Healthy Eaters: What do you eat in a typical week?

[thorneyislanddoris]

I'm trying so hard to eat healthily and am looking for inspiration.

If you are a healthy eater, what do you eat in a typical week?

I'm mostly interested in your main meal.

Thanks.

It’s interesting that your focus is on the main meal because I have really turned my eating/weight around in the last six months and the way I’ve done this is by eating no breakfast, a super-healthy lunch (some kind of salad involving protein and loads of veg) and this gives me the ‘freedom’ to eat a normal main meal with husband and kids that is sometimes healthy but sometimes not - eg tonight it will be jacket potato with ratatouille so quite healthy but last night it was macaroni cheese - less healthy - and I had a massive portion! I often have a very big dinner.

But in terms of healthiness, the main thing I’ve changed that has transformed things for me is cutting out crap and snacking - so I hardly eat any sugary treats at all now (this is/was my downfall), no crisps, barely any alcohol. Plus lots of exercise - I have no time for the ‘exercise doesn’t impact weight loss’ argument.

I feel loads better for cutting out all of this nutritionally empty food and it ‘buys me’ a decent evening meal in calorie terms. I’d just be too depressed if I had to come home from work to a dinner of lean protein and veg. I love pasta and will never give it up!

No breakfast

12:00 onwards

4 mini pitta
Humus
Feta cheese
Watermelon or grapes
Nuts
Carrot or pepper sticks
Orange and a peach

7pm
Salmon with spicy crust
Crushed new pots with butter and seasalt
Asparagus
Broccoli

Strawberries

I don't snack and eat 12-8pm

Thanks for the tips 😊

Breakfast - Protein or Greek yoghurt with berries and a banana in summer
Porridge in winter with a spoonful of peanut butter

Lunch options - tuna salad, tuna or cheese on granary bread, Quorn/chicken/prawn stir fry with lots of green veg, small portion of pasta with pesto and lots of tomatoes.

Snack options -apple, protein bar, packet of snack a jacks/popchips/low calorie puffed crisps

Dinner - salmon fillet with lots of green veg, Thai prawn curry with lots of veg and small brown rice, baked potato with tuna, fish pie with asparagus.

As you can see I like a lot of fish!

If it's a gym day I will also have a protein shake with almond milk.I generally have a big appetite and get very shaky and hungry, so I need the shake or bar on gym days!

My unhealthy habits are too much coffee throughout the day, and crisps at weekends. Try to resist the crisps as much as I can but fail sometimes.