Nutrition

I haven’t been posting much in my nutrition logs, that doesn’t mean I haven’t been eating clean. A typical day for me would be porridge oats or muesli (I mix my own), with berries. An orange, grapefruit or piece of melon and a couple of eggs for breakfast. I’ll have a cup of coffee too. Mid morning I’ll have fruit and a couple of squares of dark chocolate.
Lunch is usually a large salad with wholewheat pasta and either cheese, chicken, canned fish such as tuna or sardines followed by a piece of fruit. Mid afternoon I’ll have fruit and a handful of mixed nuts and raisins.
For my evening meal I’ll have a grilled chicken breast, turkey steak, fillet of fresh fish, lamb steak, beef steak or liver with a ton of whatever vegetables I can get and a boiled or jacket potato. I may have yogurt with fruit salad 2/3 times a week but mostly I just have fruit. For supper I usually have a piece of fish, salmon or mackerel. Just in case I feel peckish anytime during the day I’ll keep plenty of fresh fruit on hand.
I like to drink green tea with lemon throughout the day, both of which are excellent antioxidants. I drink plenty water as well to stay hydrated. The human body is anywhere from 55% to 78% water depending on body size.
I don’t eat very much bread at all but when I do I eat wholemeal and usually eat pitta bread rather than the normal stuff.

The only oil I use is extra virgin olive oil, a good way to tell if your actually getting extra virgin is to dab a little on your finger, touch it to your tongue and swallow, if you don’t get a burning sensation on the back of your throat, it isn’t extra virgin. I enjoy full fat milk, prefer real milk when I can get it and best butter, I never eat “margarine” or “spreads”. Some of the so called “healthy spreads” are made from a blend of a half dozen “vegetable” oils. I challenge you to go get me some oil from vegetables and then blend it into a solid without using a chemicals or a processing plant the size of a power station. I haven’t eaten processed food (apart from a little bread and pasta, I look on the food processor as my enemy, a little extreme I know) for about 5 years, If I haven’t cooked it I don’t eat it.

As for soft or fizzy drinks, the ones with sugar or the diet soda variety that contain the poison that is aspartame, I don’t drink them ever, if I was dying of thirst I’d rather drink my own urine and in my opinion anyone that gives one to a child should be prosecuted for child abuse. I do enjoy red wine though (-: Another excellent antioxidant.

I take a multi vitamin and minerals, glucosamine, cod liver oil, odourless garlic and acai berry capsule, I only take the acai as I got them for £1 a box, though with the good diet and amount of fish I eat I probably don’t need any of them, while I’m not sure about global warming I still recycle, so I’ll continue to take the above, after all they can’t do me any harm, can they?

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