Fitness/Diet Question

[sleepymaggie]

I need some exercise/eating advice and I know that lots of folks on my flist are dedicated to health and fitness improvement, so I thought I'd run my question by you all.

Comments

[shesqueals]

A good person to put to this question is Calista (lj user="cerisceline">). She is pesco, egg, vegan and does a lot of exercise.

[catpaw67]

Nuts are very helpful in this kind of situation, as I'm sure you know. I've homemade nut bars before. They're stupid high calorie and protein. If I weren't moving I'd send you the recipe, but it's in a box in storage.

[onyxtwilight]

I was going to suggest nuts as well -- lots of them. And it sounds like you could also use an increase in high-quality sugars, by which I mostly mean honey.* Try adding it to everything you can think of, and that needn't just be sweet stuff. There's a glaze I'm fond of for fish, which would be good on vegetables, too, which is honey mixed with soy sauce and a bit of sesame oil. Other natural, less processed/refined sugars will also help, as long as you balance them with other stuff so you don't just end up on a see-sawing sugar spike/crash cycle. Molasses. Maple syrup

[citabria]

For calories, how do you feel about avocados? They're packed with both healthy fats and calories (not to mention flavor).

For additional protein, have you tried hemp milk? Almond milk may be delicious but it has barely any protein; hemp milk is a lot closer to regular milk in terms of protein content.

If you'd like a calculation of what your calorie, fluid and protein intake should be using the tools actual RDs use (rather than whatever websites may now be using to calculate them), just email me your wt, height and give me an idea of your activity level (intensity -- low/med/high -- as well as hours/day). Optimum protein intake -- even for an athlete building muscle -- is actually a lot lower than a lot of people think it is, so yours might be okay after all. My email is username at gmail.