn't fight about food!!!!

Another one of my favorites (so much so that I can't keep it in the house) is Smucker's grape Goober. I'll eat it with a spoon! Love that stuff!

I'll also admit to an ice cream substitute, since to me a serving of ice cream is never less than a pint, and more likely a quart. You figure that even if you buy an ice cream with 4 servings (one pint) it would run at least 400 calories. I've been known to get an 8 oz. tub of fat free Cool Whip and sit in front of the tv with a spoon and the Cool Whip and eat the whole thing just like ice cream (375 calories for the whole container). It's actually more filling than ice cream.

Now, Miz Gettinfit@38, are you going to tell me that you eat F/F Cool Whip, too?! If that's the case, we were, for sure, separated at birth.
 
Hi Susan,

Mine will probably be the unhealthiest here! I don't know how you all measure everything and know how many cals and stuff you eat.

I hope to go for a bike ride when hubby gets home. If it's still cold and windy I'll spin. Did you Ohians know it was warmer in Akron last night than it was here in So. NV?

Breakfast: Hot chocolate, 2 sausage links, scrambled eggs, 1 WW toast with marg. (this is a rare breakfast for me, but that was it today!)

Snack: 2 snickerdoodles

Lunch: Probably Mac n Cheese. I've been having a craving. And an orange.

Snack: Who knows.

Dinner: Spaghetti is in the Crock pot and I even had fresh mushrooms! Yumm! I'm also gonna try a new garlic bubble loaf recipe and make a salad and maybe some peas.

I eat until satisfied and drink lots of water!

Andrea
 
Okay here's mine-
Breakfast - half and half Kashi Go Lean and Quaker 100% Natural cereal, about 1 cup in all, with nonfat milk

Work out 1 hour

Second breakfast- a Luna bar or 6-8 Breton crackers with regular peanut butter on 'em

Snack- cottage cheese on crackers or another Luna bar

Lunch- a Lean Cuisine and a lowfat yogurt, the fruity kind

Snack- more peanut butter crackers, I admit I have a problem here

Dinner- a Lean Cuisine or spaghetti and meatballs or 2 pc. Di Giorno pizza or shrimp & pasta or- a chicken whopper.

Snack- there's always a snack before bed. Can you guess what it is? No, sometimes it's a yogurt! I need a bit more variety but this works for me, taste wise. About 2800 to 3000 cals a day I think, but I need to cut back a few days a week and I'll get really trim I think. Right now I have a few "corners" on the hips and other places, like tummy.
 
Yikes, those crackers & PB will do you in....maybe you could find a substitute.

Why don't you keep careful track for a few days and see where you can make adjustments. If that's what you want to do, that is. Do you want to get rid of your "corners?" If not, disregard everything I just said.
 
Hmmmm...this might be a good thread for me. I like being accountable for what I eat/workout....

Workout today is 1 hr cardio...probably Rythmic Step...taking the week off of back and shoulders because I hurt my lower back last week.

7am Cranberry almond cereal (addicted to this one and the Blueberry morning...it can't be THAT bad for me can it?)

11am Tuna sandwich (just plain tuna, no mayo) on ww bread, apple

2pm Slimfast granola bar (addicted to these as well)

530pm Lean Cuisine of some sort and fruit

730pm Hopefully pb on toast with sliced banana but we're going to the movies so might succumb to my weakness for Milk Duds.

That all comes in at about 1400-1600...something like that. I made my husband hide the scale from me because I was a slave to it. I also had to stop doing various diet "plans" because I was becoming a very unfun obsessed person. So now I eat what I like but keep the portions pretty small. Hope it works for me.
 
My day goes like this

6:15 workout today is Yoga Sculpt- Karen Voight (Off day)
get kids on bus, clean up,etc...

8:30 breakfast: 1 cup fiber-one sprinkled on a mixture (heated up) of-
1 cup pumpkin, half package of Mori-nu lite tofu, half of a 6 oz. container of ff, no sugar vanilla yogurt, cinnamon and 1 packet of sweet & lo.
a cup of tea

11:00 an apple (in the car)

11:30-1:00 tennis match

1:30 lunch: homade lentil soup left over from yesterday (lentils , veggies and chicken broth, groud cloves,thyme, sage)
whole wheat Pita bread.
4:30 sanck not sure yet

6:30 my own homemade Lasagna with marinara sauce (no meat, lofat ricotta, low fat mozz. REAL parmesean cheese!) spinach salad.

Later at my son's hockey game: large cup coffee w/ milk.

PS The lasagna is a special treat before my son runs a 5K tomorrow for his highschool team!




Take time to enjoy those who matter most to you & do all things in moderation :)
 
Well, my workouts are on hold since I got rear-ended last week but it makes me focus harder on my diet at least. My usual day consists of 20 minutes interval training cardio or 45 minutes weights (3 days of each, alternating days). Today's meal plan:

8:00 am Protein pancakes (1/2 cup oatmeal, 5 egg whites, vanilla and splenda) with sf maple syrup
10:30 am Chicken, 1/4 cup beans, 1/4 cup rice, veggies
1:00 pm 3/4 cup cottage cheese, 1/4 cup sf ff yogurt, 1/4 cup all bran
3:30 pm Chicken, 1/2 baked potato, salsa, veggies
6:00 pm Egg white omelet with brown rice
8:30 pm Cottage cheese with fruit or blended with cooked sweet potato

Colleen
 
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