Here is this week’s Day in the Life: Mel’s Meals, where I document my clean eating meals for an entire day. Clean eating doesn’t have to be difficult or stressful. A little planning mixed with a few convenient foods helps keep meals easy, yet healthy. For example, our dinner below was full of colorful foods that are all clean eating approved and SO delicious! Plus, I had a sweet treat after my after-dinner dessert!
If you have questions about how anything was prepared, then check out yesterday’s Grocery Shopping & Meal Prep Week 15 post. If that doesn’t answer you question then feel free to send me an email, Facebook message or comment below.
4:30am – Pre-workout:
I started my day with 1 liter of water. Each morning I drink half a liter of plain water, then on days I workout first thing I use the other half to mix with my pre-workout supplement, MusclePharm Assault (fruit punch). If I am not going to exercise right away then I will drink the other half plain too. I also take one BCAA capsule pre-workout, then another post-workout.
My morning routine on weekdays looks something like this: I wake up at 4:15am and use the bathroom. Then I change into my workout clothes and grab my gym bag. I let the dogs out of their kennels and take them outside. After they are done, I come inside and drink my water. The pre-workout needs 30 minutes to kick in, so I try to have that gone by 4:30am. Once I am done with my water I make my pre-workout snack.
I had 1/4 cup 1% cottage cheese mixed with 3 grams MusclePharm Isolate Protein (vanilla) and topped with 1/2 Graze Original Protein Flapjack. I crumbled the bar up to make it similar to granola, but it is a little more chewy. After that I kill some time before I need to leave the house for the gym.
6:40am – Meal #1:
For breakfast, I made a breakfast burrito. It included one egg + 5 egg whites scrambled with 1/2 cup cooked kale and 1.5oz grape tomatoes. I had one Ole Xtreme Wellness High Fiber Low Carb tortilla topped with 2 Tbsp 505 Green Chile and 1 oz mashed avocado. I took about half the cooked egg mixture and put it in the tortilla, topped the eggs with green onions and wrapped it up. The other half I ate on the side topped with Cholula. It was a great breakfast! I love breakfast burritos and this was full of vegetables! I also had a cup of coffee with 1/2 Tbsp half & half, 2 Tbsp unsweetened almond milk and some stevia. This is what the inside of the burrito looked like.
10:00am – Meal #2:
My mid-morning meals was a Greek yogurt parfait. I mixed 6oz Greek yogurt with 1/3 scoop MusclePharm Isolate Protein (vanilla). Toppings included 1/4 cup blueberries, 30 grams strawberries, 1 Tbsp hemp heart and 1 Tbsp pepitas. So good! If you follow my Day in the Life posts, then you know I LOVE yogurt parfaits mid-morning.
12:30pm – Meal #3:
Lunch was 3.25oz cod seasoned with Mrs. Dash Salt-Free Onion & Herb Seasoning and a little salt. I also had 3oz green beans, 1/4 cup sweet corn, 30 grams bell peppers and 1/3 cup pistachios (measured in shell).
After lunch, my sister asked if I wanted anything from Sonic because it was Happy Hour. I ordered a small unsweetened ice tea, but didn’t drink the whole thing (about half) and left the rest to drink later this week.
4:00pm – Meal #4:
My mid-afternoon meal was 3oz cooked pork tenderloin, 100 grams broccoli and 50 grams of carrots.
7:00pm – Meal #5:
Dinner was colorful and delicious! Donny’s parents recently got back from a fishing tip in Alaska. They brought home 80lbs of wild caught Alaskan salmon!!! They were kind enough to give us a few fillets to try. I had 3.5oz grilled salmon along with 3/4 cup roasted beets and a giant vegetables salad. The salad had 1 cup 50/50 mix spring greens, 55 grams cucumber, 35 grams carrot, 50 grams grape tomato and 1 tsp sunflower seeds. I drizzled a little balsamic vinegar on top and sprinkled the salad with pepper too.
In the past, I have not liked beets. They are a little too earthy for me, but I know they are really healthy for you. I have been wanting to learn to make beets that I can eat, so we started by roasting them. Honestly, they were really good! I really enjoyed eating them. We tossed the beets in a little extra virgin olive oil and sprinkled salt on them. Then roasted the beets at 400° for 20 minutes and that was all. They were honestly more sweet than earthy. I want to try them again!
After dinner I still had some carbohydrates to eat in order to hit my macronutrient goal for the day. I mixed 1/4 cup raspberries, 1/4 cup blueberries and 50 grams sliced strawberries and sprinkled a tiny bit of stevia on top. I love fresh fruit and this is very dessert-like. Healthy, but sweet.
I went to read in the living room for a while and then started craving a date. Nothing beats a sweet treat after your sweet treat! I had 1 pitted date that weighed 6 grams. Dates my a great after-dinner dessert, because they are naturally sweet yet healthy for you.
That was everything for Day in the Life: Mel’s Meals. My meals were on point and I even had fish twice! My macro count at the end of the day was 2 over my protein goal (162g total), 3 over my carbohydrate goal (123g total) and 1 over my fat goal (54g total). I like definitely like those numbers!
What healthy meal(s) have you eaten so far this week?
