♥ Day 19/100 ♥ Clean Eating Challenge

Intake for day 19 of 100 of my clean eating challenge! As I told you guys in a blog post before I was invited to a Chinese restaurant, that's why the intake of day 19 looks so petit! 

Avocado & Kefir wholegrain sandwich with apple juice

Actually, I made one whole sandwich for me but mom fancied one too, but since I was out of avocado I shared the half! 

POST-WORKOUT SNACK!

Greek yogurt & strawberries <3

By the way, for those wondering what kind of workout I did:

CARDIO!

And I burned about 480 calories.

Alright, see ya! xoxo

♥ Day 14/100 ♥ Clean Eating Challenge

So, today's vegetable soup is made of...








JK IT'S SUNDAY LOL

Not pictured: Peanut butter.

♥ Day 13/100 ♥ Clean Eating Challenge

Intake for day 13 of my 100 day clean eating challenge!
-Breakfast-

-Yogurt with wheat bran and maple syrup!

-Lunch-

-Bananas and strawberries topped with wheat bran 

- Rosehip tea

-Dinner-

- Broccoli, tomato & zucchini miso soup

- Cherries <3

-Snacks-

WATERMELON! @3@

- Broccoli, lettuce, cucumber & tomato salad

Clean Eating Challenge: Pimples!?

 Everybody gets pimples, including me. But...since the past few days, my skin is BREAKING OUT.  Pimples on my chin, forehead, and even on places I never had pimples before: ...MY CHEEKS!
So, what does this have to do with changing your eating habits? Isn't clean eating supposed to be wonderful for your skin, hair, nails, basically everything in and on you?
Now it might sound a bit confuzzling...  When I used to munch on chocolate my face was basically pimple free, and now since I'm steaming veggies and piling up on fruit & yogurt my face breaks out.(And nope I'm not allergic to anything I eat!)
The thing that is happening right now is called a ~detoxification process~ and that is because all the toxins of processed stuff like chocolate and croissants gets purged out of my skin!  Old, bad skin cells get killed, new, good skin cells loaded with the benefits of broccoli, blueberries and whole grains emerge! After one or two weeks, my skin will be the most most glowiest, shiniest &  freshest as ever! 
It's not only the skin scrubs & washes, facial creams & make up that are responsible for a porcelain like visage, but more what YOU put INTO your body, obviously! <3

♥ Day 12/100 ♥ Clean Eating Challenge

Intake for Day 12 of my 100 day clean eating challenge!

-Breakfast-

- Yogurt with Blackberries

- Pineapple Juice

 -Lunch-

- Tofu, broccoli & tomato miso soup

 -Dinner-

- Broccoli, Tomato & huge green leafy vegetable I don't know the name of and parted the leafs from the sticks, as you can see! That all, topped with tablespoons and tablespoons of organic yogurt, because I'm a yogurt fanatic! haha

-Snacks-

- Rosehip tea

- Blackberries! Yum.

Scrambled tofu & egg white.

THE protein bomb!

-Exercise-

Nope! : O But going to the gym tomorrow with my mom, yaaaay!

♥ Day 11/100 ♥ Clean Eating Challenge

Bleh. Today, when I woke up I started to get so busy I didn't have time for breakfast or snacks! And then, I also didn't find time for lunch ;_; At the end of the day, I was so, SO hungry! When I finally had time to eat something (at 4pm), I had
- 1 Banana & Rosehip Tea
Well, it happened again. Yes, Bananas, which I want to stop eating, BECAUSE OF THE CARBS

OH GOSH. Always when I'm hungry, like wow, I can't think anymore! Then stuff goes like this: - omg i got the rumblies  - omg i need to eat healthy - DAYUM ITZ A BEWNANA!! I'm such a...Bananaddict ; D *drum* And then, because I knew I kind did my clean eating totes wrong (because actually you're supposed to have breakfast, lunch, dinner and two snacks o.o) I decided to create this protein bomb of yumminess!
May I present you? My mozarella tomato omelette, made with two egg whites and one egg. Leavy green stuff called salad on the side. Later I started feeling a bit dizzy though, so I snacked on:
- About 130g Mangooo! - 2 glasses of pineapple juiceee! - Raisins (like, 30g)
AND. A GLORIOUS TEASPOON OF PEANUT BUTTER.
(yes this is included in clean eating but in my opinion, peanut butter is devilish good and should be damned in hell. oh yes, you heard that) Which will probably be the last one dis decade. Cuz, ya know, dem makin da fatty fat. But it was so gewd. No regrets. Never look back. Adios amigos.

