eat healthy

This was quite a good goal and one I think I will take up again. I was eating really healthy for the past 2 months but am slipping again. This should get me back on track.

6th August

Breakfast: Toast with jam; small glass of orange juice; coffee with milk
Fish: Tin of Weightwatchers tuna with herb and tomato sauce
Water: 2 big glasses
Exercise: NONE
Fruit and veg: Small glass orange juice; small bowl stewed apple; veg in turkey mince curry – think I amanged my 5 a day
Fats and sugar: Golden syrup in stewed apples – that’s it I think so it doesn’t count!
Salt: Tinned tuna
Superfoods: None

14th August

Breakfast: Breakfast bar and coffee
Fish: NONE
Water: 1 big glass
Exercise: NONE
Fruit and veg: 1 breakfast bar with about 5grams of dried fruit in it; few slices of cucumber in my sandwich for lunch; 3 helpings of spinach, peas and potatoes for dinner
Fats and sugar: Philly cheese in my sandwich; 2 chocolate cream biscuits and 4 choc chip cookies as snacks; 1 serving of Tiramisu ice cream
Salt: Didn’t eat out except for those evil rice cracker snack thingies
Superfoods: Spinach, yogurt and ginger

15th August

Breakfast: Breakfast bar and coffee
Fish: NONE
Water: 1 big glass
Exercise: NONE
Fruit and veg: 2 breakfast bars with about 10grams of dried fruit in it; few slices of cucumber in my sandwich for lunch;
Fats and sugar: %{color:red}Philly cheese in my sandwich;
Salt:
Superfoods:

I don’t think I did anything about this goal in the past 2 months and in fact have been eating out so much that if I tell anyone my goal is eating healthy they’ll probably keel over in a fit of laughter. :(

My parents have come to visit for 6 weeks (though one week is already over – sob) so it’ll be hard to eat healthy but since my mum is doing all the cooking and she cooks lots of veggies and uses very little fat, it might actually be easier than doing it on my own.

Lets see what I’m supposed to do this month:

Start the day with a good breakfast: Bit tough this one considering I don’t get up early enough in the morning! But nowadays I keep a box of breakfast bars at work and eat one with my morning coffee so I guess if I stick to that it should be ok.

Eat 2 portions of fish a week: Yes well, it’s hard to get Indian fish in the UK and my mum isn’t too comfortable about cooking salt water fish. Still, we do have tins of tuna at home so I think with a little effort I can eat 1 portion a week at any rate.

Drink lots of water: I’m really bad at this. I drink a large glass at work and thats about it. Will have to drink at least two large glasses at work and at least two glasses at home.

Enjoy an active lifestyle: Ha! My foot makes walking hard though after paying a fortune to the osteopath and chiropodist, it seems to be getting better. Swimming has stopped coz I’m super-lazy and now I have the excuse of wanting to spend time with my parents! Can’t see how I can do much of this apart from actually doing some chores at home and taking my mom out sightseeing.

Eat at least 5 portions of fruit and veg a day: I think I must be doing this. I didn’t realise dal counts as vegetables actually so I’m sure I’ve been doing fine on his for ages! Still, will be more vigilant and try to eat more fruit.

Reduce saturated fat and sugar intake – healthy desserts:
Hehe this is not happening while dad – who gave me the cookie monster gene – is around!

Reduce salt intake I don’t think I use a lot of salt (unless my husband is cooking). But probably a smart idea to stop eating out so much and make my own lunches.

Eat more Superfoods: What on earth are those? Let me go look them up….right, wikipedia says supermarkets (like Tesco!) have been banned from marketing foods as superfoods without proper scientific research. It also provides a handy list of ‘Alleged Superfoods’! I suppose I’ll try eat more of them – even if they aren’t particularly super, they look healthier than most of the stuff I eat (aka McDonalds!). I think I’ll try to eat more beans, spinach, yogurt, ginger and oranges – which I eat regularly anyway so I’m doing fabulously on this one!

I kind of went off all my good resolutions for a while but am back now.

Lets see what I’m supposed to be doing this month:

January: Start the day with a good breakfast
February: Eat 2 portions of fish a week
March: Drink lots of water
April: Enjoy an active lifestyle
May: Eat at least 5 portions of fruit and veg a day
June: Reduce saturated fat and sugar intake – healthy desserts

Oooooh thats hard especially since my good habits have partly fallen by the wayside in the past few months. Anyway I will give it my best shot.

