I go through these – how should I call them – blocks of time when I get more disciplined about my food or exercise. At the moment it’s the food.
After dropping 2lb recently, I’m afraid I very quickly piled it back on due to some rather unforeseen and frequent restaurant visits. So I made a decision – for the next couple of weeks until my weekend break there is NO – bread, cheese, pasta, rice, any flour based foods in my house. Stick to vegetables and fish.
Generally I find fish very expensive. In fact if you really look at the prices of various food in shops – anything that’s actually good for you, low in calories, and healthy like vegetables and fruit, is extortionately expensive. No wonder we eat highly processed, fatty, full of carbs foods. They’re far cheaper.
Anyway, food price rant over. I decided to go with the fishy ‘diet’ for a little while. Rather than reaching for the salmon, I’m buying the less popular and less pricey fish like tilapia, or basa and few others. Now switched to canned tuna in spring water, rather than the expensive flavoured varieties – and tried mixing these myself with some sauces and veggies for some tasty flavour.
This current regime requires a bit more thinking – though not as much prep as you’d think. So far, I’ve been doing this for a week with I have to admit surprising results. Usually when I pay this much attention to my food, my weight bobs up and down like an apple on the surface of the water, slowly moving in the downward direction.
The twist with the current food regime has been that my weight has been steadily reducing each day. There has been no bobbing up in the scales at all so far. I’ve been alternating my meals between fish or vegetables. Or sometimes having fish 3 times a day. Fish, as we know, is low in fat, I mean when you talk about lean meat you really can’t get any leaner, can you?
So, I’m going to stick to this discipline for another week – then hopefully for longer. Fingers crossed. Today, I’m 100 grams away from being back in 86s – hopefully that will be achieved tomorrow – if the current trajectory and trend are to be believed.
And in case you’re wondering, these are the types of meals I’ve been prepping:
- smoked mackerel shredded, with chopped onion/shallot, chopped radishes and a spoonful of cream cheese – plus 1 singe tortilla chip/cracker crumpled on top
- fried tilapia with a spoonful of cream cheese, and again one tortilla chip
- fried onions and red peppers, with cherry tomatoes, in tomato pure, stock, with a handful of ORZO pasta
Okay, I know, the no flour rule is broken – but the amounts are tiny compared to my usual intake – I’ve been very careful about that.
So let’s raise a glass to me sticking with this food regime for another week. I’m finding mixing veg meals between fish meals, it’s actually not as draining on my purpose as I worried. Today for lunch, mussels in creme fraiche sauce – with no pasta, no rice, no bread.
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