In all honesty, I'd prepared for my 3 week diet by eating far to much rich curry the night before and had spent quite an uncomfortable night. Completely self inflicted, and as I was told, I deserved no sympathy!
After following Karen's progress and hopefully learning a few lessons, I decided to make the breakfast as tasty as possible. Even though it seemed a bit early in the day for vegetables, I though not stinting on the quantity would probably help me make it through the morning without too many hunger pangs. There appears to be no limit on the amount of vegetables allowed, providing they are on the approved list. So my first invention of the week was Mediterranean Melange...
Mediterranean Melange.
Serves 2.
2 large mushrooms
1 large red pepper sliced
Half a zucchini
1 spring onion, finely chopped
2 medium tomatoes. quartered.
a little chopped herb. I used basil because that's what I had most of, but oregano would also be in keeping with the theme.
Place all the ingredients into a microwave proof bowl add a tiny splash of water, cover the bowl with clingfilm and pierced a few small holes in the top to let the steam out.
Microwave on full power for four minutes stiring halfway through.
Season with salt and pepper (and a little balsamic) and then eat.
It was suprisingly nice. in quite a bland way. It would have been improved no end by the addition of some cheese, perhaps a little Italian parmesan.
It did keep the hunger pangs at bay to an extent, but I was still pretty hungry by lunchtime. And I have to say the effect of a salad without any protein or fat component isn't anything like as sustaining as when the salad comes with meat or fish.
I was pretty suprised to read in the 3 week diet manual that the list of allowed vegetables included no salad. No Lettuce, no salad leaves and no cucumber. I can only assume that this was an accidental ommision. Perhaps the author doesn't like salad!
Anyway. I included them as I've read in numerous places that salad vegetables on the whole have negative calories, that is to say, they use more calories in the digestive process than they provide. (Having checked Wikipedia disagrees) And I decided that I'd have a pretty dull week with only the very restricted list of permitted vegetables.
Dinner was similar to breakfast. but this time I used tinned tomatoes (probably another cheat) instead of fresh and stuffed the microwaved mixture into a couple of nice red bell peppers before baking them in the oven until they were soft. It was much stronger tasting than breakfast, which for dinner was a very good thing.
Roll on tomorrow and some protein.
After following Karen's progress and hopefully learning a few lessons, I decided to make the breakfast as tasty as possible. Even though it seemed a bit early in the day for vegetables, I though not stinting on the quantity would probably help me make it through the morning without too many hunger pangs. There appears to be no limit on the amount of vegetables allowed, providing they are on the approved list. So my first invention of the week was Mediterranean Melange...
Mediterranean Melange.
Serves 2.
2 large mushrooms
1 large red pepper sliced
Half a zucchini
1 spring onion, finely chopped
2 medium tomatoes. quartered.
a little chopped herb. I used basil because that's what I had most of, but oregano would also be in keeping with the theme.
Place all the ingredients into a microwave proof bowl add a tiny splash of water, cover the bowl with clingfilm and pierced a few small holes in the top to let the steam out.
Microwave on full power for four minutes stiring halfway through.
Season with salt and pepper (and a little balsamic) and then eat.
It was suprisingly nice. in quite a bland way. It would have been improved no end by the addition of some cheese, perhaps a little Italian parmesan.
It did keep the hunger pangs at bay to an extent, but I was still pretty hungry by lunchtime. And I have to say the effect of a salad without any protein or fat component isn't anything like as sustaining as when the salad comes with meat or fish.
I was pretty suprised to read in the 3 week diet manual that the list of allowed vegetables included no salad. No Lettuce, no salad leaves and no cucumber. I can only assume that this was an accidental ommision. Perhaps the author doesn't like salad!
Anyway. I included them as I've read in numerous places that salad vegetables on the whole have negative calories, that is to say, they use more calories in the digestive process than they provide. (Having checked Wikipedia disagrees) And I decided that I'd have a pretty dull week with only the very restricted list of permitted vegetables.
Dinner was similar to breakfast. but this time I used tinned tomatoes (probably another cheat) instead of fresh and stuffed the microwaved mixture into a couple of nice red bell peppers before baking them in the oven until they were soft. It was much stronger tasting than breakfast, which for dinner was a very good thing.
Roll on tomorrow and some protein.
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