This is Day 5 of the 14-Day Healthy Living Challenge held in Jan 2015 where we work on improving our diet and fitness for 14 days. The challenge is now over but you can do the tasks in your own time. Visit the overview page for all the challenge tasks.
Hi everyone!! :D It’s now Day 5 of our 14-Day Healthy Living Challenge. Let’s get started!
Challenge Tasks to Date
- Announcement and signup page: Join 14-Day Healthy Living Challenge!
- Day 0: Create Your 14-Day Healthy Living Plan | Comments
- Day 1: Drink 8 Glasses of Water | Comments
- Day 2: Eat 5 Servings of Fruits & Vegetables | Comments
- Day 3: Create Your Calorie List | Comments
- Day 4: Calculate Your Total Daily Energy Expenditure | Comments
My Day 4 in Pictures
Here’s a recap of my Day 4 in pictures! ;)
Brunch to kick off the day: Orange carrot soup, wholemeal bread, and dragonfruit!
YOU KNOW your food has to be pretty yummy when YOUR CAT jumps up the table and tries to nibble on it!!!!!!
Dinner — had QQRice! For those of you not in Asia, think of QQRice as “sushi on steroids.” You pick a rice type — mixed grain, purple rice, red rice, brown rice, etc. — and then pick 5 fillings. They’ll wrap these fillings with the rice and a plastic wrapper, after which you can unwrap and eat on the go. My pick today: Red rice with pickled vegetables, broccoli / carrots, vegetable floss, braised peanuts, and mock duck!
Freshly squeezed orange juice to complement my dinner :)
Nighttime jog of 2.42km at 7:43 min / km, burning 173 calories. I like that my app shows splits per km which lets me know how I’m doing. I’m personally interested to see how my pace changes as I continue exercising every other day!
Supper: Homemade salad using a salad mix kit from the supermarket and adding other ingredients (tofu, chick peas, and grapes). And a banana. Yum! :D (Not in the picture — was still hungry later at night so had a slice of wholemeal bread with peanut butter.)
My 14HLC goals are
- Exercise at least three times a week — Second exercise of Week 1, check!
- Cut out deep fried / oily food from my diet — Check!
- Eat salads more regularly, ideally once a day if I can — Check!
So I got around to doing Day 3’s task on creating a calorie list today based on dozens of items that I normally eat (like fruits, vegetables, nuts, sandwiches, soups, and salads), and realized something I had sort of known all this while but never had the chance to reflect on. I realized that when I follow my regular healthy meal plan, I never consume enough calories to match my TDEE (which should be 1600+ on an inactive day and 1800+ on an active day). Say if I eat a sandwich, salad, soup, and a couple of fruits (what I’ve been eating daily for the past few days), it totals up to barely 1,200 calories a day!
This would then lead me to eat oily/fried food at times, not because I crave for them (this would be true years ago, but not today), but because oily/fried food is calorie dense and a quick way to meet my daily calorie intake. Also, when I go hungry at night, most shops are closed and the only options left are unhealthy eateries with oily/fried stuff. Not good, obviously!
Moving forward, I’ve two solutions to tackle this:
- Identify calorie dense foods (that are healthy) to include in my daily meal plan. Avocado is one of them; nuts is another. Starchy foods are okay too but it’s near impossible to get healthy versions of starchy carbs where I live (potatoes always come in the form of fries and sometimes mash potatoes but never boiled, and I’m not interested to cook on a long-term basis).
- Stock up on salads, sandwiches, and soups so that I can have them late at night whenever I’m hungry (which I often do since I’m not consuming enough calories in the day).
Check out other participants’ amazing food logs and progress updates in Day 4’s comments section!
With that, let’s move to Day 5’s task, which is…
Day 5: Create Your Ideal Meal Plan
After calculating your TDEE yesterday, today’s task is to create your ideal meal plans — breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks — based on your target daily calorie intake! :D
Why is it important to create your ideal meal plan? Well, the truth is that most of us usually eat based on what’s around us rather than what we truly want to eat. Feel hungry? Let’s see what’s in the fridge and whip up something. Need a quick bite? Let’s head to the fast food joint and get something quick. See food on the table? Let’s munch on that — even if it’s unhealthy, eating a little wouldn’t make too much of a difference to our long-term health. Well, at least that’s what we think.
Whenever we do any of these, the problem is we no longer eat based on healthy intents, but based on convenience and what’s available. And this will keep happening simply because the environment can be a very strong influence in our goals, especially when it comes to our diets. The pattern of eating based on convenience and what’s available will loop over and over again, hence throwing us our healthy eating plans out of the window.
