food--grrr!
I am beginning to despise sports nutrition with a level of loathing usually reserved for incompetent drivers and people who adopt pets that they cannot then take good care of.
A week and a half ago, I was exercising a lot and eating what felt like enough, and I was at 21% body fat, according to my fancy scale.
Now, I am exercising a lot and eating what feels like enough, and I am at 22% body fat (and 5 lbs heavier, though I don't feel fatter). But I am also getting faint from hunger. This was especially problematic yesterday, when I went for a 45-minute run and danced a bunch at a hafla, and I guess I did not up my calories enough in compensation for all that activity.
I feel like all this training is making eating into a chore, which is something I'd hoped would never happen, because I love food soooo much. Food in almost all of its aspects is a gigantic part of my life, and is especially significant as a creative outlet because I am so passionate about cooking. I think so long as I focus on healthy, whole, and local foods--on preparing as much as I can on my own--and then on sharing said foods with other people, I'll be fine. I tend to get in the most trouble when left to my own devices, 'cause I'll revert to the mentality that I'm sure so many other SoCal residents share of "must starve self to look better." Which obviously is utter bullshit, but it's pretty deeply ingrained since I'm an L.A. native.
To cook today:
-whole wheat spaghetti with a meaty ragu (sauce made from local pork sausage and beef shanks, with an organic Merlot from France I picked out to also go in the sauce)
-flourless chocolate-hazelnut cake (with ground hazelnuts instead of flour... however, I don't like Frangelico enough to keep it around, so I'm replacing the little that the recipe calls for with Amaretto, which I am much more likely to drink, especially with grapefruit juice)
-banana bread... or banana biscotti... hell, I've got enough ripe bananas, I might just make both!
-some kind of exciting vinaigrette to put on a salad
-lightly-topped pizza as an appetizer, using Peter Reinhart's Pizza Americana Dough, which I'm really quite pleased with based on the other uses to which I've put the dough
I will start baking now, and go for a run once my lunch digests (yum, leftover pad thai from Roots). I was supposed to run earlier once breakfast had digested, but Greek yogurt with strawberries, 1/2 a grapefruit, and tea was not enough to keep me un-hungry for 2 hours... STUPID SPORTS NUTRITION!!!
A week and a half ago, I was exercising a lot and eating what felt like enough, and I was at 21% body fat, according to my fancy scale.
Now, I am exercising a lot and eating what feels like enough, and I am at 22% body fat (and 5 lbs heavier, though I don't feel fatter). But I am also getting faint from hunger. This was especially problematic yesterday, when I went for a 45-minute run and danced a bunch at a hafla, and I guess I did not up my calories enough in compensation for all that activity.
I feel like all this training is making eating into a chore, which is something I'd hoped would never happen, because I love food soooo much. Food in almost all of its aspects is a gigantic part of my life, and is especially significant as a creative outlet because I am so passionate about cooking. I think so long as I focus on healthy, whole, and local foods--on preparing as much as I can on my own--and then on sharing said foods with other people, I'll be fine. I tend to get in the most trouble when left to my own devices, 'cause I'll revert to the mentality that I'm sure so many other SoCal residents share of "must starve self to look better." Which obviously is utter bullshit, but it's pretty deeply ingrained since I'm an L.A. native.
To cook today:
-whole wheat spaghetti with a meaty ragu (sauce made from local pork sausage and beef shanks, with an organic Merlot from France I picked out to also go in the sauce)
-flourless chocolate-hazelnut cake (with ground hazelnuts instead of flour... however, I don't like Frangelico enough to keep it around, so I'm replacing the little that the recipe calls for with Amaretto, which I am much more likely to drink, especially with grapefruit juice)
-banana bread... or banana biscotti... hell, I've got enough ripe bananas, I might just make both!
-some kind of exciting vinaigrette to put on a salad
-lightly-topped pizza as an appetizer, using Peter Reinhart's Pizza Americana Dough, which I'm really quite pleased with based on the other uses to which I've put the dough
I will start baking now, and go for a run once my lunch digests (yum, leftover pad thai from Roots). I was supposed to run earlier once breakfast had digested, but Greek yogurt with strawberries, 1/2 a grapefruit, and tea was not enough to keep me un-hungry for 2 hours... STUPID SPORTS NUTRITION!!!