do you exercise frequently? please tell me what you eat!

[Mitchy1nge]

my eating habits have been awful lately I feel like Being Good and would like some inspiration

Mostly lentils!
Why Mitchy, what's up? What sort of inspiration do you need to get back on the straight and narrow?

well ideally I'd like someone to move in and shop and cook balanced meals - just reviewed food diary from last week and it was all takeaways and cake! I need to set an example for the youngest mitchy who is having some problems so meals with all food groups that will maintain my weight would be great.

I'm too lazy to think of it myself thought I could adopt some healthier habits from someone else

Perhaps do an online shop and only get healthy stuff?

yeah

but is overwhelmingly vast amount of choice!

am just not really feeling it

hmm, what about healthier versions of things you normally eat?

OK I run 4 days a week (totalling 20 miles) and DH walks loads (25+ miles a week), and this is the sort of thing we have (and maintain steady weights):

Breakfast: weetabix & toast
lunch: sandwiches at work, weekends soup/omelette/pizza/cheese on toast ...
dinner: fry up with mash, pasta with veg-heavy sauce (home made), veg curry (home made), soup, roast dead thing, shepherd's pie , fish pie, casserole, all with lots of veg
booze: generally only at weekends

We have an allotment AND and organic veg box so we eat lots of veggies. I make the occasional fruit cake, and flapjacks for lunchboxes.

Hope that gives you somewhere to start.

I suppose this is where 'healthy' can become too subjective or variable! Daughter is v restrictive so 'healthy' would be wide range of everyday stuff. Not something that cuts out whole food groups but fairly calorie dense

I would just make an omelette with loads of veg for myself once a day every day but I know I need more calories to support daily life plus exercise. So am wondering what normal people eat, badly short of ideas

oh I x posted blue

that is a good start thank you!

next thread will be asking someone to lace my shoes

Sometimes you just get stuck in a rut and need some inspiration. Glad to have helped.

I eat:

2 boiled eggs for breakfast
a big salad for lunch with eggs, mackerel, olives, lettuces, cucumber, celery etc
tea is usually salmon, or pork chops, lamb chops, pork belly, sausages, all served with buttery veg
I snack on pork scratchings

I go to the gym three times a week and play squash, and swim

thanks, that all sounds very tasty if a bit lacking in pasta!

Mitchy can you help me - got my first half marathon on Sunday - what would you recommend to eat the night before and breakfast?

I'm very fond of peanut butter on toast, and I'm starting to actually like the lindt 90% chocolate
also really like cheese on toast and porridge...as you can tell I'm not one for low carbs :o

(I dont mean porridge on toast, that would tricky!)

what you normally eat! oh how exciting, cannot wait to be running those distances again! which one is it?

I kept a horribly unnecessarily detailed log on garmin connect and MFP but always had my porridge in the morning (made with water, chia seeds, blueberries and honey) and before runs of that length I can see that I was eating cardboard pasta and chicken and pancetta and loads of cavolo nero and garlic and olive oil and asparagus and chili and parmesan!

(why didn't I think of scrolling back through my own food diaries instead of snouting through other people's )

oh my goodness I LIVED on carboard pasta for a while last year

peanut butter on toast sounds good if I substitute almond butter, yum, am not remotely anti-carb but we just never seem to have bread

it always goes mouldy before we make much of a dent in it now there's only two of us and we are mildly dysfunctional around food

this is why running is so good, it makes you want to eat and to eat quite well - I would still like a nutritionist to move in and be in charge of all the decision making though

or tahini, or cashew butter, bread I make in the breadmaker, cut the loaf into sections and freeze them, take out as needed.
Just make sure I always have plenty of flour and yeast in stock

no wonder you are not called LAZY Suzanne these days

I run 3-4 times a week, and do Scottish dancing 2-3 times. I try to keep my carbs around 100-150 per day, protien up near 100, and if I'm being very good I also 5:2 (2 days at 500 cals. But I cheat a lot).

Breakfasts: I vary between eggs (1 whole, 1 white scrambled in the micro with mushrooms, spinach, ham, any leftover meat or veg, sometimes a little cheese). I don't eat bread every day, but I keep a loaf of Burgen in the freezer, nad have one slice toasted with either marmite and cottage cheese, or peanut butter and a smear of ginger jam. greek yoghurt with berries and flaxseed. Porridge in the winter, overnight oats/ Bircher muesli in the summer. On a long run day, it'll be oats for brekkie.

Lunches: soup or stew based. I do a fridge clear out at weekends, and make a big vat of whatever needs using, possibly adding a tin of tamoatoes and/or beans. freeze in individual portions. Or salad - spinach, artichoke hearts, olives, radishes.

Dinners - fish, steak or chicken with veg. Pasta if I've been running. I'm not a dessert person, though DH is partial to a cheesy cracker in the evening, and I will join him.

Lots and lots of water.

all sounds delicious! how is 500 cals a day not an eating disorder though? isn't that the minimum your brain needs to function? (not saying you have an eating disorder am just wondering how restricting that severely isn't considered one)

Flaming June - a new mixed terrain race near Cambridge www.theflamingjunehalf.co.uk/

Big carb load it is then!

I think it's because it's only 2 (non consecutive) days and not every day

500 cals 2 days a week is the paleo diet. I haven't tried it but family members do it.