Monday, March 26, 2012

My Diet and a Few Small Changes

I'm making a few (minor) dietary changes (again) - eating out yesterday made me realize that I have allowed a bit more food that doesn't really serve me well into my diet. Don't get me wrong, I don't eat out often I for me it's more social than for the actual food. I'm fortunate that there is a great vegan resturant nearby and I will keep these social events in place. I enjoy them and the company and it is seldom enough that I can justify the splurge (I term I sorta dislike as it implies I'm not enjoying my everyday diet - I do)But I also feel that my diet can use a few modifications, such as - fruit is breakfast and lunch and I intend to make it dinner as well for at least serval days during the week. My daily greens will be larger and the center piece for dinner, with a lots of lightly sauteed (in water or veggie broth of course) vegetables and herbs providing variety. This is a pretty big salad (I eat a big one now but this will be even larger) and I don't expect to be hungry after but if I am I will follow up with a baked (well, micro-baked) sweet potato. Protein and fat needs will be met with a handful of almonds or walnuts (as usual) along with a table sppon or so of hemp seeds, chia seeds or flax seeds. I've been enjoying hemp seeds quite a bit recently and it provides a substanstial amount of protein (11 grams per 3 table spoons) Once or twice a week I will still have some whole grains and legumes of some sort as I feel they do provide a unique role in the health care of the body and, well, I make a pretty good black bean burger. So there you have it (if you were at all interested) so here was my diet today, which up until dinner was pretty standard -
Breakfast - smoothie with 6 bananas, 5 dates and about 100 calories wrth of mangoes. About 1000 calories
Lunch - another smoothie with 8 bananas, , 5 dates, 100 calories with of mangoes. A little over 1200 calories.
Snack - Golden Delicious apple. Maybe 60 calories
Dinner - 10 bananas, large mixed green salad, with (lightly) sauteed green and red peppers, onion, asparagus, a hint of garlic and seasoning (no salt) along with hemp seeds and a small handful of almonds. I followed this with a sweet potato. Maybe 1500 calories there.
I'll burn that off pretty quickly tomorrow so we'll see if that was enough fruit for the day. Remember that todays food is tomorrows fuel. So choose wisely today!

Thanks for reading,
Eric

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