As promised yesterday, I kept a track of what I ate and I’m pretty proud of staying on track and eating things that won’t make me more tired and exhausted.
Breakfast
The magic smoothie (half a cup each of 0% greek yogurt, applesauce, apple juice and, milk with a banana and three handfuls of spinach), two cups of coffee and a pint of water with a berocca in it. This is the only coffee I drink all day, at the moment it’s full caffeine because I couldn’t get the decaff and it’s a crutch to keep me moving in the morning, after Christmas, I’ll go back to decaffeinated Monday to Friday and save the caffeine for the weekend.
Once I’m at work, I fill my water bottle and make my first cup of lemon and ginger tea, I’m not a huge tea drinker but I drink at least two cups a day. Also today because I feel tired and a bit rubbish, Vitamin C and zinc, I figure I need all the cold prevention I can get as everyone around me has it and I really don’t want it.
Mid morning snack
100g low fat natural yogurt with 50g applesauce and some pomegranate. The only reason that I know the weight is that they didn’t have any individual natural yogurts in Sainsburys so I bought 500g and weighed it out so it’ll last 5 days. I promise it looks better in real life than in the photo. The applesauce is the one I use for my smoothie and made by me, it’s just apples cooked with a bit of water and blitzed until smooth. I make a batch every week. Also a refill of my water bottle and another lemon and ginger tea.
Lunch
Black beans, small tin of tuna and roasted vegetables with a balsamic vinegar dressing. The roasted veg is an aubergine, 2 red onions, 2 peppers, a pack of baby plum tomatoes, a tablespoon of capers and a tablespoon of olive oil, I roast them and it usually does three lunches. This is my standard lunch, I vary the protein and the beans, using chickpeas, prawns, eggs, lentils etc it’s easy and tasty.
Lunch dessert was two squares of dark chocolate and a clementine. Not pictured a refill of my water bottle. I am keen on water and drink at least three bottles worth a day at work. The bottle is 700ml. So I’m getting my recommended 2 litres a day while I’m at work
Mid Afternoon Snack
I am all about staving off bad choices by planning snacks. White bean dip with carrots and a pepper. The white bean dip was supposed to be hummus but I’ve run out of cooked chickpeas, something I only discovered on Sunday afternoon and much too late to soak and cook some for hummus on Monday! So I used cannellini beans instead in a hummus recipe. It’s a little more garlicky that I would have liked or than the hummus would have been but it’s still pretty good.
I needed the mints after this though
Dinner
Tonight Ma and I went to hear Hilary Mantel talk about Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, which I will talk about at here at great length another time. I wasn’t sure if there would be time to eat so I grabbed two of my graze snacks. Eleanor’s Apple Crumble and Ancient Forest Nuts. It’s not the best thing for dinner but it works for me. There was also a glass of wine.
I’m feeling quite good about staying on track and not eating junk.
Nic Dempsey 