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- [Mark] We receive lots of questions
about our own personal nutrition
and what we eat on a day-to-day basis.
- [Heather] Now, we're far from the former athletes we used
to be, but we are still trying to do our best.
So join and follow us as we take you
through a typical day of work life, training,
and how we eat around that.
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- Alright well, it is just gone 6:00 AM.
I thought I'd bring you along for a typical morning
in my household before getting into work.
So this morning I'm heading out for a bit of a run,
just a short one, before then actually coming back
and grabbing the old dog.
He's just coming around here.
Reggie?
Hello.
And take him out for a bit of a walk,
maybe a little bit of a jog.
Given it's just a short one this morning,
I'm just going to have a little bit of water
and then head out.
If I do something a little bit longer,
I might have a quick banana, something that I can
just like quickly digest.
If I was going for something quite long,
I'd probably also take a gel.
But given it's just short, just nice and simple,
I'm going to head straight out for the run
and then have some food when I get back
before then rushing off to work.
I've got a train to catch.
So yeah, best get going.
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Okay, back from my run and a bit of walk with Reggie.
Most importantly now, getting this guy's breakfast in,
but I've got quite a quick turn around here.
My train is literally in 15, 20 minutes,
so I'm going to grab a shower, I'm going to grab a snack,
probably for the go just so that I'm getting a bit
of fuel in and then I'm going to have a proper breakfast
when I get into work.
- So yeah, I'm a little bit like Mark.
I tend to start my day with a coffee and a walk to work
and then I think I'll have my breakfast
once I'm kind of settled and hunger's really set in.
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- Okay, so I'm in the office fairly early and,
well, to be honest, the fact that I've waited this long
to have my breakfast, I'm doing pretty well,
but yeah, I'm going to have a pretty large bowl of muesli.
It's a good slow release of carbs.
I've always kind of stuck to doing slow release of carbs.
So I used to have porridge
when I had a little bit more time.
Muesli is like, you know, pretty similar
I have that with some milk for some good protein
after I workout.
Personally, I drink quite a lot of milk.
I know some people don't like that,
but yeah it just gets that protein in.
I just feel like my body needs it.
But yeah, this will probably last me a whole hour
and then I'm going to need a snack again.
- So I've got pretty hungry now.
I've been at work for sort of half an hour or so
and come to get my cereal.
So I've actually got some homemade granola with banana
and today I'm going to have it with hot milk
because as you can see, I'm a little bit chilly.
Well I have always struggled to get enough protein in
in my breakfast.
It's something that I used to get told off
by my nutritionist when I was a full-time athlete.
So I make sure that I have milk in the mornings.
If I'm not having cereal with milk,
then I'll have some eggs.
It's my other favorite for getting the protein in,
probably a bit higher than that.
And this I've got oats.
Obviously it's slow releasing to try and keep me going to,
as long as I can.
I know we have a snack soon after that,
but it's a bit of fruit for the fiber
and there's plenty of energy in bananas
and obviously calcium in my milk
and then my granola, I've got some nuts
and some fruit and seeds and a little bit of honey
and coconut oil basically all mixed together and baked.
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- Right I'm off for some lunch now, absolutely starving.
I've been waiting for the clock to pass 12 o'clock
because I feel like 12's sort of acceptable
to head to lunch.
So I'm going to go for something fairly substantial
like an old jacket potato baked bean and cheese.
I'm going just around the corner to a local place,
like to support the local stores,
one that Frasier and myself often head to,
but today it's just myself.
So off to Tony!
I got my jacket potato from gold old (mumbles)
so I don't think they had any baked beans.
Baked beans and cheese were my fave.
So going for tudor and cheese instead,
which is, I'd say, a fairly good option.
Yeah, good filling meal, slow release of carbs,
little bit like my breakfast.
I do always try my hardest to bring in some lunch,
some leftovers from a meal before,
but to be honest, we rarely have any leftovers
and I'm just not very organized
so this is my next best option here.
Worth knowing I guess like before I had this job,
had a little bit more time doing training
and being at home, I'd often do something like poached eggs,
scrambled eggs and really take pride in my meals.
So this isn't terrible, but just like to point out it used
to be a little bit better.
But now, off to enjoy.
- It's always a little bit of an improvise
when it comes to, A, fitting training in around the day,
and, B, eating and I end up doing quite a few
of short sessions and quite a few lots
of little bits of food.
So today is a primary example.
I just might get 30 minutes in the gym
so now I've got the rest of my time to eat my lunch,
probably at my desk.
At you can see, this was the same as yesterday.
It's already opened, so I'm going for soup
for a second day in a row, but doesn't bother me.
Then I've got some rice cakes.
These are always emergency if I do get hungry
or lunch hasn't filled me up.
Then on their own, hang on, it's more here.
I've hot hummus which will go with my rice cakes
either dipped in or spread on top depending
how arty I'm feeling, an avocado, again,
might be sliced, might just eat it with a spoon
if I'm hungry or in a hurry.
And then, yes, I have a whole thing of butter.
That is just kept in the fridge at work
because I love butter on my bread, not my rice cakes though.
I have got some sliced earlier bread from home.
It's actually from the bakery, some sourdough rye bread
and I love bread and butter when I'm having my soup.
So it's kind of a little bit of everything that,
yeah, I'll basically eat until I'm full.
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- Alright so back here from work after a little gym session
and time to get some dinner in.
I'm absolutely starving.
Unfortunately, I haven't really got anything
that gourmet for you this evening.
We're kind of just using up what is left in the fridge
and around the house.
So here we go.
Show you we got some tagliatelle, we got some salmon,
we've got some pine nuts, which I'm going to toast,
we've got some double cream, which I'm going to sort
of whip it all up into and then a bunch of veggies and stuff
because my partner's always having a go at me
for not eating enough fruits and veg.
I used to be very good as I said before,
but I don't know why, I've just kind of got
off the wagon with it a little bit now.
So yeah, I'm going to whip all this together and enjoy.
Alright, more or less finished here.
I may have added a little ingredient, some white wine.
Fairly nutritious meal I'd say.
Got some good level of carbs in there,
some good nutrients from the veg, etc.
Also, got some Omega-3 in the salmon,
which is an anti-inflammatory, which is pretty good.
We are actually trying to eat a little bit more vegetarian
these days so I'm trying to not have meat in every meal
and obviously we've gone for salmon this evening
and I try to get like chick peas and things in
so you get protein there.
But yeah I'd say this is pretty good for this evening
and that can be pretty well fueled.
- Okay, I must apologize
because I've already eating my supper.
Yup, I filmed it and I couldn't wait any longer
so I've now just sat down with a little bit of a food coma
because it was lasagna tonight with lots
of lovely layers of pasta.
Although it was a little bit different.
It was vegan lasagna
because I'm currently doing vegan Mondays
and as you can probably tell, it was left over
from a couple days ago.
So still tasted really good.
I cheated though because I added some real cheese grated
on top just to give it a little bit more kind
of naughtiness I suppose.
That isn't all I'm eating tonight.
I'd already had a little bit of snackage
because I couldn't wait whilst it was in the oven
and I might have some dessert,
maybe a bit of yogurt or some fruit or something before bed,
but I'm really tired as you can probably tell.
So yeah, that's it from me for now.
- [Mark] So there's a sample of our day-to-day eating
and as we've alluded to, they're far from perfect,
but they are keeping us adequately fueled and healthy.
- [Heather] So we'd be really interested to hear
what you guys eat.
Perhaps you have some nifty tricks or snack ideas
that we could all benefit from.
If so, drop them in the comments section below
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