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1-3-25 meals:
Breakfast: Scrambled eggs and hashbrowns with bacon or sausage. Side of strawberries and bananas.
Lunch: Ham or turkey and cheese sandwiches. Sides of carrots, a side salad, or fruit cup.
Dinner: Chicken Parmigian with garlic bread. Optional side salad with raspberry dressing.
Desert: Salted caramel Gelato.
Lessee ... Breakfast was granola and skyr, coffee, and pills. Lunch, lentil burrito. With cheese. Dinner, homemade shoyu ramen - veggies and noodles, roast pork, and an egg. Snacks were a lemon poppyseed protein muffin and literally just cooked chicken I straight up ate out of the container. Everything came in on the higher end of my calorie range and macros were close. I'm normally over on fat and under on protein. So I'm happy with this.
My first daily menu
I thought that to help myself, I’d start posting here what I eat day-to-day and how I exercise. I follow Slimming World so will try to divide food into free/speed/syns categories. Also, as I’m a Scouser, the menu will be divided using Northern vernacular: breakfast, dinner and tea.
Also, I don’t know why I’m writing this as if I’m talking to someone. Literally 0 people follow me, smh
Today’s breakfast was shite, in all honesty: two Hecks ‘super slim sausages’ (3 syns) and some baked beans. Low fat sausages taste like cardboard, and being a university student I’ve already eaten enough beans this year to gas up a family-sized car. I’ve always struggled with breakfast, as I prefer the continental stuff (AKA I fucking love pastry) but hate porridge and any cereal that’s remotely acceptable on Slimming World. Sorry for the depressing start.
A light lunch for me, seems as I felt like I was going to puke after doing exercise for the first time in two weeks. Some carrot batons, yellow pepper, and cherry tomatoes, plus one and half cream crackers with some light spread (3 syns for the cracker, 1.5 for a tsp of spread). This is a very boring first day, soz :(((
Roast dinner time! Potatoes! Veg! Yorkshires! Gravy! Pigs in blankets! Crackling! Fun!
Not for me today though lol. Still feeling a bit guilty from going on holiday last week and hard-lining prosecco with the twirls for 7 days, so I stuck to two pieces of lamb with carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, gravy (1.5 syns) and a single potato cooked in frylight. FML. I promise it will get better from tomorrow.
I brightened up my *very* boring day with 4 Daim Mikado sticks (2 syns) and various cups of tea using my 350ml of skimmed milk as a healthy extra A, as well as a conference pear. Delightful. No HEXB for me today, because I couldn’t be bothered going to Tesco.
So, about exercise: I try to do at least 3 gym classes a week plus some exercise at home. I got back into my old at-home routine today which consists of the following:
3 HIT circuits using the ‘7′ workout app: These are seven-minute long exercise routines which consist of 12 lots of 30-second bursts of activity, followed by 10 second rest intervals. The app is free to download, but to access all of the circuits you need to pay £1.99. Today I did the fat burner, belly burner and full body workouts.
A resistance band workout: Resistance bands are my favorite pieces of exercise kit, and I found an online workout which I enjoy doing and which burns between 250-300 calories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkq0-jvz1Dc&t=1166s
According to my fitbit, I burned 432 calories doing this.
I am by NO means a fitness fanatic (I hate movement) but used to dance a lot when I was younger, and still enjoy dancing at university. Therefore, throughout the week I vary the classes I go to between Zumba, Clubbercise, Kettlebells, Legs, Bums & Tums (a killer) and Yoga.
Well that’s day one done. Just 199 to go...
Ending the day on 11 syns!
not the sport bowling (although I love that) but eating all your meals from a bowl…because someone said bowl food might just taste better? so, let’s take the day to eat all of our meatless meals in a bowl. check it out. what do you think? are meals just better in a bowl?
breakfast
fruit salad FREE IMAGE via Pixabay
coconut kiwi green smoothie bowl via jessica in the kitchen
fruit salad OR coconut kiwi green smoothie bowl via jessica in the kitchen
lunch
creamy pumpkin vegan soup via cookie and kate
kale salad with walnuts, cranberries, and apples via savor home
creamy pumpkin vegan soup via cookie & kate
kale salad w/walnuts, cranberries, and apples via savor home
snack
tahini granola via sweet potato soul
dinner
vegetarian pho via the kitch
gone bowlin. not the sport bowling (although I love that) but eating all your meals from a bowl...because someone said bowl food might just taste…
it’s a day of eatin’…from the summer garden. tell us what you think!
