Confession - I've not been weighing all of my meal components. I started but when I realised that in order to meet my target grammage I generally had to eat more than was comfortable, I decided to just go with a satisfactory plateful but ensure it was in proportion to my allotment for that meal.
Having read the emails leading up to week three I don't think that approach was a disaster and I absolutely kept the types of food in check. Going forward though, now the portions have come down a touch, I'll weigh carefully and also try to be more diligent with my breakfast veg as I slipped a few times on that front.
To the food. Tonight I'm coming off fish and chicken for the first time this week as I have large valentines rib eye on its way very shortly! I've enjoyed the salmon, oven baking it with the classic ginger, coriander, chilli, garlic, lime, spring onion combo a couple of times - adding mushrooms and milk once (which left a pretty tasty broth) and adding mango another time. My adventures with chicken have been more standard. Had a big steam session on Sunday night, great success with asparagus and courgette. Broccoli was a bit overdone and didn't last well in the fridge. Ah well.
Recipe of the week.
I took this to work today. Brown rice, steamed asparagus, smoked mackerel. That's it. Unbelievably simple but so tasty! Just rev the rice and veg in the microwave then stir big chunks of the mackerel in to warm through. Place a poached egg on top of all that and this blogger's extremely happy but I'll wait for the weekend to try that!! I suspect smoked mackerel may be slightly too salty if Kev was being strict, but people have been smoking fish for hundreds of years and I'm pretty sure my grans gran would have fed me it ;-)
The exercises are going well, still having a few issues with apparatus but working them out. My door anchor finally arrived today which will help on days when I work out at home.
Motivation still good, particularly during the week. Last weekend was tough as there was so much sport on tv so the pub was calling. I held firm though. There'll be plenty more good weekends of sport when this is done.
10 weeks to go! But I'm definitely not counting down yet.
Picture is of my new wee friend, the spray olive oil! On the very rare occasion a touch of oil has been needed so far I've found this to be the best way of making very little go a long way.
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