Bones

I’ve just had my two weeks of orthopaedic rotation and I absolutely loved it!! The registrars were so enthusiastic and willing to teach – it makes such a difference for us medical students and makes us more excited about going to the hospital 🙂 I had the opportunity to scrub in for surgery a few times; I got to staple a man’s knee closed and drill a screw into another man’s ankle!! Very exciting!

 

As for my clean eating and exercising… it’s been going pretty well, although on Tuesday this week I did something to my calf whilst sprinting so had to reschedule my rest day, but having that day off allowed my leg to fix itself so I was back into it on Thursday!! It’s so good to see girls using the weights – usually I’m the only girl in the weights section but I’ve recruited a few other medicine girls to get into it 🙂 since starting to routinely lift weights my metabolism has sky rocketed and I get more of a sense of achievement whenever I go to gym. I used to be a cardio junkie – many females are – and thought that as soon as I lifted weights I would look like arnold, but my boyfriend convinced me to give it a try and I don’t think I’ll ever go back to solely doing cardio for exercise! I enjoy pumping weights more! Yes I have more muscle, but rather than look bulky and ‘manly’ I have toned my body up, made my body look more defined, and feel so prouder of my body – after all, I sculpted it!

 

 

Motivation: Holly Bricken

 

Food plan for the past couple of weeks:

 

Meal 1/Breakfast: pancakes 🙂

 

Meal 2: 

Blueberry lemon cheesecake muffins – someone reminded me about this recipe the other day so I decided to whip up a batch and yummm they’re as delicious as ever!! To save you from scrolling down, here’s the recipe again:

Blueberry Lemon Cheesecake Muffins

Serves 12

2 cups rolled oats, ground in a blender

1 cup fat free cottage cheese

1/4 cup unsweetened apple sauce

1 tbsp lemon peel, grated

1/4 cup sugar-free maple syrup

1 cup egg whites

1 tsp vanilla extract

1 tsp lemon extract (I just squeeze in half the lemon)

1 tbsp Stevia (6 packets)

1 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp salt

Separate ingredients:

1 cup blueberries, frozen

100g fat free cream cheese

1/2 tbsp Stevia (3 packets)

1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees

2. Mix together all the main ingredients and divide mixture up equally on a 12-muffin tray

3. In a separate bowl, mix together cream cheese and the 1/2 tbsp Stevia. Sprinkle frozen blueberries on top of muffins, then dollop cream cheese on top of each muffin

4. Bake muffins for 18-20 minutes or until a nice caramel colour

5. Wait until cool before removing from tray

Nutritional info: per 1/12 muffins

Calories: 103

Total fat: 1.9g

Total carbs: 12.1g

Sugar: 2.7g

Protein: 8.3g

 

Meal 3/Lunch:

Kangaroo Bolognaise and SlimPasta spaghetti – I love this!! Instead of using a recipe I threw together some kangaroo mince, crushed tomatoes, chopped carrots, celery and onion, and it was yum!! As for the spaghetti; it has saved me from numerous pasta cravings 🙂

Meal 4:

Protein bars that I have made numerous times because they always seem to turn out perfect – Chocolate and Coconut Protein Bars. Again, I’ve re-posted the recipe below…

For these protein bars I just follow Natalie Hodson’s basic protein bar recipe, then added coconut extract and dessicated coconut, as well as subbing chocolate whey powder instead of vanilla and they’re delicious! Wonderfully light and fluffy, yum!

Serves 12

1.5 cups rolled oats, ground

3 scoops whey protein powder

1 tbsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

1/3 cup Stevia (I used 12 packets because I have a serious sweet tooth…)

3 egg whites

1 cup almond milk

1/3 cup unsweetened apple sauce

1/4 cup Greek yoghurt

2-3 tsp of extract of choice (can do half and half e.g. 1 tsp almond extract + 1.5 tsp orange extract)

Any other flavours of your choice e.g. cocoa, nuts, peanut butter, instant coffee

1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees

2. In a large bowl combine oat flour, whey protein, baking powder, salt and Stevia

3. In a separate bowl, mix all other (wet) ingredients

4. Combine wet and dry ingredients well, then pour into sprayed baking tray

5. Bake for 25-30 minutes (mine took 25 minutes) or until knife comes out clean

Get creative people! You can do anything with this recipe 

This week I’m going to try a different combo, although I’m not sure what it’ll be yet!

Nutritional info: per 1/12 bars

Calories: 102

Total fat: 3.3g

Total carbs: 8.5g

Sugar: 1.5g

Protein 8.8g

 

Meal 5/Dinner:

NEW FAVOURITE DINNER RECIPE!! Oh this is soo delicious and easy and healthy – I’m going to make this all the time! I found the recipe at: cleaneatingdeliciousness.blogspot.com.au.

Clean Crockpot Satay Chicken

Serves 4/8 (depends how big ur serving sizes are…)

1.1kg chicken thigh (I prefer breast)

1 tsp fresh grated ginger

Juice of 2 limes (about 2 tbsp)

450g salsa

1/2 cup almond butter (or peanut butter or sunflower butter)

Lightly spray crockpot with oil (I used coconut oil) and throw chicken in.

Combine remaining ingredients in a bowl and pour over chicken.

Stir well.

Cook on low for 6-8 hours.

Eat with lightly steamed vegies!

Nutritional info: per 1/8 serves

Calories: 368

Total fat: 15.0g

Total carbs: 6.9g

Sugar: 3.3g

Protein: 48.0g

 

Meal 6:

Another version of my WW chocolate mousse:

1/2 weight watchers chocolate mousse sachet

30g creamed cottage cheese

1 tsp unsweetend cocoa

Dash of almond milk

1 tsp of almond butter

Sprinkle of hulled hemp seeds

Mix

Eat

Drool for more!!! This really fixed my sweet tooth 🙂

Nutritional info: per 1 serves

Calories: 334

Total fat: 20.3g

Total carbs: 13.4g

Sugar: 5.1g

Protein: 16.2g

 

I treated myself last week to some new ‘barefoot’ trainer shoes – I’ve wanted the nike free 2.0s for aaages now but when I finally went shopping they had none in my size and apparently aren’t supplying them to Australia anymore 😦 so I got asics instead, which are still awesome!

Keep at it everyone!! You haven’t failed until you stop trying 🙂 x