*summer produce
breakfast
blueberry* coconut protein smoothie via natural chow
lunch
vegan epplant parmesan via hot for food
two color zucchini ribbons with mint and olive vinaigrette via fine cooking
vegan eggplant* parmesan sub via hot for food
two-color zucchini* ribbons w/mint and olive vinaigrette via fine cooking
snack
plums – FREE IMAGE via pixabay
nuts FREE IMAGE via pixabay
plums* and a handful of nuts
dinner
no cook summer pasta via chocolate for basil
baby arugula salad with pine nuts via kalyns kitchen
no cook summer pasta (w/tomatoes* & basil*) via chocolate for basil
baby arugula salad with pine nuts via kalyns kitchen
dessert
vegan coconut ice cream w/roasted peach*, fig* + pecan via sweet potato soul
summer garden it's a day of eatin'...from the summer garden. tell us what you think! *summer produce…
with the temperatures climbing, sometimes I want to just take a break from the kitchen and focus on eating the uncooked. the raw foods that is. think you can have a day just consuming raw foods? this would be how I would do it for a day. or maybe two. or maybe more (with some variation of course). ;) what about you? tell me what you think.
breakfast
fresh coconut water – FREE IMAGE via Pixabay
stone fruit salad via passionately raw
coconut water
stone fruit salad (w/*peaches and *plums) via passionately raw
lunch
raw vegan nori rolls with cilantro sauce via the global girl
snacks
almonds By Luigi Chiesa – Own work via wikipedia
blueberry bowl – FREE IMAGE via pixabay
handful of almonds and blueberries*
dinner
zucchini* raw vegan lasagna via fine dining lovers
butterscotch caramel cheesecake via raw food recipes
*seasonal summer foods
in the raw. with the temperatures climbing, sometimes I want to just take a break from the kitchen and focus on eating the uncooked.
its our #MeatlessMonday menu filled with a day of purple/blue foods. what are your favs?
food facts via equinox:
the color: purple/blue the picks: eggplant, purple cabbage, purple kale, purple cauliflower, purple potatoes, purple carrots, prunes, raisins (also blackberries, plums, blueberries, concord grapes, figs, purple onions) the payoff: these deep, dark choices protect cells from damage and stave off cancer, heart disease, and have anti-aging, brain-boosting properties.
breakfast
avocado blackberry smoothie via food and spice
lunch
everything spring farmers market salad via ambitious kitchen (w/purple cabbage
)
snack
(2 small purple plums and a handful of walnuts)
plums – FREE IMAGE via pixabay
walnuts – FREE IIMAGE via Pixabay
dinner
grilled asian eggplant with ginger sauce via food & wine
vietnamese spring rolls with crispy tofu via minimalist baker
grilled asian eggplant w/ginger sauce via food & wine
vietnamese spring rolls w/crispy tofu via minimalist baker
see more ways to eat in color
purple picks. its our #MeatlessMonday menu filled with a day of purple/blue foods. what are your favs? food facts via…
it’s the first Monday in April and we thought it would be perfect to celebrate #MeatlessMonday with a day of eating in color (choosing the best of green, red, orange, purple, and yellow foods). what’s your favorite food to eat in color? please share!
eat in color: april
breakfast
strawberry* apricot* sunrise smoothie via kitchen treaty
lunch
veggie salad with baked potato fries, avocado, pumkin, zucchini and radishes* via feedfeed
snack
handful of nuts (image via boss fight)
cherry*, blackberry, blueberry fruit bowl
dinner
morel mushrooms* and asparagus* spaghetti via saveur
*seasonal spring produce
eat in color: April eats it's the first Monday in April and we thought it would be perfect to celebrate #MeatlessMonday…
