Meals - Day one

Everyday i will update here what i ate the day before, i am aiming for 1700 calories per day

My meals are being prepared by a chef a week in advance so this weeks meals where delivered to me last Friday.

The meals are vacuum packed, labelled by day and time of day to eat, they have been balanced to give me all the nutrients and micro nutrients i need using fresh produce and nothing is frozen and the calorie count per day is 1500 which leaves me 200 cal to play with like an apple in the afternoon.

It is expensive and my family and i have had to make some sacrifices to be able to afford the eating plan but we have decided my future health is worth only one year of such sacrifices, don't worry the bills are still being paid, the kids are well looked after and thankfully i have Shannons full support.

The reason i am paying for my meals is that i have always found calorie counting too difficult, prepping diet meals every day too taxing, estimating correct portion sizes a mission and maintaining variety is an effort, breakfast is an especially difficult meal to add variety too sure i could eat bran flakes or special k every morning but i would soon get bored of this or miss a breakfast then run to the junk to satisfy myself and then it's game over.

I plan to also use the meal prep model as a tool to teach me about healthy eating in the long term and hopefully by the end whenever that will be i will be able to go it alone.

So yesterdays meals as follows:

Breakfast: Homemade granola with blueberry yoghurt.
Mid morning snack: Strawberry and pineapple booster juice.
Lunch: Chicken and coriander pita.
Afternoon snack: Apple
Dinner: Cajun grilled hake with tarter sauce served with vegetable brown rice.
Dessert (i know how awesome): Chocolate pear crisp.
Drinks: 2 litres of water and 3 coffees.

All in all i enjoyed all the meals yesterday, i'll upload some sample photos at some point.