Hi Guys!
I would like to share with you how my diet is planned during the whole week. I think this could be a good idea, in order to check if I'm acting in the right way. Of course, it is still a work in progress, but it's getting better and better.
Here's a summary.
A few notes:
1. breakfast: I alternate between greek yoghurt + wallnuts and eggs day by day. I finally said goodbye to carbs, however I may add other options (e.g. cured meat? unluckily I really hate cheese, and I can't take smoked salmon taste as I wake up
)
2. Starches: firstly, note that I have lunch at my workplace canteen (expect wekend);
I'm in Italy, so as starches the choices are only between pasta and white rice. Since that I aim to avoid refined grains as much as possible, my best option is pretty much always white rice. Only on thursday I can choose roasted white potatoes. Since that I eat pretty much always white rice on lunch, my options for dinner as starches basically are white & sweet potatoes , and squash soup.
3. Veggies:
for lunch, I eat a mixed salad with only raw seasonal vegetables (e.g. currently it is a mix of lettuce, radicchio, carrots, fennels, and peppers). In the weekend I add other stuffs, like onion, spinach.. I don't like so much raw tomatoes but this could another good option.
for dinner, I eat always cooked veggies. My choices are between spinaches, asparagus, green beans. Once a week I have a vegetable soup, or stir fried mix veggies.
My thought is that I should aim to add some other options... for dinner it is more feasible, since I eat at home... I think that a great option would be broccoli, and cauliflowers (I hate them, but I know about their benefits).
4. Meat & seafood (lunch/dinner): I usually eat 3-4 times a week fresh seafood. Codfish, sea bream/sea-brass and salmon are my favourite choices. Basically I eat meat everyday! Beef, Poultry, rabbit, pork are my favourite.
5. Cheat meals: On saturday/sunday dinner I eat pizza. 2 consecutive evenings a week maybe are too much... I aim to avoid pizza on Sunday. I also have pasta on Sunday lunch (this is a must for my italian family, at least once a week all together
).
6. I'm affected by favism, so I tend to avoid all kind of legumes (fava beans for sure) , even though I liked them... too bad.
I know, it's still not a perfect plan, but how do you judge it? If you have some tips, in order to improve I will appreciate that!
Thank you!!
Alessandro