A Day In The Life

Filed under: General Health, Nutrition

My Day In The Life posts are some of my most popular, and I get requested regularly to put up more of them.

I will again emphasize that I don’t count calories or grams of anything. My intake tends to follow the PN hand-size portion guidelines, as you will see below.

Wake @ 5:30 am

• 12 oz black coffee

Breakfast @ 6:00 am

• 5 whole eggs (salted)
• at least 1/2 of a bell pepper (varied colors) and a bunch of scallions
• 1 handful of roasted potato mixture from previous night’s dinner (see Dinner below)
• 1 banana
• ~1/2 tbsp Kerrygold butter for eggs
• 1 glass water
• 1 multivitamin, 1 gram curcumin, 1-2 probiotics

Super Smoothie @ 10:00 am

• 12-16 oz water
• 2 scoops vanilla protein powder
• 2 handfuls of baby spinach (or lately, a baby kale, baby spinach and swiss chard mix)
• 1 handful frozen blueberries
• 1 handful frozen strawberries
• ~1 tbsp chia seeds
• ~2 cups Stonyfield whole fat plain yogurt (1/2 container)
• 2-3 Athletic Greens fish oil pills
• I also usually have a cup of green tea between here and Lunch

Lunch @ 2:00 pm

• 1 Ezekiel English muffin
• 1/4 of an avocado
• some dijon mustard
• 1 chicken breast
• 1 gourmet cucumber, sliced and salted
• 10 baby carrots with a little hummus
• 1/2 oz mixed nuts or almonds
• 1 apple
• 2 glasses of water
• I also usually have a cup of green tea between here and Dinner

Dinner @ 6:00 pm

• ~8-10 oz wild salmon
• ~1/2 tbsp each honey, brown sugar, and dijon mustard (I use 1 tbsp of each to make the full mixture, and spread over 1 lb of salmon)
• 1-2 fists of roasted butternut squash, with extra virgin olive oil and a little salt and pepper
• 2 handfuls of roasted potato mixture: red potatoes, purple potatoes, sweet potatoes, mixed peppers, onions, with a little extra virgin olive oil and Montreal chicken seasoning
• 1 glass red wine (yes, this time it is in a juice glass, as that can go in the dishwasher)
• 2 glasses of water
• 1 serving dried fruit and 3 squares of 88% cacao Endangered Species dark chocolate for dessert (which ConsumerLab just found to have the highest levels of flavanols of any dark chocolate tested)

I hope you get something out of seeing a snapshot of my intake. And as usual, would love to hear your thoughts, questions, and comments!