{"id":2403,"date":"2011-04-06T02:55:02","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T02:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/?p=2403"},"modified":"2021-01-16T08:43:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T14:43:35","slug":"veganism-with-a-side-of-fish-and-yogurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adjustedreality.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/06\/veganism-with-a-side-of-fish-and-yogurt\/","title":{"rendered":"Veganism with a side of fish and yogurt…"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I’ve been taking about a fruit and veggie cleanse and all the vegan lifestyle information I read on https:\/\/yourveganadventure.com\/<\/a> are very helpful.\u00a0 I decided to go with THIS ONE<\/a> as it honestly seemed sane, had enough things on it that I could eat and continue training.\u00a0 While you may gain spiritual enlightenment fasting for 7 days, it’s probably no bueno two weeks before a race… and ain’t I just about always two weeks before a race?\u00a0 Here’s my riveting moment to moment account of what I did\/ate\/thought\/weight dropped below.<\/p>\n

Sunday: <\/strong>Got food, cost SLIGHTLY more than normal at store but not much, and not outside the realm of reasonable.<\/p>\n

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Monday:<\/strong> Got on scale, weighed – 174.6 ugh.<\/p>\n

Breakfast – 1\/3 cup plain oats, 2\/3 cup plain greek yogurt, half an apple chopped up, a generous drizzle of honey.\u00a0 This was FUCKING PHENOMENAL.\u00a0 I could eat this every day.\u00a0 Approximately 260 calories, 13g protien, 65g carbs, 2g fat.\u00a0 Also had lemon tea with a small squish of honey (included in calorie count above).<\/p>\n

Lunch – 1 can albacore tuna mixed with some hummus, celery, and onions with 3 rye crackers.\u00a0 Mixed greens w\/onion, tomato, bell pepper, cucumber, celery, pepper.\u00a0 Topped w\/1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil, garlic, dill, pepper, and white wine vinegar for dressing.\u00a0 Rest of apple for desert.\u00a0 Approximately 500 calories. 50g carbs, 18g fat, 39g protein<\/p>\n

On a scale of 1-10, I’d say about a 5.\u00a0 The dressing was MUCH better than I expected (although if I do this again, will probably go grab some balsamic), and the prepared hummus saved me (which wasn’t on the list, but wasn’t explicitly forbidden) because the idea of mixing my tuna with greek yogurt just grossed me out (I’ll try it sometime when I won’t completely ruin my food and be screwed if it’s yucky).\u00a0 I didn’t miss the prepared dressing, cheese, or olives as much as I thought, but I DID miss something creamy to hold the tuna together.\u00a0 And the wasa crackers tasted straight like cardboard, so, while I’ll try rice cakes too, I’ll be happy to at least get my sprouted grain bread back!<\/p>\n

Afternoon note: Really struggling – what do you do that doesn’t involve artificial sweeteners or sugar to take care of your onion breath?\u00a0 I wanted gum badly.\u00a0 Bottle of peppermint extract at the desk?<\/p>\n

Snack 1: Got kinda ravenous around 3:15 – had some wasa crackers and hummus and about 1 cup of baby carrots.\u00a0 Hummus saved the day here.\u00a0 Will need to get down with figuring a good no salt hummus recipe.\u00a0 Had an orange about 2 hours later.\u00a0 About 170 calories. 49g carbs, 2g fat, 6g protien for both snacks<\/p>\n

Workout: Did a 50 min bike ride outside.\u00a0 Went really hard up the hills.\u00a0 Both dailymile and spark agree on about 600 calories burnt<\/p>\n

Snack 2: After workout rice cake. 60 calories.\u00a0 Brown rice rice cake yummy.\u00a0 THIS is what I will be eating tuna on \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n

Dinner: lemon pepper mahi mahi, brown rice, mixed veggies.\u00a0 Something I normally eat, but usually drench in teriyaki sauce.\u00a0 I definitely missed the sauce, but a little extra lemon pepper made it alright. About 400 calories. 49g carbs, 7g fat, 33g protein<\/p>\n

Late night thought: Really wanted more food since I couldn’t have my normal soda or popsicle or anything for desert but I’m just going to bed.<\/p>\n

Monday total: About 1400 calories total. 214g carbs, 28g fat, 92g protein.\u00a0 Right in line with what sparkpeople says I need to have, besides the fact they want me to have more fat.\u00a0 And considering all the fat I really am having is fish and olive oil, I think 28g is pretty good!\u00a0 Tomorrow, I’ll nom some unsalted nuts.<\/p>\n

Slept 9.5 hours.\u00a0 Could have been the fact it was cold, or I had a nice hard bike ride outside, but maybe I slept longer because of the food? Hmmm…<\/p>\n

