Day Eight – Food Glorious food!

In the absence of training, I thought I’d talk about food!
After all I eat the stuff six times a day and a fair amount of it too!
This is something I hear fairly often:
“WOW! You look fantastic! I wish I looked like you – what do you do…?”
Now there’s a question most people don’t want to hear the answer to!

“Well, I train five or six times a week, I very rarely drink alcohol and I don’t smoke.
I don’t eat chocolate, crisps, fast food, sweets and only the very VERY occasional piece of cake will ever pass my lips. I eat six times a day and I drink a lot of water!”
(I think I might get some business cards with that little speech printed on them hahahaaa!)
Cue look of horror from the person who asked the question,
“….oh…erm…um…I’d never be able to do that….”
The other thing I hear (and I hear it often) is:

“Yeah, but I bet you don’t eat very much, and only lettuce when you do. Three square meals a day, that’s what you need; put some weight on your bones!”
Last week I ate 13,200 calories – that’s a whole LOT of lettuce *grin*
This naturally leads on to the next question,
“So what DO you eat?!”
Oh, I’m so glad you asked; let me tell you all the things that passed my lips last week…

• Oats
• Chocolate whey protein

• Brown pasta
• Brown rice
• Sweet potato

• Tuna
• Salmon
• Chicken
• Lean beef steak
• Eggs

• Mushrooms
• Broccoli
• Cauliflower
• Cabbage
• Fine green beans
• Tomatoes
• Green pepper
• Cucumber
• Spring onions
• Beansprouts
• Apples
• Strawberries

• Apple cider vinegar
• Reduced salt soy sauce
• Worcestershire sauce
• Olive oil

• Ground chilli flakes
• Curry spice
• Paprika
• Oregano
• Hot cayenne pepper

• Coffee
• Water
• Chamomile and vanilla tea
• Organic nettle, fennel and peppermint tea
• Organic aniseed, fennel and cardamom tea
• Organic oat flower, lavendar and limeflower tea

• Toothpaste and mouthwash *grin*

If you open my fridge this is what you’ll see…

One of my favourite pieces of kitchen equipment is my wok – stir-frys are just awesome, super-quick and only one pan to wash up at the end – that’s MY kind of cooking!
This beef stir-fry took about 5 minutes to cook and was LOVELY (even though I do say so myself)!!!

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not the food police – I could do some serious damage to things like cheesecake if I chose to.
And there it is, the simple answer to the original question,
“…I’d love to look like you! What do you do….?”
“I CHOOSE TO!”
See you tomorrow (for no cardio…but I really AM feeling much better)