What have you eaten today?

Jon in Sweden
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I've loosely tracked my macros for over 20 years.

When I was 18, 6ft 8" and 77kg (skinny as hell from cycling and taekwondo) I decided I was fed up being so thin. So being the obsessive type, I overdid weight training for 4.5 years until my guts gave out and gained 54kg (drug free). 131kg isn't a pleasant state of affairs though, even if it's pretty proportional.

These days, I actually eat more than I did when I was bulking, but burning 12000-15000 kcal a week on the bike as well as having an active job will do that.

I make a real effort to try to mix and match my foods to get a broad variety of things. I like Dr Tim Spector's mantra of getting 30 different plants a week. I often manage that in a day. We went mushroom picking this morning and came back with over a kilo of chanterelles (which is good going for October).

I try to avoid anything processed. I make all our bread and cook 90% of all the meals we eat from scratch. Eating as much as I do, it's the only way for the food bill not to be insane.
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Jon in Sweden wrote: 20 Oct 2024, 12:50pm I've loosely tracked my macros for over 20 years.

When I was 18, 6ft 8" and 77kg (skinny as hell from cycling and taekwondo) I decided I was fed up being so thin. So being the obsessive type, I overdid weight training for 4.5 years until my guts gave out and gained 54kg (drug free).

We went mushroom picking this morning and came back with over a kilo of chanterelles (which is good going for October).
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Yep, got back onto weights May / June this year. Couple of broken shoulders, collar bone, multiple ribs, vertebrae past 4yr's had stopped all that, though have always enjoyed the weight lifting "buzz" and good will, rather than too much muscle.

Like anything exercise related, giving 150% effort always gives it's own return in good feeling

Don't pick mushrooms myself, but only this year realised that decent mushrooms are always fantastic in any meal, so buy without fail (Nb. Can't grow, no ground, containers too much shade, even basics like runner beans, borage absolute failure this year)
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My food intake has been quite altered recently by virtue of the voluntary sessions I do each week. At both the warehouse and the market garden, I get small amounts of food in return for the shift, which was quite unlooked for, I might add. Thus I’m eating tons more veg. and every meal is like an episode of Ready Steady, Cook, which suits me well.
Nearly always porridge or muesli to start. This time of year I’m taking my muesli with hot milk, as a half-way house to full-on winter porridge, ie with salt, sugar, half a banana and whole milk.
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2 slices boiled ham
1 slice Vollkornbrot
2½ croissants
½ a duck, apple & chestnut tart
1 mini Magnum
1 pear

...and counting.
Have we got time for another cuppa?
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gbnz wrote: 20 Oct 2024, 1:34pm :
Yep, got back onto weights May / June this year. Couple of broken shoulders, collar bone, multiple ribs, vertebrae past 4yr's had stopped all that, though have always enjoyed the weight lifting "buzz" and good will, rather than too much muscle.

Like anything exercise related, giving 150% effort always gives it's own return in good feeling

Don't pick mushrooms myself, but only this year realised that decent mushrooms are always fantastic in any meal, so buy without fail (Nb. Can't grow, no ground, containers too much shade, even basics like runner beans, borage absolute failure this year)
Nice to hear you're getting back into the weights. I've had four periods of reasonably consistent weight training in my adult life, totalling maybe 8 years. I'm in one currently, and feel good. Just nursing a very-slow-to-recover forearm flexor injury, but it's getting there.

Resistance training should be a part of any persons routine. It doesn't need to be much - you get most of the benefit by just doing a focused hour a week, split into three. I've tried with mine and my wife's parents, who are at that age where they really need to do it to halt and hopefully reverse sarcopenia. But I've had limited success.

