Greg's Running Blog

Today was just perfect again in terms of nutrition. I have managed to eat 20% fat, 40% carb and 40% protein which is fantastic. My saturated fat was only 2.2% which is also superb. I’m very happy with today’s food intake. The morning was my well established boring yogurt with nuts, I just can’t find a lot of alternatives that give me similar protein/carb/fat intake. I guess one slice of 100% wheat bread with 2 eggs would come close but I don’t have time in the morning to prepare eggs all that often.

Today the roads must have been iced over early in the morning as the school district decided to remain closed it’s not often that it gets this cold here. It was 21 Fahrenheit, -6 Celsius. This meant that I had to stay home with my kids as their daycare follows the school district’s closing schedule. So we went to Central Market, the roads were fine, to get some meats for the weekend. The also have a sushi place inside that makes sushi right in front of you to go. Often when I go got Central Market I also get the sushi there. I usually stick with the rolls (Makizushi) and Philly rolls are my favorites. They are rice, avocado, tuna, cream cheese wrapped in seaweed. It’s very tasty but thanks to the avocado and cream cheese it’s high in fats (23g), especially saturated fats (10g) and low in protein (15g). I still like it nevertheless. The place is pretty nice because they have nutrition guide for all their sushi. Had they not had that I would not have imagined trying any sushi just blind, it’d be a nightmare to try to estimate their nutritional value.

So I got their nutrition guide and looked through it. I was looking for the highest possible protein content and I found it! It’s a Nigirizushi (piece of meat on top of rice) combo on brown rice. Yep, I had brown rice sushi. Since I ordered brown rice they had to make it on the spot and I couldn’t buy one of the prepackaged ones which is good. The fish were raw tuna, raw salmon, raw yellowtail, cooked shrimp and cooked eel. Since this stuff is essentially raw fish with brown rice in nicely done dollops it is very high in protein (32 g) and very low in saturated fats (2g). I’ll get it next time as well for sure. It costs $12 for the meal but it was worth it.

For dinner I cooked up my brown rice with grilled chicken and peas and carrots for veggies. Since my calories were pretty low for the day I could eat a cup of raspberries with my whey protein as my snack.