Day 9

Breakfast 1030am
Woke up later than planned, but a few nights of being up too late and up too early had caught up to me. Ended up at the hotel breakfast buffet, so values are guesstimates at best.

Scrambled eggs, maybe 2 cups
5 strips bacon
1 sausage link
3/4 cup cottage cheese
Coffee
Water

Estimated total 30 grams protein

Lunch 5pm
Tomato cucumber salad
Quest protein bar 20 grams protein
Water

Dinner 9pm
Burrito bowl, no rice, no tortilla:
Chicken, black beans, lettuce, tomato, pico de gallo, dollop of guacamole
Guesstimate: 30 grams protein, maybe more

Today was whacked in terms of schedule, obviously, and the meals suffered from a lack of time between flights to get anything better.

I wanted to take a minute to talk about the new bar I mentioned, from Quest Nutrition. Ever since getting this job, I've learned to always have some sort of meal replacement or protein bar for emergencies. I've read a few times now that the Quest bars are pretty much the best out there, so i ordered a box. Half their bars are sweetened with sucralose, the other half with stevia extract, which is the column I chose from. Looking over the ingredient list, I can already see why they are so highly thought of. Not only are these bars 100% 4HB-compliant, they're made of quality ingredients period. Last week, I had packed Oh Yeah! and Supreme Protein brands bars, both of which were huge in size, packing 30 grams protein or more per bar. The Quest bars are smaller, roughly the length of an average candy bar like Snickers, but only perhaps 2/3 the thickness of one, and contain 20 grams protein.
Most bars have an artificial chocolate, peanut butter, or vanilla coating, then the insides have a crunchy or caramel-like feel, very reminiscent of a candy bar. This Quest bar (coconut cashew) has no coating at all, in fact the entire bar is identical through and through and reminds me more of a blonde brownie than anything. But it's quite dense, and therefore slower to chew. Think of taking say 3 or 4 Little Debbie brownies and super-compressing them into a Snickers-size bar. They taste great though, and with the ingredient list, I have to say I'm now a huge fan, 4HB or not.