Thursday, August 21, 2014

Diet: Foods for Growth

Diet is something that is constantly evolving the more and more research I do. However right now this is what my diet currently looks like:

Old Diet Version
Breakfast/Mid morning Snack: 2 tangerines, 1/2 red bell pepper, 1/2 red pepper, 8oz yogurt, 2 boiled eggs, 1 bag of boiled brown rice
Lunch: Sweet Potato Banana Bread, Kindey bean and tuna salad (mixed with the pulp of juiced veggies)
Dinner: 1 frozen fish fillet, 1/2 cup frozen veggies

Calories
1/2 avocado- 160
1 tuna can- 45
1 kidney bean can- 110
1/2 bell pepper- 46
2 tangerines- 80
1/2 sweet potato- 100
1/2 banana- 53
1 apple- 72
7 cherry tomatoes- 21
2 celery stalks- 17
2 large carrots- 60
5cm cucumber- 34
8oz yogurt- 100
2 eggs- 200
1 square dark chocolate- 60
Butter Scotch Chips- 180
1 frozen fish fillet- 110
1/2 frozen veggies- 60
Total Caloric intake: 1,508

1. Eat 1/2 avocado, 1/2 red bell pepper with 2 tangerines (Essential Fatty Acids/Vitamin C)
2. Eat 1/2 sweet potato (everyday of week), 1/2 banana (everyday of the week), 4 walnuts, kidney bean soup (4 days a week), tuna can (4 days a week), pack of frozen fish fillets (3 days a week), 1 apple (every day of the week), 3 sticks of celery (everyday of the week), 7 cherry tomatoes (everyday of the week), 1 frozen veggies pack (3 tablespoons), 1 cucumber (everyday cut a small portion off), 1 pack of carrots (1 a day)
3. Chop up tomatoes, celery, add a drizzle of ranch
4. Mash sweet potato and banana, with an egg, 1tsp vanilla extract, cinnamon, and a dark chocolate square, bake at 375 degrees for 20 minutes until firm in mini muffin tins. http://www.theleangreenbean.com/sweet-potato-banana-bites/
5. Make a salad out of canned kidney beans, tuna can, 3 chopped celery sticks, 1 chopped carrot, and cucumber http://www.fruitsandveggiesmorematters.org/kidney-bean-and-tuna-salad

6. Mix the 7 cherry tomatoes with the 3 tablespoons frozen veggies, 5cm cucumber
7. Eat the 4 walnuts, 1 apple with yogurt, and frozen fish fillet
 


And after all my research I have compiled the perfect Hair Growth Diet. I couldn't stick with this because the calorie load was around 2000. INSANE for a little short person like me who can barely get a good 1500 calories a day. Still, for those of you that are interested, here you go:

Breakfast 
Lemon Water 30 minutes before
Take Spirulina tablets 30 minutes before
Take Chlorella Tablet
Juice 1 medium sized carrot
Juice 1 cut piece of ginger
Apple
8 strawberries
1 slice cantaloupe
32 grapes
2 boiled eggs
1/2 avocado
Red bell pepper
Whey protein drink
Green tea (mixed with black and white tea bags)
1 bottled water
Enzyme Pill

Morning Snack
3 Tbs pumpkin seeds
23 almonds
1 tbs goji berries
Multivitamin
Coral Calcium
green tea (mixed with black and white tea bags)
1 bottled water

Lunch
Spinach Salad
1 can tuna
1 tomato
2 celery stalks (4 baby ones)
1/2 cucumber
1 tbs wheat germ oil
1 tbs safflower oil
Yogurt 8oz (plain/nonfat/Greek)
B complex pill
1 dark chocolate
green tea (mixed with black and white tea bags)
1 bottled water
Enzyme Pill

Dinner 
1 clove garlic
1/2 cup collard green
Broccoli
1/2 sweet potato
Black Beans
Tofu
green tea (mixed with black and white tea bags)
2 bottled water
Enzyme Pill

Bedtime Snack

Aloe Vera juice
Probiotic pill
Magnesium + Calcium drink
1 optional bottle water

Update!: The kidney bean tuna salad wasn't really working out as well as planned guys.. I really can't eat very much at a time and ultimately it was too much for me to handle at once. So the new plan? I make a big batch of the sweet potato bread and I've learned to make black bean/kidney bean brownies. It is much smarter and cheaper to do it that way. I will update yall on the exact recipe and ingredients very soon. Look for it in my upcoming post!

Updated New Diet Version

I have decided to follow a mix up of my own dietary program. I agree with being raw but doing it 100% isn't better. In the end, no matter the label, just be healthy and knowledgeable of where you are getting those vitamins and nutrients. Be responsible for your health and educate those who are not. Its all about balance and avoiding the extremes....and full vegan or fully raw is something extreme. Eating a few pieces of chicken or a turkey or fish for a example along with vegetables while avoiding all processed carbs/sugars and drinking lots of water is the healthiest safest way to go.

MY dietary program: "Listen to the body"

  1. I drink raw vegetables in the morning (2 carrots, 1/8 cucumber, 1/2 beet, 1/2 apple, 1 celery stalk, red cabbage, 1 sweet potato, 1 bunch of kale) then wait 20 minutes later to eat my protein/starch combination (brown rice, 2 boiled eggs, and 1/2 an avocado) 2 water bottles
  2. I eat cooked vegetables at lunch (spinach, tomatoes, cauliflower) with 1/2 a red bell pepper, 2 tangerines, 1 watermelon square, 1/2 pear, 1/2 plum  2 water bottles
  3. I eat banana bread for dinner with 1 tablespoon chia seed, 1 tablespoon hemp seed, 1 tablespoon flax seed with a dallop of whip cream 2 water bottles
  4. Workout 2 water bottles

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