Breakfast: I haven’t been very good with this but better than I was before I started this goal. Nowadays breakfast is usually a slice of bread and some orange juice grabbed on the go. Still it’s reasonably healthy so I think I just need to do that more regularly.

Fish: Not doing so well on that. Have to make a stick to meal plans thatcover this.

Water: Ok when I’m at work but not so ok at home. I’ll finish writing this and go get a litre bottle.

Activity: Well since my foot has been acting up I haven’t been doing much walking but I am trying to go swimming thrice a week. Must be religious about doing that and pump up the exercise when my foot is better.

Fruit and veg: Not really. I try but it’s far short of 5 portions I know. Again meal planning to the rescue.

Healthy desserts: Uh…this is really hard for me because all my teeth are sweet not just one! But I will try. Maybe I can have a dessert day once a week and eat fruits for dessert all the other days.

Right, just to summarise, in the month of March, I was supposed to:

1. Drink more water
2. Eat two portions of fish a week
3. Eat breakfast everyday

I think I did quite well this month. I’ve made a point of getting enough fish in my diet. I have tried with the water – I do fine on weekdays but I need to do better on weekends. I’ve also managed to have breakfast most days this month though I have missed it occasionally. Modifying my eating habits is relatively easy. It’s next months target of an active lifestyle that I’m dreading…

I haven’t been all that good on this goal last month though I have kept up having breakfast most days. Even the days I really don’t have time, I try to have milky coffee at work so that at least I’m getting the goodness of milk. The fish bit has fallen by the wayside I think though I think I’ve managed about a portion a week. Havent made a point of it though. This month I’m supposed to have lots of water. I believe it’s best to have 2 litres of water a day. At one point I was drinking 4 litres a day and my skin was gorgeous as a result. Have gone down to smething like a glass a day since then so need to get this up again. What I can do is make a point of drinking at least 6 of those small plastic glasses at work and then drinking abnother litre at home. That should do it. And try to plan our meals to include the fish as well.

This week I ate breakfast every morning – oats on weekdays and croissants on the weekend. So the January goal was met (I know croissants aren’t a healthy breafast, but they were reduced fat ones and it’s better to have breakfast than skip it right?)

And we had tuna curry on Tuesday and I had sardines on toast yesterday so thats my tw portions of fish a week taken care of as well. So good week for healthy eating. Didn’t eat anything too terrible apart from the goal things either so quite pleased.

Well January wasn’t the biggest success thanks to pox, but I’m fine now so no excuses not to do this goal. It’s already February, so this month I have to continue eating a healthy breakfast everyday, as well eat 2 portions of fish a week, of which one should be oily fish.

The problem with this is my husband HATES fish and won’t eat it at all. He will eat a bit of tuna if it’s cooked like a curry but thats it. Still, that means we can have tuna curry once a week, and I’ll have to arrange for some oily fish for myself once a week. Yesterday we went grocery shopping and bought 5 tins of tuna so hopefully this goal will get done this month.

January Goal: Start the day with a good breakfast

Since I have chicken pox, I’ve been sleeping a lot and not really been getting up in time for breakfast and am not hungry when I do get up. And since I have pox all over my hands and fingers, I can’t make breakfast for mysef. My husband made me oats the other day when he had a late start at work but other than that I’ve been eating croissants for breakfast. Today there are none left so I just ate three chocolate cookies. :(

I’ve decided eating healthy is too big and vague a goal for me to implement. So I will be following the Tesco annual plan for good health. Here is the plan.

January: Start the day with a good breakfast
February: Eat 2 portions of fish a week
March: Drink lots of water
April: Enjoy an active lifestyle
May: Eat at least 5 portions of fruit and veg a day
June: Reduce saturated fat and sugar intake – healthy desserts
July: Reduce salt intake
August: Eat more Superfoods
September: Healthy lunches
October: Reduce saturated fat and sugar intake – healthy snacks
November: Eat more Wholefoods
December: Add some Superfood excitement to Christmas

Of course this means that I will try to keep up the goal for each month in the next month as well.

Haven’t done very well on this today though – had breakfast but it was a full fat croissant. Not at all healthy but oh so yummy! :)