The Hungries are Messing with My Budget!
Posted on April 29, 2013 4 Comments
Remember how I told you more run = more hungry? Well, I ran 18 miles last week, plus weights and a few other workouts, and was pretty active on Saturday. So I brought some extra stuff to the office this week so I wouldn’t have to go downstairs and get snacks if I got hungry.
Well, I got hungry. And I opened — and finished — this, all 500 and some odd calories of it:
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It was supposed to be my “extra munchies” for the week. It lasted one day. Oops.
Let’s discuss how much I ate today.
Breakfast
Instant g-f oatmeal plus banana
Coffee with almond milk
Snack
Half a bag of Pirate’s Booty
Lunch
Tuna sandwich on g-f bread, with a slice of cheddar cheese
Apple
Fage 2% blueberry yogurt
The other half of the bag of Pirate’s Booty
HonestTea honey green tea bottle
3:00 Snack
Kind bar (fruit and nut)
It’s 5:00 and I’m hungry snack
The rest of the tuna salad that was supposed to be a side with lunch later this week (about 2 Tbsp. full)
2 dried dates
LaCroix
Somewhere in there I chugged a bunch of water too.
The good news is that I brought all this food with me today so at least there was no spontaneous spending today. Yay! The bad news is that some of it was supposed to last a little longer.
I think I need to start eating a breakfast with more protein to get me through the day so I don’t wolf down a bunch of air-puffed carbs. Unfortunately I already shopped for the whole week, and oatmeal was the breakfast I chose. Maybe I’ll just hard boil some eggs and add one of those, or toss some almonds in my bag for the morning to tide me over a little better. I really want to avoid unnecessary trips to the cafe down here. Everything is so much more expensive! But the calories in/calories out equation is difficult to figure out when you’re upping your training time every week.
I’ll figure it out, eventually.
All that said, I am still STARVING. I’m going to go home and eat an avocado for a snack before dinner. And then snarf down a lot of dinner before I swim tonight. And maybe some sea salt caramels. And anything else edible in my line of sight….
Category: Life
Tags: budgeting , Fitness , food , running
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April 29th, 2013 @ 7:04 pm
I know the feeling. I gained 5 to 7 pounds when I marathon train simply because I get so bloody hungry! Protein will help a lot. Almond butter seems to really help tide me over too. I eat that with a banana and I’m usually good to go.
April 30th, 2013 @ 9:59 am
Brought the almonds this morning. Hopefully that will do the trick!!!
May 5th, 2013 @ 10:12 pm
I cannot buy Pirates Booty precisely for this reason, if I start munching in it the bag is gone in an afternoon. It’s just too easy to scarf that whole thing down!
May 14th, 2013 @ 2:53 pm
Pirate’s Booty is addictive. Despite not being a budget conscious option, I will only bury Pirate’s Booty in the individual serving bags. It makes portion control SOO much easier.