2 birds with 1 stone

[Johnnylewis]

Just shows how far I've come and what i can do now. Car has been playing up, usually it takes a bit hassle getting the car dropped to my mechanic and me lifted. Not this time. I dropped the car car off and walked/ran back. It was meant to be 1k walk 1k run just to keep me easing in. Started off well but think it turned to 500m walk 2k run. Either way 7.4k later I'm home and under 47mins. The time I don't care about tbh. It's was the enjoyment of actually doing it. Which now has me thinking if I could adapt this to 12k to my mum and dad's. Heel was good till I hit the last incline. Wee bit of pull. It's in ice as I type.

Wee question for the more advanced than me. I've been doing weights and I've noticed I've been getting hungrier. So this week was to be my 1st full week of it. Last 2 weeks just been easing in twice a week. My days now are Mon Tues Thurs and Fri. 4 workouts with a bit cardio and core on Wednesday. What I'm finding now is I'm tired and hungary. Does my intake need to go up? Or more protein or carbs?

[Realfoodieclub]

Well done on your journey home, being fitter makes a big difference to everyday jobs like that 😀. Tired and hungry is not a good combination. You are upping things very fast, make sure you are having enough time to let the muscles build and strengthen. Rest is just as important. Diet is difficult to advise on in a post like this as it very much depends on a variety of different factors, being hungry is not a good thing when you are training hard. I tend to think about things like what sort of extra fuel do I need before and after. My first go to with upping exercise is nuts, they are a nice balanced food with a mixture of fats, protein and nutrients, good to have a handful straight after a workout and portable,

[Johnnylewis in reply to Realfoodieclub]

What kind of nuts do you take? I've always tried to stay away from them as I've never knew which ones are better and what's one's are bad

[Realfoodieclub in reply to Johnnylewis]

My favourite is just a big bag or snack packs of “Tesco” (others are available 😀.) Mixed nuts. Here is a runners world article about nuts.

runnersworld.com/nutrition-...

[UnfitNoMore]

Well that’s out my 10k pace into perspective 🤣😂. Awesome job!

As for carbs and protein... the muscles need some of each. Post workout they need protein to rebuild and strengthen, so that would be my priority... some carbs with that gets stored in the muscles as glycogen for the next workout, so not as crucial immediately after, but beneficial at some point, or that can be done with fats which are broken down to carbs before they can be stored as body fat. As a veggie, my go to is eggs.

[Johnnylewis in reply to UnfitNoMore]

Curiosity what way would you take your eggs and how many? I find eggs to be very high in calories and take a big chunk out of my allowence. Ive tried more fish and chicken which seem to be less.

Ps I'm wondering if part of it is down to from being away from home last week and sleeping in a tent beside the sea air.

[UnfitNoMore in reply to Johnnylewis]

I take them however... usually a raw one post run with a dash of either Henderson’s relish or Tabasco. I also have them at 63 degrees from the sous vide (so kinda soft boiled) fried on occasion and if I can be bothered spending 20 minutes over a pan and I’m feeling decadent I do scrambled. The last one is high calorie, but eggs are about 150 calories per 100g, so they’re not so bad until you add stuff! Good source of protein for us vegetarians.

Fish and chicken are good low fat proteins of course, as is turkey, and venison is one of little Miss UMN’s favourites, game tends to be really healthy.

[Johnnylewis in reply to UnfitNoMore]

Raw? Oh no couldn't do that. I do like them poached, boiled or scrambled. Don't really do fried as I'm trying to stay away from all that. 3 boiler eggs are OK I suppose. They just don't fill you (sorry me)

[UnfitNoMore in reply to Johnnylewis]

Have a look at Heston’s scrambled egg method... same ingredients, completely different flavour, and they’re really filling... just take a lot longer to cook 🤣