Weight Loss Challenge – Week 5, Day 3 – Working Too Hard Makes Me Forgetful
Posted in: July to October 2009, Suzanne's Weight Loss Journey, Week 5
The past couple of days, I’ve been working a lot and not logging my food into the tracker right away. (This is Wednesday’s log, but I’m writing it on Friday.) What I was doing instead was writing down the food I ate on a piece of paper (you know, the old-fashioned way!) — figuring I’ll add it in when I have a bit more time. Trouble is, I didn’t write down what I had for supper on Wednesday…and I can’t for the life of me remember what I had! I swear it’s the work that’s making me forgetful; not age… Ha!
So, what you see down below is missing supper. I probably kept it around 1600 cals and I didn’t have any alcohol.
Today was a weight training day, so I had a protein shake about an hour before working out early in the morning. I blend 1 a scoop of wheat protein(or 1/2 a scoop sometimes) and 1 cup low fat milk. (I use wheat protein because I seem to be lactose intolerant. Whey protein isolate
is supposed to be best though.) If you’re buying a ready-made-shake, I’d advise you to check the sugar content. Sometimes those shakes are full of sugar. I like to mix my own!
I never used to eat before weight training, which is supposed to be a huge no-no. But, oddly enough, I did well at that time. But with this 12 week challenge, I wanted to see if there was any difference by having some protein before a strength training workout.
Here’s what I ate on Day 3 of Week 5, minus my supper:
Note: This is just for example purposes. I am not a nutritionist! And since it’s only 1100 calories, it would not be enough food…
| Food Item | Amount | Cals | Carbs | Prot. | Fat |
|
| Protein Powder – Wheat Isolate | 1 serving | 100 | 3.00 | 20.00 | 1.00 |
0.00
0.00
0.00
|
| Milk, nonfat, fluid, with added vitamin A (fat free or skim) | 1 cup | 83 | 12.15 | 8.26 | 0.20 |
0.12
0.02
0.29
|
| Scrambled Eggs (egg, egg white, spinach) | 1 serving | 158 | 2.43 | 17.62 | 7.57 |
2.91
1.36
2.26
|
| Mushrooms, cooked, boiled, drained, with salt | 1 cup pieces | 44 | 8.25 | 3.39 | 0.73 |
0.02
0.28
0.09
|
| SoYummi GoLite – Soy Mousse (Black Cherry) | 1 serving | 100 | 15.00 | 3.00 | 3.00 |
0.00
0.00
0.00
|
| Cheddar cheese, low fat (20% m.f.) | 30 gram | 90 | 1.00 | 9.00 | 6.00 |
0.00
0.00
3.50
|
| Soy Nuts (1/4 cup) | 1 serving | 190 | 13.00 | 15.00 | 9.00 |
0.00
0.00
0.00
|
| Chicken, broilers or fryers, breast, meat only, cooked, roasted | 1 cup, chopped or diced | 231 | 0.00 | 43.43 | 5.00 |
1.74
1.08
1.41
|
| Tea, 1 sugar and low fat milk | 3 serving | 111 | 21.72 | 6.18 | 0.15 |
0.09
0.00
0.21
|
| 1107 | 76.55 | 125.88 | 32.65 |
4.88
2.74
7.76
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Workout / Exercise
Did a strength training workout from New Rules of Lifting workout.
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Suzanne is the owner of FitWatch. She's had strong interest in nutrition and exercise for over 20 years, and is an ACE-certified Lifestyle & Weight Management Coach. Back in 2002, she started FitWatch.com because she wanted to help people lose weight by creating helpful tools and calculators. A huge fan of calorie counting, Suzanne created the FitWatch Fitness Tracker to make it easy for people to count their calories.
