Base Camp: Day 4

Day 4 of 12

Base Camp Training Time: No Training Today

Notes: Nothing to report on training today.

Sleep:
Time Retired: 2 A.M.
Time Awaken: 11 A.M.
Total Sleep: 8 hours

Notes: Good amount of sleep, woke up refreshed but jeeze, I really need to get with the program. 2 AM?!

Nutrition

Water intake (in addition to water specified below): 1.75 gallons
* Asterisk indicates mood/feeling after eating specified food

Meal 1: 12:00 P.M.

• 1 tsp of Pink Lemonade Metamucil
• 1 large egg-white omelette w/ kalamata olives
• mixture of raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, and blackberries
• 1 bowl of mixed vegetables consisting of; zucchini, cauliflower, carrots, Italian green beans, and lima beans.
• 1 tsp of Carlson's fish oil

* Pretty big breakfast! Yummy and healthy. I felt full for a very long time following this.

Meal 2: 3:45 P.M.

• 12 oz. water
  
• 4 ice cubes
• 1 packet of Chocolate RIGHT
  

* Wow, this stuff is just amazing. I love how it's not so sweet as to stimulate my appetite and leave me begging for more. Calms the appetite and enhances my mental clarity.

Meal 3: 5:45 P.M.

• 1 small plate of steamed carrots, green beans, and zucchini.
• A few berries; raspberries and blackberries
• Sprinkle of lemon pepper.

* I wasn't quite ready to eat a meal but I felt like eating something sugary, so I tried to calm my appetite with something healthy.

Meal 4: 7:15 P.M.

• Small bowl of minestrone soup.
  
• over-sized portion of fruit; pineapple, honeydew melon, cantaloupe, strawberries, kiwis, and grape (fruit plate ordered at Pompei)
• Chicken Marsala (ordered at Pompei), drained of Marsala Sauce and ordered without noodles.

* I definitely out-did myself on this meal. I made sure everything I ate was authorized, but it was just a bit much.

Meal 5: 11:00 P.M.

• 1 bowl of green beans
• 1 tsp of Pink-Lemonade Metamucil
• A few berries; raspberries.

Notes: Once again, I did not eat how I should be eating for the 12-week phase. Meal 3 and 5 did not contain adequate sources of protein, and meal 4 was much too large. Note to self - when ordering food at a restaurant, anticipate them serving extremely large portions of carbohydrates, because that's exactly what happens. It's also important to note that I had a huge craving to just splurge on garbage today, but I practiced my knowledge of Nutritional Awareness and instead had the following when I was feeling overly-hungry. I really felt I was going to cave in around 5:30 today and needed a bit of a momentum in my direction ... I'm glad I used these artificially flavored drinks in place of destroying my diet.

• 2 Raspberry Lemonade, Crystal Light (on-the-go) packet. ( Yes, this stuff has the horrible Aspartame I'm not very fond of)
• 1 diet, sweetened - Lipton Green Tea

Also, I only got 1 tsp of fish oil in today. I'm starting to see why rough-sketching my meal plan for the day the night before; which I will by employing at the start of the 12-week phase; is so heavily mandated by Shawn in his book.