Healthy Living in Singapore

21 Day Sugar Detox Day 2

 Hola! It’s day 2!

Today I’ve had loads of errands to run. So I was out of the house from 8 in the morning till 10 at night. So while the food is plated in the photos, they were actually eaten from containers on the go. I know, so unglam right. But the plated photos are for the time I write the recipes!

Let’s check out day 2:

Breakfast: Green Apple Peanut Butter Soya Bean Milk Spinach Smoothie

Not one of my favourites. I’m blending the green apple because it’s allowed on the 21DSD. It wasn’t yucky, still okay but meh. Food can be better. I’m going to add back the fruits after today because I don’t think there’s anything wrong with fresh, wholesome, natural food.

Mid Morning Meal: Carb Free Salmon & Prawn Sushi and Miso soup

I LOVE MISO SOUP. Especially homemade ones that you can control the saltiness. THere’s just something SO comforting about a piping hot bowl of soup, wakame and tofu. This is a super easy dish tooo. 3 minutes and 3 ingredients are all you need. Make a large batch at the start of the week and freeze for the week. Reheat in the mornings and bring to work in a thrmos. It’s so good in a freezing office, I promise.

The sushi is actually carb free because I didn’t use rice. I used.. jeng jeng jeng…

CAULIFLOWER!

Haha. Yes, you read me right! When you boil and blend caulflower, it makes a great rice substitute for those trying to shed weight, go carb free, or paleo.

 Check it out. Looks like rice right? Loads of fibre, vitamins, minerals, almost zero calories and no grain carbs that can make some people feel bloated and sick.

 Just put it on seaweed like you ordinarily would and roll!

I packed this is a cooler tub and the soup in a thermos and had a jap lunch on the go 🙂

Lunch: Creamy Broccoli Carrot Soup, Sutchi Fillet with lemon, rosemary and garlic herb butter

Broccoli soup from the big batch I made on Sunday night for the week. Sutchi Fillet you can buy frozen from NTUC. I wrap it in aluminum foil in the morning and place it in the oven to bake while i get ready. By the time I’m done, it’s ready to be put into a container and into my lunchbag.

Dinner: Yong Tau Foo

My yong tau food pic on my iPhone was blurred so I used a random one I found in my photo library. But I usually order the same thing so it’s roughly the same. Most of the other options are too processed. The soup here is half-halved to lower the sodium content! Still tasted great. 
And that’s it for day 2!
The one thing I’ve come to appreciate is that you don’t really need rice to stay full (try telling that to my dad!). In fact, I fin dthat if I eat a meal predominant in rice (by percentage) I get blated and after awhile, feel ravenous again and will start to crave something sugary or crazy like a macdonald’s burger. It’s not that rice is bad or I’m trying to stay away from rice or anything but it can affect different people differently.  
I’ll do another post another time about rice and carbs and stuff to hopefully allay people’s fears about rice and to show you that rice is okay, it’s just that there are better options out there to meet your nutritional needs. 
However, if you are staying away from rice and carbs in general, you NEED to replace it with other things to meet your nutritional needs. Cutting calories will definitely send you on the path to weight loss but think about nourishing your body with enough calories in the form of complex carbs, protein and healthy fats as well!
Say for example you are used to eating eggs, fish, veg and rice for dinner. Omitting the rice will cut your calories and help you lose weight yes but if you are just eating a miniscule portion of meat, fish and veg, it’s not going to nourish you very well. You should try to still meet your daily caloric demands but upping your intake of veg instead. Please don’t fear food. Trust your body. It’ll let you know how much it needs and what it needs as long as you continue to give it a wide variety of fresh wholesome food.
Stop worrying about calories! Start thinking about nutrition! 🙂
With lots of love 🙂

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