Travelling days are always hard, whether you are a Celiac struggling to find food you can eat or someone determined to stick to a healthy diet. I had a flight to Zurich at 11:30am yesterday, which pretty much dominated the day. Just a short hop (2 hours) to Zurich, which means they only provide “snacks” on the flight. And invariably this means no food for Celiac’s or other “special diets”. Knowing this, I made sure to get a good snack of nuts and dried fruit (OK, and chocolate) at the airport before boarding the plane. However, I was still very annoyed when the “snack” was a sandwich – with no gluten free alternatives despite putting gluten free on my ticket when I booked it. Not only that, but the staff had not even been told!
So, a latish lunch of sushi at the airport before heading to my friends where I was staying. To my surprise, I discovered my friend had taken up the latest fad diet – the 4 hour body diet. Basically, it’s a version of the low carb, paleo diet – No wheat or grain based carbohydrates (bread, pasta, porridge, etc.), no fruit, no dairy, nothing with white sugar, and lots of meat, fish, eggs, beans, lentils and vegetables. Like most of these diets, it’s not so much what you eat that makes you drop weight so fast, but the fact that most of these foods are MUCH lower in calories than the ones you cut out. Going from 2500 calories a day to 1200 calories a day – of course you’re going to lose weight like crazy!
Which is why I went out and bought my own milk and juice for breakfast and ended up eating a gluten free hot cross bun with a glass of milk a couple of hours after our dinner of grilled chicken and salad. I’m not a dieter, I’m a runner, so I do need the carbohydrates!
The Score:
Calories: | Protein: | Carbs: | Fat: | Alcohol: | Fibre: |
2483.35 | 128.94g | 318.38g | 76.63g | 0 | 37.64g |
21% | 51% | 28% | | ||
Calories burned through exercise: | Rest Day | |
What I ate:
Time | Item | Amount |
07:00 | 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 | |
Sainsbury's Freefrom oats | 50g | |
with Sultanas | 20g | |
Sainsbury's Orange, Mango and Passionfruit juice | 200mL | |
07:30 | Black Tea | 500mL |
10:45 | Sainsbury's fruit and seed mix | 40g |
Brazil nuts | 6g | |
Galaxy smooth milk chocolate | 42g | |
Glaceau Vitamin Water, Revive | 500mL | |
12:30 | Black Tea | 100mL |
13:30 | Maki and Nigiri sushi | 10 pieces |
Edamame | 1/2 cup | |
Apfel Schorle | 500mL | |
16:45 | Fresh Strawberries | 105g |
Sponser Protein Snack bar | 1 bar | |
18:30 | Grilled chicken breast | about 100g |
with Cattlemen's Classic Barbecue sauce | about 1 tbsp | |
Spinach salad | 50g | |
with tomato | about 100g | |
avocado | 1/2 of one | |
broccoli | 2 florets | |
strawberries | 50g | |
truffle olive oil | 1 tsp | |
and white balsamic vinegar | 1 tsp | |
20:00 | Sainsbury's Freefrom Hot cross buns | 1 bun |
2% milk | about 200mL |
Plus 500 to 1500mL of cold water sipped from a water bottle throughout the day.
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