Thought it might be a nice idea to share a typical week day in my food plan - would love to hear what you think, any ideas to improve it etc.

Some things to know about me: I train around 5-7 times a week (a variety of activities, bootcamp, running, basketball and volleyball), I'm in my late 20s, I gave up sugar on Boxing Day.

5.20 am - Breakfast 1: Protein shake, 1-2 wholemeal pancakes (1 cup flour, 1 cup milk, 1 egg, makes 6-8 pancakes), half to 1 banana

8.00am - Breakfast 2: 1 wholemeal pancake or wholemeal english muffin with poached egg and/or 2 small rashers of bacon, glass of lite milk (am working my way back to fat milk, find it still makes me a bit bloated).

10.00 am - Snack: Carrot or 2 saladas (ie 8 little squares)

12.30pm - Lunch: 100g chicken breast (baked in the oven), half tin of 4 bean mix, 1 pack Heinz Steam Fresh Vegies, 30mls home made dressing (olive oil, white wine vinegar and Tuscan spices), can or small bottle Coke Zero

2.30-3pm ish - Snack - Plain rice crackers, peanuts or almonds

6.00pm - Snack: Piece of wholemeal or similar toast with butter or English muffin.

7.30pm - Dinner: Beef and Vegie stirfry with noodles, soy sauce and egg for flavour/ homemade chilli con carne (still working on getting the spices & flavours right, as was using a recipe mix previously)/chicken burger with vegies/wholemeal pasta with beef mince.

9.00pm - Glass of lite milk.

This is a fairly typical day for me (during the week) - sometimes I may not eat all the snacks or have the glass of milk at night. And of course, there are the nights I really don't want to cook. This means we usually eat something like fish and chips (no sauce!), meat pies (again no sauce, but actually quite tasty without!) or something similar.

I find it challenging to be this structured on the weekend - I usually get breakfast sorted (often its poached eggs with bacon and pancakes, but depends on if I'm training), but lunch tends to be where it falls apart because I'm out and about. Dinners are generally a bit more indulgent, but still tend to be low sugar.

When I was on the sugar bandwagon, almost all of my snacks were chocolate, lollies, ice creams biscuits etc. I also had a big thing for tomato sauce.

Love to hear your feedback and I hope that this might be useful for someone.

Steph.

Hi Janelle,

Thanks for your feedback. I checked my 4 bean mix and yes it does have sugar listed as an ingredient. However when I look at the nutrition info, it's 2g/100g, so I think this is ok - what do you think? And you were right with the protein shake - it does contain sucralose :( . I think I'm going to stick with it though because its quite a reasonable product otherwise.

As for the banana ... I'm not super concerned about the calories, but the sugar content is potentially an issue. The reason why I eat bananas is because I find they release energy quickly for me, which is what I need for training. I've tried to find alternatives, but not had a great deal of luck. Any ideas?

S.

Hi there,

since I have eliminated sugar from my diet, which was about 3 months ago, my asthma seems to have dissapeared. I was only ever a mild asthmatic but rarely now do I ever ever feel symptoms of asthma.

Anyone else have a similar experience ?