Day in the Life: Mel’s Meals
I’m not going to lie, I had some gooooood eats in this Day in the Life: Mel’s Meals post. Donny is out of town and yet I still threw together a delicious and healthy dinner!!! I managed 5 1/2 liters of water (one right away then 4 1/2 throughout the workday). If you want a little more information about how I prepared some of these foods then check out yesterday’s post Grocery Shopping & Meal Prep Week 3. If you have additional questions or what to talk food (pretty much my favorite thing to talk about) then let me know. I’d love to answer any questions about Day in the Life: Mel’s Meals.
4:30am – Pre-workout:
As always, I started my day with 1 liter of water. I drank the first half plain and then took the other half and mixed 1 scoop MusclePharm Assault (fruit punch). I also took 1 BCAA capsule pre-workout and one post-workout.
My pre-workout snack was 1/4 cup 1% cottage cheese mixed with 1/4 scoop MusclePharm Isolate Protein (vanilla) and 37 grams mashed banana. Such a good snack! I should have this more often actually.
6:30am – Meal #1:
My post-workout breakfast was a yogurt parfait. I didn’t feel like cooking anything so I threw together a simple yogurt bowl. I mixed 6 1/2 oz 2% plain Greek yogurt with 1/4 scoop MusclePharm Combat Protein (cinnamon bun flavor). This mixture alone is delicious! Feels indulgent…. I topped that with 1/4 cup blueberries, 27 grams strawberries, and 23 grams sliced banana. I microwaved 3/4 Tbsp Justin’s Classic Almond Butter with 1/2 tsp unrefined coconut oil. It melts the coconut oil and softens up the almond butter so that you can mix it together and drizzle it on your food. I definitely like to drizzle almond butter so more of my food gets that flavor!
I didn’t have any coffee today, but I was craving something warm. I heated up 1 large coffee cup of water and then made tea with my Market Spice tea that we picked up in Seattle (it tastes like vanilla and orange and it is delicious, plus zero calories). That little flower is a tea infuser that holds loose-leaf tea. If floats on top of the water and makes the tea while I was getting ready for work. I love that thing!
9:45am – Meal #2:
My mid-morning meal involved chocolate and I’m not mad about it! During meal prep I made some Chocolate Peanut Butter Oatmeal Cups so I brought one of those plus 4 eggs whites cooked with cinnamon and salt. I wanted to bring peanut butter as well, but I didn’t want it on the muffin yet. I also didn’t want to bring an other little Tupperware, so I put it on the egg whites. Hahaha no my normal combo, but it isn’t bad! I then took a spoon and spread PB on the oatmeal cup as I ate it. For a little more protein I packed 1/3 scoop MusclePharm Isolate Protein (vanilla) and mixed it with a tiny bit of water.
12:15pm – Meal #3:
Lunch was a chopped steak salad! I made five chopped salads for the week and topped some with New York Strip and others with chopped chicken thighs. The salad has about 2 cups romaine, 40 grams celery, 28 grams cherry tomato, 15 grams mini bell peppers, 50 grams of chopped cucumber, and 2 Tbsp crumbled feta. I topped that with 3 oz steak.
4:00pm – Meal #4:
My mid-afternoon meal was 5 oz chicken thighs, 1/4 cup brown rice, 100 grams broccoli, and 30 grams carrots. Simple and delicious! I keep plain yellow mustard at the office and decided to use some with the chicken. I used about 1 Tbsp.
6:30pm – Meal #5:
Dinner was SO good and SO simple! I took two small zucchinis and made zoodles out of them with my spiralizer. It came out to about 200 grams total. I sautéed that in a pan over medium heat with salt and pepper, stirring occasionally. It took about 5 minutes. I defrosted 3 oz shrimp and dropped them in boiling water for 1 minute (until they turned pink). I then tossed the shrimp with 1/2 Tbsp homemade pesto (made by someone else, not myself). I put the shrimp on top of the zucchini along with a fried egg cooked over-easy. On the side I had one slice Ezekiel bread topped with 1/2 Tbsp homemade strawberry chia jam.
After dinner I had 1/2 cup Cookies & Cream Arctic Zero. I don’t have dessert very often anymore (I use to have it all. the. time.) but occasionally I’ll crave it. In that case, I’ll add the dessert in BEFORE dinner and then figure out what to have for dinner based on what macros I have left.
That was everything for today’s Day in the Life: Mel’s Meals. In terms of my macros, I consumed 164 grams protein (4 over my goal), 115 grams carbohydrates (5 under my goal), and 54 grams of fat (1 over my goal). I am still aiming for 1,600 calories and it is going well. I am down a couple pounds and don’t even miss those calories! I can barely tell a difference to be honest.
