I'm participating in the Fitness Challenge, which means I'm keeping scores on my eating habits for 6 weeks. I have been trying to eat healthier ever since the start of this year (and before that obviously), but have been unable to keep it up. I'm hopinh this will help me out. My goals are to eat healthy, which basically means no candy/chocolate binge-eating for me. Also I want to put an early stop to the fat accumulating on my legs and hips before I'll lose my overall shape.These are the rules:
There will be a point system...it is on your honor!
It is possible to reach 5 points a day...
1 for NO sugar
1 for 3 servings of RAW fruits or veggies
1 for 30 minutes of continual working out
1 for no eating after 7pm
1 for drinking 8-8oz of water (must be water...nothing else)
The drinking water won't be all that hard for me, although I don't see why green-tea/herbal-tea that is caffeine free won't count. And I love eating vegetables or fruit, but I might fail those some days because it's just so much easier not to eat them. As for the no sugar: that's nearly impossible, since there might be stuff that has some sugar in it naturally (let alone that fruit has a lot of natural sugars). I'm going to try to work out 30 minutes a day. Not eating after 7 pm will be hard for me as well, as both me and my boyfriend work until 6 pm, which means it's hard to have dinner ready before 7.
I'm also adding my own challenges: I am a vegetarian, so obviously I'll eat no meat. (This is also why no sugar is harder for me: I don't eat meat or cheese, so what's left to eat on your sandwich in the morning, except tomatoes and cucumber? I'll eat marmalade that's light on sugar sometimes). Also, I am planning on eating only whole-grain stuff, i.e. no 'white' pasta, rice, or bread. But only brown rice, whole-grain bread, etc.
I didn't know vegetarians didn't eat cheese. I'm not a huge meat eater, I'm allergic to animal protein. I'm always looking for recipe ideas, what are some of your favorite vegetarian dinners?
ReplyDeletelaura@6lalas.blogspot.com
Actually, vegetarians do eat cheese. Vegan's don't eat any animal products. I am something in between, but the only reason for that is that I dislike cheese. I only eat melted cheese on pizza's etc. It's easy for me to say of course, but cheese isn't very healthy either, so I think it's okay to not eat it.
ReplyDeleteI'll look into some recipe ideas and let you know! I'm basically a huge fan of vegetables and in Holland they have lots of vegetarian burgers. If I don't eat that I especially like a mix of couscous with chickpeas, raisins, almonds and pistache nuts stuffed inside a bell pepper that has been baked in the oven for some time, combined with a salad. Yum! Apart from that I'm a pasta freak.