Since I went cold turkey on the jelly sweets thing since November, and continuing with My Epic Revamp, I need to find something to replace my jelly sweets addiction.
I’m thinking that air might be a good replacement. I haven’t been snacking or anything to replace it as is, but the thought of it is distracting. I could also increase my water intake, but I’m already doing that for other reasons, so it seems a bit excessive.
When one is trying to achieve a certain goal (lifelong health and fitness), it can be quite problematic when:
Despite this, one has made some excellent headway this year, having shed 10kg, and kept it off for >6 months, even though one has slacked off a bit in the last 6 weeks. I’m going to stop referring to myself as one now. My point is, it has been fairly rough getting here, including changing my mindset to accept that exercise is a part of life, but that’s not what I’m going to talk about today.
I would like to mention something that I’ve noticed about the menu at the canteen at my work. In particular, the menu for this week, which made me go “?!?!”. We are offered a health choice as an alternative to the main meal of the day. The main meal is normally a “traditional” meal, usually some stew/curry with rice, or pie with veg, that sort of thing. The health choice seems to be “vegetarian who longs for the days of meat and flavour”. The majority of the health choice meals are vegetables covered in cheese, or something bizarre.
Example – one of the meals is a surprise quiche. When it comes to health, I don’t really want to be surprised by what is in my meal. If I am taking the health choice, I want to know exactly what ingredients are in there so that I can allocate my calorie budget accordingly. For all I know, those could be the leftovers from last week’s main meals. Or it could be, just, all the cheese, which is not good (not cheese is not good, cheese is always good, but adding cheese to a health choice, not good).
Another example is tempura vegetables with tartar sauce. What part of that is healthy? Just including the word “vegetable” in something does not automatically make it healthy. Now, this is not me hating on being vegetarian – in fact, I have been actively eating less red meat than before, and would only eat chicken, ostrich and fish with vegetables if I could (and eggs!). The fact that we can’t trust the fat content in our chicken makes me sad.
Labelling these meals as vegetarian would make more sense, as they do not contain meat, but they are not really “healthy”.
My older sister bought us all chocolate covered, chocolate filled ring doughnuts from Woolies. While I am up for anything chocolate (as my dentist will confirm), this was not as good as it should be. The chocolate filling should have been smoother, and the doughnut a bit softer.
I’ve made a post about this because not only do I feel that a chocolate covered, chocolate filled ring doughnut should be made to perfection so as to justify the calories, but also because I really do not feel like posting about the Takealot Tuesday debacle, and the even worse (and ongoing) Kalahari 24 hour 48 hour sale.
On Braai Day this year I was going to make some normal potato salad, only to find out there were no potatoes. I then decided to make pasta salad with whatever was in the fridge.
• 1 small red onion, diced
• Half a green pepper, diced
• 20ml sweet chilli sauce
• 30ml dhania sauce
• 10g fresh coriander, chopped
• 60ml mayonnaise
• 80ml plain yoghurt
• Black pepper (grind it fresh)
• Ina Paarman Garlic and Herb seasoning
• Two spring onion…stalks? Pieces? chopped
Mix together and gooi over 500g of boiled pasta that has been cooling in the fridge while you are doing this. Probably should have mentioned the pasta earlier.
Note: all those measurements I gave are serious estimates, I actually just eyeballed it and stopped adding stuff when it looked about right.
Overthinking. 