Marathon Week Meal Plan - HELP!

I probably should have thought about this before, but still a little stuck about what to eat all next week, before the race. During the race – all that I have sorted! Most of the advice has been not have too much fat, and drop the fibre intake. I’ve listed my meal plans from tonight to the night before the marathon. If anyone thinks I should add anything, take anything out please comment!

Tonight Dinner – left over falafel with vegies and pasta
Friday Breakfast – oats w milk and banana
Mid morning snack – apple and handful of nuts
Lunch – Turkey, carrot, sprout, and avocado sandwich on white bread
Dinner – Eggs on toast (with spinach)

Saturday Breakfast – oats w milk and banana
Mid morning snack – apple and handful of nuts
Lunch – Turkey, spinach, hummus and cheese sandwich on white bread
Dinner – Steak with vegies (potato, carrots, broccoli and beans) with pasta

Sunday Pre 16km run oats with milk and berries and jelly snakes along the way
Post run brunch – eggs on toast with spinach or home made pancakes /depend on whether I am craving salt post run – this is the norm.
Late lunch – Will probably be out somewhere – maybe a salad, soup
Dinner - Steak with vegies (potato, carrots, broccoli and beans) with pasta

Monday Breakfast – oats w milk and banana
Mid morning snack – grapes and a handful of nuts
Lunch – Turkey, spinach, hummus and cheese sandwich on white bread
Dinner – Meat with potato, carrots, and pasta

Tuesday Breakfast – oats w milk and banana
Mid morning snack – grapes and a handful of nuts
Lunch – Turkey, spinach, hummus and cheese sandwich on white bread
Dinner – Meat with potato, carrots, and pasta

Wednesday Breakfast – oats w milk and banana
Mid morning snack – grapes and a handful of nuts
Lunch – Turkey, spinach, hummus sandwich on white bread
Dinner – pasta bake with tuna, carrots, potato, and white pasta

Thursday Breakfast – oats w milk and banana
Mid morning snack – grapes and a handful of nuts
Lunch – Turkey, spinach, hummus sandwich on white bread
Dinner – pasta bake with tuna, carrots, potato, and white pasta

Friday Breakfast – toast with vegemite (I get motion sickness so will be lucky to have the toast)
Lunch – somewhere in Auckland – a sandwich, with fruit and maybe a chocolate or something.
Dinner – an Italian place in Auckland – pasta

Saturday Breakfast – toast and oats
Lunch – out somewhere in Auckland – sandwich?
Dinner – You guessed it, pasta!
I think I’ll need to eat more this day, but not sure what, and when.

I'll also be sending this off to my trainer so will be interesting to see what he has to say too. I'll report back!

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The build up

I only have a 10km run tomorrow for my long run, at race pace, so it needs to be 1.12:59...seriously. But the mileage ramps up next week, until the half. I need to make time in the next few weeks to be somewhat familiar with the course, as it's just out of town, it makes me feel a bit more comfortable knowing that before race day!

I got a fair bit done today, even with a sleep in. I went and checked out my local market which has been running for a while, and is very close to my place. I don't know if it was because of the weather, or what but it was tiny, and there wasn't much choice for produce or price for that matter. I did pick up a few things, including two wholemeal loaves of bread (one of which I froze), and some eggs, and vegies. I'll still be heading to the waterfront one tomorrow after my long run, to get more supplies. I also got my gym session in, and went to the library.

So far the no supermarket shopping experience has gone well, I have come to realise though I buy alot of processed stuff, tinned chickpeas, bread, crackers, things like that. I guess I thought I really didn't buy anything processed, but I do, not alot compared to some folks I guess, but enough to go ohhh. I might have to pop into the supermarket though...for toilet paper, and milk, umm and vegemite...i've run out! I did end up buying, soaking and cooking dried chickpeas though, which was not as hard as I thought, plus they taste so much better! So i'm on board for keeping that up!

I've also signed up for a spinathon in few weeks! It runs for 6 hours in total, and you can do at least a one hour session. I checked with my trainer to see what was okay seeing as I have a scheduled 19km run the day after...umm that would be 3 sessions are fine, as long as I rest the rest of the day :-) So three hours of straight spinning classes in a row my legs and more importantly my rear hurt just thinking about it!

