What I Ate Wednesday #2

So who has been waiting with bated breath for the second instalment of What I Ate Wednesday? No one? Well, here it is anyway. Look. Love. Salivate.

1) Breakfast

Back to work and back to routine. This is a pretty typical weekday breakfast. Is it cereal or is it fruit salad? It's fruit cerealad. No? Well it's delicious anyway. Nature's Path Pumpkin Raisin Flax cereal (high calories but so worth it and a great, great company), a banana, strawberries and vanilla almond milk. If I'd had blueberries, I'd have put them in there too. You can't tell from the photo but this is an extra large bowl, bought just to accommodate my cereal and fruit combo. I can't help but look at this super sized bowl of yummy and think I've come along way since my breakfast-skipping days.

2) Morning Snack 1

An orange. No kidding.

3) Morning Snack 2

Liberte fat free blackberry Greek yogurt. I try to eat a serving of Greek yogurt each day, on the advice of my nutritionist, who is always pro-protein with me. Liberte is a favorite. Love the fruit on the bottom sundae style. My absolute favorite is President's Choice fat free lemon but it's almost always sold out. [sigh]

4) Lunch

Oooo fancy dishes! Ziploc containers and paper plates! A salad from home: romaine lettuce, cucumber, tomato, chicken, avocado in a homemade honey dijon dressing. And a bonus plate of fruit swiped from meeting leftovers: cantaloupe, pineapple, strawberries. It may not be obvious but... I love fruit.

5) Early Afternoon

Grande soy hazelnut macchiato. Just like last Wednesday only this one was a treat from my former boss.

6) Dinner

This looks pretty similar to one of last week's meals doesn't it? Well it is, and it's pretty standard when I need to get in a protein and more veggies. It's also delicious and fast. And I'm pretty sure I've read out there that the habits of successful losers include a fair amount of dietary repetition. In this hash: sweet potato, red onion, red bell pepper, mushrooms, broccoli, ham, and scrambled eggs. Topped with a smoky chipotle salsa.

7) Post Swim Snack

I hit the pool for 2050m and came home hungry. Swimming always makes me ravenous. Sliced up a pear and enjoyed it with 25g of Tillamook sharp cheddar cheese. This is one of the best things I've eaten in the last little while. I'm salivating just thinking about it.

Total calories: 1919

What I Ate Wednesday #1

Here is the first installment in what could become a regular feature on the blog. Unless I lose interest. This isn't an original idea, I've seen it on other blogs. It seems appropriate for this one because "so... what do you eat?" is a question I get fairly regularly. Also, what's not awesome about looking at pictures of food? I have a Pinterest board dedicated entirely to food that looks spectacularly delicious but that I will probably never eat. (The board is titled Food Porn and features copious shots of chocolate, caramel & melty cheese.) Should What I Ate Wednesday ever start to resemble my Food Porn board, I'm in trouble.


So, here is yesterday, in all its delicious glory.

1) Pre Swim
I'm on holidays this week so enjoying a certain flexibility in how I schedule my day & my work-outs. I had the opportunity to sleep in a bit and still hit the pool for a morning swim. Standard pre-swim fare: whole wheat toast with almond hazelnut butter and a banana. Coffee.

2) Post Swim
I did 2400m in the pool and came home with a big appetite. Fried up a diced sweet potato & some onion in a tsp of olive oil. Added a bell pepper, mushrooms, and broccoli. When the veggies were cooked, added a couple of beaten eggs. Then tossed in 50g of Tillamook pepper jack cheese (calorie decadence right there!). Topped with sliced avocado & some salsa. Coffee. This time with some french vanilla soy creamer.

3) Mid Afternoon
I followed that big plate of eggs & veggies with a weight workout and a shower. Then it was off to the massage therapist for an hour of bliss, followed by a coffee date with a friend at Starbucks. This cup of joy is a soy hazelnut macchiato.

4) Dinner
Baby spinach, cucumber, strawberries, blueberries, chicken breast, sliced almonds, 25g goat cheese, and Renee's creamy poppyseed dressing. Mmmm.

5) Post Spin
The last of my tri-club's indoor spin workouts was last night. Hill simulations. Joy! Came home from a 75-minute class feeling spent and hungry but it was after 9 p.m. so I didn't want too much: a pear, sliced up and dunked in almond hazelnut butter. Cup of decaf with french vanilla soy creamer.

Total calories: 2013