Love/Hate Food: Week 4

The last and final week of the month long detox!  This week is called the Glyci-Med approach, learning to eat glycemic balanced meals.  What this means is eating to maintain stable blood sugar which stimulates less insulin release.  Lower insulin means less fat storage!  Eat frequently, at the right times and consume protein, healthy fat, fibre and low glycemic carbs and this will help you achieve glycemic balance.

Eating the right foods mean eat lean protein and low glycemic carbs and healthy fats for each meal and snack.  Drink 8-12 cups of water a day for women, and 16-20 cups for men, but this is also dependant on weight.

Eating at the right times means aiming to eat every 3 to 4 hours and not to eat anything 3 hours before bed.  Try to eat at the same time each day.  This was a hard one for me, especially on weekends.

This past week, meals have been more 'normal' much less restrictive than the previous 3 weeks.  There were no more limitations aside from the fact that you still should not eat processed foods, keep beef and pork to a minimum etc.  We still had to drink the detox shakes twice a day.  I think I've actually grown to like them.  A good way to keep from wanting to snack on things I shouldn't be snacking on.

Again like previous weeks, I am only posting meals that are new.  No point in posting the same pictures over and over again since some of the meals are repeated.

The final weigh in, down 9.5lbs. 

Week 4 Day 1: Dinner

Curried Ginger Chicken Breast with Quinoa

Day 2: Breakfast
Pancake fail for me.  I don't own a non-stick pan.  I hate them.  Not sure if it's because the batter didn't have any oil and it's full of cheese, oats and egg whites, all of which love to stick to pans, so yes, these pancakes do not look like pancakes.  Taste wise were pretty tasty.



Ricotta Cheese Oatmeal Pancakes

Day 3:  Breakfast Lunch & Dinner
High Protein Muffin was made on a slice of Ezekiel bread instead of Ezekiel English muffin.  I already didn't like the sliced bread, so I didn't want to spend more money buying English muffins that I probably would not like either.  Spanish Chicken Dish very yummy.  The only thing I would have changed was to bake the chicken breast instead of sautee it in the pan since it took longer to cook in the pan than in the oven.  The Greek dipping sauce for the kebabs were delicious!  I could eat this sauce with everything!!!!



High Protein Muffin

Spanish Chicken Dish

Mediterranean Chicken Kebabs wth Greek Dipping Sauce

Day 4: Breakfast & Dinner
I again had yoga at night so I made a smoothie for dinner while the hubby had fish.  Hubby said sweet potato pancakes tasted good but did not stick together well enough, kept falling apart while he was frying it.

Berry Flax Cottage Cheese

Tilapia with Sweet Potato Pancakes

Day 5: Breakfast Lunch & Dinner

Berry Quick Delight

Low Fat Caesar Salad with Grilled Chicken

Almond Crusted Chicken Fingers with Herbed Potato & Asparagus

Day 6: Breakfast & Dinner

Frozen Strawberry Yogurt

Coconut Curry Chicken

Day 7: Breakfast & Lunch
Since I am not at home on Fridays, I forgot to take pictures of the meals.  Breakfast was Delicious Apple Dish, essentially an apple cinnamon oatmeal.  Lunch was Toasted Turkey Tomato Mayo Sandwich with Side Salad.