FOOD CHANNEL!!!

So let's see if I can detail exactly what I ate and drank yesterday:

• Breakfast: hardboiled egg, English muffin with jam, coffee with sweetened creamer
• 20 oz. Gatorade during swim
• Banana and piece of string cheese after swim
• Really thin slice of lamb cake around 10AM and a few jelly beans
• 12 oz. Gatorade during run
• 1 serving Endurox R4 right after run
• Lean Cuisine something or other with some Sylvia's sauce on top for lunch (and of course I licked the plate clean because I love the sauce!)
• 2 Beck's
• Dinner of basically 1.5 servings (I think) of meatloaf and large salad with tomatoes and mushrooms, and 2 servings of the lamb cake

Exercise I did:

• 10 minutes of jump rope
• 9 minutes of chinups, crunches and pushups
• 1 hour of swimming
• 26 minutes of lifting
• 1 hour of running

So I woke up at 2AM this morning and thought I must not have eaten enough. So I had a few pieces of herring in wine sauce and a package (200 calories) of cheese-filled crackers, and then I fell back asleep and had a whole raft of interesting dreams, which I won't go into detail about here.

I definitely need to do a few things nutritionally:

• Take in more calories during the first half of the day, although I prefer working out with little in my stomach, especially running. This just means I have to watch the clock and eat at like 5, 9, 1, 3 and then dinner.
• Finish the damn cake! It's great, but not ideal nutrition. I can switch over to Twinkies, though.
• Maybe take in a little more fat. Left to my own devices, my basic diet is maybe 10% fat. I think that has something to do with waking up in the middle of the night. I've been putting olive oil on the salads, though.
• Time to buy Cheetos! I tend to not eat a lot at any single sitting
• As much as I've come to like salads (and they are good for maintaining or losing weight), I need to get back on the rice for dinner during the week, and pasta 3 times a week to be prepped for long run and long ride days.

I used to have the nutrition epiphany closer to mid-May or June, but I guess I revved up the system a bit earlier this year, and my body is now telling me to catch up on the calories. I know, I know--big problem to have, right?

I'm thinking tonight is going to be a steak and pasta w/pesto. Yum!