Spordijutud – Lehekülg 448 – Nourish, Train & Flourish

Here’s a confession: I’m a total nut and seed addict. Hazelnuts, almonds, brazil nuts, peanuts (yes, I know that botanically they are legumes), sunflower seeds, flax seeds, sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds, walnuts, pecans, coconut… You name it. I have so much troubles with MODERATION when it comes to nuts and seeds. And don’t even get me started on nut butters!

If I open a packet of nuts, I will want to finish it because nuts to me are like addictive drugs (not that I have tried those, I haven’t and won’t!) or potato chips to other people… I just keep eating until I finish the packet. No matter if it is 50 grams of 500 grams. But that much nuts or seeds is way too much carbs and also pushing calories too high.

So how do you deal with this kind of problem?

Solution #1. Don’t buy nuts or seeds.

The “if you have good food in your fridge, you will eat only good food” rule applies here as well. If you don’t have nuts or seeds at home/office, you can’t overeat on them. As simple as that. That solution obviously works the best. Then, occasionally if you feel like eating them, go buy a 50 or 100 grams packet and enjoy it all at once if you feel like it. It for sure is a passive solution because it actually doesn’t fix your overeating problem. But hey: it works.

Solution #2. Buy nuts but divide them into reasonable servings immediately.

This actually works for me. I buy nuts and then divide them into 10/20/30 gram packages. Now if I take that packet and finish it, it’s OK because it’s nicely moderated. 30 grams of nuts isn’t overeating in my case. No guilt feelings or too much carbs or energy. Problem: fixed!

Solution #3. Buy nuts and seeds but only in minipackages.

Kind of the same point as the last one. I unfortunately have failed to find really small packages like 30 gram ones they have in some other countries in Estonia. And the price per kilogram with 50 gram packages is just ridicolously high.

Solution #4. Grow some character/fortitude/self control.

I’m still working on that (giggles). Sometimes I even succeed. For example: some months ago when I had a jar of nut butter at my house, it wouldn’t survive more than 3 days; now it lasts me about a week. That’s improvement but I still can’t only take one teaspoon at a time, I eat more. Also, having nut or seed butter at my house makes me want to snack on it constantly. Not good! I need to grow more character.

If you want more nutrition information about nuts and seeds, check this post I posted some time ago.

If you tend to have no moderation with certain foods, let me know which foods and how you deal with this problem.

In Workout Week posts I will tell you everything about my last week’s workouts.

Monday was BodyPump day as always. The day began really bad unfortunately. Sunday night I felt kind of nauseous and weird in my stomach. I thought that a good night sleep will help but it didn’t. I got up in the middle of the night and to be polite, the only thing I will tell you is that food poisoning had hit me hard. In the morning I felt better but still tired and a little weak. I had an important presentation to do and that went well.

By BodyPump time at 8 PM I was more tired than normally. But a good workout fixes a lot of things! We did program no 85. In chest track Maris encouraged and motivated us so much that in the end I increased my weights fro 5+5 kg to 6+6 kg. It felt good! Back track unfortunately didn’t play so in the end we did 2 tracks for abs. During the workout I thought why are the tracks so familiar. Then I realised that program 85 was the first BodyPump I ever did in June (and only went there once, then summer break came in my local club). I knew NOTHING about technique then, god I must have done everything wrong! Maris also told us that if anyone is going to Tartu Novembrijooks (and I am) on Saturday, we should start taking things easier from Tuesday.

Tuesday: strip aerobics. New routine, it was fun as always.

Wednesday: BodyPump. Program no 85 again. I had the same weights as last time and some muscles on my body were actually a little sore from Monday. My instructor asked me if adding weights in Monday’s chest track helped and they obviously did. Then she also mentioned not to overdo it since I have to race on Saturday. She somehow knew I’ll me taking part in Tartu Novembrijooks 🙂

On Thursday I took it easier and went to functional workout. It’s meant to work on the muscles you need in everyday life, a la when you have to move upstairs, lift something etc. It might sound easy but I’ve previously been sore from it. A nice change.

Friday was official rest day before the race on Saturday. I did some walking in the morning and during the day, all together a little over 2 hours of walking and almost 15 000 steps.

Saturday was my 5K race day. You can check my post all about that race here. I also walked to the place where the race took place, in total about 45 minutes.

On Sunday I decided to give Zumba with Kristi another try. I have been in her Zumba class once before and I didn’t really like it that time… This time I LOVED it! I knew only one song from before but the choreography was different. I messed up a thousand times but it was still fun 🙂 AND Kristi had a Christmas song as cool down and stretching track. The first Christmas song I listened to this year…

In total:

3 hours of walking

2 hours of dancing

3 hours of muscle workout

32 minutes of running

An OK week. I have been feeling weird, not like myself for the whole week both workout and foodwise… Need to figure out what’s going on. Maybe the school stress is getting to me? I’m also pressured about hitting my goal weight by the end of the year. I haven’t weighed myself in a week and won’t weigh myself for another 2 weeks because I’m too obsessed with the number on the scales. But if I have not lost weight after these 3 weeks… I will be upset.

Rubriik: Spordijutud

Nut and seed addiction and how to overcome it