What I Eat...

So I thought for this post today, I would just give a basic rundown of what I eat in a day. The Herbalife program that I am on calls for 2 shakes to replace 2 of your meals then 1 colorful meal, consisting of 3oz of protein, 1 grain, 2 veggies and 1 fruit. So for my breakfast I have 1 shake and take my vitamins which you take 3 times a day, some of them only once or twice a day. (I'll go through what vitamins I take in a later post) Then in between breakfast and lunch, if I'm feeling hungry ill have a small snack of yogurt, or cottage cheese with some fruit. For lunch I usually make the shake that i will break down below, i call it my Chocolate Banana Deliciousness. I'm usually hungry in between lunch and dinner so i will have some veggies such as carrots and celery with some multigrain wheat thins. Then for dinner I am usually at work (subway) so I either get a 6in sandwich with turkey, or roast beef, load it with veggies with some oregano and pepper, and for sauce I only get either Honey Mustard or Sweet Onion or just plain ol' red wine vinegar. (they are the lowest calorie count and sodium count) Then I get a package of apple slices instead of chips and drink water instead of soda. Or I will have a chicken or turkey salad instead of the sandwich. The shakes are made with Herbalife's Formula 1 Healthy Meal shake mix. I add protein powder to it because with my plan I need to have 150 grams of protein in a day. My favorite shake, my Chocolate Banana Deliciousness goes like this: * 8oz of 1% milk * about 2 scoops of Dannon Oikos Greek yogurt (vanilla) its nasty by itself but it has tons of protein in it and makes the shake smoother * 2 scoops of the french vanilla formula 1 and 2 scoops of the chocolate protein drink mix * 1 banana * about 3 shakes of cinnamon (i don't actually measure the spices out) * about 2 pinches of ground up nutmeg and ground ginger * 1/2 tsp. of Herbalife's tea concentrate. You cant even taste it in the shake and it boosts your metabolism and gives you energy. Normally you are suppose to just add it to water and drink it but I hate tea so I just throw it in. haha! I add a handful of ice to make sure it stays cold and I let the blender mix it for a minute or so to make sure the powder dissolves well enough and to get a nice creamy, fluffy consistency. It's really good! It's my favorite shake I've made so far. For other ones I use either just vanilla formula 1 and vanilla powder and I put nothing else but frozen fruit in it, or swap out vanilla formula 1 for the wild berry flavor, but it isn't my favorite shake mix. Its to sweet to me so I haven't been using it a lot. I like my days off because then I get to make my own delicious meals. I'm getting tired of subway all the time! I had this past weekend off so on saturday night I had salmon with sauteed red, orange, and yellow mini sweet peppers and mushrooms. I seasoned my salmon with a little bit of lemon pepper seasoning. I had a whole wheat roll for my grain, and a nice big salad with italian dressing. For my fruit I had some strawberries. It was so freaking good! I have a picture to...

doesnt that look amazing? lol! For sunday night I chopped up the same pepper and mushroom and sauteed them with chicken in olive oil. then I got some brown instant rice (I got instant rice because raw brown rice takes nearly an hour to cook!) and cooked it then added it to my mixture. then I had a salad on the side. I forgot to add my fruit to my meal so i didnt get my fruit for that meal but I think ill be fine missing one day haha! now i shall torture you with another delicious picture!

It was good! I had to add a bit of salt to it, but it was delicious. But yeah, there is my basic rundown of what i eat in a day. :) not to bad right? the shakes are a bit powdery but once you get over that or learn when enough mixing eliminates most of the powderyness it isn't bad at all! And, since I've been on this I have hardly gotten any cravings for anything, even soda. I thought getting off of soda would be the hardest but since i started taking all these vitamins and feeding my body right I haven't even thought about having any! And that includes sugar as well :D