Week's diet has gone OK so far! Actually too busy to eat much, and luteal phase has got me feeling a bit blue so I don't have much of an appetite. Good, right? When I weighed myself this morning I had lost a kilo or so, despite having 1 hotdog last night.
So I've taken all the advice to heart and will try my best not to do a cheat WEEKEND but maybe just have 1 nice thing like a piece of toast with cheese or something.
I thought I'd make a summary of how I would ideally eat daily, just to get my thoughts straight....
My ideal meal plan:
Breakfast: 2 boiled free range eggs; sometimes with spinach or tomato or leftover veg.
Lunch: Green smoothie (my own organic spinach blended with cucumber, green apple, mint or whatever other green veg I can get my hands on. Disgusting). Tablespoon of coconut oil. Small cup of plain full-cream yogurt (as per Harvard fertility diet - I have to eat SOME dairy hehe!)
Dinner: Salad with avocado oil OR cooked/stir-fry veg with coconut oil. Small helping white meat (chicken or fish) OR plant protein (boiled red-speckled beans are what I'm eating atm).
Spearmint tea, rooibos tea and rooibos chai (all caffeine free).
LOTS OF WATER.
See, it's supposed to be simple
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My shortfalls are still mostly with red meat and some dairy; although I have managed to limit those. I try to cut out carbs & sugar and eat enough healthy fats (again, Harvard fertility and also Banting diet). I've started making my own organic dried herb and garlic blend, so easy and yummy I don't eat manufactured spices with all the carcinogens, anti-caking agents, etc. anymore at ALL!
Hmmm. Now to cutting out caffeine totally after my last cup tomorrow! Haven't gotten around to doing that yet.
Good luck with the weekend's healthy eating ladies!
You've got some definitely healthy options here, but make sure you aren't going below 1,000 calories in a day! If you go below that point, your body kicks into starvation mode and it hangs on to every calorie you eat, and you STILL won't lose weight. (Freakin' bodies, man! Can't they just let us lose weight!? lol )
Alternately, you can measure calories on a weekly basis instead. Let's say you do eat 1,000 calories a day, then that's 7,000 a week. If you measure calories on a weekly basis, it means that some days you could eat 800 cals or 1,200 cals or whatever and as long as you don't go over 7,000 in a week, you're good.
If you aren't using a calorie counting program, I highly recommend MyFitnessPal. It has a phone app you can download, which has a barcode scanner on it. That way you can just scan the package of whatever you just added to your meal, and it usually has all the info already included in a library of foods for you. You just indicate how much of it you're eating, and it'll get added to your calorie total for the day.
Some cheat meal ideas:
1. Home cooked breakfast with a couple slices of bacon or some sausage links, two pancakes (Sugar free syrup is ok!), fried or scrambled eggs and maybe some applesauce or other fruit. And nonfat chocolate milk is tasty, too!
2. A 6'' sub sandwich (incl. mayo and cheese if you want it), loaded with veggies, and served with a single-serving bag of chips and a diet soda or iced tea.
3. Kids meal from a fast food joint, either the burger or nuggets, and go ahead and get the kids sized fries and soda!
4. Sushi! You can ask 'em to make your sushi rolls with brown rice instead of white, if that's available.
5. Make a single-serving brownie/cookie in a coffee mug, and top it with some low fat vanilla ice cream and a drizzle of chocolate syrup. You can find all kinds of recipes for these around the internet, Pinterest has tons too.
6. Make a small batch of your favorite comfort food: home made macaroni and cheese, pasta, stew, or similar so that you can indulge in that for a night or two with your DH. This one's especially good for particularly rainy/gloomy days.
to all the hopefuls and here's to hoping we have an amazing weigh-in on Monday!
next Tuesday so that should help motivate me on.
I'm not normally good at exercising outside of my most basic daily work, so I'm happy about that. My ideal goal would be at least to work out on the rower 3x per week.
