February 26th
Gosh, I can’t believe that one week is already passed! It was quite fast. And 4 more weeks to go!
Breakfast. Anton had a the same porridge with oat milk and I had an oatgurt by Kaslink Aito with blueberry flavour. I liked it, tasty and very suitable for a light breakfast!
Less coffee. Of course a cup of coffee for me in the morning is a ritual! I could not imagine to live without this drink! But I have started to reduced my amount of coffee consumption too. I had just one cup during my breakfast and the half of second cup just before lunch time. Again refering to Hintsa’s and Saari’s book, it is advised there to have coffee in the morning and before 12.00 p.m. because coffee could stay in your body for a very long time and later at night might influence the quality of your sleep (we are not talking right now about the competition days where we can use extra caffeine if needed).
Snack for training. I took couple of dates (taatelit) for us after training. I could take them when we had a day knowing that we might get home very late and go directly to sleep. We have found in Lidl the fresh ones, very soft and delicious, I advise you to try them.
Is it fair? This evening we went to City Market to check the gluten-free products section. And maybe to find somecookies or something sweet, a bit of a junk food but still with as less as possible angredients we do not eat. If you start to look closely at the prices, then this, of course, is not the cheapest way to eat.
Small package of cookies, where there is no lactose, no gluten, no eggs, no dairy etc. is quite expensive! In general, if you really do not tolerate gluten or any other components then the prices of such products are completely unfair compare with the ordinary food products!
As for us we walked around this section a little bit more and then left.
Our dinner. On Tuesday we trained very lightly and were engaged with other matters. It means that we ate a bit less then for instance yesterday. I fried oat block with sunflower oil by Keiju auringon kukkaöljy and our usual salad with all chopped veggies, greens and added sprouts which are aloud on the diet list.
But for some reason we still wanted something sweet! And, having entered our Prisma in Sello it suddenly appeared to us – jam! We could try a bit of jam! So much we wanted something sweet! At the same time both of us understood very well that although it was possible to have a little sugar, and berries, jams were not exactly the food products allowed by our diet. Nevetherless, we still wanted a dessert!
To be honest, the more time began to pass, the less and less we wanted some kind of unhealthy sweet food. But not absolutelly yet!
And our choice had only three tastes – blueberry, rhubarb and raspberry. We decided to try at first two of a kind – blueberry and rhubarb.
Sprouts. Today I would like to mention sprouts which we add very often almost every day to our diet list.
- Rich in proteins and vitamin C (42.32 mg / 100 g).
- The value of sprouts lies in the fact that they are so-called special “live food”. It means seed does not stop growing after their packaging, it goes even when you bought them in a store. Within 7-10 days, the amount of vitamins and elements in them continues to increase.
- In general form the grains contain: 6-20% vegetable protein, similar in composition to meat protein, 1-9% fat, 60-88% carbohydrates (sugar and starch), 1-4% dietary fiber, 1-3% of mineral and organic salts. That is why a composition of elements is optimal.
- Vitamins. Sprouts contain vitamins A, B1, B2, B3, calcium (100 g contains more than the daily norm, up to 1470 mg); potassium (497 mg / 100 g), phosphorus (616 mg / 100 g), magnesium (540 mg / 100 g), iron (up to 10.5 mg / 100 g), vitamin C (34 mg / 100 g). Sources of folic and pantenic acids.
