I made a diet timetable!

As I’ve said many times, including on my health and fitness page, weightloss and healthy eating have a lot to do with when you eat and what you eat at certain times.

The recommended daily calorie intake (for a female of average height) is 1200 calories per day, so here I’ve broken up the calories throughout the day; the most in the morning and the least in the evening. 

The images I’ve added are just to give you ideas of what to eat/cook. These foods are all vegetarian and things that I like. Eating a lot of eggs, nuts and seeds is always good for muscle growth. Fruits and vegetables are always great.

Don’t forget about calcium and vitamins!

Remember, carbs in moderation! None past the afternoon. The carbs that you do eat should be small portions of “good carbs”.

It’s best to eat nothing after 7pm/8pm, but if you are really hungry, then don’t eat anything other than vegetables. Hopefully the image will give you some ideas (vegetable soup, roasted vegetables, tomato salad, garlic mushrooms…)

Link to bigger version of the image:

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IF YOU WAKE UP AT 7am AND SLEEP AT 10pm (for example) THEN PUSH ALL THE ‘BOUNDARIES’ BACK BY TWO HOURS… adjust to your awake hours!

Hey guys! Sorry that I’ve not done one of these in a while but I’ve been veryyyy busy (and lazy) so I thought I’d do a three day diet blog now!

Friday 18^th March

I genuinely forgot to have breakfast lol, I was so busy rushing around to leave for my 10am lecture and trying to sort uni work out that I left my lovely banana at home haha.

Later that day I got some pretty bad news which just killed any hunger that I had so the only thing that I ate until my evening meal was a tomato and feta salad from the Student Union.

I then went to the gym to try and run off some stress. I ran for 10 minutes at level 9, and then walked fast on an incline for 10 minutes. I then went on the spin bike for 10 minutes, then did an abs workout, then went on the stepping machine for 10 minutes.

For dinner I had boiled vegetables (mushrooms, carrots, broccoli and spring greens) with herby gravy and three Quorn sausages.

Saturday 19^th March

My friend Belinda has been trying to convince me that cereal is evil. Whilst I’m still of the belief that it is good for digestion and mostly quite healthy, 350-400 calories of carbohydrate is a lot to be having every morning, so I’ve pretty much given up all carbs and my breakfast is now an amazingly delicious fruit smoothie.

I’ll usually put in 1 banana, 8 pieces of frozen apple (equivalent to one apple) some mango or pineapple and 5 or 6 cubes of frozen natural yoghurt, quite a bit or orange juice, then a bit of water. It’s so nice, especially when it’s very cold. Its calorie value is probably about 250-300.

I then went to the gym and ran for 10 minutes at level 9.5 and walked for 5 minutes at incline 10 and speed 6.5. I then went on the spin bike for 15 minutes, did abs, arms (triceps) and thighs & gluts (squats, sumo squats). I then did 5 minutes on the stepper at level 5. Then I had a banana!!

I had dinner early because I was going out that night :D I had marinated tofu that was SO NICE! Even my boyfriend loved it and he’s not a vegetarian. But it’s quite expensive and just this small amount was almost 400 calories!!! I suspect that’s because it’s quite oily, but I tried to drain that afterwards.

I had the tofu with boiled vegetables and gravy. My gravy is so nice; it’s Bisto vegetable gravy granules then I add dried mixed herbs. (I probably have about 50 calories worth on a meal.)

When I went out I didn’t drink because of the bikini contest approaching; got to stay in shape! Even though my friends thought that I was boring lol. On the way home I went to Subway (I love the ones that say open until 3am) and got a salad bowl. Then when I got home I was still so hungry that I had three vegetarian sausages which is quite bad to eat so much so late but I had been dancing and it wasn’t carbs.

Sunday 20^th March

Breakfast: No bananas, too lazy to go to the shops just for them so I substituted it in my smoothie with another apple, (it wasn’t that nice).

Lunch: 3 vegetarian sausages (yes, I eat them a lot but they’re only 57 calories eachI love them and I need the protein for muscle build) and 2 scrambled eggs.

Dinner: I’ve not eaten it yet! I assume it will be something boring, vegetarian and low calorie.

Gym: Not today! It’s my rest Day

Charlotte Elizabeth x <3 x <3 x

Now this diet is quite extreme so I wouldn’t suggest young girls copy me or girls of a healthy weight, but I have a few weeks until a photo shoot and less than 7 weeks until the Hooters annual bikini contest, so it’s time to hardcore diet <3

What I’ll be Eating.

It’s best for your metabolism to eat little things several times a day, rather than 3 huge meals a day, that way your body can deal with the calories better.

Breakfast: Medium sized bowl of cereal with semi-skimmed milk and sweetener.

Snack: Carbs allowed – probably vegetarian sushi, nom nom nom.

Lunch: Protein and fruit

Snack: Non-carb-snack e.g. carrot sticks

Dinner: Protein and vegetables e.g. vegetables and Quorn, vegetable and prawn stir fry, vegetable omelette.  

When to eat: No carbs after 5pm, No food at all after 8pm.

Drink: Lots of water and hot water with lemon.

My Goal Weight.

Height: 5’8”

Heaviest Weight: 158 lbs

Current Weight: 137 lbs

Realistic Goal Weight: 126 lbs

Dream Goal Weight: 119 lbs

Exercise.

Gym 3 or 4 days a week

-  Cardio; treadmill, spin bike, stepper, cross trainer.

-  Abs

-  Gluts & thighs

-  Arms

Work (waitress) 2 days a week

-  7 hours on my feet, lots of walking!

Day One!

Okay, I won’t be posting a blog of what I’ve eaten every day because you’d all get very bored and… CBA! I’m a busy woman; full-time 3rd year double degree with approaching deadlines, a job, the gym, boyfriend and social life… I don’t have time to keep taking pictures of carrot sticks and telling you that my legs look super fat today haha! But I will try and post one or two times a week.

Breakfast:

Medium sized bowl of Special K Red Berry with artificial sweetener and semi-skimmed milk.

Snack:

Banana

Lunch:

Small salad comprising of lettuce, cherry tomatoes, blue cheese and some mustard/mayo sauce thing. Also 2 scrambled eggs and a few grapes.

Snack:

I was so hungry when I got back from the gym that I ate one before I remembered to take a picture haha! I just saw this is Waitrose, it’s really nice and low carb! All three rolls are less than 200calories! They’re Prawn Rolls which are rice paper rolls stuffed with prawns, vermicelli noodles, carrot, lettuce leaves and coriander. Yum yum! (I’m a vegetarian but I do eat prawns, nothing else.)

Dinner:

I ate this far too late at night but to do uni work in the library all day then going to the gym at 6pm or 7pm means that I’m not going to get any dinner until 8pm or 9pm :/ Eating that late at night is a huge NO for dieting!! I just boiled a load of vegetables and eat them with vegetarian gravy. Eating late at night isn’t too bad if it’s just veg.

Exercise:

I went to the gym with my friend Belinda (lovebeli.tumblr.com), this was my first day back so I didn’t do anything amazing haha!

-  Treadmil; 3 mins warm up, 11 mins running, 5 mins walking at incline 11.

- Gluts and thigh exercises

-  Abs exercises

-  Stepper; 5 mins at level 8

-  Cross trainer; 5 mins at level 4

I’ll be back in a few days ;)

Charlotte Elizabeth x <3 x