Hi, guys!
Just wanted to pop in and share a “what I ate in a day” blog post as well as my #1 tip for macro-counting, which makes tracking so much easier. Let’s get right to it, shall we?
Breakfast: Homemade blue cheese turkey burger (just ground turkey, blue cheese, salt, and pepper baked in the oven) with arugula and Anne’s Dijon Mustard
After breakfast, I got Quinn ready for school, dropped him off, and then headed to OPEX for a workout.
After my workout, I spent a few hours at Rosa Farms working before heading home to take a shower and make lunch. I was more than ready to eat!
Lunch: Garlic drumsticks with roasted carrots, arugula, and avocado
After lunch, I got right back to work. Somehow, it’s already May, and I haven’t tracked any of my income or expenses for the year, so I popped into QuickBooks Self-Employed to settle up. If you’re self-employed and don’t have any sort of book/record-keeping in place, I highly recommend this service. It makes it soooo easy for you to track your income and categorize your expenses – it evens connects to your bank accounts and credit cards, so you don’t have to input any data. It also gives you “tasks” to do at the end of the year, which makes tax time a breeze! Big fan! #randomtangent
Snack: Rice cake with avocado, Everything But The Bagel Seasoning, and veggies
Dinner: Shredded lemon artichoke chicken (recipe coming soon to CNC) over broccoli, cabbage & carrot slaw (from Trader Joe’s)
Dessert: All the Seeds Protein Balls + La Croix coconut seltzer + a couple of handfuls of Enjoy Life dark chocolate chips (not pictured)
I actually tracked my macros this day. I didn’t hit my goals (I never do), but I came pretty close. For me, planning my macros ahead of time typically ensures that I come pretty darn close to meeting my goals for the day – and it’s easy to do! When you’re laying in bed at night, open up MyFitnessPal and swipe to the next day. Enter in everything you need for breakfast, lunch, dinner, post-workout snack, etc. and adjust as necessary to hit your goals. Of
course, the next day, if you need to adjust a little bit here and there, that’s totally ok. What you set up ahead of time is an awesome plan and takes the work out of eating and planning. Now, all you have to do is follow it!
Pro tip: Pre-plan 2-3 days for the entire week and then rotate them. There’s no need to plan out (and prep for) 7 different days with all new meals and snacks. You can always make tweaks, but the base of your plan is set. This will save you time and help you stick to your plan!
Question of the Day
On a scale of 1-10 (10 being A LOT), how much do you like these “what I ate in a day” blog posts? Do you find them helpful? Interesting? Something else?
22 Comments
10. helpful, interesting, and gives me ideas for my own meal planning. Please keep “what I eat in a day” as a weekly thing.
10 for sure!
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I don’t find them that interesting as most of your food appears on instagram. I also don’t think that breakfast is “inspiring”??
I didn’t realize all my meals needed to be inspiring! Haha! Just wanted to share an easy and quick breakfast idea! 🙂
Thanks tina for sharing this recipies .I think it must be healthy and delicious recipies and maintain our body if i start eating this.Thanks for sharing this blog. Keep sharing……………
I love them! These are the sorts of posts I read blogs for 🙂 They’re actually helpful for me in my day to day life, give a fun glimpse into the blogger’s life, and they’re way more interesting than sponsored content.
10 – Love the what I are in a day post! Keep them coming!!!
10! Keep them coming please 🙂 Also love your macro tracking tips and tricks!
I LOVE THESE POSTS!! HELPS ME SO MUCH!!!! KEEP DOING WHAT YOU’RE DOING, YOU ARE AWESOME!!!
I give them a 8!:) really enjoy them.
10 – LOVE them!
10, love them!
10! I love seeing what you eat as it gives me great ideas that don’t necessarily involve a lot of prep work. It also inspires me to eat healthier. I gotta try those seed balls as I’m always craving something after dinner and that’s when I give into the sweets! Thanks Tina!!
10! These are my favorite posts!!
10) it’s fun to get new ideas
Why are you only publishing the people saying 8 and higher? I submitted a comment with a lower number and actual feedback — not mean at all and you censored it. Makes me loose a little respect for your “authenticity” when that’s the case.
Not sure why you made up another name to comment (same IP address), but I replied below. Sorry for the confusion!
Why are you only publishing the people saying 8 and higher? I submitted a comment with a lower number and actual feedback — not mean at all — and you censored it. Makes me loose a little respect for your “authenticity” when that’s the case. When I then tried to submit this comment it said I couldn’t because I had already submitted a comment. So now you block IP’s too?
Sorry, I never saw your other comment and didn’t see anything in my spam. I don’t block negative comments or ones with constructive criticism – only comments that are nasty and have no place on the internet.
10! So helpful! One thing I think would make them even more helpful is to specify which foods were part of your meal prep for the week. Like, if you said, “For breakfast i had a turkey burger (prepped on Sunday)…” or something like that. I love seeing what you prep when you share it on IG but forget what the foods were and I find it really helpful to see how people incorporate weekly prep into their diet on a day by day basis.
Love that idea! Will do!!
Ugh just read the comments above…what is wrong with people?!
Personally I love these posts! They are fun to read and I love seeing food. I go back and forth with macro counting. If I don’t do it perfectly I feel like I failed and it creates a ton of guilt. I know the idea is to give you more freedom with food but it doesn’t always seem to happen that way for me.