banana smoothie
Every now and then, I notice that my banner proclaims my blog to be "thoughts on sewing, knitting and looking my best". The first two are covered pretty comprehensively I think ;) and the last is meant to be about how I'm going with presenting myself sartorially; but of course looking my best should also come from maintaining a healthy lifestyle. I don't really delve into that stuff on my blog here much.For the past 3 weeks, ever since Easter, Cassie and I have been on a sorta diet. Not a weight-loss diet. Neither of us lost any real weight which is cool since that was not my aim. My aim was to lose some unhealthy eating habits that had snuck up on me.
We used this marvellous cookbook, the Australian Women's Weekly 21 day Wonder Diet. (I bought my book from a local newsagent, but it is available here)
I really think the Australian Women's Weekly cookbooks are the best cooking books, ever! I bought it several years ago, and the first time we tried to get through it we got no further than two weeks. Fail!
But not this time... yesterday was our final day. This second time around we completed the whole 21 day programme, from go to whoa, working through each meal, comprehensively, one by one, all the way through. Success!
Multiply the above cup of green tea above by four, and pictured here is all the food I actually ate today, my first day back to free-wheeling it. These are all meals plucked from various days in the 21 day diet, and using up some of the ingredients I still had leftover. Also, they were some of my favourites ;)
tuna and rocket wrap
This is a fantastic programme; in that 3 weeks really does feel like plenty long enough to mentally release you from old, bad, eating habits. The meals are all nutritious, mostly delicious, and a lot of them are surprisingly hearty and filling, and you rarely feel hungry. Some days we couldn't even finish what we were supposed to!
And not to mention that frozen yoghurt, hello!
prawn stir-fry, done on the barbecue instead of in a wok
But I'm feeling pretty good. Clean and cleansed. Like I'm a new woman. And mighty optimistic about continuing with next-to-zero junk, and incorporating plenty of nutritious and fresh stuff in my daily intake. Although I will be bringing back just a leettle bit of this... In moderation, of course :)
