For those of you who consider yourself to have a very healthy diet, what's a typical day of eating like?

YOLT wrote:

11:30am - Homemade quinoa bar (made from quinoa, peanut butter, honey, dried cranberries, oates)

12:30pm - Salad (mixed leafy greens, carrots, tomatoes, yellow pepper, corn, black beans) and an ornage

Oates & ornage sounds fancy... and delicious!

Apparently a lot of people here think they have very healthy diets but they don't...

hmmmmmm........ wrote:

Apparently a lot of people here think they have very healthy diets but they don't...

And you would suggest?

max219 wrote:

bigtool wrote:

does nobody here eat red meat?

I eat it very often, probably almost daily.

That's way too often.

Charlie Freak wrote:

Haha, ain't skeered neither. Enjoy that chicken and fish, bro! And I'm guessing you don't catch your fish yourself from pristine North Atlantic waters and eat it the same day. Probably buy it from - gasp! - a giant corporate fishing operation.

Awesome stuff, that Mountain Dew...

It's not my fault there's 300 million Americans and they all want to eat fish.

But I would raise chickens myself if it were allowed. Chickens are probably the greatest food animal ever invented. Just give them a place to live, and they take care of themselves and don't run away until you eat them. That's why there's no culture that bans eating chickens. In the middle east they don't eat pigs. In India they don't eat cows. Outside Asia they don't eat dogs. But everybody eats chickens.

Does nobody here drink alcohol at all?

I usually have bowl of cheerios with skim milk(2 cups AM)

banana

Chicken or turkey sub

yogurt parfait

Chicken or fish with rice and broccoli & wine

run 70-100 miles / wk and eat usually between 3000-3500 calories per day with random snacks that I know aren't good for me mixed in.

YOLT: Can you post the recipe for the homemade quinoa bar? Sounds good.

max219 wrote:

bigtool wrote:

does nobody here eat red meat?

I eat it very often, probably almost daily.

Yeah me too. I can't go more than a few days without a steak or a hamburger or at the very least a roast beef sandwich

The sample diets are much more skewed towards low-fat than I would have expected. Seem more like Runner's World chick vegetarian diets.

Earth to Charlie... the thread is about healthy eating, not about your good genes and the sh*t you and your redneck relatives (got love the stereotypes, right?!) choose to eat. Heck, if you're from the south, a nice evening out on the town is a Waffle House.

A typical day for me (70-100mpw, though lately I've been slacking)

Breakfast (~7:45am)- 1 mug coffee (black) bacon, eggs sunnyside up (in the pan still hot/greasy from bacon), either whole-wheat toast with jam or hash browns)

Snack (~10am)- Banana/some kind of fruit or handful of almonds/peanuts/cashews (depending on what I bought that week)

Lunch (~1pm)- Burrito (brown rice, black beans, steak, peppers, onions, lettuce, sometimes some cheese)

Snack (~3:30pm)- Mug of coffee again, maybe another banana or some carrots

Start run 5:15pm or so, gym is right across the street from work, often drop my bag off at home (~10min jog) then do the rest of my run

Post-run (~6:30pm)- Glass of whole milk

Dinner- Standard meat/starch/two veg combo, usually with 2-3 beers (1 while cooking, 1 while eating, sometimes 1 more afterward if I feel like it).

I eat red meat probably 2-3 times a week (usually rare hunks of steak in a burrito), fish 1xweek (I like salmon best, but eat other kinds too), and other kinds of meat as they go on sale (chicken, pork, etc).

Nope, I don't suscribe to the whole vegan/vegetarian/low fat thing. I enjoy my diet, eat a large variety of foods, and do avoid heavily processed stuff when I can. I tend to buy from the perimeter of the grocery store instead of the aisles. My weaknesses are ice cream and Elio's frozen pizza.

