Yesterday I tried a wee experiment, I took photos of & noted down everything I ate. A few of the blogs I follow do this once a week and you're either gonna love it or hate it (boooooring).
For me, I find it really interesting to see what others eat throughout an entire day, how they balance meals etc & also, I almost always end up testing out a recipe or combination they have used. Bit of inspiration to freshen up those tired old daily habits- can't go wrong really..
I'm not going to lie, knowing I was going to be held accountable for what I was eating, subconsciously, had an impact on what I ate. Which I guess is a good thing? I ate what I normally would throughout the day but the dinner was a lot healthier than what we would normally have. Although admittedly, the night before we had had toasted sandwiches & hot chip sammies for dinner so all that bread made me feel super sluggish and just bleh, so I wasn't too keen on a heavy dinner anyway. Also, I should let it be known that it was 37 degrees here yesterday. Thirty seven. This obviously also had a major impact on my food choices.
So here goes; (oh and the pics are all off my iPhone so they aren't the best quality sorry, but getting the big camera out for every snack seemed like far too much work)
My morning ritual rarely changes, it's always a bowl of Carmens muesli and a cup of warm water & lemon. I used to have oats with the works each day but my new pregnant self just doesn't appreciate it like I used too;
I didn't end up eating again for quite a few hours as we were heading in to town for our midwife appointment and I was unorganised. After we had that appt, we randomly stopped in to see Oli at work and he conveniently had some fresh cans of icy cold coke, by this stage it was 11am and 35 degrees- I couldn't think of anything better!! Generally I'm not a big soft drink person, as in, I don't even remember the last time I had a can of coke before yesterday. But oh my GOD it was delicious, as soon as the liquid hit my lips I was in fizzy heaven. I know what I'll be reaching for this summer when I'm a big, sweaty, grumpy whale.
After that I knew I had to eat something although the coke really filled me up, so I grabbed a hard boiled egg. I eat at least one every single day, and now Blakes jumped on the bandwagon and is eating one with me which is excellent as finding new snacks for babies is a daily struggle..
I then put Blake down and put my feet up for a while before deciding I should probably pull together something for lunch. So I grabbed some quinoa and rice square crackers and layered them up with avo, spinach, ham, tomato and cracked pepper. Normally I would just make a sandwich with all of the above, but as I said I was not in the mood for bread.
These were really good! I also had some delicious fresh watermelon just after this.
I was guzzling water like you wouldn't believe yesterday, I've always been a big water drinker (at least 3 litres a day) but when it's sweltering hot I go through a lot more. Think I had 5 pump bottles + my other drinks and 2 glasses of water. Needless to say, the baby-on-bladder situation was terrible.
And before I knew it, it was 3pm and I felt like I deserved a bit of a break, so you know what they say;
I had a break, and I had (2) kit kats. I knew I should probably have something more substantial then before I had 2 more kit kats, so I made a smoothie. I've been making them daily at the moment and they've been a really good afternoon tide over to dinner. Although this one wasn't that good, I think it was the blueberries? Every time I add blueberries, the smoothie is rather bland and tasteless...
So I added some lemon in the end to up the 'zing'. This concoction consisted of; spinach, ice, water, chia seeds, watermelon, half a frozen banana and blueberries.
Average.
Before we knew it was dinner time and I was in the mood for something fresh, light & delicious. I had booked in for my first pregnancy Pilates class at 6:30 and knew I couldn't be overflowing with food for that. So I made up some amazing Thai prawn lettuce cups. I kid you not, these were so good. All they consisted of was some cucumber, coriander, lime juice & red cabbage (sautéed in lime juice and olive oil), and then the prawns which I cooked in a splash of soy sauce and fish sauce. Oh and some fresh red chilli, can't forget the chilli. I think anything with fresh chilli, prawns, coriander and lime is delicious though, so if you're into those flavours this would be right up your alley too. I had every intention of adding avocado too but just plain forgot in the end.
The final product;
I ate a good 6 of these and for once I didn't feel overly stuffed after dinner which was actually great!
However, later on after Pilates I started to feel the ol' tummy rumbling again, so I had a few pieces of whitakkers hazelnut choc (to die for) & then a piece of Vegemite toast.
So that is a very detailed account of what I ate for an entire day, hope I didn't put you to sleep! I feel strangely vulnerable putting this up, it's quite a personal thing what one eats. But like I said, it's a great way to think twice about what you eat, and possibly choose the healthier option (minus the coke & the choc, trust me when I say this was tame though).
I've been doing the odd sugar free week here & there lately, but Oli and I have recently implemented permanently sugar free days, these are Tues & Thurs for now and so far it seems to be working out well, hopefully soon we can throw in a third day and then the goal is to eventually have 4 sugar free days every week. Slow and steady wins the race.
I'll let you know how we get on!
Thought of the day "it's Thursday, and I have a freezer full of paddle pops- great"
Gemma
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