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daenerysstormborn3

I've recently been trying to get my diet in shape. I generally eat quite healthy but can have some terrible days, breakfast: sausage rolls, lunch: toasted sandwich and crisps, dinner: pizza or something but those days are very few and far between. I'm just trying to eliminate them completely. I've found that I wasn't eating quite regularly enough for the amount of exercise I do (i do about 2-3 hours cardio a day, a run and walking my dog) so was tending to pick the thing that I could get into me the quickest to fill me up.

Anyway, I've been trying to cut down on carbs so late in the day and because of a busy day today I only had my dinner about a half hour ago so I decided not to have any carbs with it but instead have just meat and veg.

Tonight I had two turkey breasts (from aldi, absolutely lovely!) and asparagus, green beans and carrots. I did the turkey in the oven with some black pepper and lime juice and a tiny bit of butter on each breast. Then i put in the asparagus and green beans with a little black pepper and chopped up garlic and a tiny bit of butter as well. I then put a very thin coating of low fat cream cheese on the turkey breasts and crunched up a small wholewheat cracker on top of each breast.

How does that rate on the nutritional scale?

Khannie

Sounds pretty good to me. A bit high in protein maybe?

daenerysstormborn3

Thanks. How could I balance that off? I presume the obvious answer is add pasta/rice/spuds but I'm trying to avoid them as often as possible.

Khannie

Wouldn't be my thing. I try to eat some meat and a lot of veg for dinner time. Generally I'd avoid starchy stuff (like rice and spuds) so that I can cheat on something else. A meal like that generally keeps me full til bed time (today I around 500 cals worth of had mince, beans and green beans for example and I'm still full 2 hours later). How big were the turkey breasts? 1 or 1.5 might be enough and throw a heap of veg in there.

It's a decent dinner though. I definitely wouldn't be worrying.

daenerysstormborn3

Yeah that's my general idea as well. Try to avoid the starchy things like that especially late at night because I tend to bloat big time if I have even one spoonful of potatoes.

The turkey breasts were fairly big, maybe just a little bit smaller than the palm of my hand. So maybe just more veg and less meat? That sounds doable.

Sapsorrow

Definitely needs more bacon! No seriously that's really very good, just if you're eating lots of protein be sure and drink lots of water too.

daenerysstormborn3

I'm throwing the water into me as we speak sapsorrow, thanks!