DAY 3 - MEALS 3&4

Realising just how many meal posts there are going to be on this blog if I do each one individually, I'm beginning to realise it would be a better idea to do a post before bed (my new earlier bedtime to make sure I get those 7-9 hours!) of all the meals together. Honestly I'm finding food planning and meals quite (very) stressful at the moment. In my case specifically: how much to buy and how much it will cost, which is also why I've still been too afraid to do the bulk cooking so far. In my rather chaotic mind I obsess about money and wasting any of it, overspending on food, also fighting the anxiety I struggle with every single time I go in to supermarkets (buying much more food makes it feel harder to get out quickly... if that makes any sense) as well as my feelings that I'm not worth spending money on and especially for food. These are all very difficult psychological challenges that are already some of the toughest parts of the body composition for me, but also one of the reasons I signed up in the hope I could break through it and feel better about feeding myself properly.
Ironically if I had the other body composition members all coming over to my house for supper for example, all of a sudden I wouldn't hesitate and could do it all and go out of my way to do so - doing things for others seems to frustratingly evade my own struggles.

Also one of the reasons I am struggling so much with the nutrition calculator spread sheet, unfortunately when my brain is faced with numbers, it always reacts with panic and switching off and it's extremely difficult to get it to un-panic. A friend has offered to help look at the nutrition calculator / spreadsheet with me (hopefully tomorrow). If nothing else - someone who understands just how much I panic about numbers and can help me refocus, will be a good step in the right direction for me to ideally step around my mental blockade.

I also really hope that because this is the first week and it's all completely unnatural for me, I'm going to find it easier once I start to get used to weighing food and feel more practiced understanding quantities and macro nutrients and knowing that a single avocado has 15g of fat in it for example (as I learned this evening when trying to find out how to fulfil my 27g of fat requirement). I would love to look at an amount of chicken and just know how many g of protein it has - would make food plans so much easier. I can't help but envy Coach OC his nutrition encyclopaedia brain.

MEAL 3  (Bobble hat Burgers!)

PROTEIN
5% fat pork burgers (177g) with tomato puree

FAT
1 tablespoon of almond butter
Coconut oil to fry

VEG
Courgette
Tomato
Garlic
Spinach

 

MEAL 4

 

PROTEIN

Salmon fillet - skinned and boned (190g)

 

FAT

Avocado (15g)

Olive oil (5g)

Coconut oil to fry onions (5g)

 

VEG

Kale

Onion

Garlic

Asparagus

Tenderstem broccoli