I'm having pot roasted wild boar with chanterelles this evening. Sounds fancy, but boar is the very cheapest meat we can get - works out at about £3.70 a kilo.
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simonineaston wrote: 20 Oct 2024, 2:00pm My food intake has been quite altered recently by virtue of the voluntary sessions I do each week. At both the warehouse and the market garden, I get small amounts of food in return for the shift, which was quite unlooked for, I might add. Thus I’m eating tons more veg. and every meal is like an episode of Ready Steady, Cook, which suits me well.
Nearly always porridge or muesli to start. This time of year I’m taking my muesli with hot milk, as a half-way house to full-on winter porridge, ie with salt, sugar, half a banana and whole milk.
It makes such a difference getting a regular supply of veg. It's like you don't realise it was missing until you have it.
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I did have to do a mental flip as follows:
Old way of planning meal.
What shall I have for tea tonight? I know - I fancy a pork chop. And that will leave a potato-shaped space. And after I’ve got the chop & the spuds on the plate, there’ll be some room for a dollop of creamy mushroom sauce - oh and some apple chutney, too… ps there might be a tiny bare patch I could put some peas on, I suppose.
New way:
What shall I have for tea tonight? I know, I’ll roast that butternut squash, have some of the celeriac mash I made y’day, pop some buttered carrots on, have a spoonful of the spicey red cabbage with chickpeas… and if I budge all that up, there’ll be just enough room for half a pork chop! But come to think of it, I don't think I’ll bother with the meat, after all!
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simonineaston wrote: 20 Oct 2024, 6:27pm I did have to do a mental flip as follows:
Old way of planning meal.
What shall I have for tea tonight? I know - I fancy a pork chop. And that will leave a potato-shaped space. And after I’ve got the chop & the spuds on the plate, there’ll be some room for a dollop of creamy mushroom sauce - oh and some apple chutney, too… ps there might be a tiny bare patch I could put some peas on, I suppose.
New way:
What shall I have for tea tonight? I know, I’ll roast that butternut squash, have some of the celeriac mash I made y’day, pop some buttered carrots on, have a spoonful of the spicey red cabbage with chickpeas… and if I budge all that up, there’ll be just enough room for half a pork chop! But come to think of it, I don't think I’ll bother with the meat, after all!
Haha! I completely understand, but don't forget the porkchop for the protein.

The change is that you're also eating what is in season, and rather than your diet being dictated by what you fancy, it's by what's available. I prefer that personally.

Though we cheat rather as as have four freezers in the cellar, so we have about 100kg of blueberries/lingonberries and 100kg of stewed apples that lasts us the year.

Dinner this evening was epic and rather large. I'd been out for 2hrs on the road bike. 324w average, 200g carbs on the bike, but still an 1800kcal hole to plug.

200g roast wild boar with chanterelles and gravy, 350g roast potatoes, 350g mixed veg, 100g stuffing, 400g salad (sprouted mung beans, grated carrot, chopped apple, chopped tomato, in a balsamic/olive oil/honey dressing). Just about to finish it off with 500g of yoghurt (350g mixed berry, 150g high protein qvarg) and a 500ml 2.8% ABV lager. Got to be nudging a couple of thousand calories there :D
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Remco has done a recent “What I eat in a day” video on YouTube. He had quite a big breakfast, did a 200km bike ride split into 2 parts due to rain. Whilst he did take some gels, he also stopped at garages and shops along the way eating Haribos, drinking Fanta, water and Orange Juice. He had a Lasagne for dinner, cooked by his girlfriend.

He tracks the calories and measures everything. He consumed 7000 calories during the day but burnt off 8000 calories during the day with his bike ride + plus base metabolism.
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One single slice of marmalade on wholemeal toast and butter for breakfast.
Two pints of Dartmoor Legend for lunch after a doggie walk.

For evening meal ........... I'm self-catering this evening as Mrs Mick F is in Plymouth with a friend for the evening ............ I have a pork chop and spuds and veg to keep me fed.

That'll be it.
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As a consequence of volunteering for two very different sorts of food supply charities, my meals these days are like an ever-lasting episode of Ready Steady Cook. Thus tonight I have to use up the following ingredients:
1 sheet of ready-rolled short crust pastry
1 modestly sized squash
1 small packet of garlic-herb-infused butter….
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It's been a tough week of training, with unplanned cycle commuting robbing me of rest days. 7 days and 15 of so hours on the bike, plus a rowing session.

