Current Diet: 1-29-2012

Reflecting back on my past 3 or so months I've been living in Germany, I've realized that I've departed quite a bit from what I was eating back in the states. Primarily the frequency and amount of vegetable consumption has gone way down, and the quality of the meat that I eat isn't as good as I'd like it to be.

The main vegetable matter I eat is sauerkraut, spinach, and canned tomatoes, in order of frequency, with all of them being organic. I'm eating organic ground meat (pork and beef mix), organic eggs, Kerrygold butter, and organic/Kerrygold cheese, along with the occasional conventional meat, although lower fat. I eat fruit probably once every two weeks, and I am experimenting with eating more carbs prior to my workouts in order to have more glycogen. I've started doing this as I realized I fill out a lot when I eat more carbs, which shows me that I am fairly glycogen depleted (in muscles) normally. Makes sense due to my pretty low carb diet.

Typical Day:

• Breakfast - 300g ground meat or 6 eggs cooked in 50g butter, with Sauerkraut, coffee [60g P, 50-70g F]
• Lunch - 300g ground meat in broth with spinach, coffee [60g P, 30g F]
• Dinner - 300g ground meat or 6 eggs in 50g butter, sauerkraut [60g P, 50-70g F]

Totals: 180g P, 130-170g F, negligible carbs

Calories: 1900-2250

Recently I've been buying some cheese, and eating 200g a day, adding roughly 30g P and 30g F, and 390 calories to my daily totals.

For lifting, I eat two potatoes the meal prior to lifting, and then two post. On Saturdays I lift around 10:30am, so I've been experimenting with eating two more potatoes on Friday night.

Looking at my totals, I'm a little surprised to see the calorie totals around 2000, I was under the impression I was eating around 2500 or so.