Motion Bali | Mel's personal diet

October 21, 2016
Health Tips

Mel’s personal diet

Here I open up with my personal tricks for my body. Over the past 15 years with experience as a personal nutrition and fitness coach I have learned, there is NO RULE but knowledge. Each of you can find the best way; if you put more awareness to what you eat and how it makes you feel. I am definitely a protein and healthy fat eating-person and people can see this.

This is my personal diet:

I eat 6 – 7 times per day and eat after a clock. My body is taught to eat every 2 ½ – 3 hour for sure. I can’t leave the house without food. I have fix times for my big meals.
I drink green tea 1-2x per day and I couldn’t be without it. The benefits of green tea are massive and I can see and feel the difference if I don’t drink it every day. My green tea – lemon mix is the ultimate SLIM & ENERGY drink.
I like to drink a lemon juice and water with my lunch. I sweat a lot and need to keep my body hydrated constantly. Now, that I am over 40, I start to see that the skin gets dryer and I drink even more water as before.
I have a late protein snack like nuts, egg, plain yogurt, protein shake. My day is busy and some days are longer as others but packed with unexpected things ala Bali life 🙂 So I stay awake longer because I need time for myself too and love my quiet evenings with my hubby or best friend. I need just 6hours sleep – that it is the right amount for me.
My family dinner is around 8pm and I eat for sure 1-2 snacks, which are protein rich. My stomach is flat and empty in the morning. Overnight I give my metabolism some work and burn calories overnight because protein takes a while to get digested.
I eat fruits only in the morning. I am not a big fan of eating too sweet and if I want to eat sweets then I eat chocolate or cake. I’m just not satisfied and full enough from fruits. I can feel the fast use of the fruit -sugar as energy, but no power on long time. That’s why I add yogurt to my fruits, nuts, seeds or a boiled egg to make the meal more complete.
I don’t drink juices and believe I haven’t had a juice over years. I like to eat real food. Juices are processed and so there is fewer vitamins and fiber in it, as you would have with a full hand of berries.
1 hand full of nuts or an egg white omelet is my favorite snack
I eat much more cooked food. This RAW generation is absolutely not mine. Still, I love and eat a fresh salad for lunch most of the days and add different things. For sure nuts, eggs and other protein sources as shrimps/fish. In the evening I eat only cooked food.
Magnesium, Q10, fish oil, lifepack vitamins, phyteuma plant are my first intake of the in the morning. In evening I have vitamins, fish oil, and magnesium again. Magnesium and fish oil are for me the most important ones. You can read about it on our Motion blog or newsletters.
Milk products are on my plate daily. I feel I need them. It might be 200gr ricotta over my vegetable, plain yogurt mix with raw chocolate or mixed with a big hand of nuts mmmhh and milk has to come with my coffee. Only in the evenings after a richer meal I have espresso. If I would have no milk products I believe I would be terrible bony. 🙂
I’m addicted to Coffee and I don’t care. I love it and at Avocado Cafe we have the best coffee blend of the island because I made it ;). Up until today it hasn’t had any negative effect to me to drink 3-4 coffees with cow milk on daily base. I also love it with cashew nut – or soymilk but my body reacts bad on soy. Any soy makes my legs heavy and I blow up.
No alcohol for me. I am really over it and had my strong party times and enjoyed it enough. Today I take more care and I feel much better without. I love to have red wine and cheese on my holidays or at a nice dinner with friend in my house.
I don’t eat bread and pasta. I really don’t and I totally lost the appetite for it. I might have a piece of cake in the afternoon. The cake at Avocado Cafe makes you addicted without regrets. I’m a Paleo foodie.