It usually adds up to around 3500 calories, unless my mileage stays in the triple digits for more than a couple weeks. Then I start waking up in the middle of the night to make sandwiches and other wacky stuff. My weight is fairly stable (I could be better about drinking water throughout the day) but I could lose some softness if I was better about doing any kind of core work whatsoever.

kjafkshjdf wrote:

YOLT: Can you post the recipe for the homemade quinoa bar? Sounds good.

Yep - they're really easy, quite delicious, and energy packed. You can modify them to include other dried fruits, nuts, etc.

One batch calls for the following:

-2 cups cooked quinoa

-1/2 cup (natural) peanut butter

-3 tbsp honey

-1/4 tsp salt

-3/4 cup rolled oats

-1/2 cup dried cranberries

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Combine quinoa, peanut butter, honey, salt, and oats into large mixing bowl & mix well. Stir in cranberries.

Mold the dough into round tablespoon-sized balls and placed on a baking sheet or (if you want to make a batch and a half) flatten into a 8x8 pan (which get cut into bars after being cooked).

The balls tend to take ~25 minutes to cook, while the bars take ~ 35 minutes. They should be cooked until bottoms are nicely browned (though the dough will still be soft). They're delicious no matter how you eat them, but I personally like them best after they've been refrigerated.

Sprinter's Diet:

Morning: Scrambled Eggs, Protein Pancakes, 2 sausage links

Snack: Protein Bar (mix of protein, essential fats and carbs)

Lunch: Meal Replacement Protein/Carb/Fiber Drink with Greens and Fruits Powder

Snack: Protein Bar

After practice: Carb/Protein Shake

Snack: Yogurt with Granola and Berries + Multi vitamin

Dinner: Pasta w/ Sausage cut up or Salmon in Canola Oil

Bedtime Snack: Casein Protein + ZMA

Thanks Yolt!

NO GLUTEN. NO ADDED SUGAR.

I eat a high fat/high protein, moderate carb, and low sugar diet. I usually eat 2-3 HUGE meals. i run 70-80 MPW.

morning: black coffee

Post run meal #1: piles of eggs, meat, cold cuts,sweet potatoes and vegetables.

meal #2: same as meal #1. I only eat vegetables because the fiber helps me digest the fatty meats.

dessert: fruits and a few squares of DARK chocolate. If you stay away from junk food with added for a long period of time, fruits will begin to taste like candy.

Anyone can train like a beast,but become become wimps in the kitchen. DON'T BE A WIMP.

When you eat healthy, people will begin to criticize you because you are exposing their lack of will power. TRAIN LIKE A MAN AND EAT LIKE A MAN. DON'T COUNT CALORIES. ONLY WIMPS DO THAT.

Breakfast: whole grain cereal and skim milk, fruit juice

Snack: Clif Bar or Greek Yogurt with fruit or granola

Lunch: Turkey sandwich on whole wheat bread, piece of fruit, pretzels

Dinner: Pasta with lean ground beef, vegetables; chicken with some sort of potato and veggies; things like that

Of course I don't eat like that every day, but probably 85% of the time. I definitely eat unhealthy food too, but not very often. Not a fan of fried food, so I tend to avoid that, but I do love cheese and bacon. Try to just eat a lot of fruits and veggies, and alway go for whole grains.

I usually just inhale a large gust of wind.

Breakfast: banana, oatmeal, 2 eggs

Snack: natural unsalted almonds, string cheese

Lunch: natural pb on whole wheat bread, apple, granola bar

Snack: natural tortilla chips with avocado

Dinner: tonight we're having a vegetable lasagna (whole wheat noodles) with salad

After dinner snack: oatmeal

big bowl (probably two-three servings) of honey bunches of oats with almonds with 1% milk, small glass of orange juice

snack: cliff bar/granola bar

run

apple, V8 with antioxidants, PB sandwhich with whole wheat bread.

snack: almonds/assorted nuts

supper: pretty much whole wheat pasta or mac and cheese or pizza or rice and veggies or subway sub or chipotle. + a few cookies

eat red meat twice a month or so. run 60-70 a week.