Well, its been a while since i blogged and a lot has happened.
One big thing is that Leo and i are over the moon to day that our effort to get pregnant worked and Xavier will be getting 2 (yes i said 2) new siblings this summer.
I am sure you all or most of you know that i am a careful eater, i can spend a week without eating meat but i always ensure i eat from all the food groups. My habits don’t change when I’m pregnant however i do make a bigger effort to eat lean meats and the odd steak for iron.
Today i went out for a pub lunch with a large group of friends and family, my cousin brought his new (well 6 month) girlfriend, it was the first time i had met her and she was lovely. I don’t care about peoples size or job everyone is their own and I’m not to judge but just to give you some background, she would be a size 16 to 18, shorter than me maybe around 5ft 3″bubbly girl, honestly i can’t stress how nice a girl she was.
As a group when we have these get togethers we all go for the 3 courser, its a treat for us like it would be anyone. We all ordered our meals, after carefully studying the menu i decided on what i was having, to start i had mackerel on a bed of rocket and watercress (minus the butter dressing), for my main i had grilled chicken scallop with a mango and assorted tomato salsa with steam wilted bok choi and mangetout salad, for desert leo and i shared a portion of mixed italian style ice cream. Half way through the main my cousins girlfriend mentioned that her new years resolution was to “finally loose some weight…. but regardless of what i do i just can’t loose it….. how do you stay so slim jay? you have a baby and your pregnant how do you do it?”.
At this moment i had to take a breath before i spoke, i watched her eat breaded mushrooms oozing garlic butter and oil from the cooking process, she was driving and necked 2 glasses of full fat coke, for a main she had a piece of beer battered fish the length of my arm and a pile of chips even leo and i wouldn’t finish at home and for dessert she had ordered Irish Cream cheesecake. I told her calmly and to not sound horrible that i eat well and i work out when i can and when i do work out thats when i treat myself to things like ice-cream and cookies.
During the conversation we were talking about work and how to eat well. She like me sits a lot, i can spend 8 hours in the editing room reviewing work and this is where i found a huge difference in both of us.
She said to me “Eating healthy is so expensive its just not feasible for me”, so i compared her shopping to mine and we put it into practice and went to tesco after the meal and bought what we would normally do for our lunches.
I spent £18.72 she spent a staggering £33.11. When i shop for lunch i shop for both Leo and i, she buys for herself and this shocked me. How can healthy eating be expensive when your spending that??
My basket contained the following – 10 apples, 4 pears, 1x bag of grapes, 3x avocado’s, 2 hearts of celery, 5 red peppers, a bag of watercress, 2x bags mixed salad (the carrot, cabbage sort) green beans, 1x cucumber, a whole organic chicken and 10 wholemeal pita bread.
Her basket contained – 2 packets processed ham, 1 loaf thick slice white bread, full milk yogurts, 4x dole pineapple in jelly tubs, pack of breaded chicken pieces, 2x six pack walkers crisps, 5 Kellogg’s breakfast bars, 1x super noodles and 1 box cuppa soup.
And that my friends is why you can’t lose weight!
I recently found out that in a standard slice of white bread there is up to 30 teaspoons of sugar, 2 slices of bread with butter, ham, mayo and a packet of crisps at lunch can be the same or higher calorie content as a portion of grilled chicken breast and steamed vegetables with brown rice!
It still amazes me that will the amount of money that TV companies put into producing and airing shows like the biggest loser as an example or the millions that the government spend on publishing healthy eating guides and hiring dieticians and there are still people out there that “can’t” loose weight regardless of what they do!
i don’t believe in God but i always remember a sister in my school teaching us home economics and she said “God created potatoes he didn’t create crisps or chips, god created grains and nuts, he didn’t create icing and chocolate”. Really what she was saying was, the earth gives us all this amazing food yet we eat things we make with chemicals and process which ruin the goodness!
If we had to go back 3000 years we would burn 600-1000 calories going out and growing, hunting or sourcing our food, the only difference now is that we work and go out and just buy this food which really isn’t good for us!
What really got my goat today wasn’t my cousins girlfriend, because if I’m honest I’m a bit proud she admitted her naivety to food and nutrition but left with skills to shop and eat better, the person that got my goat was the woman i heard say the following – “I started a diet this new year as my resolution was to lose weight but i thought id have a treat” and with that in her basket was chocolate, a cheese crust stuffed pizza, crisps and dip – she is 8 days into the new year its not looking goof for her!
I don’t know why it gets my goat so much but it does, its not hard to know that that massive bag of doritos your eating is going to put weight on your bones, as well as making you thirsty so then you drink a bottle of coke which adds more and more on its a never ending chain – but it is if you just say no!
If anyone is reading this and thinking “thats me with the doritos, white bread and breaded mushrooms” then read my other food blogs. I had to learn from somewhere i wasn’t always good or this slim, it is like a plaster, rip the sugar off and the pounds will fall off!!!
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