Thoughtful Tuesday - 13

I've come to a rather tough conclusion this week. Well, tough for me at least. I've decided, from today that on my low and medium days I'm not going to have any grains or starches what so ever. The main problem I have with grains and starches is probably the same as everyone elses, mainly they don't really fill you up and oh yeah, I like them too much! This then requires me to actually have some will power and say "no, stop eating that enormous bowl of pasta" Truth is, I wouldn't listen to myself if I got in to that situation. Lets face it, I'm Italian and I grew up on pasta, breakfast, lunch and dinner! Okay so things weren't that bad but it was pasta every single night. Which as I would like to think you would know by now is not a good idea if you are trying to lose body fat or even maintain the level you are at. The problem, therefore is where do I get my carbs from and also another problem is that what do I eat! Everywhere you go out there it's bread, pasta, rice with a small amount of protein. Useless!

So basically I'm going to have to get my carbs from where nature probably really intended us to get it from in the first place before we invented farming. Vegetables and fruit. Oh yeah, they're carbs with the added bonus of being packed full of nutrients and lots of that handy stuff called fibre! Of course........it's so simple it just might work. So here's what I'm going to do, I'm going to be super organised in the evenings and cook up a MASSIVE batch of vegetables. I'm going to bring that in to work and eat it coupled with chicken, fish, beef, eggs or whatever takes my fancy at the time. Sprinkle on some olive oil and there, job done. Perfect meals for your time at work. Before you say that sounds like a lot of work, it literally takes 5 minutes to cut up some vegetables and 5 minutes to stir fry them. We can all spare 10 minutes of our evening.

On my high days though, all bets are off!

J