#becomingiron

[notovernight]

As Robin would say

The hay is in the barn...

Final 4 mile training run done. Now, I just have rest up, and carb load, till Saturday.

Pray for me please :)

[marinemindset]

Birmingham Mercedes Half

Alright folks! So many AMAZING people will be doing this race next weekend. I just so happen to have the day off work. We were talking about going away for the weekend…

Put the two together and what do you get???

I am excited as hell to come do this and see/meet some very awesome folks that I have come to admire. Once the logistics of hotel rooms are acquired, it will be a done deal.

Going to be in town Friday-Sunday… Anyone want to hang out??

[emilydoesscience]

How's it go?

To fail to prepare is to prepare to fail

Clean Eating Cooler Plan #1 starts tomorrow. Going to try to do it until I leave on the 14th. I will be having some dairy in the form of cottage cheese in my protein pancakes.

Tomorrow's food, prepped and ready in my sweet ass lunch bag:

6am protein pancakes

9am 2 hard boiled eggs, 1/2 apple, cucumber

12pm tuna, rice, yam/squash mix, spinach

3pm 1/2 apple, rest of tuna/rice/spinach mix

6pm chicken, yam squash mix, lettuce

water and green tea.

[milemarkersoflife]

Do you ever just get out of the shower and find it too hard to go on. I don't mean living life, I mean getting ready. Those days where you are so lazy that all you can do is lay down on the floor with a towel upon your head and no pants on....I feel pathetic. I feel pathetic because two amazing women and their confidants are about to take on a 100 mile journey tomorrow, and I'm chillin on my bedroom floor with no pants on!! Impressive is the word. Also, amazing, inspiring, incredible, brave, beastly, and freaking AWESOME come to mind, among others. There may be miles tonight, there will be miles tomorrow. It won't be a hundred, I'll save that for Rach and Kim, but miles will be dealt with. And. Fabulous luck to the two amazing beasts...you've got this.

[betternikki]

on protein at breakfast

I do wonder something- I thought it was fairly typical to eat every 3 hours or so. That was the time between my 1st & 2nd breakfasts yesterday. (They were much closer today because I was extra hungry from being up most of the night with Ryland.) However, there will be days that I won't be able to eat that often, and then it would be helpful to have some ideas. replies to http://betternikki.tumblr.com/post/40018677130/becomingiron-replied-to-your-post-while-focusing

runwrite said: What about non breakfasty protein? Like sliced ham or turkey, non breakfast sausage. I am not really a huge fan of breakfast food and sometimes I eat dinner type foods for breakfast.

I really like my breakfast foods (aka cereal, oatmeal, etc), but I may try to throw in a slice or two of turkey when we have it in the house if I'm needed to make my breakfast stick with me longer.

becomingiron said: Cheese? Do you like cheese? Or coconut or avacado? Those are good options. Cashews almonds pecans??

I like cheese a lot. I also like nuts (except for pecans because they feel weird in my teeth- I dislike Oreos for the same reason, haha) Coconut and avocado I both dislike for texture reasons. Actually, the majority of foods I don't like are because the texture makes me gag.

dareto said: try avocado in the mornings! doesn’t really take care of protein, but i’ve found if i add a few slices of avocado to my eggs, i stay fuller way longer.

See the above.  I did try avocado as I had opportunity in the past year a couple different ways.

[betternikki]

becomingiron replied to your post: While focusing on respecting my fullness (aka only...

Question being respectful of what you are doing. Do you think that including protien at breakfast and a healthy fat would keep you saited longer so you wouldn’t need second breakfast. I’ve noticed a huge difference when those are included

I've thought about that a lot, but my problem is that I don't like a lot of breakfast-y protein options- I'm just getting to where I can choke down eggs, but only if there's copious amounts of cheese involved. I don't like sausage except for the super-fatty smoked sausage kind. I haven't yet re-tested crispy bacon to see if I like it.

I've tried other sources of protein at breakfast- protein powder smoothies, oatmeal + peanut butter, and Greek yogurt with a 1/2 scoop of pro. powder stirred in, but it maybe held me about 30 min. longer than my cereal does. Kashi GoLean does hold me longer than my other cereals since it has more protein & fiber, but I'd get sick of it if I didn't throw other things in the mix.

Even if I do wake up hungry, I'm never very hungry for much first thing in the morning, but I feel shaky if I don't eat something soon after waking. If I could eat a more substantial amount of food for breakfast, it would probably help. 

I just learned when I was teaching to make sure I always had a snack to eat when the kids had snack time, and now I just eat whenever I happen to get hungry.

Thanks for the suggestion, though. I really wish I like more (healthy) foods.