excellent! you must be living healthily and conscientiously.
i used to have fruit as a dessert after meals, but that didn't pan out well for years. my new doc, who's well known in silicon valley among health nuts, advised that the tummy would work on meals first before digesting fruit that came later after meals. sometimes, they would start rotting in the stomach before going thru' the intestines. he advised that i should consume vege and fruit first, wait for about 30 mins, and then proceed with the main meal.
i'm beginning to add grapefruit, grapes and apple to the mix. avocado is great too, but it turns the drink into green creamy smoothie. will also drink more water 30 mins before a meal. doc says it helps to "purify and prepare the way".
At another discussion thread [something regarding "I need to recharge"), I posted the following:
If you allow me, may I use my personal experience as an example, which is one of several alternatives to combine regular exercise and eating balanced meals.
In the morning, drink a cup or 2 cups of room temperature water. [p.s. one of old university friends who continue to reside in Singapore, drinks one litre of water before breakfast]
About half an hour later, breakfast which comprise either a red grapefruit or an orange, oatmeal (large flakes) porridge with some cinnamon and 2% partly skimmed milk, plus an egg on alternate days. Instead of oat porridge, I may have some cereals (granola or bran flakes or shredded wheat) with 2% milk.
Then, I walk about ten minutes to the gym, run for ten to twelve minutes, followed by muscle strengthening exercises at the gym for about 40 minutes, Mon to Friday, although sometimes I work out only for 4 days, and sometimes though rarely, for 6 days.
Between breakfast and lunch, I may have some yogurt and some almonds and cashews.
Lunch, if I do not eat at a restaurant, usually comprise of mixed beans salad (chick peas, navy beans, red kidney beans, romano beans) with tomatoes, cucumber, celery, red or yellow pepper. Sometimes, salad without the beans, and a sandwich (whole wheat bread with oven roasted turkey breast, or Montreal smoked meat / beef, or sausage with mustard but rarely use mayonaise). Sometimes, home made soup with sandwich.
If Sunday lunch is not eaten outside (and I love to eat a variety of food at a buffet restaurant), then it is usually a salad and pizza.
After lunch, may drink a cup of coffee or tea, but only one cup of coffee a day, very rarely 2 cups of coffee. Some days, no coffee.
Between lunch and dinner, baguette with brie or some other soft cheese and a cup of coffee, and then at about 5 pm, apple or banana or pineapple or mixed berries (blue berries, raspberries, black berries, strawberries) snack. A cup of water half an hour before dinner.
Dinner, usually as follows:
Monday - bbq salmon or oven baked salmon with dill, two to three spoons of steamed fragrant Thai rice, steamed broccoli and cauliflower
Tues - either skinless boneless chicken breast or bbq steak (striploin or boneless rib eye or prime rib), boiled potatoes (2 small or 1 medium), steamed green beans or asparagus or stir fry mixed vegetables
Wed - usually pasta with stir fried shrimp and vegetables is a tomato basil sauce
Thur - as in Tue, except that it could be lasagna, or lamb stew or bbq boneless skinless chicken breasts, very seldom have steak twice a week, and stirfried zucchini and mushrooms, or other vegetables
Fri - perogies (dumplings filled with potatoes or saukraut or mushrooms), or pasta primavera
Sat - same as Monday
Sun - either pasta or chicken or steamed fish or poached sole fillets with dill and garlic
After dinner, evening snack could be a slice of whole wheat bread with peanut butter, or eat some peanuts, or an apple.
I am in my 50's, never smoked tobacco, never use drugs, 5 ft 9 inches, just under 140 pounds, BMI is about 20.1, about 13% body fat (desirable range is 11 to 22%)
....make sure the avatars look healthy too.
