Day 1 – Meat and Greens Challenge
Breakfast Ideas: 100g of roast beef with a handful of nuts (Time saving tip, you can either cook a roast and slice it up yourself or go to the deli counter at somewhere like wholefoods and get them to package it in separate 100g packages so you don’t even need to measure-they will look at you funny, but they will do it:) I got 5 100gram packages made yesterday. 100grams of meat=20grams of protein (and to respond to your question from yesterday Zola, it is 1gram of PROTEIN you want to eat per lb of body weight not 1gram of MEAT so for instance if you weighed 130lbs you would want to eat 130grams of Protein or 650 grams of MEAT. Make Sense?
If you want something crunchy, you can get those mini cucumbers and wrap slices of turkey breast around them. Again you can do this the night before and just grab and go in the morning.
Hard Boiled eggs-boil them the evening before and just grab one as you go out the door.
If you have time in the morning, you could cook up an omelet, or make a “dinner”. Zucchini Pasta and ground bison actually makes a great breakfast and don’t forget about the left overs!
Especially if you are eating pure protein for breakfast, morning tends to be an ideal time to fit in a “Green Drink” to help alkanize the body right off the bat.
Any other questions, let me know. I will be posting what I eat each day to give some ideas.
This is my plan for today:
5:00am Wake up- 1tbs glutamine
5:30-11am Coach-7:30 125grams of roast beef with handful of pumpkin seeds & 1 tbs fish oil
11am-Seaweed salad with 150g of Squid+Multi, handful walnuts
12-2pm-meeting, 1 tbs glutamine
2:30pm-steamed swiss chard, 3oz chicken breast cooked in coconut oil with sliced avacado on top + 1tbs fish oil + multi
4:30pm-2 poached eggs on steamed spinach
5:30-7:30 O-lifting, 1 tbs glutamine
7:30-100g turkey breast wrapped around 2 minni cucumbers
8-9pm coach
250ml 1 tbs glutamine +ZMA
Also a clarification on the rules, Olive Oil, Coconut Oil, Garlic and Ginger are all OK as is Coffee and Tea, where as processed salad dressing and Alchohol are not.
I am not sure if this is the place to post a question but I am wondering about the use of Protein Powders. This 14-day challenge sounds great. I have “tried” to incorporate most of this into my daily diet anyway. Usually however in the morning I get up and drink a protein shake with about 24g of Whey, milk, yogurt, instant oatmeal and a banana. I work out one to two times a day usually at lunch and/or after work. After these workouts I drink a protein shake of about 24g Whey and milk. Sometimes I through a banana and/or yogurt in there. At night I drink a shake with 24g Casein and milk. As I don’t want to consume too many calories, I may change the recipe based off what I had earlier in the day or skip the shake totally. In between all this I snack on nuts and fruits and eat meals with lean meats and greens. I don’t count calories. I do mostly CrossFit type workouts with the occasional distance run. I don’t follow a strict zone or paleo diet as sometimes for me it’s not realistic. I am happy with my physique and gains in the gym, but am always curious if I could be leaner or gain more. Are the added protein shakes hurting or helping me.
Sorry for the long comment and thanks for taking the time to read it.
Mike
AWeSoMe! Thanks for the tips. Never really thought about asking the deli to help me out. So far so good. This morning I scrambled up some eggs with spinach and took coffee and nuts along with on the way to class. Had some steak and broccoli and cooked up some chicken breasts, more broccoli and spinach for the rest of the day and tomorrow. I need to stock up on greens but will attempt to do that tomorrow at the Farmer’s Market in Concord.
p.s. any recommendations on glutamine? brands, stores to get it? i could easily go to walmart but i figure like everything else (fish oils) you have to be careful with which brands you buy.
Kel the glutamine tastes vile! How do you take it ….just mixed in water?
hhmmm getting the separate bags at the deli doesnt seem very environmentaly friendly!!
What kind of glutamine are you drinking zola? I just get plain glutamine that really has no taste to it at all, and ya I just mix it in water. If you want something to distract the “flavor” try adding sliced cucumbers to the water. Its rather refreshing!
As for the kinds Sakura, anything pharmaceutical grade will be good (they should it pretty cheap at walmart). Just make sure you get straight glutamine and not one of the kinds with artificial flavors and crap mixed in.
careful with processed deli meats though.
most of them have lots of bad chemicals (nitrites) in processed meats.
Very true Rosita, but it becomes the least of evils on the spectrum of evils. If you buy it from the deli counter rather than the pre-packaged versions the nitrites are pretty minimal. In an ideal world you would be killing your own meat and roasting it yourself, but the use of deli meats makes it more managable for the average person.
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