You know how conveniently hot toned bodies appear on your IG story or TV screen while devouring a juicy burger and fries? Does that make you feel guilty? Do you stop eating right away? No?
Yeah, neither do we. Okay, maybe a little guilty.
We want to be better and we’d like you to do better too. So we went out and found some inspiration from our favourite fire flame personalities to see what they eat.
Maria Nepembe
Breakfast: As soon as I wake up, I drink a 1.5ltr water bottle. Then I have either whole-wheat bread with boiled egg and green tea, or a bowl of cooked oats, or a bowl of bran flakes.
Lunch: I’d usually have a big meal. With loads of protein and some vegetables.
Dinner: I keep my dinner light. A salad or a fruit salad or steamed vegetables.
In between my meals I have fruits (or dried fruit). Healthy bars to snack on. And I carry a bottle of water with me. For extra hydration.
I try to avoid deserts, sugary food, fatty food and canned food.
I prefer to make my own juice as opposed to buying the prepacked ones.
Before going to bed I have an apple and another 1.5ltr of water.
Not really easy to keep up but discipline is key.
Leah Misika
I try to maintain a very high protein diet because it works best with my minimal workout routine.
Breakfast: I loooove eggs so I’ve mastered variations of eggy breakfast combinations. (Boiled eggs/ Scrabbled eggs, easy on the oil, although a little fat never hurt), Green eggs (my fave) I like to blend my eggs and my spinach in the blender and then scramble it. It looks terrible but tastes good and is a great power breakfast. French toast with whole wheat bread.
Lunch: I love a “bready” lunch cause it’s easy to eat on the go so a wrap is my go to. I buy my brown wraps from Spar and make my chicken wraps per day. I also usually have a snack before lunch unless I missed breakfast. Usually half an avo stuffed with tuna or lucky star canned fish. Some days its cooked and other days not, whatever my taste buds are feeling like.
Dinner: I like very quick an simple dinners and if I can put it in the oven even better. I am secretly the chicken breast queen, I like my food a bit on the dry and lean side. All I need is my protein and a salad side. If I’m really trying to be a bad girl I’ll do mash potato or make pasta (my weakness and favorite thing to make.)
I have to say that the way I cook and eat is not really a diet thing, it’s just a good eating habit that I developed a long the way when I was trying weight gain diets in my skinnier days and yes there were skinnier days and it was not cute at least not to me.
My fitness routine:
I’ll be honest and say I don’t really work out that much cause I’m lazy and the personal motivation is just not there . I am more a maintaince kinda girl so I’m not actually fit. But because I eat well and walk a lot I have fitness potential so its easy for me to get back into shape when necessary. I’ll do a full 2 weeks at the gym (weight intensive) and then do home work outs for maintenance. I recently quit the gym so now I survive on Youtube workout videos. Also if I’m not eating right I don’t workout. I tend to not eat when I working on a project or eat very irregular, during this time I don’t work out because it takes twice as much to get results. I workout when my body is in a good space to workout.
Personal tough:
If you are on a fitness journey as much as it is cool to document it is sometimes better to just workout in silence, people will see the results for themselves. Publicizing your workouts creates pressure which no one needs. Life is hard enough, I really don’t need anyone stressing me about my body.
I stay a way from regular cardio.
Emily Kandanga
Oh food! I have such a special relationship with food. We’ve been seeing each other for the past 25 years and it’s been blissful. A few bumps in the road but they only made us stronger.
But for real though, ask anyone who has seen me eat. I have quite the appetite and am never that girl who is shy to dig into a meal in front of people.
So here’s a breakdown of what my meals look like on those really good days, when I manage to prep my meals and get a solid sweat session in.
When I wake: A cup of water or two depending on how thirsty I am. Drinking water first thing in the morning is a great gentle way to way your digestive system up and have it great ready to perform optimally.
1 hour after waking: A cup of tea, I love rooibos or any organic green tea (no sugar). I start work quite early and eating breakfast that early will only leave me starved by 11am. So my cup of tea keeps me going until breakfast time.
2 hours after waking: I eat breakfast, I prep my food for the day at home or at least the bit that I can control. I will normally opt for 3 thingies of weetbix or a cup of oats.
Mid morning snack: Fruit is my go-to or a trail mix. Nuts a super brain foods and are a great way to refuel your body to keep it going through to lunch time.
Lunch: Lamb stew and rice. Portion control is key here. Breakfast should be your largest meal of the day while lunch will then be slightly smaller in size and dinner the smallest serving.
Mid day snack: Granola with yogurt. I try and time when I have this snack to 1- 2 hours before I know it’s time to sweat. I use this meal to fuel my workout.
Dinner: Steak salad
PS: I aim to drink 3 liters of water a day.
Tip: Carry a water bottle and just keep refilling it. If you are not too sure what you can snack on, let these few ideas featured on my blog inspire you.
As for my fitness routine, depending on what day it is I will knock out a 30 to 60 minute session. My go-to for days when I just want to sweat the day off is a high intensity interval routine. It consists of 3 to 5 rounds of 45 sec working and 15 rest per move, if you need extra rest add 30 seconds between each round.
Luis Munana
I don’t have a eating schedule or routine during the December- January holiday because I’m on vacation mode so I cheat throughout .
There you have it. Some inspiration to eat better!
