Dear readers, I need your nutritional opinions!
I eat the same thing every day for breakfast, lunch and snacks. I'm finding I hit a wall towards the end of my workday (3:30ish) where I can't concentratea and I feel tired and draggy. I think I'm getting enough calories (although maybe I'm adjusting to fewer, not sure). Is it the order in which I'm eating my food that's making me crash, or the foods I choose to eat? Opinions, please!
8:00 a.m. : 1C cream of wheat, made with half 1% milk, half water. Water to drink or home made iced tea (unsweetened tea bags in water, 2 reg. one herbal lemon per jug is a good recipe!)
9:00 a.m. : apple
10:00 a.m. : tea with the unit, occasionally have milk (1/4 C 2%) with tea if I'm feeling hungry
10:45 a.m. : muffin (muffin is small, homemade, 1/2 wheat germ, 1/2 flour with banana and 1/3 C each oil and sugar per 12, plus 5ish choc. chips)
11:45 a.m. sandwich (pb and honey or tuna/sweet chili sauce on brown), baggie of carrot sticks, water or herbal tea to drink.
2ish p.m.: 5 dried apricots and 10 raw almonds (just started bringin 20 almonds to help with wall crashing)
3:30ish: an orange
By 5 when I'm meeting rob after work I am hungry again, enough to want to get home and COOK. I don't think that's very good. During the day, the food I eat is en ough to keep me from feeling hungry and usually when I feel hungry I have the next thing to eat, pretty much always on that schedule. But I hit that wall, even after eating my orange. Maybe I'm sugar crashing from tyhe orange? I was considering bringin along a second baggie of veg for afternoons, and I'm going to try the 10 extra almonds. But I don't know if I'm doing things backwards, or when to eat what to keep my body happy. The fruit are the only sweets I have during the day now and the dried apricots, though high in calories, are also high in fiber and yummy to eat with the almonds.
In the evenings, I don't eat after dinner anymore (for a wek so far, anyways) and I'm fine with that.
Anyway, please weigh in (hah!). Suggestions, what you like to eat, how you avoid afternoon crashes , what I'm doing wrong...let me know! thanks!
2 comments:
Hmmmm....sounds like you need some more protein either at 2pm or 3:30. Maybe instead of an orange, try an apple with cheddar cheese or something. Something with a slow release carb (and avoid anything that will make your blood sugar spike and crash...which the orange may be doing). I really have no idea though, and it sounds like you've really adopted some healthy eating habits. Let me know what works!
I agree with Claire, try having some more protein. It sounds like you have enough fibre and carbs. Another healthy option for protein is making a batch of baked chickpeas from the oven. Rinse can of chickpeas, toss with tbsp of olive oil, some salt and spices to flavour. Cook at 400F approx 40-50 minutes till golden and crunchy.
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