22… is it just me or does it sound a LOT older than 21?? Quietly celebrated my birthday this year – Greek lunch with the family last weekend and my boyfriend surprised me by driving up to see me on my actual birthday 🙂 he’s the best. My heart rate monitor even had a birthday message for me haha.
I’ve been struggling this past week with my clean eating, my bulimia, and my self-confidence; don’t ask me why but I’ve been really down in the dumps. I’m hoping that this week I can pull my head back up and find my happy place again, because I really struggle when I’m feeling like this.
Motivation:
Meal plan (and this week I WILL stick to it!!):
Meal 1:
Blueberry protein pancakes
Meal 2:
Citrus Protein Bars. These are just another version of Natalie Hodson’s protein bar base recipe and they’re really nice!! They’re perfect for the recent sunny weather here in Oz.
Serves 12
1&1/2 cups oat flour
3 scoops vanilla whey protein powder
1 tbsp baking powder
12 serves of Stevia
3 egg whites
1 cup lite coconut milk
1/3 cup unsweetened applesauce
1/4 cup no fat Greek yoghurt
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp lemon extract
1 tbsp poppy seeds
Preheat oven to 180 degrees
Mix everything together
Pour it into a sprayed brownie baking tray
Cook for 25-30 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean
Nutritional info: per 1/12 bars
Calories: 88
Total fat: 1.8g
Total carbs: 8.6g
Sugar: 1.6g
Protein: 8.6g
Meal 3/Lunch:
Thai Coconut Shrimp modified slightly from the dish from www.cleaneatingmag.com – YUM!! I loveeee seafood, especially prawns.
Serves 4
2 cups chopped broccoli
2/3 cup lite coconut milk
1 tbsp salt reduce tomato paste
1 tsp ground ginger
2&1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/3 tsp red pepper flakes
Juice of 1/2 a lime
1 green capsicum – sliced into thin strips
370g raw green shrimp – rinsed
In a bowl, whisk together coconut milk, tomato paste, ginger, garlic, pepper flakes and lime juice
Simmer this coconut mixture with the capsicum in a nonstick pan over medium-low heat for 5 minutes, stirring often to prevent clumping
Add shrimp and cook for another 2 minutes, then flip shrimp over and cook for another minute (or until prawns are cooked). At this time also throw in the broccoli
Serve with either wholegrain noodles or SlimPasta (which is what I did!) or even rice/quinoa?? Sooo good!!
Nutritional info: per 1/4 serves
Calories:136
Total fat: 3.6g
Total carbs: 6.3g
Sugar: 2.7g
Protein: 20.9g
Meal 4:
Gourmet Carrot Cake Muffins based on the recipe from chockohlawtay.blogspot.com.au. These are really nice but they took me way too long to cook!! It’d be fine if I had more spare time but at the moment I’m really wanting quick and easy meals. I suppose that by looking at the recipe list I should’ve guessed it’d take me a while…
Serves 20
DRY
2 cups oat flour
1 scoop (30g) vanilla whey protein powder
12 serves Stevia
1/4 cup cornflour
2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/8 tsp ground cloves
2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
WET
170g firm tofu – drained
1/2 cup no fat Greek yoghurt
1/2 cup orange juice (I just squeezed 1&1/2 oranges)
2 tbsp coconut butter
1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
2 tbs sugar free maple syrup
2 serves Stevia
3 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp lemon extract
OTHER
1&1/2 cups grated carrots (about 1&1/2 big carrots)
Ok so preheat the oven to 160 degrees
In a large mixing bowl mix together the dry ingredients
In a blender, whizz all the wet ingredients until smooth. Pour into the dry ingredients and fold in gently.
Add carrots and, again, fold gently
Pour batter into sprayed muffin pans and bake for around 30 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean
They can be topped with an icing made from:
170g firm tofu – drained and rinsed
1 tbsp coconut oil
12 serves Stevia
1 tsp sugar free maple syrup
1 scoop vanilla protein powder
1/2 tsp cinnamon
I didn’t top mine with this icing because I don’t think it’ll freeze very well, but they’re yummy just as is!!
Nutritional info: per 1/20 muffins WITHOUT icing
Calories: 67
Total fat: 1.5g
Total carbs: 9.7g
Sugar: 2.4g
Protein: 3.4g
Meal 5/Dinner:
This is delicious and oh-so-simple!! – Easy Slow Cooker Mexican Chicken from www.thegraciouspantry.com.
Serves 8
3-4 tbsp clean taco seasoning
- 2 tbsp ground cumin
- 1 tsp paprika
- 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
- 1/2 tsp onion powder
- 1/2 tsp garlic powder
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
- 1/3 tsp chilli powder
4 large chicken breasts
1 cup low sodium chicken stock
Throw everything in the slow cooker (make sure chicken is coated with mixture).
Cook on low for 6-8 hours (if you’re around, flip the chicken half way through its cooking time)
Nutritional info: per 1/8 serves
Calories: 167
Total fat: 1.9g
Total carbs: 1.7g
Sugar: 0.2g
Protein: 34.8g!!!
Oh, my boyfriend and I had a BBQ this weekend because it was such beautiful weather and this is what we had – a high protein delicious meal!!
What you’re looking at is a turkey burger, kangaroo kebab, and chicken sausage 🙂 SO YUM!! My boyfriend was a bit worried about the roo and turkey because he’d never had it before but he scoffed it down and had seconds :). I love a good summer BBQ!
Meal 6:
WW Chocolate Mousse
I’m determined to have a better week this week – I will get out of bed, I will go to class, I will study, I will not eat junk/too much food, I will not watch television, and I will push myself harder at the gym. Got it? Got it.
Chin up!!!!! x
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