Nutrition.....Week 2

- Excerpt of Angie's nutritional diaries in italics my suggestions in bold -

Monday
5:00 AM oatmeal - still the instant kind, but I did buy the other stuff I just wanted to use my last few packs(add a protein shake - 1scoop of powder plus 8oz blended will do)
8:45 AM apple & cheese stick(add handful of almonds)
11:45 AM 1 1/2 cups of sugar snap peas 4 ozs lean ground beef 1/2 cup black beans 2 tbsp salsa(Good)
2:45 PM orange & cheese stick(add handful of almonds)
4:45 PM power bar & handful of almonds(subtract power bar - add either protein shake or 845am meal)
throughout day drank about 20oz of green tea & about 80oz of H20

7:30 AM 20oz H20
8:00 AM chocolate PB shake (recipe you sent me)(Good)
9:30-10:30 worked out 20oz H20
10:30 8oz Gatorade(homemade protein bar)
20oz H20
12:00 4oz lean ground beef 1/2 cup black beans 2 tbsp salsa
20oz H20
20 oz H20 (3pm - protein shake/protein bar/apple-almonds etc.... SOMETHING)
5:00 4oz sirloin steak 2 cups grilled veggies (zucchini, portabello & shitake mushrooms, green peppers, tomatoes and red potatoes) (push this meal later like 6 or 7pm)
20oz H20 (almonds plus fruit for snack)

So far so good Angie. You did a good job on Monday eating 5 times but you were pretty low on calories. Stay away from packaged protein bars i.e. power bars they are full of junk for the most part. I sent you some recipes of homemade bars, start getting into the habit of making these in batches and storing them to be used throughout the week. If you absolutely need to have packaged protein bars around I will give you some recommendations.

Tuesday you did great with what you ate but you just didn't eat enough times throughout the day. 3 meals instead of 5 meals. I put my recommendations in bold letters above.

Keep working hard at your nutrition. You will get the cookbook soon and that will help you with variety. But it is important to have 5-6 "go to" meals you can always be ready to eat in a moments notice.

Alex