Camping!

I'm off to a wedding this weekend, the first one I've been to in years. I left it really late to get something to wear, and whilst I don't love what I bought, it will be perfectly fine for a relaxed country wedding, first at the church, then at a garden for the reception. But yes, there was angst in the change room, even after my waist reappeared after years being MIA. But yeah, I have something.

And we are camping...due to the reception being quite far out of town, so most of the guests will be doing this.

I have not done this since school, not that my partner in crime knows this, so here is hoping both of our heads together, and some common sense and we will be all good. We've even packed the car up with quilts, fluffy pillows, my beautician offered to lend me her air mattress today whilst waxing my eyebrows into shape. So if all goes well, it should be great fun. If not, yeah we'll just have a bit more bubbles.

Book club went really well, we read the lovely bones for this months meeting, which I didn't think I would like, but liked very much. Next month, the secret life of bees! None of us have read it, so it seemed a good choice.

Nutrition wise all is going good, some hiccups, mainly when I don't have enough protein at lunch, that makes a HUGE difference. Now I just need to get back into le gym!

Have a good weekend everyone xx

Numbers and Planning

I've had nearly over a month of not going to ww. I went back today, and happy with my 700g gain, considering I went awol with cupcake making, and more wine than normal over the pre christmas period - I don't normally drink that much, so points wise its never been something I have had to actively count.

I've worked out a little chart below that has me on average aiming to loose 600g a week. I'll be happy with 500g though. It's just that the 600g will get me to ww goal by the end of the year :-) it's more for my reference. But I will put one up to update either at the end of each month, or beginning of the next depending on when I weigh in.

Jan - 1.2kg = 102.9
Feb - 2.4kg = 100.5
Mar - 2.4kg = 98.1
Apr - 3 kg = 95.1
May - 2.4kg = 92.7
Jun- 2.4 = 90.3
Jul 3 = 87.3
Aug 2.4 = 84.9
Sept 3 = 81.9
Oct 2.4 = 79.5
Nov 2.4 = 77.1
Dec 3 = 74

Looking back on the past week, I've been keeping a food, water and exercise diary since monday. Some interesting things have popped up.

If I do not bring my breakfast into work, my choices go south. Prime example was yesterday, when I didn't bring my oats in and ended up going for a coffee around ten, and discovering toasted banana bread. I used to bring a ration of oats into work for the week, but we are had a mouse about...and now i'd rather just bring it in on the day. Not that I leave oats out or anything, but gross! This problem could be solved by prepping my oats the night before as at the moment, I do it just before I leave for work. And keeping and emergency stash in a container inside a container at work.

I've had lunch out twice this week, once was a vegie salad with no dressing and a little bit of feta and avocado. The other one was this amazing sounding turkish vegie sandwich, it was HUGE, but more to the point it was packed with all the fresh vegies as listed, but along with the swiss cheese (which was advertised) there was additional cheese. Argh!

I've only had one meal out this week. And this was hilarious. I don't ever drink wine during the week, so I stuck to water whilst a group of us waited for a friend who was running late, four bottles of water between us and still waiting for the friend, we caved and got hummus and turkish bread and dived in. When the friend did finally arrive, we ordered our meals, mine came with turkish garlic bread (if I had been smart, I would have asked for it without). And then it came down to the sweet menu, which again I try not to have so much anymore, but that night I had the chocolate pudding with icecream, it was worth it taste wise just for the sauce! But it was a huge meal.

So there you go!

Exercise this week, it hasn't been as consistent as I would have liked, only swimming and spin. Boxing got pulled on Tuesday because dinner came up. And yesterday, I'm not sure...which would conclude that I was a lazy tool. I will admit I am loving my mini sleep ins this week.

My aim along with tracking and consistent exercise is to have water when I get home, and a glass before I leave in the morning. I'm hitting 6 glasses at work, and then I don't think about it at home. I'd be happy with 8.

The next few weeks I have social things, and trips on, so I'm going to have to show more restraint so I can still enjoy things whilst I'm away and not feel guilty!