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Yeah, unfortunately I didn't have time to really prepare my own stuff today. I'm trying to make a point of buying fresh foods and plain pastas but I'm not the best at it. This week will probably be a bit high in sodium for me until I recover from my Texas spending and actually have the time to cook my own meals.

 

Apple, coffee and Nutri-grain bar for me this a.m.

 

210.9 is closer to reality!

 

Maybe go for the palindrome and hit 200.2?

 

Better yet.. 200.002

 

199.1

 

Those are nice numbers. I'll take either.

 

Was reading an article yesterday that some of the new sodium intake guidance is kinda whack and the guidance is typically too stringent. The AHA I think says 1500 mg of Na which is minimum needed to keep your body going. Others have guidance to 2300 mg Na (shown in his post). They said, for the most part 3000 isn't a bad number either. It's when you get over 6000 mg per day that you start to have problems. Was in the Denver Post online.

Same stuff going on with the saturated fat and unsaturated fat intake as well as cholesterol. The guidance given by the AHA (American Heart Association) on the saturated fats and serum cholesterol levels may actually be worse for you than eating that piece of bacon and an egg for breakfast. All sorts of articles pointing to new studies that the guidance given over the last 50 years might actually be incorrect.

Think Atkins diet or paleo where your consumption of grains and carbohydrates is low but intake of saturated fats and cholesterol is high. Result:

More fat and cholesterol = weight loss
More grains and carbs = weight gain

According to the AHA, it shouldn't happen that way. Something tells me their science is a little off. Speaking from non-nutritional science person but still a science person.

 

Just ate 364 g of apple. If you've never measured an apple before that's a huge damn apple. Most apples are around 76 g

 

Damn! That thing's almost a pound (454 g per lb).

 

Food stuff is really, really hard to study because you can't just lock people in a room for years and feed them only what you want to study. Even isolating things like sodium is sorta useless, same as with fat/cholesterol, because nothing acts in isolation. Having high fat/cholesterol with moderate to high carb intake can lead to many of the cardiovascular issues we see, whereas having the same high fat/cholesterol food with a low carb intake does not. This on its face is weird- wouldn't ingesting cholesterol lead to high cholesterol?- but lower cardiovascular risk factors been shown to be the case.

Fun stuff!

 

Yes it is. .81 to be exact. It was delicious lol. I looked at my cheese sticks and was just not today fellas not today. I eat pretty much the exact same things every day because I prep on Sunday's my entire weeks meals.

Usually

breakfast is eggs and protein shake with a piece of fruit.
Then some almonds and a some yogurt for 2nd meal.
Lunch is 6-8 oz chicken with 6-8 oz of broccoli (love broccoli)
2 hours later is a normal sized apple and 2 low fat string cheese
Pre workout is 40g of oats
Post workout at the gym is protein shake and pixy stik
Dinner is tilapia or chicken 6-8oz and veggies
The pre bed is cottage cheese and protein powder.

 

How do you calculate wrenching on your truck for a couple of hours in shitastic humidity?

 

Truth? That huge apple was actually in a large slice of pie, wasn't it?

That's pretty dedicated on the meals. I have so many different forms of wild game in the freezer my diet is pretty mixed. Venison, pheasant, grouse, elk, goose.. We had ground goose sliders for dinner last night.. Can't pre-prep in our house, but I do usually plan to some degree.

 

Ran/walked 3 miles. Took about 35 minutes but hey its progress. Should hit my goal by my 5k date. Kinda excited for the weigh in Friday.

 

I wish you have no idea. But no I wish I would have taken a pic now. My co workers were pretty amazed.

 

Just left work for the day gonna hit at least 15 miles on the bike then change in my truck and do some trail running. Before going to lift of course

 

I did about 4.3 miles run/walk today. Unfortunately I'm stuck on a weight right now. Trying to plow through a plateau...

 

Today is my Friday. Have next 2 days off. Need to be careful. Was kind of bad on carbs today. 2 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and 2 pieces of shitty pizza.

MFP still says I have almost 1000 cal for dinner and snacks tonight. Having a hard time believing that.

 

Eating hasn't been top notch but I'm starting to see/feel a difference again, I'm pumped, gonna try to work out tomorrow after work.