Most of us think we eat a healthy diet with an occasional treat to reward ourselves for being so good.
Great! But does your healthy diet look something like mine did:
Breakfast: Two thick slices of white bread with a healthy spread, not butter! Marmalade or marmite as well.
Snack: Low fat crisps, cup of tea with milk.
Lunch: skipped it as was too busy, or maybe grabbed a low cal cheese and onion Sandwich on Granary Bread from the shop as I did not have time to prepare lunch for work. Can of something Diet to drink.
Snack, coffee and sugar as I was tired, maybe a cake as well as I had been working hard!
Dinner: Large bowl of pasta with pesto, cheese over the top, garlic bread. Trifle or cheesecake.
Glass or Two of wine to reward myself(again) as I had worked so hard and deserved it.
What's so wrong with that? It's a normal days food, I'm a vegetarian, so you may want to add a chicken, steak, gammon, maybe some fries and a take away burger to it as well!
So what is this typical days food missing, how can you stop the mid afternoon slump, the stubborn fat that sits around the belly and how can you have more energy?
1. Cut the Breakfast Bread & Cereals. Some of us are glutent intolerant and aren't aware of it. Try something completely different, after all, who ever said you HAD to have a bowl of cereal with milk?
Try: Poached eggs on wheat free bread. Left overs from last nights stir fry. Tomatoes and a chicken breast. Wheat free Porridge with Coconut or Almond Milk
2. Cut: Snacks of diet drinks, crisps and chocolate which make you tired.
Try: Handful of Almonds, walnuts, pumpkin seeds. Make your own Hoummus and take it to work in a small tub with some sliced carrot. Drink more water, have a 2 litre bottle with you and sip it throughout the day
3. Cut: Skipping meals, This drops your energy and you will eat more later in the day.
Try: Prepare lunch at home to bring to work so you dont grab a fat filled mayonnaise covered sandwich. Make your own chicken breast wrapped in a Romaine Lettuce leaf for lunch. Wheat free pitta with hoummus or avocado salad filling.
Drink from your water bottle.
4 Cut: Coffee and Cake. This will make you feel even more tired and crave even more sugar later on in your afternoon.
Try: Sipping water from your bottle, add some lemon juice to make it taste different. Handful of nuts. Make a healthy cake with polenta and rice flour and almond milk.
5; Cut: Pasta. Again, you may have a gluten intolerance, and it leaves you bloated and tired
Try: Replace with Quinoa, a great protein enriched seed which can replace pasta very easily. Eat with roasted veg or have on the side with lean meat. Gluten free pasta made with brown rice is delicious and doesnt taste any different to other pasta, leaves you without a bloated belly and you dont get that tired feeling! Drink water.
So, have a look at what you eat, take a typical day and write it down in your diary. You may surprise yourself!
Just making some simple changes may change the way you feel, give you more energy for work or to spend more time playing with the kids. its not that difficult, I did it, and I was a picky eater. Tastes change as you change your eating habits for the better
My Bootcamp clients have noticed the difference and see results every week. Some hated cooking and now give ME recipes to try! The transformation has been amazing!
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