Fail to Prepare, Prepare to Fail

One of the biggest challenges for me in terms of eating healthy is staying healthy at work. I would be as well taking shares in Pret a Manger, where I tend to eat lunch from most days.

A typical working day menu for me over the past few months has looked like this:

Breakfast
Grande skinny vanilla latte
Toast with peanut butter or a croissant or on a good day an apple and a yoghurt

Lunch
Tuna mayo or ham and cheese baguette

Mid-afternoon
Grande skinny latte and a bar of chocolate

Dinner
Packet of fresh pasta with a couple of handfuls of spinach and pesto

Damage
At least 2200 calories a day, no exercise and very little nutrition and then I wonder why I don't look like Brooklyn Decker...

Well, here's why!

Brooklyn Decker's diet as featured by Women's Health magazine this month. I like all of these things, yet I don't eat like this. Why? Because I'm not prepared. I then end up eating rubbish and realise I can't eat for the rest of day if I want to stick to a decent calorie total for the day.

Therefore time to start planning. So tomorrow the plan is:

Breakfast
Raspberry and chocolate protein shake made with almond milk

Mid-morning
Tall skinny cappuccino

Lunch
Tuna wrap  with spinach, red pepper and 0% fat Greek yoghurt

Mid-afternoon
Apple

Dinner
Venison steak with salsa verde butter and sauteed courgettes and spinach

Damage
Just short of 1000 calories, 112g of protein, around 25g of fat and plenty of fruit and veg.