Eating at work.

rick_chasey

OK - so now I've started commuting properly - I'm permanently hungry.

Big sugar dips around 11 till lunch, and again from 5.

How much do you guys eat?

clarkey cat

Yesterday = 40.6 miles.

Food

breakfast = 2 bits of jam on toast & shredded wheat
lunch = chilli and chips & big millionaire shortbread
snack = crisps :oops:
tea = doorstop sandwich & yoghurt & rocky bar & massive bit of carrot cake.

Yesterday was a bit lardy though!

iPete

On a Seefood diet and it's still not enough.

In sandwiches, given the opportunity I could put away 5-6 in a day and still be peckish. I nearly did an entire Pret platter tray in one sitting but someone else wanted some, the selfish git.

CiB

Today I'll cover 41 miles.

Breakfast: weetabix, coffee
Morning: coffee x 2 (or 3), snack bar thing like a miniature Milky Way
Lunch: couple of chicken sandwiches, apple, coffee
PM snacks: banana, small orange, more coffee
Dinner: Prob Spag Bol + pasta, cup of tea

That'll do probably. Might have a G&T late on or a drop of Scotch.

veronese68

Breakfast: Bowl of cereal.
Lunch: Couple of rounds of ham, cheese and pickle sarnies.
Grazing: Half a pack of milk cohocolate digestives.
Dinner: Large bowl of pasta with a load of blue cheese.
More grazing: A bowl of yoghurt, a couple of flapjacks and a chocolate brownie.
I usually only cover about 11 miles a day. Am I overeating?

corshamjim

Yes, I do find I need mid-morning and mid-afternoon snacks now. I once decided to go for an extra hilly five miles or so after work without having topped up on fuel and got quite bonked after only three miles or so - had to stop and eat a cereal bar before pootling on back home.

The good news is that despite the two or three chocolate bars a day I'm not putting on any weight.

barry_kellett99

The same as what I would eat on non cycling days.
How far are you commuting?
How much do you realistically think you are burning off?

I eat Muesli or Granola for breakfast after i cycle in with Natural yogurt and fruit. Tend to avoid sandwiches and have a lunch of whatever was for dinner the previous night. I try to get a lot of pulses and veg in that. If I am in on an early and up since 6am i will occasionally have a mid morning Bagel to see me through to lunch.

Banana and a yogurt or something like that for an afternoon snack.

Dinner when I get home.


If you are eating Chocolate or crisps or other stuff with a lot of sugar in it then that is probably why you feel like you do at those times of the day.

EKE_38BPM

Did anyone see Horizon yesterday?
It was about lardiness and how its lard-arses' hormones to blame. I'm actually starting to think differently about lard-arses, but this new attitude hasn't reached my fingers yet.

notsoblue

EKE_38BPM wrote:

Did anyone see Horizon yesterday?
It was about lardiness and how its lard-arses' hormones to blame. I'm actually starting to think differently about lard-arses, but this new attitude hasn't reached my fingers yet.

I thought it was more about compulsive eating. How there was a correlation between people's weight and epigenetic factors that made them excited when they saw food. Or something like that...

veronese68

EKE_38BPM wrote:

Did anyone see Horizon yesterday?
It was about lardiness and how its lard-arses' hormones to blame. I'm actually starting to think differently about lard-arses, but this new attitude hasn't reached my fingers yet.

Some of my colleagues watched it. They are calling me a lucky barsteward for having the right hormones. I waved my sarnie at them.

rick_chasey

barry_kellett99 wrote:

The same as what I would eat on non cycling days.
How far are you commuting?
How much do you realistically think you are burning off?

I eat Muesli or Granola for breakfast after i cycle in with Natural yogurt and fruit. Tend to avoid sandwiches and have a lunch of whatever was for dinner the previous night. I try to get a lot of pulses and veg in that. If I am in on an early and up since 6am i will occasionally have a mid morning Bagel to see me through to lunch.

Banana and a yogurt or something like that for an afternoon snack.

Dinner when I get home.


If you are eating Chocolate or crisps or other stuff with a lot of sugar in it then that is probably why you feel like you do at those times of the day.

11km each way.

I don't eat sh!t. Don't really like it.

No chocolate, no crisps.

I tend to eat 3 times a day. Big breakfast, lunch, dinner.

My weight was pretty even at around 56kg or when I didn't cycle last year.

rickyrider

Rick Chasey wrote:

My weight was pretty even at around 56kg or when I didn't cycle last year.

56kg?! wowzer!

rick_chasey

rickyrider wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

My weight was pretty even at around 56kg or when I didn't cycle last year.

56kg?! wowzer!

