For the past six weeks I really haven’t been paying sufficient attention to the actual ‘diet’ I should be following. I regularly forget meals and then once I realise, I make them up by what is effectively ‘snacking’ to make sure I eat ‘something’. This has to stop.
From now on I’m going to make an effort to eat actual *meals* and if I miss one, then tough. I’ll pay proper attention to getting a sufficiently high protein intake, (at least 60 – 80 grams per day) and let the rest take care of itself.
That was a wonderful sentiment which I’ve already totally compromised today by my forgetting breakfast. To compensate, I’ve been drinking some of the really tasty smoothie I made yesterday. Vague recipe follows… I added a half punnet of strawberries to a punnet of blueberries and a banana then pureed it. I then added around 100ml of Blueberry yoghurt and 100ml of Protein milk and blended the lot. Mmmm… 😀
Anyway, back to the subject, i.e. meals. They needn’t be anything spectacular, but should be a ‘complete’ meal that doesn’t leave me not knowing if I’ve eaten ‘enough’ because, not being hungry, I really can’t tell. It could be I’m eating *more* than I should.
As for the meals themselves, I figure for breakfast I could have weetbix with protein milk, then for lunch maybe chopped ham and tomato on Cruskits, or tuna on Cruskits (or similar). That should be sufficient to keep body and soul together. For the evening maybe a pre-cooked protein meal (from Coles or Woolworths etc). It’s not ideal perhaps, but would mean I don’t waste half a day cooking something I don’t really want in portions that would need freezing… or thrown out! For a ‘ treat’, I could even add some yoghurt to the meals to give me the extra burst of protein and satisfy a ‘sweet tooth’.
Again tho, it’s *remembering* to stick to proper mealtimes that is the problem.. or one of them. I think maybe I should set up three daily reminders on my Google Nest so I eat breakfast, lunch and dinner at set times. So, yet again, off we go….
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