A new and improved Mike?

I went to a nutritionist a few weeks back after the marathon, and she had many suggestions for me. I want to try them all out, but after the marathon, I decided I wanted a month or so, to just eat whatever, drink whatever, sleep whatever, play whatever. You know, after 6 months of being good training towards one goal, sitting at home on Fridays after 8pm, making sure you drink tons of water and tons of other not reallysacrifices, you kind of just want to do whatever you want.

But I think I’m finally ready. I hadn’t been to the grocery store in 2 weeks and my fridge was down to eggs, milk and some other spread able condiments. 7:30am Sunday shopping is where it’s at. No one is there, and $224 dollars later, my home is once again stocked.

Here are a few things I learned from Meredith that I need to change. Overall she said I’m a good eater, but I should change some ingredients.
1- Mike needs to eat more dark greens. (broccoli, spinach, peas, green beans, and whatever else is green)
2- Keep eating fruits, but turn it up a notch more.
3- Bread is good, but cut down on white bread, and replace with Whole Wheat. (There are also some fake wheats out there to look for. Do NOT buy the one that claims to be wheat but when you look at the ingredients, you read Enriched Flour as the first ingredient. ) That’s just white flour that’s messed with a bit.
Side note: I once watched a TV show that said that when you look at the ingredients under the nutritional value chart on a pack of food, the first ingredient is the one there’s most of, the 2nd is the one there’s second most etc...
4- Keep eating all the pasta you eat, but eat more Wheat Pasta, and not the regular pasta. So I bought 2 packs of the wheat pasta. We’ll see how that goes.
5- Cereal before my long runs. I don’t like oatmeal so I won’t eat that. Cereal as I usually eat is good, but she suggested to not eat 2 bowls of the “Honey Nut Clusters” I eat, and instead buy some Kashi, or Muesli or something else with less sugar. So I did. We’ll see how that tastes.
6- More snacks. I bought snacks; Dried Craisins, dried bananas, apples, bananas, clementines, string cheese, and crackers. I need to eat more of these.
Based on my running, my body weight etc. I should eat:

500 calories for bfast.

250 calories snack between bfast and lunch

500 calories at lunch

200 calories mid afternoon snack

500 calories for dinner.

I have a whole bunch of information as to what I should eat during those eating sessions, but I’ll spare you the details.

Oh yeah, and I need to drink 80oz of water a day. That’s on top of the water I consume during a run, or right after as recovery. Ouch.

So there you have it. The new and improved Mike. The one that will attempt this on Monday Paril 2nd full time.
This week, I’m only ½ way committed. I need to ease into this brown rice, wheat bread, wheat roll, multi grain life.

In case you’re wondering:
I don’t’ have to cut down on my crazy cheese intake, I can still eat philly-cheese-steaks with chips and queso on Fridays, I’m still planning on Sunshine Wheat being my post workout friend(it has wheat!), and no, I won’t be wearing Guaraches, or shorts made out of hemp, just adding better energy intake to my life.