Getting the Balance Right

Yesterday was a much more typical day for me, and much closer to the ideal balance I am striving for. I own my own company and work from home so most of the time I can have cooked meals for lunch and prepare snacks for myself in the comfort of my own kitchen and take my time doing it. Though to be fair, I did eat this way when I was working in the City of London as a busy Estate Agent too. I kept nuts in my handbag so I could have a snack while walking between showing appointments, kept yoghurts and fruit in the office fridge for snacks in the office, and brought in dinner leftovers to heat up in the microwave for lunches – just like I have been doing this week with the vegetable tagine.  It didn’t always work, and sometimes I would have to forage in the ready meals aisle in the Tesco local or M&S Simply Food for a lunch, but even there I could usually find something reasonably healthy (and gluten free).

I think one of the reasons I did so much better yesterday was I had shrimp for lunch and chicken for dinner, rather than having one of my main meals being vegetarian. I find it much easier to find low fat fish or animal based protein, as most vegetarian protein sources like chickpeas or nuts seem to be high in fat. Though that could just be my inexperience with vegetarian cooking!

Feel free to suggest some low fat vegetarian protein sources in the comments below.

The Score:

Calories:	Protein:	Carbs:	Fat:	Alcohol:	Fibre:
1887.61	112.62g	201.3g	59.06g	8.4g	29.51g
	24%	43%	28%	3%
Calories burned through exercise:		313

What I ate:

Time	Item	Amount
07:30	Vitamins - Centrum Advance A to Zinc, 400iu of Vitamin E, 1000iu Vitamin D3 and 500mg Glucosamine sulphate
	Scrambled eggs (with a dash of salt, pepper and parsley)	2 eggs
	Mushrooms	100g
	in butter	5g
	Raw tomato	97g
	Heinz Beanz, reduced sugar and salt	180g
	Sainsbury's pressed apple and cherry juice	200mL
09:00	Black tea	500mL
10:45	Seedless Red Grapes	100g
	Brazil nuts	7g
	Walnuts	13g
11:30	Raspberry and Echinacea tea	250mL
13:30	Spinach	25g
	Tomato	86g
	The English Provender Balsamic Italian Dressing	15g
13:45	Sainsbury's peeled prawns	100g
	Wholegrain brown rice	120g
	Sainsbury's Pineapple Fruit Dairy Split	60g
14:30	Green tea	250mL
16:00	Lemon Lime Nuun electrolyte tablet in water	500mL
17:00	Total Greek yoghurt	125g
	Sainsbury's frozen mixed Blueberries and strawberries	100g
	Butterkist salted microwave popcorn	25g popped
19:30	Chicken Stir Fry with Blue Dragon Sticky Plum Sauce	263g
	Merchant Gourmet tinned puy lentils	98g
	Ellactiva Chocolate Calcium Chew	1 chew
21:00	Waitrose Cornish quartz cheddar	36g
	Graham's Port	53 mL