Friday 8 November 2013

Fitness Fridays: A day in the life of my diet

Hey m'lovelies, so when I said I was going to start FF I received an email from a lovely girl who wanted to see what I was eating day to day on my calorie restricted diet. Now i'm no nutritionist and my diet is far from good but it's a damnsite better then it was when I was eating takeouts every other day, probably still a bit carb heavy but I'm taking in so much less saturated fat and my body's really thanking me for it!

Now I took the pictures for this blog three weeks ago and have only just gotten around to writing it (oops!) but a little bit of background is that on this particular day I wasn't at home and was looking at potential universities so this is in a scenario where I was eating lunch out but it still gives you the general idea of what kind of things i'm eating during the day.

Breakfast was a pot of golden syrup poridge, poridge is so good for you, syrup maybe not so much but personally I can't stand the taste of porridge unless it's sweetened. I was up at 6am and in for a long day so this was great for slow realise energy and did tide me over until my late lunch.

Lunch was a M&S duck and hosin sauce wrap, now I like to think these are really good for you because of the protein and salad, however the reality of the situation is duck does have a far amount of fat in it and white tortilla wraps aren't exactly a shining example of health but everything in moderation! Besides, these are probably in the list of my top five favorite foods ever because they are utterly delicious!

Dinner was a king prawn stir fry with rice, sweetcorn, onion and broccoli. If you want to make this healthier I would definitely recommend using brown rice rather then white because it's so much better for you however this is what I had in my cupboards and this is what I made do with. Stir frys are my favorite thing to cook at the moment because they're so quick and filling and you can put pretty much anything you want in there. Dinner was followed by a bowl of light vanilla ice-cream, at only 40kcals a scoop I highly recommend this to any dieters with a sweet-tooth.

So that makes up the bulk of my diet for the day, throughout the day I try to drink as many fluids as I can, if you're not a huge water lover like me I highly recommend supermarket own flavored water, just make sure it's the ones with only a couple of calories because some brands can sure pack a lot of extra crap into something that's seemingly healthy! If I get peckish throughout the day I tend to snack on sugar free jellys however if I need something a bit more subtancial I find something light like an apple will tide me over until my next meal.

So hope you guys enjoyed the first post of this series, I'm really looking forward to it because I've just started up my health kick again and I can't wait to share with you what i'm learning. Until next time!

Love & TubTubs

Saturday 2 November 2013

Being Sick Sucks!

Hey m'lovlies, so as you may have noticed I fell off the face of the blogging world for just over a week, which is such a pain considering I'd finally gotten myself into a routine. But for the first time in my blogging career I actually have a decent reason for not being active, I'm really really ill. Boo!



So just to fill you guys in a bit without going into any graphic details I've been feeling a bit ill for a little but and assumed it was a winter bug that was going around and didn't think anything of it. Now I'm a pro at convincing myself I'm dying and Googling my symptoms so it would be that the one time something was genuinely wrong that I dismiss it *sigh*. So I went into A&E last Sunday and they drugged me up on painkillers before sending me home so unfortunately I'm still waiting about on my local healthcare service to have some more tests done.

So due to this blogging isn't the only thing that's taken a hit, I'm really far behind on sixth form work and had to miss out on hours at my job. So today I've just been playing catch up trying to get everything back in order before Monday when I have to return to sixth form and just get on with things. Blogging should return to normal next week though so don't think I've abandoned you lovely lot because I've really missed seeing your comments! Side note this post was a lot longer and went into a lot more detail, then my web browser crashed and I lost it all so this will have to do for now, sorry!

I hope you're all well and I'll see you next week!

Love & TubTubs