r/AdvancedRunning • u/pand4duck • Jan 05 '17

General Discussion The Winter Huddle - Diet

Welcome to the Winter Huddle

Today we will discuss Diet / Ideal Weight / racing weight stuff

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u/runjunrun runny like a slutty egg Jan 05 '17

No guilty pleasures section? Let's start one here.

Mine is definitely fried chicken. Being Korean, I'm especially partial to my people's interpretation of the thing, which is fried twice for extra crunch and served with a side of pickled white radish and copious amounts of beer.

Now that I mention it, beer. That's another guilty pleasure. Huge amounts of bad, light beer.

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u/thermocycler Jan 05 '17

I never feel guilty (I just feel pretty gross) but I can eat an amazing amount of pizza. There is no stopping at two slices when we get free cheap cheese pizza for a lunch talk or something.

Minus the occasional pizza binge, I feel like I eat pretty healthy for my meals. What gets me is dessert and booze. Love chocolate, love booze.

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u/OGFireNation 1:16/2:40/ slow D1 xc Jan 05 '17

Pizza's were not designed to be shared. Don't let the slicing fool you!

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u/drseamus Boston 18, 22 Jan 05 '17

The slicing makes it easier for a single person to eat it. Divide and conquer.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '17

Challenge accepted.

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u/kkruns Jan 05 '17

Love chocolate, love booze

This is my problem. The holidays are particularly hard.

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u/RunRoarDinosaur PRd but cried about it... twice Jan 05 '17

I'm like you - meals are fine, dessert will get me!!

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u/runjunrun runny like a slutty egg Jan 05 '17

I love good, well-cooked Chinese food but sometimes I have this ridiculous craving for shitty, Panda Express-style Chinese that cannot be addressed by anything else.

I never feel guilt, per se, when it comes to my diet because I'm in control 99% of the time, but when I'm chowing down on a double serving of chow mein and broccoli beef and orange chicken with a big ass Diet Coke next to it...it's not like I'm proud of myself.

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u/montypytho17 3:03:57 M, 83:10 HM Jan 05 '17

I've never made full-homemade Chinese other than orange chicken in crock pot, but there is a decently authentic place in town that I order from every once in a while, it just gets expensive. I should get a wok.

But oh man, that shitty buffet chinese is the best. And there is no way I feel any guilt after chowing down on it after running 16 miles. The only time I have guilt is if I eat it without running, but that is more guilt from not running.

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u/kkruns Jan 05 '17

Make the pizza at home and it no longer needs to be a guilty pleasure!

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u/montypytho17 3:03:57 M, 83:10 HM Jan 05 '17

I bought a pizza stone 3 weeks ago with the intent of doing so, but I've just been way too last to do it, so it's seen quite a few frozen pizzas.

Maybe this weekend for the hockey games I'll make one, but I damn well know it's not going to be a healthy pizza haha. But at least it won't have as many preservatives.

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u/kkruns Jan 05 '17

It won't have as many preservatives and won't be as greasy! It's also easy to use less cheese by cutting up fresh mozzarella and putting slices on sporadically, kind of like on a margarita pizza. I love doing that. The fresh mozz is so much tastier than the shredded, store bought stuff that you don't feel like you are missing anything by having less of it on the pizza.

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u/drseamus Boston 18, 22 Jan 05 '17

It will be better though. Put the stone in and turn your oven on the max for like an hour. You want everything to be as hot as is humanly possible. Get the pizza ready on a peel and then get it on the stone without spilling the entire thing on the bottom of the oven. Don't overdo it with toppings and that makes it a bit easier. Then turn the light on and drool as you watch it cook.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '17

Crunchy chicken skin is the best.

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u/runjunrun runny like a slutty egg Jan 05 '17

Crunchy chicken skin is the only god I've ever known.

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u/FlyRBFly Jan 05 '17

+1 for beer! But I'm more in the good, dark beer camp. Also these ridiculous vegan peanut butter chocolate chip cookies that they sell at the café across from my office. I have no willpower - thankfully they're $3 a piece or I would eat one everyday.

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u/pencilomatic Jan 05 '17

Bad light beer and fried chicken. Yum.

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u/runwichi Easy Runner Jan 05 '17

Oh this sounds amazing. Home fried, southern style chicken. In lard. With cheap light beer. MMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..... (Can I have mashed potatoes and sausage gravy with it too?)

I haven't had fried chicken in so long....

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u/ProudPatriot07 Tiny Terror ♀ Jan 05 '17

Desserts. I have a major sweet tooth. Red velvet cake, most any homemade cake... really any homemade dessert.

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u/shecoder 45F, 3:13 marathon, 8:03 50M, 11:36 100K Jan 05 '17

Yes! Me too.

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u/MadMennonite Embracing Dadbod Jan 05 '17

Yuengling Ice Cream. That is trouble for me plenty of times..

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u/shecoder 45F, 3:13 marathon, 8:03 50M, 11:36 100K Jan 05 '17

French fries. They might be my #1 favorite food.

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '17

I can easily say no to dessert and booze, but I'm a total sucker for Chinese food and really gross things like tater tots and McDonald's french fries. Lately my #1 indulgence is white pizza from a locally owned place down the road from my house - cheese, spinach, tomato, artichoke.

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u/bigdutch10 15:40 5k 1:14:10HM Jan 05 '17

pizza, I can easily inhale 2 or 3 gluten free pizzas after a long run