I’m back with another visual food diary of what I eat in a week. I’m calling this series “Weekly Eats” and I’m sharing my meals partly to keep myself on track with my healthy eating, but also to give you ideas for healthy meals and meal planning.
This was my first week attempting to eat a modified version of Paleo. I say modified because I will still eat yogurt, almond and soy milk as well as a little feta cheese and none of these are allowed on a true Paleo menu (I say menu because I hate the word diet).
However, I didn’t do so well and caved in to eating wholemeal toast on 3 days. This was because towards the end of the week I did struggle with the idea of not having carbs. Although I was getting my carbs from fruit and vegetables, I have been brought up to believe that the main sources of carbohydrates are things like potatoes, bread, pasta and rice. I found it hard to try and change my mentality in one week and kept thinking ‘I can’t believe I’m not eating carbs’. This week wasn’t smooth sailing, but I’m ready to start a new week!
The Visual Food Diary
The Meal Plan
Day One: Spinach omelette with two eggs and one egg white, chopped cherry tomatoes. Chicken salad. Almonds. Huge tuna salad.
Day Two: Spinach scramble, salsa. Chicken salad. Turkey slices, gem lettuce, guacamole. Salmon, asparagus, balsamic vinegar.
Day Three: Scrambled egg, spring onion, wholemeal toast. Chicken salad. Graze pistachios. Salmon, asparagus, balsamic vinegar.
Day Four: Scrambled egg, wholemeal toast. Salmon salad. Greek yogurt, strawberries, honey. Chicken, asparagus, balsamic vinegar.
Day Five: Scrambled egg, wholemeal toast, spring onion. Tuna salad. Greek yogurt, blueberries, honey. Chicken, roasted vegetables.
This is a brilliant idea to do this hun! I think I might give it a go too :) Can’t promise it’ll be sin-free enough to post online although I’m soooo much better than I used to be!
Natalie xoxo
The Blonde Ethos
Looking forward to seeing your posts! :)
Wow, I’m so jealous of your food this week!! I wish my week was that good, but my parents being here made it super hard since we went out to eat every night :-( time to get back into my routine tomorrow! So excited!
Aww I hope you had a lovely time with them! Must have been lovely to see them! :)
Not jealous of the no carbs part of all this. I love rice and wholemeal bread wayyyyy too much to cut it out! Your afternoon snacks look delicious though :) the strawberries aren’t quite ripe enough yet for me here in France :(
It is hard!! :)
You know, I recently started clean eating. Will certainly take these meals into consideration.
Ah glad to hear it!! Good luck with it all hun :)
Stopping eating bread for lent was definitely one of the hardest things I’ve ever done so I can’t imagine how hard it is to cut out carbs completely! That said, I am trying to eat ‘fresh’ as well as eat clean, so I’m going to be trying to cut my pasta/grain consumption down to only once a week if possible. :)
I’ll just have to bulk curry out with chick peas and stuff instead! :)
Good luck with paleo, I look forward to seeing what sorts of meals you come up with! :)
Rhiannon xx
THE BARBELLE
I absolutely love bread! And as you can see I haven’t been able to cut it out fully, but I’m working on it. Bulking curry with chickpeas and beans is a great thing to do! And eating sweet potatoes as it’s a vegetable, but still a carb :) xx
I must say this is very inspiring, I keep trying to get into a clean eating or paleo state of mind but it just keeps not happening for me. I need to find the willpower like you have :-)
Sharon x
Thank you! It hasn’t happened overnight for me and I’m still struggling, but it will get easier (I hope! haha) xx
It can take awhile to get used to the carb thing! I gave up bread for lent last year, so got used to going without, and seriously I get enough grams of carbs from the veg I eat, there’s a lot of carbs in fruit and veg, paleo is definitely not low carb!
Absolutely! I won’t be deprived of carbs and will still have loads of energy :)
I love this blog already :) xxx
Awwww thank you lovely!! xxx