B - banana chocolate pb oat smoothie
L - bread w leftover mashed (sweet) potato & Brussels sprouts, apple, nuts & a delicious Medjoul date
D - steamed kale w rice & sweet Korean lentils, 10g dark chocolate
Also had 2 coffees w milk (1 soy, 1 reg @ work)
Exercise: walked to work 30 min
The oat bars I often have during my walk to work around 7:30am aren't usually enough to hold me over till lunch at 12:45. But I found out that my immersion blender fits into my 600ml Pioneer thermos, so I can make a smoothie at 6:45am without waking the neighbors 🤣 (my normal blender is super loud).
6:45am coffee w soy milk
8:45am smoothie @ work (1/3 cup oats, flaxseeds, soy milk, peanut butter, cocoa powder, banana)
1:15pm cucumber hummus sandwich, apple, trail mix
5:45pm a fig, "hutspot" (mashed potatoes, carrots, parnip, onion) w BBQ lentils and for dessert: 2 pieces of a Dubai bar, which my boss got me 🥰
I thought it would taste like pistachio but it didn't. I honestly don't understand what the hype is all about. But maybe it's also that I mostly prefer dark chocolate!
Exercise: walked to work 50 min total
Day off, I had quite an appetite.
B - leftover pizza, artichoke hearts, 2 ww crackers w Nutella
L - interesting salad of leftover peas, olives, tuna, hummus and chopped apple, a cracker w cheese, a slice of gingerbread, 5g dark chocolate
D - a whole mango 🥭 - it was delicious! Thankfully since it cost me €2,50 lol. +roasted root veg and boiled chestnuts - an autumnal feast!, 5g dark chocolate and some wine
Exercise: cleaned the whole house , 30 min on the elliptical (while watching the documentary The Magic Pill), rode my bike to the greengrocer (15 min total).
Field service in the am and worked a front desk shift from 2-7pm.
B - soy latte, blackberry walnut oatmeal
L - hummus cucumber sandwich, apple, trail mix
D - green bean salad, pasta w tomato sauce, some wine and 10g dark chocolate
Exercise: 30 min calisthenics before breakfast and walked home from work (30 min).
Dinner was pumpkin soup + an Italian bread roll and 2 ww crackers!
I didn't plan on it but everything I had today was vegan, except for the latte at work.
The baked oat bars I made to have for breakfast while I walk to work turned out pretty good:
4 c fine oats
2 c soy milk
1 heaping tbsp apple butter
1/8 tsp salt
2 handfuls raisins
8 tbsp flaxseeds
Bake @ 200 degrees Celsius until brown and crispy.
Day 4/10 🟠
On my period so hungry. All. The. Time. Did manage to go for a run. Spring is in the air!
B - yogurt, muesli, grapes, nuts. Apple +pb
L - toast + gram flour omelette, red pepper, date, chocolate
S - 1/2 oat bar (50)
D - spinach, pasta, alpro pudding
B - apple pie oatmeal
L - Dahl w greens, a ww wrap, nuts+date, cracker+pb, my daily dose of 10g dark chocolate 🍫
D - fruit, bok choy stir fry w rice
Still feel hungry. Probably due to the cold and lack of sleep.
Gratitude 🥰
No snacks but I did have an extra tbsp dried fruit w lunch and one slice of baguette w dinner. I'm okay with that. O, and I cleaned out the peanut butter jar that was ready to go in the trash. Those calories don't count right 😝
Lots of orange meals this week! 30% of my meals are leftovers. Anyway, I need to eat some greens and purples lol
Yesterday.
Also had licorice (1 pce) and a piece of baked potato!
I had a really nice day! Late breakfast of course.
B - pear w yogurt, muesli, nuts, coconut & cardamon
L - ww crackers w pb & a banana
D - vegan chili w roasted carrots & potatoes 😍, apple sauce
Last night was nice, we went over to P&K. O&D came over, too and we played the Friends Scene It game. After that I took a really long, hot bubble bath whilst reading a new library book! 🛀🏼 📖 It's titled "Big Lies in a Small Town" by Diane Chamberlain, I'm really enjoying it.
Today we slept in but after that I got a lot of stuff done that I've been putting off for ages: I mended a cardigan, polished my leather boots, ordered stamps 🤭. I also simplified my wardrobe. I've been reading about Project 333 and I packed up like half the clothes I had in my closet. I still have like 60 items in there but it's literally given me some air. So we'll see how that goes. ☺️
3 square meals & no cravings today! Except a sunshine craving. It's like life loses its shine this time of the year. I am tired of struggling to think positive at the moment. Then I feel guilty because I have no reason to be sad. I'll try again tomorrow... Maybe I should start a gratitude journal again...
B - 4 ww knäckebröd w/peanut butter, apple butter, flaxseeds & a banana
L - beet soup + a ww bread roll, trail mix, 5g dark chocolate
D - an orange, black bean & broccoli soba noodles
B - apple, 2 toast (pb+jam), biscuit+"gestampte muisjes"
L:
D: pear +
I made lentil meatballs with panko and a spice mix for meat and baked them in margarine but they soaked it all up so they were so rich I couldn't finish it all.
Sat 23/12/2023
B - apple, orange, blueberries+ 1 tbsp Greek yogurt, 1T flax, 1T coconut
L - compensation salad, toast, date, 10g dark chocolate
D - nuts+dried cranberries, 1T muesli, pumpkin soup+ a bagel
B - overnight yogurt oats, raisins, walnuts, melon
Went spinning with J for an hour, that was intense! 🚴🏼♀️
S - banana, tbsp peanut butter
L - gram omelet+cherry tomatoes, 2 pieces ww toast, couple of raspberries from the garden :)
D - green salad, lentil lasagna, piece of dark chocolate
