For probably the past 6 weeks I've done everything I can to make sure that I'm prepared with what I will need to consume every day. And apparently today my brain decided to take a break. I knew that we were going to be gone all day and I didn't pack a cooler with some emergency noshes. And I can feel it now. Here is what I had today, and the commentary to go along with it:
8:30am
Breakfast shake with 1 banana, 1/4 cup mixed frozen berries, 1 1/2 Tbsp ground flaxseed, 1 1/2 Tbsp brown rice protein powder and about 2 cups rice milk. (So far so good...plus I got to sleep in until 8:15 so it felt like a great morning!)
12:30pm
5-6 oz. grilled chicken breast with 4 bites of baked beans (Our church did it's annual "Fall Feed" and the menu consisted of potato salad, which I turned down, rolls, which I politely declined, bbq-ed chicken which I gladly took and begrudgingly peeled the skin off, baked beans which I took and ate 4 bites of, and a cookie that I didn't even look at because sugar can be another one of my nasty triggers.) All in all, I'm still feeling pretty good about my choices.
2:30pm
2-3 oz. grilled hamburger and 2/3 cup (that's a rough estimate) of gluten free vegetable/pasta salad that my mother-in-law graciously took the time to make so my son and I could have something else to eat besides meat. There were tons of other options to eat, like nachos, cheese, buns for the burgers, macaroni salad, and mixed salted nuts. All of which are a clean eater's no-no. So I chose not to partake.
4:30pm
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Larabar (which if you haven't tried one, please do so VERY soon). It is what I consider my treat now and since I was still hungry after we ate lunch I stole the one that I brought for my son and chowed down. By this point I'm not feeling so hot, let the headache begin, and the hunger shakes are setting in because I'm not on my regular schedule and I'm not eating my normal foods. I also have not drank enough water yet so I'm getting a little irritable.
6:00pm
1 cup of baked apples with agave nectar and cinnamon. Again, my mother-in-law was great and made my son and I gluten-free versions of apple pie. It tasted very yummy, but there was no protein (which can be hard to do with apple pie because let's face it, who wants a meat product mixed in with pie) so by this time I'm hungry, not at home around my own food choices, and ready to bolt to begin chewing on one of my own appendages.
8:30pm
1 cup veggies out of gluten-free pasta salad. I picked through some of the pasta salad that my mother-in-law sent home with me and took about 2 bites of pasta. I was starving but I didn't want to binge on sugary foods, as that would have been one of my old habits. I decided to at least eat vegetables and hope that the hole in my stomach that felt like it was created by a rabid raccoon would be somewhat filled.
Summary for the day...and this is the actual thought that ran through my head "Be Prepared Moron!"
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