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! |
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 💥 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. 🤞
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!
A simple, energising meal ⚡quorn fishless fingers 🐟organic kurly kale fried up in chilli and all purpose seasoning, and 1 Heinz baked beanz snap pot. Took less than 10 mins to prepare!
Tonight I couldn't resist a bit of my guilty pleasure: Spinach and ricotta tortellini pasta 🍝 😋so I blended it with 1 bag of spinach, 1 bunch of spring onions, added 1 box of Quorn mince (protein!) and 1 tin of chopped tomatoes 🍅 boiled it all up together, tipped in 100ml coconut milk to thicken the sauce (you could use any milk), chucked in a load of basil 🌿 and Italian herb seasoning 🇮🇹salt and pepper and served it up with a relish of peppery baby leaf 🍃salad 🥗each 3rd = just 472 calories so just under the 500 mark for a light Wetherspoons 🙂
Next up: in the blue we have oyster and spring onion! Used an egg 🍳 white this time instead of rice to lower carbs and increase protein.
A colourful garden medley 🍛: organic new potatoes 🥔 and organic cherry 🍒 tomatoes, green beans, broccoli and fried tofoo topped with a dollop of leftover basil 🌿 pesto. Vibrant, entertaining and wholesome! ❤💛💚
Pink flamingo sunset 🌅🍊🍇 Quorn, mushrooms 🍄 bean sprouts and veggies 🍲👨🍳💪before and after... (started afternoon, came back to it in the evening). Quorn chicken style, veggies and udon noodles. Testing 2/4 blue dragon sauces (currently on special offer in Tesco). On the left in green we have chow mein. On the right in blue we have oyster and spring onion. Needless to say I've matched the sachet colours to the Tupperware...
😂First up... chow mein
Alas... still not hitting the protein target 🎯tomorrow, I'll substitute the rice with tofu and an egg white omelette. Today's experimental leftovers: rice noodles, spinach and kidney beans in a mushroom sauce topped with thyme and Oregono. Only 343 calories!!!
This week's batch cook: red, yellow and green peppers, fresh green chilli 🌶 , quorn mince, mixed and baked beans in tomato 🍅 sauce with coriander leaf, cayenne and mint seasoning. This evening served on a bed of cauliflower couscous, relished with sweet and crunchy salad 🥗 and topped with 2 slices of crumbled cheddar. Only 445 calories!
Tonight's batch cook: Singapore noodles, mushroom stir fry and broccoli in a Nasi goreng paste with lime and extra soy sauce. Under £3 and only 167 calories per serving! Gave the reduced bean sprouts a wide berth...
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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
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