Lately Mel’s Clean Eating Meals have been a little different. Maybe you’ve noticed, maybe you haven’t.
I’ve been a lot less structured lately and have been eating even more often (who knew that was possible….) and snacking more than eating full meals. I still have breakfast, lunch and dinner, but also 3-4 snacks mixed randomly throughout the day. I am still trying to eat healthy, but have had a few more sweets lately. Oh well, life happens. Right?!?!
If you have any question about my clean eating meals then please email them to me at eatliftplayrepeat@gmail.com.
4:30am – Pre-Workout:
My morning started by drinking a liter water. Drinking water first thing can help energize you and get your metabolism going. I’ve been doing this for a while now and I can definitely tell a difference compared to days I don’t drink water first thing.
I also wanted a little something in my tummy so I had 1/4c 1% cottage cheese mixed with 2-3 drop of vanilla crème liquid stevia. Then I topped the cottage cheese with 25g banana.
6:30am – Meal #1:
My breakfast consisted of 1 whole egg, 3 egg whites, 1/2 avocado and a slice of Ezekiel 4:9 Sesame Bread. I mashed 1/4 of the avocado on the toast and added sea salt and sesame. The other 1/4 I ate along with the eggs.
9:45am – Snack #1:
Mid-morning I had a 7oz container of 2% Greek yogurt mixed with 6g protein powder. I also mixed in 1/3c puffed millet and 1 Tbsp granola.
11:15am – Snack #2:
I started getting a little hungry before lunch, so I munched on some baby carrots and some sugar snack peas.
12:15pm – Meal #2:
Lunch was soup and salad at O Sole Mio in Fort Morgan, Colo. I had a lunch meeting there, so I enjoyed a bowl of minestrone and a spinach salad with some chicken added on top.
I love this combo! The salad comes with quite a bit of parmesan cheese and bacon on top. I generally pick quite a bit off and there is still plenty left to flavor the salad!
1:30pm:
My tummy was a little upset, so I had a small candy cane after my meeting. We have a TON of these leftover from Christmas at the office. Peppermint really helps settle my stomach.
2:15pm – Snack #3:
Mid-afternoon I had some homemade trail mix. It consisted of 1/3oz raw almonds, 1/3 Tbsp pepitas, 1/3 Tbsp pistachios and 1 Tbsp raisins. So good and so easy to make!
4:00pm – Snack #4:
A couple hours later I had my other snack, which was overnight oats! I don’t usually have overnight oats in the afternoon, but I wasn’t mad about it.
I mixed 1/3c rolled oats, 1/3c unsweetened almond milk and 3/4 scoop MusclePharm Chocolate Peanut Butter protein. I meant to add some banana and some peanut butter, but I forgot to do that before leaving for work!
Rookie mistake and quite disappointing. The oats were still good, but I always love a little more peanut butter!
7:15pm – Meal #3:
Dinner was leftovers. Donny & I whipped up quite the meal on Sunday and had both my parents and Donny’s parents over to enjoy our new kitchen. He cooked Israeli food from a new cookbook he bought called Jerusalem: A Cookbook. One of the leftover dishes was shredded Brussels sprouts with balsamic and pine nuts, plus a ton of spices.
Along with several Israeli dishes we also roasted some chicken thighs and some carrots (cooked separately) on Sunday. For dinner, I had some of the leftover chicken, the Brussels sprouts and a GIGANTIC cooked carrot. Yum!
Well that wraps up Mel’s Clean Eating Meals! It was a quite random day of eating, but it worked well enough. If you have any questions about my clean eating meals then please ask! Email me at eatliftplayrepeat@gmail.com.
