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One of my main goals is to eat and drink healthfully. What does that mean exactly, eating and drinking healthfully? As far as eating goes, it means
1) When I eat. I recently got Invisaligns, and you can’t eat with the aligners on, and you should keep your aligners on for 22 hours, so that gives me two hours to eat. I’m a slow eater, so I have figured out I need to eat during that 2 hour window. It’s like the One Meal a Day protocol (OMAD ), but not to lose weight. I don’t like to work out after eating, and I don’t like eating too late, so it ends up around the 10 am to noon range. This is only on weekdays. Since my husband and I want to go out for breakfast and lunch on the weekends, that schedule goes out the window. But we like to finish eating on the weekend by 4 pm, and I eat twice a day.
2) The composition of what I eat. During the weekdays, part one of my meal is a veggie, protein, and something crunchy salty, and part two is yogurt with fruit, granola, and candied ginger. This satisfies my salty, crunchy, and sweet tastes. I don’t limit the amount or type of fat I eat. On weekends, it’s a free-for-all, and I have a beer. I probably shouldn’t be doing two days of free for alls, but I’m trying to be not too indulgent!
As far as drinking, I try to limit my sugar, and will rely on stevia.
Here’s a summary of a tool, drinks I use, and a general idea of what I eat.
Air Fryer: B096N3FTZP & B01M06ATV8
Drinks: B00D1DP00S (True Lemon), B0711F8BKW (True Lemon), B084HQ4DYQ (LMNT), B01CM4JEKI (Laird Creamer), B00P0ZLRMA (himalayian salt), B00F3SQJUY (stevia), (coffee), home brewed kombucha, 8 greens, drinkmate accessories.
Eats:
1) Veggie: cucumber and celery
2) Fat: avocado or avocado oil
3) Protein: 4 oz of 80/20 ground beef, Italian sweet sausage, fake seafood salad, deep fried chicken tenders, or chicken wings.
4) 4 oz of home-made greek yogurt, 4 oz of fruit, 1 oz of granola, 1 T crystalized ginger
Here is one tool for eating healthfully. You’re not frying in oil, so that’s a great reason to use an air fryer. I only use an air fryer for chicken wings or leftover french fries (what???). I like doing chicken wings in the oven. The air fryer is too small, you’ve got to do a few batches, and each batch takes a good 15 minutes.
Air Fryer: My sister was looking at this one because it was America’s Test Kitchen (ATK) winner:
B096N3FTZP
I bought this air fryer, and I’m happy with it. It was ATK’s Best Buy:
B01M06ATV8
I aim to drink 2 quarts of liquid daily, focusing on low sugar. I follow Pahla B (https://getyourgoal.com/) and she recommends half your weight (in lbs) in ounces. I weigh 126, so I’m supposed to drink 63 oz of liquid daily, just under 2 quarts. I also like sparkling drinks, so I use the Drinkmate to sparklize my drinks. I have 2 quart bottles, and mix 1 LMNT and 1 True Lemon, and fill to 16 oz, sparklize, and I have another 1 quart bottle to sparklize water, then I fill the flavored bottles with that water, so that I have 2 quarts on the ready to drink. The SodaStream will gunk up if you sparklize non-water drinks, so I switched to DrinkMate.
After working out, I drink my coffee. I live near Seattle and I’m NOT a coffee snob. I get the cheapest coffee (caffeine), and I add collagen (muscle flexibility), Himalayan sea salt (counteracts bitterness), and coconut creamer.
I brew my kombucha and drink it for the probiotics. I also drink 8 Greens to make sure I get all my veggies.
Here is what I drink daily:
drinkmate accessories
B00D1DP00S (True Lemon)
AND
B0711F8BKW (True Lemon)
AND
B084HQ4DYQ (LMNT)
I just started drinking coffee:
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adding:
collagen
B01CM4JEKI (Laird Creamer)
AND
B00P0ZLRMA (himalayian salt)
and on the weekend include (???)
B00F3SQJUY (stevia)
home brewed kombucha
8 greens
What are your favorite healthy eating kitchen tools and drinks?
