This is sort of embarrassing, but I got so excited about my lunch today – seven spices grilled chicken fillet served with raisin-cumin rice and minted yoghurt sauce – that I was about halfway through it when I realised I hadn’t taken a picture.
So that’s why you are looking at my afternoon snack of mini spanakopitas. (Don’t be fooled: And even though I was able to restrain myself long enough to take a picture, they were just about perfect little bites)
I have to say, I am loving this diet. Breakfast today was two luscious little oatcakes with a side of honey-ricotta and blueberry. (Although I don’t think anyone would argue that three blueberries constitutes a side).
I was on deck for yesterday being totally enough food – even at a scary-sounding 1,200 calories – but I caved after an early evening RPM (spinning) class and bought a small protein shake. There was just no way I was going to make it through the 90-minute appointment and drive home facing me before I could make dinner. Someone might have had a bite taken out of them. So, sorry Hala (she’s the lovely Right Bite nutritionist who took my appalling stats on Saturday) but in the interest of public safety, I did not in any way shape or form manage to eat all my food before 8pm on the first day.
(By the way, that late dinner – cashew chicken curry with cauliflower and chappati – was so, so, so good.)
Among Hala’s other tips?
-drink lots of water
-buy a pedometre and take 10,000 steps per day (I have not done that either)
-do 45 minutes of interval cardio four times a week (I am halfway there already)
-don’t let myself get hungry (I have a little quibble with this one, but I’m going with it)
*Right Bite is furnishing the writer with seven days worth of meals and snacks for the purposes of this review.
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