Food Diary Wednesday 4

woo hoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FIRST………………………LOL

Hmmm, who should we follow – the fat americans or the thinner Europeans, hmmmm….. OK I know not all americans are fat and not all europeans are thin
Well I had coffee with butter and coconut oil for breaky, you saw my lunch on my facebook (& probably my workout LOL) and I am just finishing dinner – a little bit of chicken with tomato sauce on it, canned salmon with guacamole mixed in,some cashews and flaked coconut & some vegetarian chili(someone made it here at work &I’m hungrier than my lunch is so I’m having some lol) had some bone broth a little earlier and now I’m eating a big honking dark chocolate bar!
I’ll probably have a snack when I get home from work but not sure what yet!

Breakfast / Before Workout: Green smoothie with spinach, broccoli, carrots, berries and strawberries
After workout: Chia Meal Organic cereal (contains chia, hemp powder, cacoa powder, goji berries)
Lunch: Sardines and Rye Biscuits with celery, avo, cucumber
Afternoon: Apple and Nuts
Supper: Grilled Salmon and Salad

Does this seem like a lot to eat in a day??

The chicken & Potatoes looks yummy. I’m glad to see I’m not the only one left still eating carbs like potatoes and rice.
My meal from Wednesday: woke up@ 6am …workout was 7am. I can’t work out or eat right afterwards. I’ve never been able to do it, ever during my track days.
Right after working out, I drank a cup of aloe juice.
9am:Post workout/breakfast (2 chopped apples , 1 cup milk, 4TB hemp hearts)
1pm : 2 cups 9 beans vegetable & beef soup
4pm: 1/2cup almonds & 10chips – 3 seed curry mango dipping chips
7pm: Beet, parsnip soup with sautee onions roast beef sandwich.
9pm: Hot chocolate
I try to drink about 10 glasses of water each day.

Wow so super healthy!

Tatianna could you pleeeease reply to my mail? ^^

Ok so I’m really really into this Paleo “diet” (well the commas aren’t needed but people so often mistake the real meaning of ‘diet’, that I end up disliking the word ?) So, not like a ‘diet’ but, finally I feel this is so natural for me! It’s just so easy you see. No shortcuts and gimmicks, just eating naturally. Well, therefore, I’m avoiding like if it was evil (well it is actually! XD): all starches, cereals, dairies and legumes, so now to describe to you, I’m combining my all day meals of today so far, with the ones I had yesterday, so you can have an idea of what a daily meal is turning to look like to me from now on!: Breakfast- today I had this mixed meal (called ‘almost oatmeal’ on this ‘Paleo’ website) that is heated/cooked in a pan in no time, all this along: a pear (peeled, pitted? and chopped) today in the case (the original recipe is applesauce and I used a grated apple yesterday, both versions are amazing but I actually prefer the apple one) with a tbsp and a half of peanut butter (I know that almond one is way better but it’s more expensive and I can’t find it here anyway unfortunately!), 3 tbsp of soy milk (this is Paleo no no but, could be worst 8-)), then just some seasoning: pinch of nutmeg and cinnamon and that’s it: take out of the pan, put on a bowl/ plate and add some dried or fresh fruits: I added a dried fig and dried date, chopped in pieces. Yummy! Now my morning snack is always the post-workout recovery protein drink once the days I’m at rest-day I don’t eat nothing in between breakfast and lunch. My lunch today was white fish (cooked in the frying-pan with olive oil, salt, pinch of black pepper and milled cilantro with onion) served with a salsa along: a pear, kiwi, pumpkin seeds, tomato and for dressing, olive oil again, and a pinch of the cilantro/onion as well (I usually have a piece of fruit right before the main meals of my days but once today the fruit was on my breakfast and on the salsa, I skipped it). For afternoon snack I usually have a soy dessert or a soy yogurt (and if that doesn’t fulfill me, I eat also a handful of mixed nuts – today I cheated and had a slice of our Christmas traditional cake: rustic cake (batter) made with yeast like, its not regular homemade batter, is that one in which one has to extend it with a roll?) with dried fruits in it (well this is the version that I prefer, once the original also has sweetmeat which I hate, on top and also inside of the cake, but fortunately they make two versions of this cake), amazing simple,rustic and tasty cake! – today I had it with a hot soy milk cup!). Then for dinner it depends a lot but today once is Supper Night I’m having my version of the traditional supper meal. In my case is a vegetarian sort of, variation of a traditional meal of ours (not traditional in Supper Night, just traditional) which is cod-fish cooked with chips in sticks, and full eggs mixed raw, then added to the rest of the ingredients in order to cook, and at the end pinch of fresh parsley and olives (probably sounds like a strange dish to other people and cultures, and described like this, but its actually pretty amazing and tasty; it has a particular name but once is a portuguese name there’s no point on trying to describe it or translate it once the name of the dish is like a signature-dish name ) So! My version of that cod-fish dish has the same ingredients and way of preparing them, but for the fish itself: in place of the fish one uses leek (just easier to prepare once I do eat fish – I don’t eat any meat though so, I guess I’m a Paleo-’wannabe’ XD)! One barely can tell the difference once is done (also because for the original recipe, the fish is chopped like in splinters). Then for late night snack I may have an egg for instance (always boiled), or fruit, or soy milk again or soy yogurt ( I also used to snack a lot on whole rice cookies – I was getting addicted to this so, another reason :S)- with peanut butter alone or peanut butter and sugar-free jelly; cheese, things like that, but again I’m quitting!). Other than that, I also have a real threat once a while, as well as for a piece of dark chocolate; I also have about two cups of green tea a day, and a coffee maybe, never more than two espressos a day and I try to stick to one if I really have to (here we drink mostly espressos!) and if I feel like drinking something similar to coffee at the end of one of my main meals on the day (which is also very popular thing to do here: to have an espresso at the end of the meal) I would have cereals drink instead (caffeine-free) but I’m quitting that as well. There you go Merry merry Christmas Tat and everyone! Love, fit and peace