To put this to a stop, we have to first be aware of what exactly we want in our ideal diet. And that’s what we’re going to do today!
Step 1: Write out your ideal meal plan for a regular day (15 min)
Imagine you are in your ideal day now. What would your ideal meal like, the meal that would bring you to your pinnacle of health and wellness?
- Breakfast: What would you see yourself eating when you wake up? What would you drink?
- Lunch: What would you have for lunch?
- Mid-day snacks: How about in-between meals?
- Dinner: What would you have for dinner?
- Supper: Lastly, would you be eating anything in the few hours before sleep? If so, what would that be?
Based on this, craft out your ideal meal plan, including serving sizes where possible (rough estimates are fine, for example, “1 banana” vs. just “banana,” or “1 medium soup” vs. just “soup.” Keep working on it until you’re 110% happy with it and you know that this is a meal plan where you would feel the happiest, the healthiest and most vitalized when consumed.
Feel free to look up recipes of healthy meals online for inspiration!
Step 2: Do a nutritional check with your plan (15 min)
Then, do a quick check on the calories and nutrition level of your ideal meal plan with your needs.
- Does it match your calorie needs? You should have already created your calorie list of your ideal foods on Day 3, so use the list to check the total calorie of your ideal meal matches your TDEE (Total Daily Energy Expenditure from Day 4’s task) or, if you have weight loss/gain goals, your daily target calorie intake. If you haven’t created your calorie list, do it now!
- Is it highly nutritional? It’s not just about calories — you should have a range of vitamins and minerals in your diet too. (Click on this link and scroll down a little for a chart of important vitamins and minerals and the role each of them play in your diet.)
If you feel your ideal meal doesn’t meet your caloric/nutritional needs, go back and make adjustments until it does.
With your ideal meal plan now set, tomorrow our task will be to follow this ideal meal plan — going grocery shopping for the right ingredients if you cook, planning where/what you eat in advance, and basically being conscious about what you put into your mouth. Stay tuned! :D
Next, Follow Your Plan for Day 5 (Take Pictures Too!)
What tasks have you set for Day 5 of your 14-Day Healthy Living Plan? Do them today!
Take pictures of your healthy meals — breakfast, lunch, dinner, and mid-day snacks if any — and share them in the comments section. :D After all, a picture tells a thousand words, and when you share photos of your healthy meals, it inspires others to eat healthily and gives them ideas on what healthy food they can have too!
Post your initial comment sharing your results for today’s challenge task, then add on throughout the day as you have your breakfast, lunch, dinner, and/or if you’re doing any workouts. Attach photos of your meals by clicking the image icon on the bottom left of every comment box. As you add on to your comment thread, be sure to click on the reply button directly below your original comment so that you reply to your own thread (as opposed to starting a new thread).
Share Your Results (and Photos!)
Share in the comments section!
- Your ideal meal plan for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks
- Your calorie amount and nutritional value of your ideal meal plan
- Your progress with your healthy living plan today
- Pictures of your meals
- Pictures of your workout (if any)
Do check out the other participants’ comments too and share a word of encouragement or two. We’re all in this together, so let’s support each other as a group! :)
After you’re done, proceed to Day 6: Follow Your Ideal Meal Plan!
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Where do you buy your fresh juice in singapore? I always buy the $1 fresh juice in bugis everytime i go singapore. But are they really 100% fresh juice? I drank that a lot because it is cheap haha~
I get them from the juicing stores! I don’t know about the $1 Bugis ones; I think they’re likely diluted? (I think I may have an idea which one you’re referring to, but I can’t be too sure.) Food courts, etc. always have a fruit juice store where you can buy freshly squeezed juices. :) There’s a chain called “Rockery” which is like a bubble tea chain but they have freshly squeezed juices. Fresh juices can be a little pricey though, like $2.8 to $3.8 SGD for orange juice (depending if you want ice / without ice or small/large), but I see it as an investment for good health!
I wasn’t sure what my ideal meal was before posting in this article so I did a bit of experimenting, research and lots of calorie and nutrient counting and I’m 110% sure what my ideal meal is to raise my weight now:
Calories: 2,000
grain – 6 ounces
Vegetables – 2.5 cups
Fruits – 2 cups
Dairy – 3 cups
Protein – 5.5 cups
Ok, so I’m catching up on this task now that Celes has explained to me that it has nothing to do with calorie counting and that I just have to list the foods I would like to have in my ideal meals throughout the day.
