Today’s Day in the Life: Mel’s Meals post is what I ate Monday. I had a weekend FULL of cheat meals and didn’t track any of my food Saturday or Sunday, which is rare for me to skip both days. I definitely felt like I needed to get back to clean foods and so I am being extra careful this week. Splurges are fine occasionally, but need to balanced back out at some point. Here goes, this is everything I ate Monday.
4:30am Pre-Workout:
1 liter water, half plain and half used to mix 1 scoop MusclePharm Assault (Fruit Punch). 1 BCAA capsule pre-workout & 1 post-workout.
I had 36 grams of ripe banana mashed with 50 grams of no-salt added 1% cottage cheese. Just a hint, the salt is what makes cottage cheese good! Haha the banana made this sweet so it wasn’t so bad, but I was not a fan of eating the cottage cheese plain.
6:35am Meal #1:
Half a Food for Life 4:9 Ezekiel English muffin topped with 1 Tbsp Wild Friends Cinnamon Raisin Peanut Butter and 30 grams sliced banana. I made an omelet with 1/2 cup raw spinach and 50 grams cooked zucchini. I sautéed the veggies very quickly in 1 tsp coconut oil, then added 5 eggs whites to the pan. I also had 1 whole egg cooked over-easy to put on the omelet. I enjoy my eggs runny and so I don’t want to mix my whole egg into the egg whites for the omelet (I’m weird).
10:00am Meal #2:
4 egg whites with a tiny bit of salt and some cinnamon. When I was meal prepping I made an oatmeal-millet bake that turned out more cake-like. I am calling it a Oatmeal-Millet Breakfast Cake! It was made the same way as the Peanut Butter & Banana Baked Oatmeal, but different ingredients. I topped the cake with 1/2 Tbsp peanut butter and 1/2 scoop MusclePharm Protein Isolate (mixed with about 1 Tbsp of water so it is the consistency of icing).
12:30pm Meal #3:
5 Oz pork loin, 100 grams zucchini (grilled), 3 oz spiralized sweet potatoes (sautéed), and 1 oz avocado.
1:15pm Afternoon Beverage:
I bought a case of some LaCroix Sparkling Water. This is the grapefruit kind and I’m not sure how I feel about it. I didn’t care for it at first, but the more I drank it the more I liked it. I enjoy drinking water but occasionally like something else. This is a better option, but I probably won’t go out of my way to keep them in stock at our house. They are not as sweet and flavorful as other sparkling waters, but they are clean eating approved so all that fake stuff isn’t in there! I might bring one to the office every once in a while.
3:45pm Meal #4:
5 oz boneless, skinless chicken breast (grilled), 1/4 cup cooked millet, 100 grams zucchini (grilled), 1.1 oz (half a serving) of grilled green beans, 35 grams grilled carrots, and 1 oz avocado.
7:15pm Meal #5:
5 oz skin-on salmon filet topped with 1 tsp olive oil and 42 grams cherry tomatoes. 3 oz steamed broccolini, 3.5 oz baked red potatoes (smashed) and topped with 1 Tbsp shredded parmesan cheese. We cooked the salmon in a foil packet. I put the salmon on the foil, drizzled with olive oil, sprinkled salt & pepper, and topped with the cherry tomatoes. We baked it at 350 degrees for 20 minutes. Delicious!
That was everything I ate this last Monday. My calories totaled 1,707. I was 2 grams over my protein goal with 177. I was short by 1 gram for both carbohydrates and fat, with 130 and 57 respectively.
Let me know if you have any questions or if there is some type of food/meal you want me to try to incorporate into my daily meals!
