The Latchy Diet

I have started my first ever diet this week. It is a dare - or bet - or something. MM came up with the idea of eating as one of our mates does for a week. He is always munching on carrots, tomatoes and boiled eggs out at touch games and seems to only eat that kind of food. MM and others being sugar addicts cannot understand this obsession with fresh food. So we asked him to write down everything he ate for a week. We now have an Excel spreadsheet with our week's menu laid out for us. An example day would be:

Breakfast
1/3 capsicum
4-5 stalks broccolini
Mixed nuts
1/2 cup protein shake

Morning tea
2 carrots
1 banana
1 peacharine

Lunch
2 eggs
1 tomato
snow peas

Afternoon snack
1/2 cup protein shake

Dinner
Pan Fried Atlantic salmon
baby spinach
1 tomato
2 eggs

After
Coffee
4 Lemon crisps

As you can see - a lot of fresh food, no carbs. Obviously I can't eat the salmon so I am substituting tofu or beans when he has meat on the menu. So, this morning I had raw capsicum and broccolini and my first taste of protein shake. Not a fan of the shake - but I will need the protein since I am not eating as many beans and dairy products as I usually do. Have to say - thought I would be hungry but I am not. I haven't even eaten everything on the menu but I am full. It's not very satisfactory eating raw broccolini, but only 4 more days to go and I can go back to muesli and yoghurt!

I do enjoy eating fresh food, but I like to mix it up a bit more. Latchy's diet is the same every day except sometimes the dinner is different. I like to eat a variety of fruit and vegies and definitey need more beans in there!