Oh, Hi! It’s Wednesday already. I say already because this week feels like a fast blur which sometimes happens when I don’t post on Tuesdays. Did I miss anything yesterday? Please fill me in!
Let’s take a look at what I ate on Monday which was a day I would consider a normal appetite day. My appetite changes by day, usually ranging from OMG I am starving today!! to OK I feel normal today. Saturday night (or was it Sunday morning?) I was up eating at 1:00 am because the intense hunger I was experiencing was keeping me from sleeping. Luckily that doesn’t happen often and usually, when it does, it comes after a long run.
So long as I eat when I feel I need to and keep going until satisfied, I can usually keep things under control. Keyword: Usually.
Breakfast:
I eat oatmeal every single day, both pre and post run. I always have oatmeal before I run because it works the best for me and I don’t care to mess with that. If on occasion I have gone with toast instead, I find myself hungry while running. And although sometimes I do make a 3-ingredient pancake after a run, 9 times out of 10, I choose oatmeal.
I make four servings of oatmeal at a time to have for a few days. I cook a pot of 2 servings steel-cut oats plus 2 servings of old-fashioned rolled oats with chia seeds and then divide the servings into bowls, storing them in my refrigerator.
Each morning I take out a serving from the fridge, heat some up with banana before my run and then finish the serving after my run.
Here is my post-run oatmeal mixed with banana, Skoop B-Strong (best protein powder there is) and a few blueberries in an almost-empty peanut butter jar.
It had been a while since I had an empty peanut butter jar since I haven’t been eating as much peanut butter so this was a real treat 🙂
Lunch:
The French toast bagels from Stew Leonard’s have seriously stolen my heart. I like when I can get them from the store still warm OR if I bring them home, I like to toast one up real good. This French toast bagel is super toasted with eggs and organic raspberry preserves.
I know the diet industry people tell you to cut out bagels and replace them with whole grains, lower calorie/less carby bread choices but when you want a bagel, no English muffin, whole wheat bread or Ezekiel bread, as much as I love it, is going to satisfy you.
I like to eat my bagels open-faced even though I cut them as a sandwich.
I have been eating watermelon every day, all day. Thankfully the price is slowly coming down to acceptable as we approach summer.
Dinner:
I made a quick and easy shrimp stir fry (similar to this recipe) only this one in particular contains sliced portobello mushrooms for a change (I think they are at the bottom so you can’t really see them).
Dessert:
Trader Joe’s had Honey Crisp apples the other day so I had to buy some. I really like apples lately when sprinkled with Skoop B-Strong for added sweetness plus a crumbled mini dark chocolate bar.
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What I Ate Wednesday #WIAW #oatmeal #bagels @stewleonards @healthyskoop #fitfluential Click To TweetHow often does your appetite wake you up at night? Does it usually correlate to a long run or race?
Favorite night-time snack lately?
I think apples and chocolate are an underrated combo 🙂 In other news I’ve been up half the night sick myself unable to sleep, but I did manage to get a post up. Officially crazy (me I mean)
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omg you caught the stomach bug?!
Anything with chocolate is my favorite night-time snack! I just jump in bed with big cup of green tea and piece of chocolate. Sleep like a baby after 😉
Sometimes I wake up starving in the morning, but never in the middle of the night. I could never give up bagels. I eat them way less now that I live in MD and we just don’t have many good ones here. I didn’t post yesterday either, and didnt get around to reading blogs until last night. Sometimes my bloglovin hides posts (I’m convinced) so I was hoping I didn’t just miss yours!
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I swear my bloglovin does that too! like all of a sudden, it shows me posts from 4 days ago!
This week is weird. Last week was super busy at work, this week not so much, but Alex is working a ton, and because of the debacle with the elevator, our entire weekend errands got messed up so we have NOTHING to eat. Thus we are spending waaaay too much on food right now. BLARG
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ugh, it happens!
When I’m in CT to visit family I always love to stop at Stew’s!!
That shrimp dish looks amazing! I’ll have to try it out 🙂
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It’s so good, with or without the shrimp. sometimes i just do chick peas.
I could never give up bagels, what a sad life that would be. Although I still need to find a good bagel place in East Seattle. Each time you talk about bagels I want one. Maybe I should make some 🙂
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I usually eat dinner right before I go to bed, so I am usually content throughout the night. I know if I am hungry, a scoop of peanut butter does the trick. I agree that when you want a bagel, nothing else really satisfies that craving. Have you ever had the Cinnamon Crunch bagel at Panera? You would LOVE it!
