Food Anonymous

The subject of food constantly perks my ears and even more so after my run for the day. As it is right now, I am not working for the next month except maybe a side job here and there. In fact while I am telling all, I haven't worked but a couple days since I got back home on November 2nd!
While training for HURT 2012, mileage has been ramping up and more runs are focused on duration and climbing than on getting my short choppy stride to get a little longer and general speed. Well I already eat quite a lot and there are the frequent days where I will inhale a bag of chips with salsa/guacamole, never mind I just ate a balanced healthy meal.

Well today my run started at 8:30 after lounging around and didn't finish until 3 hours later plus a little walking around the block. I put Quinoa in the rice cooker with celery, onion and garlic. Took a shower. By this time I had not eaten at all unless you include the 200 calories of home made gel that I had on the run (brown rice syrup, dark agave and calm with Cal-mag). I was absolutely famished. I don't normally count calories as I feel I would always be consuming the wrong amounts but for curiosity sake I counted it out. My afternoon eating extravaganza went a little something like this:

Udo's oil about a gulp, straight down (about 150 calories)
Floridix Iron and Herbs 10ml, straight down (25 calories)

Salad
6 cups spinach (75 calories)
some red onion
some celery
1/4 cup raisins (130 calories)
Asian toasted sesame dressing, 3 Tbl spoons (270 calories)

Quinoa
1 cup dry Quinoa (about 500 calories)
1 celery stick
1/8 red onion
1 clove garlic minced
2 tablespoons Olive oil (240 calories)

Soup
pre-cooked vegetable soup heated on stove (8 cups - 640 calories)

Water
about 2 liter

I ate this all at one siting on the living room couch; and quite abruptly fell asleep.
About 30-40 min later I got up and checked my mail and what not and started part II.

Homemade cereal
3 bowls of oats, raisins and rice milk, each containing the following amount/calories:

at least 1 cup dry rolled oats (300 calories)
1/8th - 1/4 raisins (130 calories)
1 cup  rice milk (120 calories)

Then as I am cleaning and putting the rice milk back in the fridge I see the cinnamon raisin bagels that I have not touched in a few days, I immediately put one in the toaster oven and spread jelly on it, devour and repeat 2 more times!

1 cinnamon bagel (243 calories)
2 table spoons of jelly (120 calories)
X3

This all in a span of 2 1/2 hours for a grand count of 4,769 calories!!! In basically one sitting if you do not include the food comma; un-be-lieve-ab-le!

My Dad made a joke to me last night, we were talking about people eating more when training for ultras and that some come to the start line weighing more than when they started training, and he laughed saying how funny would it be if you (me) weighed 15lbs more than when you started, ooh boy never say never haha, I love to eat. I love to eat so much there are times when the quit word is passed the "my stomach hurts so much from all the food I have consumed". And some would call it gluttony. Either way "love of food" or "gluttony" the results are the same.

So here are 3 cheers to the days where you are not so square and revel in the chemical that is stimulated when eating food and your brain says "ssssooooooo goooooooood".