As promised, I'm going to show you my meals that allow me to keep my body fit or even lose weight during my fitness transformation.
In this post, I show you an example of my Ukrainian food for lunch during the summertime. But if these foods are available to you regularly, then you can consume them at any time of the year. The photo doesn't look aesthetic because I took it at that time just to show my meal to a friend of mine who wanted to get rid of some fat and get a six-pack.
The meal consists of:
- 4 walnuts - about 100 calories,
- Pears (steamed/stewed) about 800 grams - about 320 calories,
- Blackberry - about 100 calories,
- Pearl barley - 200 grams, cooked in water for about an hour with salt and sprinkled with a teaspoon of ground flax seeds after cooking. It's about 600 calories,
- 2 cucumbers, 1 tomato, greens - fresh parsley and arugula. I don't count their calories because it's too little.
Total about 1120 calories.
The pears were steamed under the lid with a little water to create steam for 15 minutes because they were not yet fully ripe and were slightly hard, slightly tart, and sour. Such cooking makes them soft, and neutralizes tartness and sourness, while the sweetness remains.
I never have breakfast. I just don't feel like it. So my first meal of the day is lunch around 12 am. I can only have breakfast if I know I won't be able to have lunch due to being busy during the day and will have dinner later.
As you can see, the amount of food is large, I eat until my stomach is full and I feel satiety. But you have to understand that I only have two meals a day - lunch around 12 am and dinner around 6 pm. Therefore, this amount of food normally fits in my stomach. Moreover, such food is easily digested and I do not have heaviness in my stomach. And you can see in the photo in the post about my fitness transformation that my stomach is pretty flat and I have a well-developed six-pack.
I usually drink a little water because I eat lots of fruits and vegetables that contain enough water. I drink water when I feel thirsty or just by feeling.
As you can see, there is no animal food here. I usually eat animal food for dinner.
This meal allows me to keep my weight around 80 kg, feel energetic, and look quite athletic. It also allowed me to lose weight from 95 kg to 80 kg since the calories/energy that such a lunch contains is not enough to maintain a body weight of 95 kg and my body has no other choice but to use body fat as an energy source. So after 6 months of keeping this diet, I reached the fit body shape that I have now.
I can also add that all fruits and vegetables are natural, organic, and grown in our garden. So I'm lucky in this regard.
You can also read about my simple way to lose weight for those who struggle with it.
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