I'm 55kg now.

MaxwellBygraves

I would suggest maybe: http://www.graze.com/

rick_chasey

MaxwellBygraves wrote:

I would suggest maybe: http://www.graze.com/

Eugh.

cje

I think the best advice is just to have a small snack (handful of nuts, piece of fruit...etc) between breakfast & lunch and between lunch & dinner. Eating little and often is the key to stabilising blood sugar.

Personally my diet is horrendous.

barry_kellett99

At 56kg i would suggest just eating whatever you want!

veronese68

barry_kellett99 wrote:

At 56kg i would suggest just eating!

FTFY

rick_chasey

Veronese68 wrote:

barry_kellett99 wrote:

At 56kg i would suggest just eating!

FTFY

Hey, I'm healthy.

You've seen me in person! I'm no anorexic.

I'm genuinely very lightly built.

It's more small changes have bigger effects on me.

A few kilos counts for a lot proportionally.

veronese68

Rick Chasey wrote:

Veronese68 wrote:

barry_kellett99 wrote:

At 56kg i would suggest just eating!

FTFY

Hey, I'm healthy.

You've seen me in person! I'm no anorexic.

I'm genuinely very lightly built.

It's more small changes have bigger effects on me.

A few kilos counts for a lot proportionally.

I know, couldn't resist. I was 76kg today, fully clothed. But, I'm 6'2". I do like eating rubbish, I'm lucky I can still get away with it.

msmancunia

Commute 13 miles each way so....

No breakfast before I cycle in - just big glass of Vimto
Weetabix and a banana after I get to work
Cereal bar late morning
Mini baguette with brie and salad for lunch and an apple - no chocolate or crisps cos it's Lent :-(
Boring flapjack about 4pm
Decent dinner when I get home - pasta or fish or chops or something with lots of veg.

Having said that, now commuting 5 days a week instead of 3, and have recently given up smoking so I'm feeling constantly hungry and am practically chewing on that Tangle they give you in your Quit Pack :evil:

mattsaw

I find it impossibly difficult to lose weight. My daily routine consists of,

12 mile commute to work
2 x apples/bananas/pears
Lunch - 1 x these http://health.marksandspencer.com/our-h ... ler-longer plus some nuts
12 mile commute home
Dinner = meat, usually chicken and some veg
2 x yoghurts

I still seem to find it impossible to get below 14.5 stone

Pufftmw

20 miles a day

Breakfast - Banana, readybrek (with honey) and coffee
Morning - Couple of Forest Fruit type bars/coffee
Grazing - Apple/Bananas
Lunch - pasta/ham/mushroom thing I made last night
Maybe another banana and/or twix + lucozade sport
Evening - Meat 2 veg/fish & rice/etc try a decent full meal with fresh veg/meat

I used to eat less and suffer from dizziness when getting up from my desk

veronese68

What is it with people having breakfast at work? I have mine before I leave the house. A couple of my colleagues do it.

rick_chasey

Veronese68 wrote:

What is it with people having breakfast at work? I have mine before I leave the house. A couple of my colleagues do it.

I don't get it either.

If I don't eat before I leave the house I'll keel over before I get to work.

davis

Veronese68 wrote:

What is it with people having breakfast at work? I have mine before I leave the house. A couple of my colleagues do it.

I feel quite sick if I eat early in the morning.

mtb-idle

56kg!

76kg and 6'2"! You must be like a rake.

I'm the same height and 85kg and my family have always called me skinny

rick_chasey

MTB-Idle wrote:

56kg!

76kg and 6'2"! You must be like a rake.

I'm the same height and 85kg and my family have always called me skinny

171.

So 5ft6.

veronese68

MTB-Idle wrote:

56kg!

76kg and 6'2"! You must be like a rake.

I'm the same height and 85kg and my family have always called me skinny

I do hear the phrase "lanky streak of..." quite often.

il_principe

Rick Chasey wrote:

Veronese68 wrote:

What is it with people having breakfast at work? I have mine before I leave the house. A couple of my colleagues do it.

I don't get it either.

If I don't eat before I leave the house I'll keel over before I get to work.

I always eat at work. Will deliberately train for an hour pre-commute twice a week with no brekkie. Supposedly it helps to burn off fat. Seems to work as I'm slowly losing weight. Gone from 74.5 in Jan to 69.8 this week. I'm about 180cm.

Breakfast today was a Rego shake, Lunch was chicken noodle thingy and a flat white.

I'm starving!

dhope

Veronese68 wrote:

What is it with people having breakfast at work? I have mine before I leave the house. A couple of my colleagues do it.

Breakfast at home and at work, naturally.