I've posted previously on this blog that I eat more than ever now that I'm bike commuting.  I've written about how I actually had a hunger pang in the middle of the night... and how I'm eating healthier than ever, because I've never been more conscious of how important having energy is.  

Now, I've always been a nutritionally vigilant... A habit that I developed in my early 20s, when I worked on morning news shows in Fresno and Sacramento over a period of 7 years.  You see, when you are messing with your internal body clock, and getting up at 3 a.m. for so long, your body will shut down on you (sickness, extra lbs, general malaise and resentment toward life in general) unless you feed yourself extremely healthily, and work out regularly. 

But I thought I'd document what I eat on an average day now, and what I do to burn that energy while bike commuting.

6a-7a:  (Burn) Rock climbing on indoor climbing wall/Pilates.  

7:30a:  (Eat) 12 oz oat milk latte from neighborhood coffee shop (with Intelligencia espresso -- I usually drink tea, but when I go for the good stuff, I'm such a bean snob!), a very large steroidy-looking banana from home, 2 huge tablespoons of almond butter from the jar. 

11a:  (Burn) 45 min. bike commute to work.

12a:  (Eat) 1 Granny Smith apple, Salad with a surely-hormonally-enhanced avocado and half a cucumber drizzled with an abundant pour of olive oil, huge oatmeal cookie.

6p: (Burn) 45 min. bike commute home from work.

7:30p: (Eat) Massive salad with tofu, butter lettuce, pear, dried cranberries, tomato, hazelnut oil, roasted nuts... basically whatever I can find goes into this baby.  For desert, usually some whole wheat toast with honey, or perhaps some carob chips -- or a large chunk of dark chocolate.  

I would say the biggest difference in my diet now is that the serious, weird cravings I have are not for sodium, or sugar -- but seriously, I am not making this up -- fruit.  I'm pretty sure this is because a piece of fruit is basically all carbs, i.e., immediate energy -- and I think I eat about 4 pieces of fruit a day, minimum.  I also eat more at breakfast now, and always include a protein source there -- something I never used to do before.