I am sure I am not the only person out there trying to train around a combination of school, work families, and anything else in your life. Im just curious how everyone goes about eating right even if they don't have a lot of time. I've noticed I am eating out 3 times a day everyday of the week. WAR EAGLE!

I dont know why i've been kept in the dark about cottage cheese, but somehow ive only just discovered it. MAN its the beez kneez. Needed to share that lol :o]

I've got a 5k run in SF tomorrow, mostly flat, mostly asphalt, total of probably about 200 competitors. I'm on my school's cross country team, and my coach expects a time around 20 minutes or a bit faster. I ran 5 miles early this morning, not too hard, and I usually run 7-8 every day throughout the week.

A few questions: It is my understanding that the average Ironman competitor completes the race while burning about 1000 calories an hour, so for a 13 hour IM, about 13000 calories. Does that mean that you have to put in just as much as you burned? how is that even close to possible?

Hi! i'm training for an HIM right now, but i'm also living like the college student that I am--one bedroom apt.; internship 35hrs a week; living cheap as hell. so I was wondering what i can do to keep eating healthy because I DEFINITELY am not right now (currently munching on some Kroast and cheese/bowl of cereal. what besides pasta and chicken can I easily make and on the cheap?

I’m not a fan of the word diet. Not that I think one shouldn’t watch what they eat, it’s the fact that the word diet usually means calorie restriction, hunger, avoiding your favorite foods and unpleasantness in general. So I use the term food choices.

Ok so I have been thinking about food a lot lately. I have started to pick up my training volume and I am starting to eat like a bear getting ready to go into hibernation. As triathletes we all consume an ungodly amount of GU, protein bars, power bars, and tons of other products that we call "food", but I am so ready to indulge on a few holiday favorites.

Hey, that must have supplement thread turned me onto flax seeds. Someone was talking about flax seed pills and I thought "why not just eat the seeds?" I went to my local hippies-r-us and picked up a big ol' bag of em (I'm in Montana, that's how we talk) for $0.83 and have been putting them everything now! They are great!

This is not me bragging, and I can only conclude that it's adversely affecting my performance. During my fall-to-spring training, I held steady at around 140-142 lbs (down from my starting weight of around 150). My eating volume generally complemented my training volume, and that seemed to balance very well for 9 months or so.

I am trying to motivate myself to change my eating habits so I figured I would just make a post asking everyone for some of their favorite recipes. They can be simple or extravagant - cheap to expensive. I would like to see what kind of different results I can get on here to help give me different meal choices.