I had a pretty good day yesterday, both in terms of life and healthy eating. I did end up having a couple of chocolates in front of the TV last night but I was watching food porn – the new show ”How to Cook like Heston” and the chosen ingredient was chocolate. Fortunately I had a quite a big workout earlier in the day.
Coming back to something I brought up earlier, eating a healthy and balanced diet does require planning and forethought. Like most people we have a list of 7-10 favourite dinners (such as chilli or risotto) that we rotate around with slight variations. I try to plan most of the meals for the week based on what we will be doing each day, so I know what groceries we need – and what we don’t. We order our groceries online and get them delivered, and I’m the one who usually does the ordering. Like everyone else, I’ve noticed food prices have gone up over the past couple of years, especially on healthy gluten free food. So not buying items we don’t need, or don’t plan to use in the next week, is just as important as finding good deals on the food we do need. And yes the plan does change based on what’s on sale or in season. We still have days where we don’t follow the plan – such as Tuesday’s spontaneous night out at the theatre – but there’s room for that too, as well as too tired to cook nights. The big advantage of planning ahead is knowing what healthy, high protein foods can be made with what’s in the house. It really reduces the “noting to eat” moments, as well as cutting down on wasted food.
Having said all that, one of the best parts of ordering groceries online is that with a couple of quick clicks you can just reorder what you normally get or exactly the same order as last week, thus reducing the need for planning every week!
The Score:
| Calories: | Protein: | Carbs: | Fat: | Alcohol: | Fibre: |
| 2011.53 | 108.87g | 240.24g | 69.69g | 0 | 31.26g |
| 22% | 48% | 31% | | ||
| Calories burned through exercise: | 520 | | |||
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 | 1 each |
| Cold water | 200mL | |
| Mattesson's Turkey rashers | 3 rashers | |
| Mesa Sunrise cereal | 60g | |
| Alpro Soy milk | 120mL | |
| Sainsbury's pressed apple and cherry juice | 200mL | |
| 08:00 | Black Tea | 500mL |
| 10:00 | Resistance workout + 30 min bike | |
| Orange Nuun electrolyte tablet in water | 750mL | |
| 11:30 | Sponser Protein Snack bar | 1 bar |
| 13:00 | Raspberry and Echinacea tea | 250mL |
| 13:30 | New Covent Garden Pea and Ham soup | 300g |
| Genius brown bread toast | 2 slices | |
| one slice with Sun-Pat Smooth peanut butter | 13g | |
| Raw tomato | 105g | |
| Sponser vanilla Recovery Shake | 20g (1 scoop) | |
| mixed with skim milk | 150mL | |
| 500mg Glucosamine sulphate | 1 pill | |
| 14:15 | Green Tea | 250mL |
| 15:30 | Green Tea | 200mL |
| 16:30 | Sainsbury's fruit and seed mix | 40g |
| Brazil nuts | 6g | |
| Plums | 110g | |
| 19:15 | Orange, mango and cinnamon tea | 250mL |
| 20:00 | Quick cook Turkey Steak | 68g |
| Roasted butternut squash | 207g | |
| with Olive Oil | 3.5mL | |
| Stir fried Kale | 45g | |
| in butter | 7g | |
| Ocean Spray Smooth cranberry sauce | 20g | |
| Lindt Excellence 70% cocoa dark chocolate | 20g | |
| 21:00 | Turin Baileys filled chocolates | 2 pieces |
Plus 500 to 1500mL of cold water sipped from a water bottle throughout the day.
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