Jan 08 2008
January 08, 2008
Staying Focused!
I am still staying focused on my end goal of a month in “The Zone”. I had a good day yesterday but I am not sure exactly what my total block numbers were. I had two meals that were not exactly weighed or measured. However, I still made good choices on the food I ate. The one thing I couldn’t resist was Nicole’s avocado dip she makes. It only contains healthy ingredients and no sugar. I did have about 12 or 14 or 16 but not over 20 small baked tostitos scoops to go with it. I probably was under 20 total blocks for the day.
I know I could have avoided the chips and dip and kept it real strict but I did keep my portion size in control where I usually would have pigged out. I guess “The Zone” is making me more aware of my portions. I call that staying focused!
Today is another great day to be Zoning. I have planned and prepared my meals for today so I am right on track. Here is something to remember:
“Fail to plan; plan to fail”
Happy Zoning!
Alright… so I’ve been doing decent, by no means strict zoning, but better than usual. Yesterday I stuck to zone portions for my breakfast and snacks. Dinner was not so good, I had Avocado Dip and chips (baked).. that’s it : (…. today started out good as well and due to poor planning, I’m stuck eating a mini bean burrito and a Diet Dr Pepper for lunch. My snacks have consisted of either half an apple, a 1 block cheese chunk, and nuts OR in place of the half apple, sugar free apple sauce. Not so bad, but I still am really lagging on the veggies!! Good luck to all you “zoners” out there!
Breck,
I haven’t dove right into the Zone yet but my new years resolution was to eat smarter. I tried your natural peanut butter, honey, oats and blueberry mix last night and found it really delicious. I think alot of us crossfitters who are not quite ready to go into the Zone full time would really appreciate other meal and snack suggestions (like the peanut butter concoction) that don’t necessarily fit perfectly into the Zone block system but are some of your favorite healthy meals/snacks.
Some things I am doing to help me stay in the zone this week.
On Sunday, I grilled several chicken breasts, then stuck them in the refrigerator. I cut off 1 block, 2 block, 3 block, or 4 block protein for any meal. I can nuke the chicken to warm it up in seconds or eat it cold. Easy to cube or slice into a salad.
I prepurchased bagged spinach leaves and leafy lettuce. You can have tons of this when zoning.
I bought a bag of small gala apples. They are handy for 1 block snack or to throw into salad as block of carb.
I bought a bag of oranges. I work out at 6am daily. I have been eating an orange and an apple, a 2 block cube of chicken, pork, or lunch meat, and two macadamia nuts for breakfast at 5:30am when I first awaken. (2 blocks)
At 7:30 or 8:00 I am eating a couple of eggs with Jarlsberg cheese added, 1/4 cup of oatmeal added to 3/4 cup of water and cooked. I use Splenda to sweeten the oatmeal and throw blueberries or strawberries into the oatmeal along with Walnuts. Aiming for 3 block meal. (Now I am at 5 blocks for the day)
10:30 Banana (easy to keep on hand), 3 almonds, 1 block cube of chicken or cheese. (Now I am at 6 blocks)
12:30 Salad with lettuce, chicken, cheese, nuts, touch of dressing, apple, mushrooms (you can have a ton of these). So I have carbs, proteins, fats all together for 3 or 4 blocks depending how much I want to fill up. (Now I am at 9-10 blocks)
2:30-3:00 I have a 1-2 block snack (could even have a Zoneperfect bar, though not ideal, or some such thing that is designed for meal replacement although these things are usually a little high in carb, fat or protein). The snack size Zoneperfect bar for example has 2.5 fat gr., 10 carb gr., 5 protein gr. (1 block is ideally 1.5, 9, 7)
5:30-6:00 last night I had grilled sausage (fat and protein), steamed green beans, and boiled new potatoes. Kept the portions tight trying to go for 4 block meal
9:00 snack could be strawberries, cheese, wine, beer, chocolate fudge, cinamon roll, chocolate chip ice cream, pecan pie. Okay, I am just kidding. You can have the strawberries, cheese, and wine and nuts. You just have to fantasize about the other stuff like I do.