Right, ok, go on then.....
I *am* a breakfast eater. I have tried not to eat it a few times, and have a 100% faint rate when doing it even though in theory I have MORE than enough fat to last till lunch.
So my days look generally like this:
Get up 4.45am, coffee
Some sort of ride- might be a couple of hours on the road, sometimes 90 mins on an easy day. Or maybe an interval session on turbo/spin bike for 60-80 mins. The outside rides hover around 70% HR, the interval sessions get up to around 95+% HR max. Sometimes a run also goes in here.
Breakfast is around 9-9.30.Trough of porridge with a banana, half scoop protein powder (mince pie flavour at mo mmmm) and linseeds. Sometimes go wild and throw raisins in as well, another coffee
11ish, decaff coffee and piece fruit or half a 9bar or something like that. Sometimes that 100 calorie popcorn stuff if I'm feeling rebellious
1pm ish 45 min weights session (I do 3 of these a week)
2pm lunch. Either a high protein meal replacement shake, cottage cheese salad, soup, something like that. On a rare occasion I treat myself to toast (ooooooo controversial)
3pm I'm still hungry but trying to ignore it so have a pepsi max instead (this stuff is like crack to me. I'm tempted to give it up but it fills me up for no calories so therein lies the reluctance even though I knowwwww its awful)
4-5pm piece of fruit with a yoghurt, the other half a 9bar, sometimes maybe a protein bar, some sort of snack thing anyway. And a coffee. (These are either/ors, not all of them!!!)
6-7pm in theory (hahahahahahahha)- ride after work for at least an hour. I'm never, however, out the office at 6-7, so it happens when it happens.
Dinner- maybe a chicken breast/fish/veggie substitute/chilli with veg, or whatever the rest of the family have had without the carb bit which I swap for vegetables. Or that fake 'eat water' pasta sh*t that has no calories but you try to kid yourself with. Sometimes I'm also totally extravagant and will have an occasional couple of squares chocolate, or some other treat item.
At the weekends, I generally ride 3 hours 70% on a Saturday, and 3 hours ridiculously hard with the fast club run on a Sunday. The Sat ride will shortly swap to TTs instead.
I'm still Too Fat. What would you do differently? For health reasons I can't do this ketosis stuff, and also I want to be able to keep the top end speed for intervals/tempo twice a week plus the club ride, so basically all week round.