♥ Day 10/100 ♥ Clean Eating Challenge

Intake for Day 10 of my 100 day clean eating challenge!

- Breakfast -

I felt really awful this morning so I didn't have breakfast! >.<

- Lunch -

- Steamed Broccoli & Tomato

- Steamed Salmon

- Rosehip tea

note: I'm so going steam things instead of frying them in a pan! It's way healthier & more yummy! *.*

- Dinner -

- Tofu, pak choi & tomato in miso

- Exercise -

I didn't go to the gym today because my mom told me that going to the gym 3 days in a row is a bit too much and I should rest! >.<

Clean Eating Challenge: Getting Emotional!?

On day 9 of my clean eating challenge, I kind of messed up. But, not like, I gorged on junk food.  In fact I can't stand seeing cookies or chocolate anymore!
So, what happened is that day 9 went all good, until like 7.30pm. I started getting worried, shaky & dizzy all of sudden! Then, I obviously wanted to stop feeling like that so I thought I should have 1/2 of my favourite fruit: The mango!! ^.^  (Even now I just get happy thinking about mangoes....<3)
1/2 of a rather big mango. That's over 23g sugar! I still felt really bleh.  So I had the other half of the mangooo! 
Venus, you're a dummy. You knew where this was leading, right? Anyway. Bananas? No question. I love them! Let's have one.  Only one???  But Venus, I thought that today's the last day you're eating bananas: they've got too many carbohydrates! Never eat them again! But, they're your favourite thing! Go ahead. One more, you'll be happy! What? Why? Why two bananas? I thought 3 is your lucky number! Wait...'the heck do you want me to do? Eat two more bananas, because 5 is pretty number?  Go away. You're tricking me again! So I went away. Then, back again. Back to the kitchen.  Hey, you. Yeah, you. You messed up! Wanna mess up some more? When you've already messed up, messing up some more won't make a difference! 
...And that's how I messed up "some more". Although, only on clean things, and I didn't go over my daily calorie needs for my height & weight. Also, I went to the gym afterwards, and burned 500 calories on cardio machines.
When things like this happen...don't be mad at yourself ^.^ It's a 100 day clean eating challenge, because it is challenging...and we can't get better if we don't make mistakes sometimes. Mistakes are there to learn. o3o If you don't like yourself, and accept what happened, it will most likely happen again. >.<
Today, I thought that I should fast, but then I changed my mind and decided to make today a better & healthier day! It worked ^.^ Also, mom told me it's OK to have a cheat day a week. But I said "No, cheat days are for cheaters!" lol 
Going to the gym now, buh-bye-bye-boooh!

♥ Day 9/100 ♥ Clean Eating Challenge

Day 9 of 100!

- Breakfast -

- 250ml semi skimmed milk

- 30g Walnuts

- 1 Saturn peach

 - Lunch -

- Steamed Broccoli & Tomato

- Scrambled Egg Whites

- Rosehip tea

- Dinner -

- 1/2 Salmon Steak

- Cherries

- Rosehip tea

- Snacks -

- Coffee with 70ml semi skimmed milk

Not on the picture:

1 Mango

3 Bananas

Yogurt

Dried Apricots

♥ Day 8/100 ♥ Clean Eating Challenge

Intake & Exercise for day 8 of my 100 day clean eating challenge!
- Breakfast -

- 2 Bananas

- 1 large orange

Note: Ooops! I guess I had too much fruit again. Also, I wanted to quit eating bananas....but, it was so early in the morning (5am) and I totally forgot about what I planned to do! I was half asleep and saw those two bananas, and all I could think was "BEWNANAS. OMNOMNOMNOM" @_@...

 - Lunch -

- Cod Liver 

- Raw spinach leaves

 - Dinner -

- Raw spinach leaves

- Celery

- About 130g plain organic yogurt

-Snacks-
- Rosehip Tea - 1 Saturn peach
- Coffee with 100ml skimmed milk - 2 egg whites
Exercise - Today was cardio day! Elliptical - 35min (200 calories burned) Staircase - 18min (150 calories burned) Walking on the treadmill - 25min (100 calories burned)

Clean Eating Challenge: The next level!