So here it goes:
-breakfast: 2 slices of bread (toasted) with a bit of cheese, 1 banana
-lunch: chicken (steamed) with tomatoes, cheese, and a slice of bread
-dinner: 2 boiled eggs with vegetables (boiled)
-snacks: clementines, apples, carrots (in case I’m hungry in-between meals)
Me and my bf do weekly meal plans, then go buy all the ingredients. That covers dinners and lunches (leftovers). For breakfasts, I have either cereal with rice milk, or a grilled wholewheat sandwich with vegan meat, vegan cheese and tomato. Then snack on my fruit bowl. After dinner, I may have dessert if there is any – either Almond Dream ice cream (an amazing vegan dessert!) or homemade cake.
Yday water: 900ml
Fruit: forgot :(
I just noticed that I totally skipped this task (and it just happened to be on the 5 and 6 0-0!) But the real reason is actually a bit personal. One of the reasons I have few calories a day is because my family is poorer than the usual person. We aren’t like SUPER poor!! I mean we have all our basic needs at the cost of never having any vacations and rarely any outgoings and when we do it’s super cheap and close-by and I barely eat fast food since we can’t even afford that casually.
The problem is that we can only afford one big grocery shopping list once a month or every two months so my diet has always been based on managing the baby steps I can with what is available on the fridge and most of the times there’s not much variety since the cheapest things aren’t so healthy because we use a lot if pottery. (Even though mom always enfatizes with healthy stuff such as no tv foods, no frozen foods, rice, beans, veggies, fruits, juice, 0 sodas so we’re still healthier thancthe average person who eats more fast food on their diet)
I’ll do my ideal list tomorrow since I noticed it’s a bit time consuming and it’s already sleep time in my timezone but at most I can manage very little in adding it to my diet on day 9 since most of the stuff is not available right now on the fridge and no money to buy anything right now but I’ll take the baby steps bit by bit as I’ve always done and never give up on picking out the healthiest options whenever I can.
1. My ideal meal plan for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks:
Breakfast: I would have mixed wholegrain cereal with fruits (1 banana) mixed with rice/soya/almond drink and one piece of wholegrain bread with cottage cheese with herbs/pumpkin oil. Before that I would drink a cup of tea or/and warm lemonade with molasses.
Lunch (at noon at work): I what would have sth. like vegetable lasagne, pasta with vegetable souce, salad, …
Mid-day snacks: Nuts, fruits.
Dinner (in the afternoon at home): I would have the same as for lunch.
Supper: sth. light – a smoothie.
2. My calorie amount and nutritional value of my ideal meal plan:
My ideal meal plan was also the one I had (and ate) on day 3 – the calorie amount was 2048.
3. My progress with my healthy living plan today:
– had 9 glasses of water,
– did not go for a walk,
– had 4 servings of F&V.
4. Pictures of my meals and 5. Pictures of my workout (if any).
No pictures today :) Did yoga in the evening.
I sometimes make potato and onion soup for lunch and it’s quite healthy, so I’m including that in my ideal meal plan. I got the recipe from British chef Sam Stern’s Student Cookbook. (Mine has less milk in it because I prefer it that way). I made some for lunch yesterday with cheese and Marmite sandwiches on brown bread. (Marmiite is a brown spread that has a strong taste). Here’s a picture of the soup:
Also I’ve been drinking milk and I snacked on grapes last night. I’m planning to buy some fruit to make a smoothie tomorrow.
1. & 2. I created my ideal meal plan and realised that although I am getting my daily calorie and 5-a-day fruits and vegetables needs met, I might not be getting all my proteins leaving me more hungry and more prone to food cravings… So that’s something I am going to try to address! I try not to eat too much meat so legumes it will be!
2. Today was back on track with all my goals! :)
3. Similar meals as on days 1-3.
4. No workout today, I’m still nicely sore from the day before :)
Oh, and I can only recommend to share your less healthy snacks with your friends and ”hit two birds with the same stone” – that is eat fewer unhealthy calories while putting a smile on someone else’s face by giving them a half of that chocolate chip cookie… :P
LOL Avocado, you’re hilarious!!! This isn’t necessarily the best thing to do, but I personally do pass the “less healthy” or simply “excess” food that I don’t want to eat or can’t finish to my husband when we’re eating. The thing is that he doesn’t regard them as unhealthy and he’s insists that he wants to have them (plus he always says he’s still hungry), and that’s why I pass them onto him. But at the same time I always push for our overall diets to be healthier and better, so that we can be healthy together as couple!
