So it’s snowing and it’s cold and I really, really just wanted to eat something warm. Don’t worry, I didn’t bail. I just put room temperature fruit into the smoothies today instead of frozen fruit today and got room temperature smoothies, which was weird I know, but better than freezing my keister off while drinking cold smoothies all day. I also had stir fry (warm) veggies today instead of cold with hummus dip. Ahhh, I’m holding on!
Oh and did I mention I’M DOWN FOUR LBS SINCE LAUNCH OF CHALLENGE.
Here is what I ate for day 5:
Breakfast: Green Smoothie (room temperature) with 5 C. packed spinach, 2 bananas , 2 small diced mangoes, 5 strawberries, 1 orange, 2 T. ground flax and stevia to taste. This made 2 quarts. I saved one quart for later in the day.
Lunch: Bok Choy stir fry. Recipe below.
Bok Choy Stir Fry
1 giant head of bok choy, green parts only chopped, saved the white parts for another use
2 carrots julliened
10 button mushrooms
2 diced green onions
1/2 red bell pepper, chopped
1 T. organic heinz ketchup
1 T. low sodium soy sauce
1/2 t. garlic powder
1/2 t. ground ginger
1/4 t. ground black pepper
stevia to taste
Combine all ingredients in large saute pan. Do not add oil, it’s not necessary. Saute all until bok choy is wilted.
This recipe made 3 cups of stir fry. I planned to eat the whole recipe myself, but my husband decided to join the challenge at the last minute, so we split it. It was a WHOPPING 60 CALORIES PER SERVING. Holy crap plant based diet!
Afternoon Snack: This is where the diet gets interesting, my husband and I each had a our second quart of green smoothie in the afternoon and neither of us was hungry come dinnertime- He said, why am I so full!?! Ha Ha.
Dinner: Long story short, I thought it would be ridiculous to only consume 600 calories for the day and we started to get hungry around 9pm so I busted out the amazing cheezy-smokey-spicy black bean soup recipe here. Love it!
Here are the stats for the day:
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Target:
Eaten:
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Calories under 1,400
957
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Carbohydrate under 245 g
203 g 75%
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Protein under 63 g
39 g 15%
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Fat under 19 g
13 g 10%
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Water over 8 glasses
9-2/3 glasses
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Target:
Eaten:
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Dietary Fiber over 25 g
44 g
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Saturated Fat under 16 g
1 g
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Trans Fat under 2 g
0 g
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Cholesterol under 300 mg
0 mg
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Sodium under 1,500 mg
1109 mg
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Target:
Eaten:
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Sugars under 100 g
91 g
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Vitamin A over 2,333 IU
4307 IU
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Vitamin C over 75 mg
369 mg
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Calcium over 1,000 mg
548 mg
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Iron over 18 mg
13 mg
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Good Clean Food 