Coach's Nutrition Log- Jamie, 2/13-2/19
Lobster Mac + Cheese
An OK week with an interesting outcome and lesson for me, which I'll detail below.
For those of you interested in seeing the full breakdown of what I ate this week, my food log is included below. Note that I have not been recording quantities of what I've been eating past what you see, and that's what I'll continue to do unless I find myself stalling out.
Food Log-
Monday
Rx Bar
1 Scoop Protein Powder + Creatine
Hannaford’s Bacon Lettuce Chicken Wrap
Pork Donburi (leftovers)
Tuesday
Rx Bar
1 Scoop Pro + Creatine
Hannaford’s Buffalo Chicken Wrap
Hannaford's General Tso's Chicken
Wednesday
RX Bar
3 Eggs + cheese, raspberries
Grocery Store Tuna Rolls
Cheese, Crackers, Grapes
Lobster Mac + Cheese (Vday celebration!)
2 glasses White Wine
Chocolate cake
Caught a lot of strays
Thursday
RX Bar
1 Scoop Protein Powder + Creatine
Salsa Chicken Thighs + Rice
Hannaford's General Tso’s Chix
Friday
3 Eggs, onions, rice, blackberries, verde sauce
Hotdog + bun, ketchup, cheese, berries
Salsa Chicken Thighs + Rice
Caught a lot of strays
Saturday
Rx bar, raspberries
Dinner out @ 3 Tomatoes-
Bread + Oil
Mussels
Chicken parmesan + Linguini (little dry)
Sweet tomato pie pizza
2 glasses White wine
Sunday
RX Bar
Salsa Chicken Thighs + Rice
Berries
Cheese and crackers and grapes
Salsa chicken thighs and seafood pasta (leftovers)
Caught a lot of strays = whatever Paloma was eating that day, I also scavenged a decent amount off her plate. There was a lot of unplanned snacking this week.
Intuitively I felt like this was an OK week, not my best and not my worst. I wanted to cook a bunch for Valentine's Day dinner this week, so I tried to eat a little lighter than normal around it. The salsa chicken I made this week just wasn't hitting quite as good as it did the last time I made it, so I ended up eating a lot of other stuff. No cooking this weekend as I just didn't feel like doing dishes.
Here's how it turned out at Monday morning weigh-in:
Interesting. And also what I kind of expected- I super under-ate on protein this week, and it lead to a drop in skeletal muscle mass. Body fat percentage remained relatively the same.
A (silly) obstacle I encountered with this is that I keep my protein powder at the gym- so when I'm working from home or on the weekends, I don't have immediate access to it. Easily correctable. Protein cambros en route from Amazon. The lesson for me there- convenience is king! Simple organizational stuff can make such a big difference to success. Everything is logistics.
All in all, I feel like these first five weeks have been me working out the kinks in how I want to be eating, and I'm hoping that this week I really hit my stride.
My goals for this week- maintain a higher protein intake, minimize scavenging off Paloma's plate, and get my next stage of training together. Birthday celebration this weekend in the city and I'm looking to eat a ton of great food, so I'll be very happy if I break even with this past week BF%-wise.
Yours in Food + Fitness,
Jamie