How's my eating? Check out my food log

So these cherry tomatoes don't have anything to do with what I ate last week, but they're beautiful!

Hey there KWO readers! Hope you had a fab Labor Day weekend! I worked yesterday, but all in all, had a great weekend, which included a 2.5 mile run--the longest I've ran in about 8 months, since I was out of commission due some health issues. Needless to say, I am feeling GREAT!

Anyway, I promised you last week I would post my food log from last week in order to respond to Taj's great post about watching what you eat, when you eat, and when you sleep. I'm a little late, and I'm sorry about that, but here 'tis! I managed to scrounge up 5 days:

Thursday 8/26:

Breakfast: 9:30 a.m.

1/2 cup chopped cantaloupe

1 plain 0% Chobani Greek yogurt

1 Trader Joe's Apple Cranberry Bran muffin (70 cals, LOTS of fiber)

A drizzle of vanilla-flavored agave syrup + cinnamon

1 cup unsweetened tea

Snack 11:15 am

1 Kind Nut Delight Bar (210 cals)

Water

12 pm: 6 oz. iced coffee + unsweetened vanilla almond milk + 1 sugar

Lunch: 2:45 pm

1/2 cup brown rice

steamed chicken, snowpeas, bamboo shoots and carrots (with 2 tsp brown

sauce, on the side)

a fortune cookie

water

Treat I guess: 3:45 pm

1-100 cal Trader Joe's plain milk chocolate bar

Dinner: 6:15 pm

Same as lunch!

Friday 8/27:

Breakfast: 9 a.m.

Protein shake with 3 oz of a fruit drink, soymilk

An apple

11:45 am

1 slice whole wheat bread + pb&j

12:30-blended coffee & skim milk (8 oz)

LUNCH: 2: 30 p.m.

8 oz split pea soup + small spinach salad with feta & a few strips of grilled chicken from a salad bar

6:30 p.m. I randomly took two flaky twists (flour, sugar?) that somebody brought in from the Farmers Market. Don't know what you call them, but it couldn't have been more than 100 cals--mostly air. Didn't have an afternoon snack on me.

Dinner: 10:30 p.m. (horrible, I know!)

15 multigrain Stacy's pita chips

2 Laughing Cow Light cheese wedges (35 cal each)

2 tbsp salsa

Seltzer water

1 1/2 piece TJ's chocolate (115 cals together)

Saturday, 8/28:

woke up: 10:15ish am

Breakfast: 10:45 am

1 cup (practically!) granola + 1 tsp raisins + cinnamon + 6 oz. plain soymilk

2 hour workout--cardio + weights

Snack: 2 p.m.

1 plain greek yogurt + 1 tsp strawberry jam + 1 tbsp peanut butter + 1/2 a VitaMuffin top (50 cal)

Lunch: 4 pm

A 12 oz. pineapple mango banana smoothie w/skim milk and whey protein (at the mall, no time!)

LOTS OF WALKING--3 hours worth. Tired, and hungry

Snack: 6:15 pm

1.5 Kashi soft blackberry cereal bars (165 cals)

A couple of sips of my fiance's mocha latte

Dinner: 8:30 pm --at Chili's for my bro's going away dinner

2 pieces of nachos

chicken enchiladas--just no tortillas or rice

had chicken, salsa, guac, lettuce, pico de gallo, black beans

9:30 p.m.--1/2 a medium chocolate frozen yogurt

12 a.m.--the other half of that Kashi bar

went to bed: 1 am

Sunday 8/29:

(moving bro into college day. Healthy food is SCARCE!)

woke up: 7:30 a.m.

Walked a ton. Seriously, probably 2.5 miles. Plus took madd stairs. Path station, subway, plus bro on dorm room in 4th floor. I'm tired!

Breakfast: 8 am

1 slice whole wheat bread + 1 oz cheddar cheese + 1 panfried egg + water

Snack 9:15 am

a handful of Annie's organic graham cracker bunnies

12:30 -- an iced coffee with skim milk and one sugar

lunch: 2 p.m. part of a turkey wrap + part of a small side salad (did not like, did not finish eating!)

3 pm--1 Kind bar (hungry!!!)

dinner: 5:30 pm

Left over sugar snap peas, bamboo shoots, carrots, made into a stir fry + broccoli slaw and cherry tomatoes with leftover grilled steak + 2 pieces of chocolate

snack: 7:30 pm

1 oz multigrain pita chips + 1 laughing cow light cheese

Lots of seltzer water w/ 1 oz fruit juice

10:25 pm: soymilk hot chocolate + 2 tbsp granola (I'm ravenous, I know.)

Monday 8/30:

Breakfast: 8 am

2/3 cup granola + 6 oz soymilk + 1 tbsp raisins + cinnamon

1 pan fried egg

Earl grey tea + 2 oz unsweetened almond milk when I got to the office

Snack 1: 10:45 am

4 prunes + 1 oz cheddar cheese

Lunch: 1:40 pm

mixed greens salad w/ red kidney beans, pesto chicken, green and red

peppers, and sundried tomatoes + 2 tbsp balsamic vinaigrette

Snack: 4:30 pm

1 small iced coffee with skim + 1 sugar

1 cran bran vitamuffin top (100 cals)

Dinner: 7 pm

Red pepper roasted tempeh, raw broccoli, some kind of slaw in sesame oil, a couple of pieces of baked turkey (1 oz, max) 1/3 of a baked yam from my all-time fave place, Lifethyme Natural Market in New York.

So, what's the verdict? Well, I think I'm eating enough vegetables, but I wasn't sleeping enough, which probably explains why I was craving so many carbs. I think the areas where I need to most work are snacks--I like to have a mid-morning and a mid-afternoon snack, but need to keep them in the 150-cal range. I'll admit that I'm in a bit of a snack rut! My go-to for the afternoon is a VitaMuffin Top with a wedge of Laughing Cow Light Cheese, all for 135 cals, but it's just too darn expensive! (A box of 4 VitaMuffin Tops at my local grocery store is $4.49. Yikes!) I also like a small piece of fruit and a low-fat cheese stick. And nuts on occasion--I would just rather have them in bar form so as to maintain portion control. Any ideas for a good snack bar that has a good ratio of protein and fiber? I am not feeling like Gnu Flavor & Fiber bars right now. (Super expensive too!)

BTW--my Friday night dinner of pita chips, salsa and cheese was horrendous! AAH. I have no explanations for that fluke. Those pita chips are a bit addictive! I was craving them all week and ended up having them for a very late dinner.

So there it is--how about you? Where does your nutrition need to improve? Do share!

*Photo courtesy of The Gifted Photographer on Flickr.