Healthy Living Day Five Ideal Meal Plan
Breakfast can vary, and Lunch and Dinner are basically the same but with a variety of different veggies.
Snacks can vary, so I include the main varieties. Basically in a day I eat B, L, & D and one or two snacks. Ideally I keep oil intake at 2 T daily
Breakfast
One cup or more of freshly juiced veggies with ginger
Breakfast
2 eggs
1 slice whole grain toast
1 T flaxseed oil
1 fruit (tangerine, papaya, strawberries, blueberries, apple, pineapple, pear)
Breakfast
1 cup oatmeal or multi-grain cooked cereal
1 fruit or 1 cup mixed fresh fruit
1/2 c unsweetened almond milk
1/4 c raw almonds and walnuts (or less) or 1 hard boiled egg
Breakfast
1/2 c rice
2 oz chicken
broccoli, celery, onion
1/2 apple
Lunch
1/2 c rice or quinoa
broccoli, celery, onion, kale, (squash, mushrooms, cauliflower, carrot, cucumber, etc., if desired)
2 oz chicken or turkey or fish
romaine, kale, cabbage salad with 1 T homemade dressing (olive oil, balsamic vinegar, chopped garlic, lemon, Bragg’s liquid amino acids)ers
Lunch
asparagus soup
1/3 cup feta cheese
1/2 cup rice or quinoa or 1 slice toast with 1 T flaxseed oil
sliced cucumbers
Snack
1 c plain Greek yogurt
1 fruit or 1 cup fresh mixed fruit
sometimes chia seeds (1 T)
a few chopped raw almonds
Snack
Smoothie=
1/2 c unsweetened almond milk
1 cup fresh or frozen fruit
1/2 c yogurt
sometimes frozen cooked calabasa
sometimes greens
1 tsp flaxseed oil
Snack
2 T 100% berry concentrate w water on ice
hard-boiled egg
Dinner
2 oz chicken or turkey or fish
1/2 c rice or sweet potato
Green salad with 1 T homemade salad dressing
fresh steamed veggies or ‘stir-fry’ veggies with water
Just to acknowledge here that I had some exercise in the ocean today, and it was very refreshing and invigorating. (The water felt cool; took some getting used to!) There was enough of a current to keep me moving about in the water…Great exercise for me! Glad to have the opportunity to get in that water and move! I can definitely feel the benefits whenever I exercise. It’s all about finding something that I can do, like to do, and just GET STARTED and DO it! That’s the benefit of building healthy habits…Doing something with a consistency will consistently strengthen me and show me PROGRESS. So YAY for THAT!!!
Hi Swann, that ocean swimming sounds amazing! I wish I could do that too but there is no chance of that with our – 23 degrees here :) I hope you will have some more good feelings and progress with it!
Totally appreciate that, AvocadoRulz! The ocean is amazing to merge with, and I always feel better after I’ve been in it! Whoa…-23!!!??? WHere on earth are you?!!! Must be pretty intense, weather-wise, yes? What do you do for your exercise? Thank you for your hopes for me, and I send you the best progress for you on your fitness journey.
I understand your enjoyment, swimming in rivers/oceans is one of my favourite types of exercise! Which country do you live in?
Unfortunately, I have to find other activities right now as I currently live in the middle of Canada where the winter takes almost 6 months and regular temperatures are around -15 to -25 degrees C. But we have the sun shining almost every day and the snow sparkles in it so it’s a true winter wonderland :) And the summers are beautiful too.
I’m now mostly doing gym workouts, volleyball, badminton and swimming.
All the best on your journey too!
Great that you have such an appreciation of the beauty of where you live…It does sound beautiful, albeit extremely cold winter! Glad you have your gym workouts….What do you do in the summer for your exercise?
My longtime friend and i spend our winters in Puerto Rico, and our summers in Western North Carolina. We were here since the beginning of November, and will return to NC in mid April. For some years that has been working, but we may eventually live here full-time since it is difficult to keep moving back and forth. It is wonderful in NC, though, and I would miss it. We shall see.
Thanks for your encouragement, and thanks for being here!
My ideal meal plan is: 2500 calories, 500 lower than my current intake.
