2018: A Year In FoodIn 2018, my PureGym manager assigned me to keep a food & exercise blog so that he could track my meals. between January-August 2018, through developing healthy eating habits to satisfy all of my nutritional needs and a rigorous exercise programme, I lost the 21 kg that I had gained on anti-depressants. I wanted it to be somewhere more contained rather than being shoved down people's throats (literally) through Instagram / WhatsApp. Hence I have housed my culinary creations here. Being vegetarian and/or vegan always presents a challenge in terms of hitting the protein target. This was particularly the most interesting challenge for me. I made a conscious decision to stop food blogging in 2019 (due to time restraints). However, it is useful to have a year's diet documented as a reference and a source of inspiration! |
Being good 😇 Lunches prepped for the week! I've packed 5 broccoli florets into these quinoa and chia seed wraps, mixed with red split lentils and peanut 🥜 butter. Each wrap contains 40g protein!
Where’s the potato and the cheese sauce?
This, you mean? Warning ⚠ high calories! Crispy potato 🥔 skins, coated in onion and garlic mayonnaise, watercress, spinach and rocket. 🚀 1433 kcal 😳 Jumping on the butternut band wagon here...these noodles 🍝 are made from butternut squash. I've combined with the chickpea aubergine 🍆 coconut curry and the remainder of last week's quorn chilli 🌶 here's hoping I hit today's protein target 🎯🤞
Needed this...
Yeah my coach has had a serious talk with me about how low my calories are He's increased my calories in my fitness pal by 300 and encouraged me to do more resistance training, weights etc I've eaten the whole box plus a pot of mascarpone sauce, 2 tomatoes and an entire bag of watercress spinach and rocket Boom Boom 💥 Lunches wrapped for the week!!!! Each sandwich is made from Sainsbury's be good 😊 to yourself wraps and contains: 0.5 ball mozzarella, 1 tomato 🍅, a handful of fresh spinach leaves 🍃 a teaspoon of light green pesto and a knob of butter. 449 kcal per sandwich.
I'm finally finishing off remainder of last week's chilli 🌶 boiled up some quinoa as an accompaniment. That's me done in the kitchen for one week!
Batch cook done ✅ inspired by a deliciously ella recipe, this 'Thai' coconut 🌴 and chickpea curry really packs a punch 🤛! 2 white onions and 2 aubergines 🍆 chopped and fried. 2 tins chickpeas (undrained). Added 0.5 jar Sainsbury's Red Thai curry paste, 200ml koko milk, 40ml Tamari soy sauce and finished with a dusting of ginger, seasoned to taste. 611kcal in total; it'll hopefully last 3 meals, so approx 200kcal per meal. 🤞
Time for a weekend special! 2 quorn sausages, 70g two chicks egg 🍳 whites (substitute smashed tofu if vegan), 100g Spinach, 1 Sainsbury's be good to yourself Wrap = split in 2 = 350kcal!
Lunch packed for the next 3 days! These wraps are made from sweet potato 🍠 and I've used minted beans, red onion and turmeric rolled up with spinach leaves 🍃 and falafel 🥙. Need to work on my clingfilm technique!
Minor criticism: more distance between the egg 🍳 and the beans. I may wish to mix them, but I want that to be my choice.
Use the sausage as a breakwater. Butternut squash burger, vegetarian meatballs, baked beans snap pots and Spinach *2 portions = 488kcal
Today's cooking: tofu, mushrooms 🍄 esparagus, bean sprouts and avocado 🥑 in a sweet chilli and garlic sauce, and... more eggy courgetti.
A lean fry up. Mycoprotein 5-grain fillet, chilli 🌶 kale and avocado 🥑 topped with light cottage cheese and a drizzle of Tamari.
I was planning on having the Mac& cheese ready meal from yesterday evening, but that was high in calories and tonight I wanted something with egg in it. Today I did over 90 burpees, programme, fat burn class (4 rounds of 4 double Tabatas each), then a dance-aerobics class, then I broke my record 2x on the rowing machine, 320m in 60sec! I got weighed and found out I've lost 3kg in 15 days so really chuffed!
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2018: A Year In FoodIn 2018, my PureGym manager assigned me to keep a food & exercise blog so that he could track my meals. between January-August 2018, through developing healthy eating habits to satisfy all of my nutritional needs and a rigorous exercise programme, I lost the 21 kg that I had gained on anti-depressants. Archives
January 2019
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