Food? That's my favourite dish.

How many fitness blog updates start with the phrase "I love food"? Well my battle for roller derby update starts like that too. I love food. And another cliché coming up! I'm not going to follow a strict diet but eat normal home made easy food. Oh good I've read that many times and it has led to some recipes that have included some ingredients I've never heard of. It's okay when I'm in the mood of learning something new but if I just want to make plain food I want it to be simple. It also needs to be easy to take away 'cause I mostly eat packed lunch at work. 

So I have had some stomach pains lately... Why? Well the amount of apple pies (~5 a week) has led me to eat quite a lot apple pie (and apple pie dough). I've eaten too much bread and even though I'm not coeliac I get pains from bread if I have more than 3 pieces a day. My mother has the same thing too, it has been bothering her as well. That's quite annoying 'cause I like my bread plenty! I also have endless space for chocolate, liquorice and sweets in general. Talk about those pains the next day, mmm-m-m. I think I'd be quite huge without my problems, if I could eat all I want. Now after eating really poorly for a couple of weeks I need to get this straight, it's affecting my moods already. I hate it. Wroaaar I need real food!! Not pieces of butter and crystals of sugar blocking my to-be-high-blood-pressured veins. Ouch how bright my future seems!

I already failed yesterday and ate too much bread, 4 pieces. Now I'm suffering from the pain and having an inner grin at myself. "Practice what you preach", "know your body", "live by your limits", well I'm not good at this! That's why it's my topic of the day. Despite the failure I also made progress and finally got my sugar portion down a bit. Only a piece of apple pie (surprise) and a couple scoops of apple jam. And a protein bar. So if that's coming down, you can only imagine the previous daily sweets! Haha, for example on Sunday I ate 3/4 of a pie and ice cream (for breakfast)! On Monday I had cookies, apple pie, two brownies and apple delicacy. So yes, yesterday was tuning down. And already I feel better (despite the bread).

What's for lunch today?

Fried veggies

Some fried veggies I made yesterday. There's carrot, zucchini, yellow&green&red capsicum, garlic, onion, a little pepper, salt and soy sauce. This is a huge pan and it will carry me trough the rest of the week at work. Sometimes I like to make real soft veggies with more water, but this one is made with less water, maybe 1 dl + random amount of soy sauce. I haven't tasted it yet but the mix of many vegetables can never fail.

Hello fishy!

With veggies I have a piece of this salmon made in the oven. We bought a cheap salmon with reduced price, it was on offer and had 30% off the price. Couldn't resist an offer like that! (Well actually everyone who knows me real well know that you can sell me ANYTHING. I'm the easiest consumer there is.) Making salmon in the oven is almost too easy. I oiled the pan, put the fish with the skin into it, sprinkled some water on the fish and poured loads of lemon pepper -mix on the fish. The mix has lemon flavor, black pepper and salt. So it's basically all you need with a fish. Sometimes I add chili or a Mexican mix we got from my dear friend who came back from Mexico. Yup. Then just have it in a 200 degrees oven for 50 minutes and it's done! You can sprinkle some water after 15 minutes and after 30 minutes if you like it smoother.

I'm having some sour cream with the veggies and fish. I have loads of sour cream in our fridge because I'm always prepared to bake apple pie. Now that I don't have any apples anymore 'cause I made loads of jam of them, I can use that sour cream with real food.

In addition to lunch I always eat breakfast. Always. Sometimes only some yoghurt, sometimes bread, porrige or fruits. Then usually I have another small snack at morning coffee at work. Then lunch which I like to keep quite reasonable - I become really tired if I eat too much at lunchtime. After work I have something and the size depends if I'm going to practice or doing some other workout in the evening.

This is for a starters! Maybe I'll hit the subject again. On weekend maybe, I can reflect how I managed the week.