Brownies are my kryptonite!

I’m kind of in a rut. Not training wise, but getting to race weight wise. I have been consistently at 161-162 lbs for quite sometime now. With my first A race coming up on June 7th, now is the time I need to kick my nutrition into high gear and get down to my goal weight of 157-158. It has taken me awhile, but I now realize that my goal weight is at a level that I can only hold for a very short period of time. Now, back to my rut. You see, every Monday morning I wake up and weight myself and glance at the scale with caution knowing that it’s going to be higher than Sunday morning. Training on the weekends is the highest volume of the week, so naturally my body needs more fuel. However, on Sunday’s my lovely wife and sister-in-law cook these fantastic meals (not Paleo) which includes an excellent dessert (yesterday was s’mores brownies)

What can I say, my sweet tooth is enormous!!! So, I have determined that I need to eat more during the day, before noon, and less in the evening. To give you and idea, here is what I ate last week and pretty much every week for breakfasts….

28 eggs (4 hard boiled eggs each day) Yeah, I eat over two dozen eggs a week. I’m not a doctor, and I didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn Express, but is my cholesterol going to be too high??
14 bananas (2 a day)
7 apples (1 a day)
5 small boxes of raisins (1 day)

My breakfast is split up during two times, once immediately following the morning workout, and the second about two hours later. In total, it is about 700 calories for breakfast. I will work on increasing that to 850 calories, as well as including more food during lunch. Hopefully that will decrease my desire to eat everything in the house when I get home from work at 3 p.m.

On the training front, I had a solid run on Sunday morning. We are back to doing long runs with tempo pacing. It was a 90 minute run, with 50 minutes at goal race pace. I ran my race pace section at 6:04 min per mile, and if I can hold that pace off the 56 mile portion of the bike in my next half ironman, I’ll be really, really pleased. All for now.

SJI