What do I eat?

#1 TIP: Keep your water up throughout the day. It helps flush out toxins and waste from your body and DOES actually help you lose weight! I make sure I have a glass of water with my meals, it helps fill you up too so you don’t eat too much. Also, having a water bottle with you while you’re at work or in class is great too!
Breakfast: it’s Winter at the moment so I always feel like something warm… 1/3 cup of oats with 1 cup of So Good fat-free soy milk (only 5g sugar per 100g and “NIL” fat)..

I’m not lactose intolerant but after comparing the nutrition tables with my usual skim milk and this fat-free soy milk, there’s a great difference. Even though some people say “oh it’s only 4g of sugar/fat more” you need to remember - those figures add up! Over a week, the difference in the milk you have can be 28 g of extra sugar and fat! I drizzle a little honey on my oats too, it makes it a little sweet, and the honey sugar is natural to the honey anyway - not added.

Alternative is to have a poached egg on a toasted multi-grain piece of bread with a small sprinkle of salt and pepper for extra toast. No bacon, no sausages etc…

Lunch: I make a salad with lettuce, cherry tomatoes, red onion, capsicum (I think they’re known as ‘bell peppers’), baby spinach, zucchini or cucumber and mushrooms. Low fat vinegarette sometimes but usually, no salad dressing.

An alternative to the salad (again good for winter) is some pasta and spaghetti sauce that’s low in fat and sugar. Yes, there are carbs in this, but carbs aren’t as bad as everyone thinks - they’re bad, IMO, for dinner, but they’re fine for the middle of the day because you’re actually going to use them throughout the day!

Dinner: I tend to have grilled chicken (marinated with some herbs first - cumin’s always good with chicken! but it’s also fun to experiment) with some vegetables. Alternatively, rib-eye steak or ‘heart smart’ sausages, mashed potatoes - with skim milk, spinach (sauteed with a very light spray of cooking oil and garlic) and no butter - and steamed veges.

Snacks: Chewing on a carrot or some celery or make myself a big bowl of popcorn with no butter or salt added. Yes, popcorn is healthy for you and a great food to snack on - provided nothing’s added to it .

Eating no sooner than 4 hours before you’re going to bed (eg eating at 6 - 7 if you’re going to bed at 10 or 11pm) will let your body digest your meal so you’re not sleeping through that. This is actually one of the reasons many people have trouble losing weight at the rate that want to.

I will admit there were a couple of times of weakness when I would crave Indian or some other naughty take away meal. I must mention, however, that if you have a glass of water and wait 15 minutes, usually the cravings will pass. I did have one ‘mishap’ where I ate a ‘low fat’ Indian dish one night from my favorite Indian Restaurant and found (with my bodytype) that the 3-4 times a week of exercise at the gym helped me and I didn’t actually gain any weight from that one meal. However, I shared one ‘takeaway dish’ with another person to ensure I didn’t over-eat (it’s hard to stop eating your favorite naughty food sometimes) and after 20 mins from when I started eating, I was full!
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