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Tuesday: <\/strong>weighed in at 172.0.\u00a0 Getting better, 2.6 lb drop in one day is pretty good (especially since I am eating plenty of calories, I know it’s not starvation).\u00a0 Still feeling very good.\u00a0 Don’t feel like I could eat this way forever, but not feeling deprived.<\/p>\n

Breakfast: same as yesterday.\u00a0 Still in serious love with it.\u00a0 While I’ll be happy to change it up with something else once in a while, I could eat this a LOT and it’s pretty cheap considering (2 bucks for oats to last me a month, 2 bucks for honey to last me a month if not longer, 7 bucks for a greek yogurt tub that will last me all week, and apples are about 1.50 a lb).\u00a0 Less than 2 bucks per day! See calorie count above.<\/p>\n

Lunch: black bean soup (from a box, I cheated, but the grocery store didn’t have fresh made soup like it suggested).\u00a0 Veggieful salad (same as yesterday) with pico, a little hummus, greek yogurt, and shrimp. Apple for desert.\u00a0 Totally full after, but only 300 calories.\u00a0 Must snack a lot this afternoon.<\/p>\n

3pm snack: 100 calories of unsalted nuts.\u00a0 Geez, that’s not a lot of nuts!<\/p>\n

4pm snack: 1 wasa cracker, carrots, and hummus.\u00a0 About 150 calories.<\/p>\n

6:30pm snack: rice cake – 60 calories<\/p>\n

Workout: 20 mins swimming (don’t have the distance – but maybe 1000-1200m? Just slow and steady), 23 minute 2.5 mile run.\u00a0 Felt very solid here.\u00a0 Spark says about 550 calories.<\/p>\n

Dinner: shrimp stir fry with rice noodles.\u00a0 Olive and sesame oil, ginger, garlic, crushed red peppers, white pepper, black pepper, a little dash of a chili honey stir fry sauce that didn’t have sodium.\u00a0 Veggies included broccoli, carrots, celery, onion, bamboo shoots, water chestnuts, and snow peas.\u00a0 I caved and put a little lemon pepper seasoning since it had just a TINY bit of salt and that made it better.\u00a0 Above all, I haven’t missed anything so much as the SALT.<\/p>\n

I can go without sweets, even artificial sweeteners and it’s not bugging me so much.\u00a0 I can go without meat, the fish\/beans\/nuts are working pretty well to fill that void.\u00a0 While I would probably go batty without access to some sprouted grain bread or corn tortillas, I’m doing ok.\u00a0 What is killing me is the sauces.\u00a0 All I needed tonight was some teriyaki.\u00a0 Or some soy.\u00a0 Or some sesame ginger stir fry sauce.\u00a0 I was hoping drenching it in oil would help, and it did a little, but I needs some salt, yo.<\/p>\n

I think this is going to be a lesson – be conscious of salt (ugh, one of the three things I said I wouldn’t do.\u00a0 It went give up booze, give up salt, give up carbs – the trifecta of things I wouldn’t do unless someone told me I was going to literally die if I didn’t).\u00a0 While this is a bit over the top, I can make do with a lot less.\u00a0 The lack of bloat and puffy I’m feeling doesn’t lie. About 600 calories, 59g carbs, 28g fat, 18g protein.<\/p>\n

About 1400 calories, 209g carbs, 44g fat, 59g protein.\u00a0 Hit all my numbers minus 1g below minimum protein req.\u00a0 Slept about 8.5 – 9 hours.<\/p>\n

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Wednesday: <\/strong>Weighed in at 171.0 (-1 for the day, -3.6 overall)<\/p>\n

Breakfast: same as before, and still in love (see calorie count above).\u00a0 It boggles my mind that I’m ok eating the same foods over and over for breakfast, but get antsy when I don’t vary my lunch and dinners.\u00a0 I think it’s that I think of breakfast as fuel, and lunch and dinner as experiences.\u00a0 Hmmm…<\/p>\n

Lunch: leftovers from shrimp stir fry (see yesterday’s calorie count – I literally took the food, split half into tupperware, and ate).\u00a0 Still lacking sauce, but still pretty yummy overall (shrimp didn’t nuke all that well).<\/p>\n

Snacks: Had an apple around 3pm, and a rice cake around 6pm.<\/p>\n

Workout: Did my longest swim to date. 2.27 miles (200 laps or 4000 yds or 3657 meters or 3.65k) in 70 mins.\u00a0 IM.\u00a0 Yeah, that includes a decent amount of freaking butterfly.\u00a0 I’m pretty sure this was another good testament – if the diet was making me weak, I’d probably be suffering in my workouts by now.\u00a0 Not so, I even feel “lighter”.\u00a0 As if it is less effort to move my body.\u00a0 Sounds hippie dippie trippy, but I just can’t explain it any other way.\u00a0 Spark sez about 950 calories burnt, I’m calling shenanigans, but I’m guessing 700 wouldn’t be out of the question.<\/p>\n

