I am not a carnivore.

I am not a carnivore. These last two weeks of P90MS I've decided to try and swap over to Phase I of P90X nutrition plan. Right now I'm just tracking how many portions I eat of what kind of food. Today I've had 3 servings of fruit for today, which is 2 servings more than I should have. One serving can be considered a snack, so that's ok, the other serving is just extra. I've had one serving of dairy, and I have to swap over my yogurts to plain yogurt, maybe goat yogurt and have it with a vegetable serving instead of going with anything with sugar in it. That's the trick with yogurt in this plan, no flavored yogurt. I get that actually, because most commercial yogurts with flavoring have aspartame or refined sugar. I actually buy the Whole Soy yogurts which don't use refined sugar or corn syrup, but still has sugar in it. Lunch is chicken with salad and just high quality balsamic vinegar. I have NO snacks, so I should actually fix that--the vending machine has nuts... I'm not sure what my afternoon snacks are going to be. Protein bars? Yuck. Maybe nuts, I was thinking what would work as a snack and a serving of protein and I think I can use nuts.

So there are a few tricks to this diet folks with food allergies will actually do. For dairy (like me) you actually substitute soy foods (or extra protein if you can't have soy). The daily portions for protein on Phase I (for myself) are 5 with 2 dairy portions, so for me I'll actually just do 7 servings of protein. That is A LOT of protein. I also am going to try and get two servings of protein that have some kind of calcium fortification, like soy yogurt and goat cheese. I have no problems with goat cheese/sheep's cheese, it is low fat and less calories than cow's milk anything. The protein in goat/sheep is much smaller as well, and there is a heck of a lot less processing as well. I actually had 2.5 servings of protein left at the end of yesterday that I did not consume, OR I had half a serving remaining and a recovery drink left to consume, whichever way you want to look at it, and I felt like I ate more than enough protein.

The one serving of carbohydrate is actually fine with me, it is the lack of fruit that is going to be hard. As of now...which is now in the evening my dinner was 2 tortillas (my 1 carb), chicken (2 protein servings), 1/2 vegie serving (lettuce), and goat cheese (1 1/2 servings) with hot sauce. If I get to count the nuts this afternoon as protein then so far: 2.5 dairy, 3 fruit, 5 protein, 1 1/2 vegie, 1 carb and that is it....I can count 1 of the fruit as a snack, so I am missing 2 snacks and 1/2 a vegie. I can up the dairy to a whole serving and count it as a snack....I also will need a recovery drink that doesn't count toward the portions just toward the calories. I should be at 1371 prior to exercise, and right now I am at 1259...hmmmm....I also am not sure if by "fat" they suggest a serving of something that is considered a fat like olives...I really am not sure. Given that so far my calories are kind of low and I won't really have much to "eat" after exercising in terms of portions I'm thinking that maybe yes I will need to eat a portion of fat by itself. 4oz of olives is pretty awesome, I like olives.

That's it for now hmmm.