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[quote=Anonymous]I have a crazy, crazy job. Last week was one hell of a week, and I realized at the end of the week that I had eaten the exact same thing every day from M-F.  I also realized that I had a lot of energy and felt really good.

It made me think that I might try this longer term as a strategy.  I work (routinely) 80 hours a week, and I have fallen into bad habits the past few years. In the mornings I drink coffee (at home and at work) all day long-never have time for lunch, rarely eat breakfast.  By the time I get home from work at 7 or 8pm, I am FAMISHED and literally scarf down anything around--and then go directly to bed, because I am just exhausted. Sometimes dinner is cereal (thankfully that bad habit isnt awful as I really like plain cheerios with fruit of some kind, usually rasberries or blueberries) but sometimes its something heavy and carby and just....ugh.

Anyway, last week I ate breakfast, lunch and dinner every day.  It was a weird stroke of luck, and leftovers, and chance, but it worked out that way.  Here's what I ate:

Breakfast: two Oikos triple zero yogurts.  For both yogurts, that is 240 calories, 0 fat, zero added sugar, 12g of fiber, and 30g of protein. (Why two yogurts rather than one? it so happened last week that I ate one at work, and I was like omg I love this yogurt so I ate another one. Then after I ate two of them, I realized that I was full, satisfied, and packed a lot of protein and fiber into one quick meal at my desk-so i ate it all week...)

Lunch: a big salad--lettuce, tomato, cucumber, carrot slivers, broccoli--any other veggies I happen to have in my fridge.  I really actually like salad, and I like it just with olive oil and a drizzle of balsamic vinegar.  I also ate (on the side) a 100-calorie pack of plain unsalted almonds (just cuz I have them in my desk drawer).

In the late afternoon, I ate an apple (that was a routine I had anyway just because it was easy).  Sometimes I'll eat a bananna instead but it's always some piece of fruit.
 
Dinner: so, here's what happened here: my husband has a lot of diabetes in his family, so he's trying to eat healthier.  So he's been trying out different dinners every night and has fallen into a routine where every night, M-F, he eats the same thing: he boils boneless chicken breast until its cooked. At the same time, he sautees red, yellow, greeen and orange peppers as well as onion in olive oil with a pinch of sea salt.  Then he mixes it all together.  That's it.  It's actually really good and leftovers heat up really well.

So thats what I ate every.single.day last week.  And I felt amazing--I had so much energy and I just felt, like, light and energetic.

So my question is: I am trying to take an overall look at the day's diet here and see if I am missing anything (nutritionally).  I'm getting a ton of fiber, enough protein with the chicken and yogurt...plenty of veggies....anyone see any place I could make an improvement?

I realize doing this wouldnt be for everyone. I just happen to have moved into a c-level job last year and all I do is work right now (kids just now in late high school/college so I'm going to have a couple of years of working continually like this with crazy hours.)

Thanks for any input![/quote]

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