Hey, heeeey, heya!
As I mentioned in a post before, I decided to make this week more challenging, followed by an even more difficult fasting week! 
Observing the first week, I noticed that my intakes include more fruit than veggies o3o If I wanna do REALLY well (and I want to! ^^) I will have to limit fruits to 2-3 servings a day & make space for MOAR broccoli & spinach!
 Dried fruits like my beloved raisins or plums are also a no-go! They've already been processed, so I can't consider those as entirely "clean".   Today, I was so, SO tempted to have dried apricots with my coffee, but luckily I was smart enough and turned to egg whites. Yaaay! 
Saying that, I'm cutting out all grains and instead try to focus more on protein and healthy fats. To get more protein, I will also consider drinking egg whites from now on!
I decided to do a fast after this week, because I feel like you need at least 2 weeks so your body can adjust to the better, healthy stuff & do a detox then, to get rid of all the toxins! My preparation for the detox week starts on Friday, becaaaause then I have to start eating lighter stuff so my blood levels don't drop like BAM! when there's no food >3< 
AND, of course I will keep you guys updated everyday!

♥ Day 7/100 ♥ Clean Eating Challenge

Yaaay! I finished the first week of my clean eating challenge! I'll make the next two weeks a bit more challenging though...hoho. 
Here's my intake & exercise for day 7 of 100:
- Breakfast -

- Walnuts, 35g

- Yogurt, 145g

- Blueberries

- 1/2 Mango

-Lunch-

- Yes. That bunny is an egg. (And I'll write about how I made it tomorrow soon!)

- Blueberries

- 1/2 Mango

- Dinner -

- 1 Banana

- Blueberries

- 40g Yogurt

- Rosehip tea

-Snacks- - Coffee with 100ml skimmed milk - 3 dried apricots 
AND, I had a second cup of coffee with 100ml skimmed milk, which I didn't take a picture of. Kyaaa.
-Exercise- Set 1 - Legs Elliptical - 10min Squats  - 3x30 Toe Raises  - x100 Wall sit - 60sec Staircase - 5min Toe Raises - x100 Lounges (with 2kg dumbbells) - 3x30 Wall sit - 60sec Set 2 - Arms (with 2kg dumbbells) Flies - x30 On-knee push ups - x25 Press - x30 On-knee push ups - x30 Curls - x30
Set 3 - Abs 70 Russian Twists 20sec plank 50 crunches 20sec plank 25 situps

♥ Day 6/100 ♥ Clean Eating Challenge

If you're stalking me on this blog, Twitter or Facebook, or just everywhere, then you surely know that today I went to an event called HYPER JAPAN and that means... Japanese (fast) food stalls. Cute Japanese candy. White Carbohydrates & FAT.
Anyway. 
So I'm on a day out. What should I do to not starve but still "eat clean"? First, oat bars like those from Nature Valley might sound like a smacking healthy and convenient idea. BUT. When I turned around the packaging an red the nutrition label, my inner scream teared appart the faint threads in my soul.  And then, like always, I found a solution! 

Yeees. Yes. I baked myself oatmeal & wheat bran bars with dried apricots and  walnuts. Nutritious, high fibre, yummy and most importantly: made with clean ingredients! I made 5 of them and had those during the day. Really practical because those bars don't make stuff dirty! 

I put the 5 bars in an air-tight box to carry 'em 'round in mah bag.

-Breakfast-

-1 homemade oatmeal bar

- Dried plums, 30g

- Plain organic natural yogurt, 65g

- Coffee with 100ml skimmed milk

-2nd breakfast- (3 hours after the 1st one)

- 1 homemade oatmeal bar

- 1 banana

- Just more oatmeal bars -

Super healthy high fibre power oatmeal bars next to mom's okonomiyaki.

Super awesome homemade by Venus oatmeal bars next to a black coffee.

The last two incredible homemade by no other than Venus oatmeal bars next to a cup of peppermint tea.

- Snack -

65g organic plain natural yogurt with half an apple.