What I Eat in a Day

I’ve been meaning to share a post like this for a while now so I’m finally getting around to it!  I do want to throw out there that the purpose of this post is to hopefully give you some ideas for meals and snacks.  It is not a recommendation of any kind of what you should eat.  *While I am able to give general nutrition information to clients through my NASM Fitness Nutrition Specialist certification, something specific to suit your personal needs should definitely be through a Registered Dietitian.*  This post simply serves as a diary of what I eat in a given day, which by the way can vary GREATLY just depending on my appetite and/or what workout I do!  I certainly have those days when I am just starving and I crush food all day long.  It happens!  And when it does, I just try to make it healthy choices but we’re only human, slip ups happen.  It’s important to never beat yourself up about it.

Breakfast

I have been on an oatmeal kick like no other lately.  I eat this for breakfast pretty much every day of the week because it’s easy and quick to make and keeps me full!

That is definitely not the best picture of oatmeal I’ve ever taken, but you get the idea.  I like to put some almond butter or peanut butter on top, perhaps some jelly, maybe some blueberries or sliced bananas! And coffee.  I drink 1-2 cups of black coffee most mornings.

Snack 1

I L-O-V-E love Luna bars.  Specifically, the White Macadamia Nut flavor is hands down my favorite.  There are many days that I eat 2 of these bars in 1 day.  You’ll see the second later in this post.  This is almost always my mid-morning snack.

A Banana A Day

I usually eat 1 banana every day and when I eat it simply depends on when I work out.  If I run in the morning (which I usually do on an empty stomach) then I will slice my banana up on my oats.  If I have time to workout at lunch, like I did on this particular day, then I will eat my banana right before hitting the gym.  Sometimes I workout after work, in which case I will eat my banana on my ride home or right when I get home!

Lunch

Lunch is typically a salad of some kind, although not always.  It may also be leftovers from whatever dinner we had the previous night.  But I find making salads are just really easy to do, throw in some mixed greens or whatever green you like (I also love spinach & arugula), whatever other fruits or veggies you have on hand, perhaps a protein, and you’re good to go!

For this salad, it’s a mixed greens salad with spiralized sweet potato (I bought it pre-spiralized on sale at Harris Teeter), chopped up with my salad choppers -which I love because you don’t have to worry about shoving huge pieces of lettuce into your mouth AND you can fit more into your tupperware. Win-win. I don’t really use salad dressing, mostly because I can never find one I really like that isn’t loaded with calories or weird chemicals.  So I always just drizzle some olive oil on the salad and take a lemon to squeeze some of the lemon juice on top, then give the tupperware a good shake to combine it all together. For my protein this week, it’s another on-sale find at HT.  They’re at a great price here too. These pink salmon packs are actually really good, not too watery or fishy smelling and easy to tear open and put on top of the salad!

Snack 2

For my afternoon snack, and again this sort of revolves around my workout schedule, I had a protein shake of almond milk + protein powder.  I like to have an extra protein kick when I’ve done strength training for my workout and this was on one of my circuit days when I really burn out my muscles.  Helps with recovery and the protein is filling as well.  Gratuitous Maverick picture on my desk cause I know you wanted to see his cute face 🙂

I just take a shaker bottle like this one with almond milk already in it, and mix in the protein powder to shake up when I’m ready to have it.

Other snacks I may take would be: a bag of carrots and/or celery to munch on, gluten free crackers, a cheese stick, blueberries, almonds.  I like crunchy things in the afternoon apparently 🙂

Dinner

First off, I had a glass of wine when I got home, which I may do once or twice during the week.  Just depends on how I feel!  I also may munch on something if I’m hungry…again maybe a piece of cheese or some GF crackers to tide me over ’til dinner.

Dinners are always different but generally include some sort of veggie and a protein.  We try to do meatless meals at least 2 times per week for dinner and those may be something like gluten free pasta with steamed broccoli, olive oil, and rosemary.  If you missed it I shared our Easy Roasted Chicken & Veggies recipe here.

This particular night was not a meatless night and we had taco bowls!

Seriously, tasted just like Chipotle!!  Our bowls were layered with:

• Shredded lettuce
• Black beans, diced tomatoes, & sliced green pepper
• 93% lean 7% fat ground turkey with Taco seasoning
• Guacamole
• Shredded Mexican style cheese

Gosh it was SO GOOD.  And easy which is even better.

Dessert

I have dessert pretty much every night. There may be the rare night when I’m just too full from dinner or something, but usually I intentionally don’t overstuff myself at dinner so I can have room for my favorite treat.  One of my go-to’s is my same favorite flavor of Luna bar (this is where the 2nd bar comes in!) with dark chocolate on top.  Sometimes I get crazy and put some unsweetened coconut on top.  I pop it in the microwave for 20 seconds on half power to melt the chocolate a bit…omg. It’s my favorite.

I have tea lots of nights too, I love cinnamon tea or peppermint tea.  It’s just relaxing!  Other things I may have for dessert is just a serving of those little dark chocolate chips and I’ll eat those by themselves.  I also like to mix them with some air popped popcorn for that savory & sweet snack.  Those are great for movie nights!

Hope this post may give you some meal and/or snack ideas!!

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xo,

Bess