Cycled to work yesterday morning and felt exhausted, but crammed food all day and did a pb power effort on the way home - just under an hour at 363w.

Food was this:

700g greek yoghurt/qvarg plus 150g blueberries, 40g sugar.
250g bread, 50g cheese, 50g salami, 40g butter
400g mungbean, tomato, apple and cucumber salad. Olive oil, balsamic vinegar and honey dressing
450g stewed apple with blueberries

Weight gain/protein shake (I'm not trying to gain weight, but it's useful recovery fuel) 80g, with 500ml whole milk
800g stir fry (veg, tofu, cashews, soy sauce etc) with noodles
120g muesli, 500ml milk

120g cornflakes, 500ml milk
500ml 2.8% abv pilsner
40g dark chocolate
Another 700g yoghurt with blueberries, but no added sugar. Needed more food but too tired to make anything.

Not the most varied day, but with 50km of riding plus over 10hrs at work, it's hard to be 100% on food. A little over 7000kcal, of which I burnt about 2200-2300kcal on the bike.
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On the whole, I think I would enjoy the Scandi diet. Last time I was in Copenhagen, I popped over to Malmo on the chuffa, as much to see that bridge as anything. The plan was to take in such sights as the town has to offer before returning to the airport which lies between the two, however, we were so impressed by the food hall at the railway station that we never got any further! Packed with lots of individual stalls, all selling something fresh, slightly different and at good prices, too. Makes your typical UK train station with its limited choice of the usual franchise suspects, determined to flog us the least amount of packeted rubbish for the biggest buck, look v. sad & dull… not that I’m envious or anything. :twisted:
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Jon in Sweden wrote: 30 Oct 2024, 6:32am It's been a tough week of training, with unplanned cycle commuting robbing me of rest days. 7 days and 15 of so hours on the bike, plus a rowing session.

Cycled to work yesterday morning and felt exhausted, but crammed food all day and did a pb power effort on the way home - just under an hour at 363w.

Food was this:

700g greek yoghurt/qvarg plus 150g blueberries, 40g sugar.
250g bread, 50g cheese, 50g salami, 40g butter
400g mungbean, tomato, apple and cucumber salad. Olive oil, balsamic vinegar and honey dressing
450g stewed apple with blueberries

Weight gain/protein shake (I'm not trying to gain weight, but it's useful recovery fuel) 80g, with 500ml whole milk
800g stir fry (veg, tofu, cashews, soy sauce etc) with noodles
120g muesli, 500ml milk

120g cornflakes, 500ml milk
500ml 2.8% abv pilsner
40g dark chocolate
Another 700g yoghurt with blueberries, but no added sugar. Needed more food but too tired to make anything.

Not the most varied day, but with 50km of riding plus over 10hrs at work, it's hard to be 100% on food. A little over 7000kcal, of which I burnt about 2200-2300kcal on the bike.
Sounds good and looks like quite a decent diet :wink: . Being a tight .......have always avoided buying stuff like "blueberries" or other "exotic veg", on grounds of cost......had to admit to myself this year, that an expensive piece of specialist fruit, is still no more expensive than a Pain au Chocolate.....

Have made the enhanced effort since start of October and diet, c/w exercise / miles* has been incredible, protein of course, being invaluable. Had a huge collapse in mileage this year, but has already been noticeable the past two weeks that the muscles are propelling the bike by themselves. So one can enjoy seeing the migrating birds and landscape as one glides past (Nb. It is largely flat, wind more of an issue)

The pilsner? Try an an alcohol free regime; I'm on a 8 week session, couldn't help buying a bottle of wine the other night........but buying something at 3-4 times the normal price has helped, as can read about it, the reviews, haven't opened it yet :wink: )
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gbnz wrote: 31 Oct 2024, 1:48pmBeing a tight .......have always avoided buying stuff like "blueberries"
I buy more than I would, because they're one of the too few fruits that I can rely on being ripe enough to eat straight from the shelf.
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