It’s day 13 of my 22-day vegan challenge! If you want to find out more about Marco Borges’ 22-Day Revolution, and begin with day zero, click here!
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Make sure you always read ahead on the plan, because sometimes you have to make some things the day before! Today’s breakfast was overnight oats – oats soaked in almond milk overnight, topped with flaxseed and fruit. With a banana on top, this was 325 calories.
Lunch was quinoa tabbouleh, and I made a half portion of this, as I think 85g of uncooked quinoa makes a pretty decent portion. You cook the quinoa and mix it with lemon juice, garlic, cucumber, tomato, parsley and spring onions. This was 389 calories. Love it – this is a really simple lunch that you could make ahead for work.
For dinner, it was vegetable curry again – I had frozen the extra portions from last time. The whole batch makes two big portions for about 512 calories. I also chucked in some spinach at the last minute to add a bit of bright green colour. Along with some rice milk and some gluten-free crackers, the day was 1392 calories. Today, there was no weight loss. Shouldn’t be snacking so much!
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Hi, I love the crispness of your blog and read it often – first time commenting, though !
I am interested to see if this diet will keep your weight off in the long term. The calories seem quite low, and with the amounts of weight I lift I am not sure whether I would be able to continue eating such small portions of food and continue to perform cardio at my usual levels. So, I was wondering whether you have seen a dip in your cardio performance? Do you plan to try to continue this diet in the longer term?
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Thanks Catona! I’m glad you like it!
I’m actually adjusting the portions to suit a lower calorie count because I’m really feeling a lack of energy lately and not doing very much exercise. If I was being more active I would still follow this plan, but with larger portions! It actually seems like a good method if you’d like to retain performance – there’s a discussion in the book of athletes using this plan and finding it worked very well to enhance their performance. So, I would suggest if you wanted to do this plan, to follow the guidelines for the recipes without halving some of them like I’ve done…
I don’t have any plans to stick to the diet beyond 22 days, but it has completely changed the way I think about food and how much I need to eat. I’d never have dreamt of just eating a salad of avocados and tomatoes for dinner before, but now I’m going to try to branch out and think outside the box (i.e. protein, starchy carb, veggies) a few nights a week. There are definitely recipes I’ll incorporate into my rotations (like the aubergine with pico de gallo and the walnut tacos!), and I like quite a few of the juices too!
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