500 cal – breakfast
– cereal and granola mix with milk
– available at home Alpen and SweetHome
750 cal – lunch
– rice with 2 servings of vegetables and 1 serving of meat/fish
– available at most food courts and nearby local eateries
750 cal – dinner
– fast-food or restaurant meal without calorie-laden drink
– available at nearby shopping malls / restaurants
– eg subway, kebab, pastamania, pontian noodles
500 cal – supper
– free to choose as long 500 calories or below
– home cooked food or eateries nearby
Key behavioural changes:
– cutting out beverages which contains calories (specifically drinking tall black coffee without sugar or milk, drinking tea without sugar)
– cutting out random snacking on chips or snicker bars by going for a complete meal like lunch or dinner instead
– taking a multi-vitamins tablet daily to make sure i get all the nutrients even with a 16.7% reduction in calorie intake
I had the fastfood meal today, so what’s left is the cereal, mixed rice, and supper. This is kinda not ideal because it is already 9pm my time here. Was working through stuffs today and didn’t stop to take proper meals. Will have to pause for proper meals better.
For people outside of Singapore, this is how a typical mixed rice stall looks like here. We will have a large variety of choices on what to order together with white rice. A typical meal like this costs $2.5 USD and is available across the whole country under different food providers.
Another photo of how a typical stall looks like, we’ll queue if there’s a crowd, place our order, make payment, before bringing the meal to an available table. Each meal can be as low as 400 to as high as easily 1000+ calories depending on the choices a customer order.
This will be hard for me. “Beggars can’t be choosers” because I am not home. I eat what I am given as a guest. I will take a rain check on this challenge until I go home where I can control everything I will be eating.
Hi EY! You can just create your ideal meal plan first, as a mental vision for yourself. (Tomorrow’s task is to FOLLOW one’s ideal meal plan, of which you can take a rain check first until you feel you are ready to take it on.)
I understand the problem with staying with others or living in an environment where you feel you can’t control your diet, because I’ve been there SO MANY times (living with my family, living with others’ families, staying with others when I was overseas, being a tenant in landlord’s home, staying with friends, etc.)! What helped me when I was in those situations included taking away my own meals, doing my own grocery shopping and making my own meals, distancing myself from the household’s meals, and basically knowing that even when I say no to others, I’m not being rude and I’m not rejecting others’ kindness but simply taking charge of my own health and wellness.
I can do that. Thanks coach!
Hi Celes! I Just wanted to say thank you for having such a fabulous blog! I decided to join this because I have always had issues with my body image and to be honest, i just find that the motivation from your blog helps! It’s amazing that you encourage people to take care of themselves in every way, so Thank You for that!
My healthy eating plan consists of a Future Life Shake (mixed with water and a banana) or Weet-bix for breakfast, with half a cup of skim milk, and half a teaspoon of brown sugar.Then for lunch, I had a lovely fruit salad mix, with banana, grapes, raisins, coconut slices, cashews and peanuts. i also enjoy having boiled egg whites on brown bread toast, (which i alternate as a breakfast or lunch) with a nice mug of lemon water, or rooibos tea. I also like having toasted cheese and tomato sandwiches with a healthy serving of veggies, such as peas, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots etc. As a snack I alternate between green apples, oranges, bananas, and provita’s & cheese. I am trying to eat as much veggies and fruits as I can, and my aim is to eat very little to no butter, to cut out cold drinks, juices (unless 100% pure fruit juice), to cut out fried foods, i also want to prevent eating processed food as much as i can, but in my household it can be a little challenging, so i have fish sticks for dinner, i will have a lot of veggies, and i will bake the fish sticks as well, instead of frying it in oil. For lunch tomorrow I am wanting to have a tuna & veggie pasta, with whole wheat pasta. I have cut out refined items from my diet such as the popular white sugar, white bread, white rice, and pasta.
My aim is to walk 3 times a week, for about half an hour to an hour, and if i don’t walk, I will excersice. I’ve attached a few pictures of my meals and snacks lately :)
Oh oh!! Payal, your pictures look so wonderful! I think it’s so awesome that you’re taking ownership of your health and wellness, and I look forward to growing with you in the next week ahead! :D
By the way, have you ever read my body image series on PE? It shares my struggles with a negative body image growing up and how I worked through that. As well as my femininity series, on how I used to be inferior of my sexuality/femininity growing up and how I worked through that as well. I feel they may be relevant to what you’re working through so feel free to take a read when you get the time!
Hi Celes! I am verz happy I joined this. You inspire me in taking care myself better. One note, I don’t know if I am registered actually, or if I am just reading passively as you’ve mentioned in a few emails ago that some people do. I don’t have a social network, but I did forward this challenge to a few friends and my sister via email, and I have been receiving the PE emails for a while now!
