shelbypx92 wrote: »

I've been trying to eat vegan during the day, vegetarian at night (mostly to curb my cheese addiction so that I can go full vegan eventually). My new FAV lunch since doing this (and what I ate today) is the following *raw* veggie sandwich:

Two slices of Simple Truth Ancient Grains bread (or any kind of whole grain or sprouted bread would do) with 1 heaping tbsp of roasted red pepper hummus, 2-ish tsp of vegan basil pesto, a handful of baby spinach, handful of sliced red and green bell peppers, couple slices of tomato, sprinkle of black olives, sprinkle of pickled red onion, and a sprinkle of banana pepper. Voila! Yummy and super filling lunch, sitting at right around 330 calories.

I've also done this in a spinach wrap and it's delicious either way! I'll usually top this off with a mid-afternoon snack of an organic fruit cup, banana, or even Larabar if I know I'm going to be eating dinner late that day.

YUMMY!!!!

Just warning you: flexitarian here and today was a heavy training day, two hours of martial arts in the evening, so I have to eat meat for some part of the day or I can't get my protein where it needs to be for recovery. I'm not and will never be a volume eater, or a believer in protein shakes, AND too many beans and pulses upsets my IBS, which is why I choose animal based protein because it does the job without weighing/hurting my stomach. I also got my period today so it was particularly tender. That being said, I eat veggie as much as I can where I can and all my dinners so far this week have been veggie (lasagne, meal prepped burrito, mac and cheese).

Breakfast: apple and cherry porridge -- ride or die breakfast, I love it. A caramel latte from my Tassimo.
Breakfast adjacent: I was eating leftover mini cocktail sausages and toad in the holes while waiting for the microwave.
Lunch: Turkey, lettuce and tomato wholemeal tortilla and a Liberté Greek yoghurt and honey...yoghurt. Vanilla latte.
Post lunch: paprika pork chorizo with a cup of English breakfast tea and hazelnut milk.
Dinner: My burrito recipe with a simple change: I had no bell pepper so I added three table spoons give or take of passata and it turned out even better than before. I also added a serving of mixed vegetables, steamed, and Mediterranean flavoured couscous. I had two cans of diet pepsi without caffeine. I had drank my three litres of water and felt like a soda. The beauty of caffeine free is you can't get addicted to it.
Post dinner: A Deliciously Ella hazelnut and raisin energy ball just because I was hungry.
Pre training: Nutrigrain strawberry flavoured breakfast bar -- the sugar ups my blood sugar and concentration.
Post training: Tried a new protein bar I liked before to see if I still liked it as well as to up my protein. It was good.
Just now: Some Doisy and Dam white chocolate with lemon, poppy seeds and baobab. A can of Irn Bru, a Scottish soda that can't be described, only experienced.

Even with all this food I was still under by about 1000cals. I won't force food onto myself so I just do what I can. I also haven't been logging until two days ago. I'm back to it because I know I'm under but seeing it laid out has made me want to try harder. Especially if I want to transition into maintenance and eventually bulking for body recomp.

It really is. It's actually a Quaker Oats instant sachet one*, and yeah, they're higher in sugar than if I had made it myself but I make it fit with my macros. I make it with hazelnut milk so it's extra rich and creamy. Plus convenience.

*I've tried a few of them now and the apple and blueberry is very nice, but my second ride or die would probably be the honey and almond flavour.

I started eating late today so a lot of my 'snacks' got smooshed into my meals.

Breakfast: a&c porridge made with hazelnut milk, liberté honey yoghurt and vanilla latte.
Lunch: wholemeal tortilla wrap with round lettuce and a tuna filler, 'New York Deli' flavour whatever that means. It tasted kind of lemon-y, kind of mustard-y and there was sweetcorn. The last of my Doisy and Dam chocolate and a small bag of pistachios. And a vanilla latte.
Dinner: Same as yesterday; burrito, couscous and veg. Maybe a can of Irn Bru.
Pre-training: Nutrigrain soft bake in raisin flavour.
Post-training: Fulfil nutrition peanut and caramel bar and a serving of chocolate low carb/low sugar casein (slow acting) protein with water.

Considering a serving of apple pie popcorn but it might throw out my macro percentages too much. Plus I don't get home until 10pm and eating more than my protein shake will just wake me up.

Breakfast - Banana

Lunch- Art Vandalay Jr. Burrito from Moe's. With a flour tortilla, rice, black beans , veggies and guacamole it totaled 404 calories. Not too bad.

Dinner- Its my wedding anniversary! Will be going out for either Indian or Japanese (our local restaurant makes really creative vegetarian rolls). If we go for Japanese I should be able to keep at a deficit If it"s Indian I'm sure I will go over.

I did not get a chance to write what I ate yesterday, so I am writing it today.

Breakfast was an apple with a 1/4 cup oatmeal.

Lunch was 8 cups of tossed salad with a can of soup.

Supper was out at Han Dynasty, and we had a big birthday bash. I had Dan Dan noodles, cold sesame noodles, spring roll, rice, and mixed vegetable in garlic sauce.

No breakfast today- no desire to eat with my sinus headache.
Lunch- 6" Subway Veggie Delight
Dinner - Not sure. Still not feeling very hungry. I'll see what my family is in the mood for and work around that.

I'm looking forward to shopping tomorrow and start working through all of the recipes that I saved to Pinterest.