My meals this week have a little more variety in terms of vegetables. I eat a lot of the same foods each week, but this weekend we went to a couple farmer’s markets in Denver and picked up some cool produce (tri colored green beans?!?! Awesome).
Here is everything I ate and drank throughout the day. I drank 5 liters or so of water (one when I first woke up and four more throughout the day). Drinking water is really important and can help with weight loss. I suggest staying well hydrated!
If you have any questions about how I prepared these foods then check out yesterday’s Grocery Shopping & Meal Prep Week 12 post. Otherwise, feel free to send me an email, Facebook message or comment below. If you haven’t noticed… I love talking about food!
4:30am – Pre-workout:
I started the day with 1 liter of water… surprise surprise. I try to do this every. single. day. Even when we are out of town or staying in a hotel I try to have a liter of water available right when I wake up. I drank half the liter plain and used the other half to mix 1 scoop MusclePharm Assault (fruit punch), my pre-workout supplement for energy, endurance and focus. I had 1 capsule BCAA pre-workout and one post-workout.
To fuel my workout I had 1/4 cup 1% cottage cheese mixed with 3 grams MusclePharm Isolate Protein (vanilla). I crumbled up half of one Graze Summerberry Flapjack. The package is considered one snack, but it comes as three bars and I used half of one bar. Basically 1/6 of the package.
6:30am – Meal #1:
I had a Greek yogurt bowl for breakfast. I mixed 6 oz 2% Greek yogurt with 1/2 scoop MusclePharm Isolate Protein (vanilla). I microwaved 1/4 cup blueberries, 25 grams strawberries and 1/2 tsp coconut oil in the microwave to make a syrup-like concoction. I poured that on top of the yogurt and then drizzled 1 Tbsp almond butter on top. Delicious!
10:00am – Meal #2:
My mid morning snack was a healthy “banana pudding”. When I was meal prepping I mixed 1 2/3 cup unsweetened almond milk, 4 scoops MusclePharm Isolate Protein (vanilla), 5 Tbsp chia and 250 grams banana in a blender. I divided that up into my five different containers for it to set, due to the chia seed. It turned out pretty good! I wish I would have mixed Greek yogurt in the blender (to make it creamy) but I honestly forgot.
I didn’t do it this day, but other days this week I mixed 2 oz of Greek yogurt in with the “pudding”. This day however I had 1/5 of that recipe topped with 3/4 Tbsp almond butter, 50 grams strawberries and 1 tsp hemp hearts.
12:15pm – Meal #3:
Lunch this week was cod almost every day! I had 3.5oz cod, 50 grams butternut squash, close to 1 oz red onion, 3/4 cup cooked kale with a side of avocado toast! I had 1 slice Dave’s Killer Bread Thin Sliced topped with 1 oz mashed avocado. Nom nom nom. I love avocado toast at any point of the day.
4:00pm – Meal #4:
My afternoon snack was 3 oz cooked chicken, 50 grams butternut squash, 50 grams carrots, 100 grams broccoli and 3/4 oz red onion. Simple and easy.
7:00pm – Meal #5:
Dinner was so awesome. Have you ever had grilled romaine lettuce?! Make it right now! We took three romaine hearts and sliced them in half, drizzled them with olive oil and sprinkled with salt and pepper. Donny put those on the grill cut-side down and grilled them for about 3-4 minutes. I also had 3.5oz pork loin, 2 cups or so of the cooked romaine, 3oz Brussels sprouts (grilled that night as well), 50 grams carrots, 20 grams bell peppers and 1 cup grilled tri-colored green beans. I estimated we used about 1 Tbsp for all the veggies that night, so I put 1/2 Tbsp in My Fitness Pal for dinner.
I won’t lie this was SO good! I might be addicted now to grilled romaine.
So that was everything I ate on Monday. I ended the day with 3 grams over my protein goal (163 total), 2 grams shy of my carbohydrate goal (118 total) and 1 grams shy on my fat goal (52 grams total). I did consume 38 grams of fiber. Hello fruits and vegetables!!!
If you have questions on how I prepared some of these foods then check out yesterday Grocery Shopping & Meal Prep Week 12.
What has been your favorite clean eating meal this week?