Dinner: cheated a LITTLE because they didn’t expressly forbid corn tortillas but didn’t mention them either.\u00a0 Also, used canned beans that ended up being a little saltier than I hoped.\u00a0 However, tilapia seasoned with garlic and spices (we basically deconstructed the taco mix ingredients and nixed the salt), black beans, hot pico, and cilantro made 4 amazing tacos.\u00a0 I figured I’d miss the cheese, olives, sour cream, and extra hot sauce, but I totally didn’t.\u00a0 This is much win, and I’ll make these again exactly the same (maybe with a little greek yogurt for some creaminess – would have tried it, but I left it at work). 475 calories, 77g carbs, 7g fat, 37g protein<\/p>\n

Total for the day: 1400 calories, 214 carbs, 37g fat, 70g protein.\u00a0 Just a wee bit low on the fat.<\/p>\n

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Thursday morning weight: 169.6 (5 lbs lost overall.\u00a0 Yeah, you read that right.\u00a0 I’m kinda in shock too.)<\/p>\n

The verdict…<\/p>\n

YES!\u00a0 This seemed to help some of the bloat issues I’ve been having.\u00a0 My laptop is resting more on my hip bones on my lap, not my poof.\u00a0 It’s been a while.<\/p>\n

YES!\u00a0 This took off a lot of weight quickly.<\/p>\n

YES!\u00a0 I feel amazing.\u00a0 Full of potential energy (but not hyper), full of athletic capacity, not as if I’m starving myself, and basically, what my body needs.<\/p>\n

NO!\u00a0 I will not continue this cleanse as is indefinitely.\u00a0 While it’s awesome taking weight off this quick, I can’t imagine going through life with this strict of a diet 100% of the time.\u00a0 I definitely have a new appreciation for veganism, because this was no gluten no wheat\u00a0 low sodium veganism with allowances for greek yogurt and fish.\u00a0 No dairy, no eggs, no meat, nada.\u00a0 Y’all have to navigate around a lot of crazy to get a good balanced diet, and I respect that challenge.<\/p>\n

YES! I need to lower my salt intake.\u00a0 To be honest, I had less of a problem giving up wheat\/gluten and meat besides seafood than I did the prepared sauces and just SALT.\u00a0 I thought the bread would be killer, but what’s a sandwich without mustard?\u00a0 Srsly.<\/p>\n

YES!\u00a0 Next week, I’m going to try M\/T\/W again with some changes – add chicken\/turkey (not lunchmeat), add sprouted grain bread, and adding sauces\/dressings\/foods if they are below 5% of the daily sodium allowance (and stick to one serving if they are).\u00a0 Pretty much – see if my body tolerates the white meat and sprouted grain ok, and also just try to limit sodium to normal human levels.<\/p>\n

YES!\u00a0 I’m getting a goddamn hamburger and fries today for lunch.\u00a0 For breakfast and dinner… I’ll probably stick pretty close to zee rules.<\/p>\n

NO!\u00a0 I’m not sure why I am continuing the YES! and NO! but I’m going with the flow.\u00a0 Erm. Yeah.\u00a0 Continuing on.<\/p>\n

Some things that didn’t make the consumables list for future food ideas:<\/p>\n

rice cakes with beans and pico and greek yogurt (veggie “tostadas”)
\nrice cakes with tuna salad and veggies
\nrice noodles w\/olive oil, garlic, and pepper w\/lime, ginger, garlic, and cilantro tilapia and veggies
\nshrimp, roasted potatoes w\/olive oil, herbs and peppers, roasted veggies<\/p>\n

So, I have lots of questions.\u00a0 First of all, think I’m crazy?\u00a0 Any low sodium fish\/veggie based recipes you’d like to share?\u00a0 Have you ever done a “cleanse” or just gone all “super clean eating” up in your grill for a while?\u00a0 Any tips for making food not taste like ass without a lot of the other white devil (some of you may crave the sugar, but I swear, I would have been willing to lick a sweaty person’s face to get some of the salty stuff yesterday) or navigating restaurants trying to be low sodium?\u00a0 Wanna congratulate me for almost swimming the ironman distance last night?\u00a0 Hit me up.<\/p>\n

Next post is the Warrior Dash and Du Loop wrap up.\u00a0 Just got the pics today from the latter.\u00a0 Pinky swear.\u00a0 No more incessant diet ramblings until next week.\u00a0 Ta ta internets!!!<\/p>\n

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