I don’t think you missed much yesterday, it was really windy here but today is supposed to be 60 🙂
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I did have the cinnamon crunch bagels! years ago when they first opened here, I think I was pregnant actually! haven’t had them since I don’t think – i prefer the bagels from bagel stores. but i do remember those cinnamon ones being good!
That stir fry looks so good. And it totally agree- if you want a bagel, there is not substitute!
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I ate mini chocolate eggs in the middle of the night last night! That stir fry looks amazing. And where do I find that protein powder? Amazon?
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If you click the link, it should bring you to site – let me know if it doesn’t! It is seriously best plant based protein powder ever (I don’t know from a lot of protein powders but I know I love this one and have been using it daily for like two years now I think)
Oatmeal is one of those foods that is so easy on the stomach, and it’s also filling before a good run/workout. Hmm… Sometimes my appetite wakes me up at night, but if I have a snack about 30 minutes before bed, I can usually last until the morning. One of my favorite, no-tummy trouble night snacks is cereal, peanut butter, and maybe some raisins. 🙂
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I enjoy those snacks before bed too!
My hunger levels vary too, but I try to eat my night time snack right before bed to stave off the night time hunger.
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me too – sometimes that works and sometimes it just doesn’t! ah well.
Oh, Stew’s bagels… honestly one of the only things I truly missed after my Celiacs diagnosis. Have you tried the blueberry bagels?
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haven’t had the blueberry. just the French toast and some of the bialy’s. oh and the cinnamon raisin. I will look for the blueberry though!
I loooove when I can have breakfast out of an almost empty nut butter jar 🙂 That’s the best!
And Honeycrisp apples are soooo good. I need to pick up some more!
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the honey crisp are great but so hard to find this time of year! I was excited to spot them.
Bagels with cream cheese and watermelon may be my two favorite foods on the planet. Or at least the ones I crave the most and don’t have often enough!
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love watermelon! and bagels for sure, so good especially when I crave a good one.
I eat dinner right before going to bed, so I never wake up feeling hungry. However, my parents came to visit a few months ago, and we ate dinner around 8 pm (I usually eat around 11 pm), and I woke up absolutely starving. And I totally agree with you on the bagels! I rarely eat them, but I’ll have one once every few months when I can’t take the craving any longer. Same with baguette-type breads–I hardly ever eat that stuff, but when I do, there is nothing like it!
I eat on the early side for dinner but always have a snack close to bed time. After long runs though, there’s no defining my appetite! some nights I just wake up so ravenous.
YUM!! Such great eats! I’m glad that you eat oatmeal everyday because I LOVE oatmeal!! And Stew Lenard’s is SO fun!! Hope that you’re having a great week!
xoxo Cailee!
oatmeal is definitely my favorite. I look forward to it every morning.
I have this irrational fear of bagels after all the industry hoopla! I wish I could go back to the days when I ate without outside influence 🙂 The bagel in your picture looks awesome!! (Panera bagels make me very sad).
I wake up in the middle of the night hungry a lot (3 out of 7 nights?) even though I eat dinner right before I go to bed. A scoop of peanut butter does the trick!
I know what you mean! ignore the media – there’s no food out there that can’t be eaten in moderation.
Yay for the falling price of watermelon! My fav nighttime snack right now is honeydew melon. Mmm
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I had honeydew the other day! I love melons.
Nothing else will suffice when you are craving a bagel. Especially if freshly made or from a local bakery. There needs to be way more bagel appreciation out there.
Honey crisps are such a treat!
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agreed!
Speaking of apples, I have recently rediscovered my love of Apples sprinkled with a bit of salt! In doing so, I am replacing the salt in my diet that I have lost from sweating/exercising, right? 🙂 🙂 Regardless, I don’t care…the combination is simple and delicious.
that’s a great idea. sometimes I add salt to bananas, it’s a random craving I get after long runs in the summer.
Oh those French toast bagels are speaking my language. I had onion bagels last week and they were swoon worthy too.
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I love apples and chocolate! If I wake up due to hunger, it usually correlates to me not eating enough the day before, or me being more active than usual. I actually have a bigger snack before bed than a lot of other people, because my metabolism revs up at night and I’m usually exhausted and need a good nights’ sleep!
Lately, I’ve been really loving yogurt and granola, protein bars, or cheese and fruit 🙂
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I like a big snack before bed too! I can’t go to bed hungry.
Definitely get hit with the night time hunger every now and again, but it’s usually somewhere around 3 or 4 where it’s just barely acceptable to wake up for the day. Like today I was up at 3… but that might have just been jet lag 😉
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yeah, for me I usually just wake up ravenous close to when I normally wake up. on occasion though which usually follows a long run, it’s more like a 1 am wake up needing a little something to settle my stomach in order to sleep.