Consitency is the key, but its hard to find!

It's been a hard enough few weeks over the July holidays to be consistently eating healthy for Andrew and I.
What we have been focusing on, is what motivates us;
Andrew stated: 'What motivates me most is this', as he pointed to all the tablets he takes in the morning, 'I want to come off these tablets, and oxygen machine (which he uses all night & on and off during the day) so that's why I want to eat healthy. '

Andrews tablets in the morning & he has more to take in the evening!

That's why eating this is important.

So one of the things that motivates us as well is that food needs to look good. If its pleasing to the eye it is much more enjoyable to eat, but of course porridge and shredded wheat have its place too.

One of our lunches

We like to set up the day well with a good breakfast, every morning, but especially love our cooked  breakfasts (usually at weekends). Below is one of our favourite breakfasts, Poached egg with avocado, wheaten and tomatoes.

 Recipe: Poached egg with avocado, wheaten and tomatoes.

Serves 2  Approx 11(Smart Points) per serving

Ingredients:

1 Avocado 
2 eggs
4 slices wheaten
low low butter
Salt and Pepper to taste

Method

1. Peel the avocado and mash with 1 tsp oil and a 1/2 tsp lemon (just a drop), small pinch of salt and pepper.
2. Toast your Wheaten . We used Ormo Toasting wheaten (3 sp for 1 slice, 5 sp for 2 slices)
3. On one slice spread the avocado as much as you want (remembering that an average whole Avocado is usually about 10 sp, we used about 3sp worth guesstimate)
4. Poach an egg and lay it on the avocado spread
5. On the 2nd slice of wheaten use a tspn of Low Low butter and top with 3 or 4 cherry tomatoes halved
6. Pepper to taste

And Voila, there we go, doesn't take long to prepare at all and you have a great looking Mediterranean breakfast. 

 

Normally when we have a big breakfast we have a light lunch and then a regular dinner.

This sets us up well for the day and motivates us to eat healthier throughout the day.
Sustaining that motivation can be difficult, its easy enough to eat healthy at lunch and as long as we're prepared a healthy Dinner but for us it is usually the evenings that catch us out. For us the big challenge is to have snacks prepared that will keep us on track  and not ruin our whole day's efforts.
So as we travel on this healthy journey we will share as we learn ourselves what snacks can keep us going in the evenings.
Next blog coming sooner...( we hope to put a blog out at least once a week)