How many grams of protein did I have today? I had 168 grams of protein :cool:
Okay, so it was with the aid of protein bars pre and PWO. I really feel like I've been eating all day. After a big sleep in, I cooked my breakfast (I can't remember the last time I did that. I'm a cereal girl.), then I went out to buy yet more protein, then munch, munch, munch, gym, munch, munch, munch.
At the moment I'm on school holidays, so it didn't really matter that I did little else today other than achieve my protein quota. However I became concerned about sustaining this level of food preparation and consumption after several weeks when I go back to school. So I wrote out a diet for myself (!!!) based around the main protein foods that I'm eating and the frequency I should be able to eat, then I fleshed it out with the other stuff. It looks like this:
Breakfast#1 - mixed cereal, lite milk, two spoons of yogurt. = 16grams
(sometimes I will train here)
Breakfast#2 - 2 boiled eggs on brown toast, slice of cheese, 1/2 a tomato = 27.5 grams
Morning tea - Almonds & a piece of fruit = 6grams
Lunch - Ham & salad (cucumber, capsicum, carrot, snow peas, tomato) = 11grams
Afternoon - Can of tuna, slice of cheese = 43.1grams
(sometimes I will train here)
Late arvo - Oriental rice bowl & a piece of fruit = 8grams
(sometimes I will train here)
Dinner - Steak or chicken breast, peas, zucchini, carrot = 34grams
Evening - Yogurt, fruit = 10grams
That would give me 155.6grams of protein
Should I be concerned about cholesterol if I eat two eggs everyday? About five years ago my Mum had angina and high cholesterol, but I got mine checked and it was okay. This is a big change to my diet though. Maybe I'll just get it checked again in a while.
Anything obviously wrong with this diet? Should I be eating the same on a day I don't train? I won't eat the same thing every day, but the above seems like a pretty good basis.