I just wanted to mention that for my challenge, my new year’s resolution, and something very important to me is quitting smoking. I am proud to say that so far i am doing well :) However, I did not want to overwhelm myself by doing too much and giving up early. I am trying to follow the tasks you are sending us (Day 0’s task was particularly helpful – i think i will continue making a plan for me every 2-3 weeks this year and follow it the best way i can!). I have improved stuff for my health already, not 100%, but once I have my urges under control, i will come back to your emails. I give it 3 weeks :)
I am a PhD student in Germany, and I am on my final year. I feel like i procrastinate a lot and this year I cannot afford doing this. I need to give 500% of me and my time, and for it goes..when work goes well, all the other pieces fall into place: gym doesn’t seem like too much work, and healthy eating is so simple because I don’t need to engage in emotional eating..And for me emotional eating, was also emotional smoking.Just an unhealthy way to deal with stress. I cannot afford doing this now, mainly because last year i wasted a lot of time on panic attacks, and worrying and depression, instead on actually being productive, and happy. This year i have decided that no goal is worth being depressed about, and no goal is worth risking your health, (unless of course it comes naturally..for example, like you when you are working late..It happens to me too..Once in the work-flow, everything just flows..I barely notice the time leave..)
I do promise to take care of myself this year, and will re-read your emails, once the urges are under control!
Have a nice productive day! :)
Mikaella
Hi Mikaella, thanks for taking the time to leave a note! Yes you are definitely registered in the challenge (as long as you posted a signup comment in the announcement thread you’re in, and you did!). Thank you so much for sharing it with your friends and sister; I hope they checked out the challenge and are finding the tasks useful!
I think that’s marvelous that you’re quitting smoking. That’s probably the one biggest thing you can do to improve your health really, beyond improving your diet. Smoking, like eating, can become a way to fill emotional voids, and it’s something you’ve very rightfully identified. I think you’re doing marvelously well so just keep doing what you’re doing, Mikaella! And using PE’s articles to support you as you go along! :)
By the way, you are very welcome to join us in the daily comment threads and share your meals, about your days, etc. in this challenge duration — even your progress in being quit-smoking goal. As long as it’s on improving health/fitness, it falls under the 14-Day Healthy Living Challenge! We have about a week left now in the challenge, so let’s make the most out of it!
Hi Mikaella, ooh, finishing a PhD can be very stressful I know! All the more impressive that you are trying to quit smoking at this time – all the best luck to you!
Hi everyone, sorry that today’s post came out a little later than usual! I’ve been so busy since the year started (in a good way, I’m intentionally packing my agenda with many things to do) and integrating the habits I set for myself with this challenge takes time as well (e.g. having to source for healthier food which takes time initially, integrating workout into my weekly routine, etc.). But it’s all good because I see it as initial time invested for long-term success in health and fitness, after which the habits will become seamless. :D
For brunch, veggie patty (oat bread with lots of lettuce, tomato, cucumber, and black olives). Plus a glass of water and grapes. :D Yum!
Will be heading out to scout for a new camera later (partly for my video work and also for photo-taking during events / my live workshops). I also need to get a new monitor as my current one is an old one that Ken gave me and it’s not really working well anymore (I think it’s 10 years old or something).
Dinner!!! (Sort of, more like a mini-dinner before I have a fuller meal later.) Mushroom soup, bread, and strawberries. :D
In light of my reflection from doing Day 3’s task (what I shared in today’s post above) and also to streamline my healthy eating process, I’ve taken away a load of food today which will serve as my lunch/dinners for today and tomorrow. They include a large salad, a grilled mushroom overload burger (the one I’ve been eating and sharing in the challenge), two soups (of which one I just ate), and a large freshly squeezed orange juice. As the foods can be kept for 1 day without problems, I’ll start taking away two days’ worth of meals every day. This will really save a lot of time for me (it takes me a hour to head out / back just to take away my meals every day actually) and will make it super easy for me to stick to healthy eating daily.
Dinner part two: Mushroom, chickpeas, pineapple, and grapes salad! :D I got the mushroom and pineapples salad from Cedele then added on the other ingredients myself!
I still have another half of this salad which I’ll probably have tomorrow. Good to know that my fridge is stocked up on these food that I can have anytime I want, around the clock! :D (As opposed to having to travel for an hour each time to get it, plus not having access to healthy food at night when the stores are closed!)
Final food item for the day, another salad, this time homemade! Thanks Ken for making it for me. :)
Ingredients: Vegetables, self-made crotons, chickpeas, tofu, cheese, bacn bits, and homemade sauce
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