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I am sharing with you my weight loss journey today, this is the beginning and a very surface introduction to why I am on this journey and my approach to weight loss (highly inspired by Naked and Afraid) and I wanted to share with you my high protein plant based meal prep I will be eating this week for my personal weight loss!
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Don’t have a lot of time and you need some ideas for meal prep for weight loss this is the video for you we’re going to get all these meals done in 1 hour and have leftovers to spare this is a high protein low carb weight loss meal prep
That I’ve decided to make and I would love to share with you what we made today in one of those containers with all the food that we prepped we are eating broken down by your body um by a catabolic process and then built back up before we get started I wanted to
Share a little bit of my weight loss journey and where I’m coming from we are definitely still going to be doing meal preps today so stay tuned until the end of the video to see what I prepped for this week’s weight loss meals all my life I’ve always struggled with my
Weight even when I was a kid and I have gone on multiple diets even when I was like a teenager then fast forward having five kids it really didn’t help with my weight like I would put it on when I was pregnant and then I would have the
Babies I would lose them the weight and then you know life happens and so I never really thought about losing weight so fast forward again until now my husband Trey and I were watching a lot of naked and afraid just for fun and it was just so interesting to watch them
Kind of go through being naked in the wilderness and surviving and this year I was actually inspired by that I actually decided all right I’m going to lose weight this time and it was so interesting to see how resilient our bodies are in terms of survival and a
Lot of the times you see these people out there in the wilderness either thriving surviving or just surviving with literally nothing and they go through so much and they lose so much weight you know don’t get me wrong I am not a nutritionalist or a doctor
Obviously I am just the type of person that likes to rip the Band-Aid off as fast as possible and just get stuff done as as quick as possible like if when I was pregnant birthing the kids I just want to like push the baby out as fast as possible to get the pain
Over and done with so that’s how I am this is my personality I don’t want to tiptoe around everything let’s get it done so when I decided to lose weight and being so inspired by all these awesome survivalists on Naked and Afraid in the beginning my Approach was to
Control what I’m eating I’m going to eat in a calorie deficit and that’s what I did for the first I would say 2 3 weeks and so I would eat one meal a day and I would eat sort of like 400 500 calories in myself like if these guys can do it
And survive out there eating basically nothing or like bugs and locusts to Just Fish every once in a while I can lose a little bit of weight right obviously if I was like really really hungry I’ll have the privilege of being home to eat something but I was determined to lose
Lose this weight and so in about 2 3 weeks or so I’ve lost 10 lbs by doing a really low calorie intake eat once a day you know fasting is a thing it really is and also one meal a day is a thing as well so that’s what my Approach was else
I wanted to mention is I do take some supplements now there are some that I take for my blood because I have a genetic blood disorder called beta Thalia so my iron and my hemoglobin typically is pretty low so I take fluidic this is fluidic I take this for
Iron it actually really does help and it’s actually really delicious one of my favorite supplements of the day I also take some minerals this is the ancient Earth minerals so because all of our produce that we eat even the organic is actually lacking a lot of the minerals
That are needed in our body so this ancient Earth minerals has all of the minerals and vitamins that you need for your body and last but not least I have the perfect Amino now Trey swears by this he explained it to me proteins are the house the amino acids are the
Building blocks or the building material to build a house so you do need the amino acids and this was recommended to him by his doctor and it really helped him with healing and so I take these I take this every single day love it it’s been about 3 weeks four weeks or so
About a month since I started my weight loss journey and now I am starting to incorporate more workouts in my day and so I’m going to work out five times a a week and plan to eat um a little bit more calories so I would love to have a
Low carb um high protein diet at the moment that is my plan so far this is the first week that I am sort of eating more and I am going to show you the recipes for this week that I have planned to do myself let’s fill all these empty meal prep containers with
Delicious high protein low carb foods that are easy easy grab and go I have a personal goal to lose 15 lbs starting from today now since starting my weight loss Journey I’ve already lost 10 lbs really really easily really quick and now I’ve decided to incorporate working
Out and just eating more protein and more amino acids I recently went to Whole Foods Market and they have a hot bar which had breakfast so I just went in and got some breakfast and I was really inspired by some of the items that I got for breakfast day there was
This lovely brussels sprout salad with the citrusy orange juice dressing so we are going to start off with that recipe I preheated the oven to 425° F on convection chopped up about 2 lbs of Brussels sprouts here I’ve drizzled it with a little bit of grape seed oil
Salted it I’m going to season it with some onion powder as well and then we’re going to bake this for about I would say 20 minutes or so we don’t want it too roasted um but I I mean if you want it all roast roasted you can go ahead and
Put it in for a little bit longer I just wanted it cooked and tender something else I wanted to prep were some tofu steaks and a tofu scramble with beans I don’t have a tofu press but I definitely am thinking about investing into one but I’m just going to open up these packages
Of tofu we’re going to hand sort of squeeze them just to try to get a lot of the water out as much as possible I do this because I don’t want too much liquid in My Tofu dishes so I’m just to squeeze it out as much it’s definitely
Going to drain a little bit more as it sits and then we have our tofu prepped I am separating about 1 and 1/2 blocks of tofu we are going to season this and marinate it a little bit with some sesame oil I have some coconut aminos going in here you can use some
Tamari if you have I am also using some onion powder I would suggest using garlic powder if you have as well we are slicing this up just so the marinade can go and be penetrate it into the tofu to absorb more of the flavors as you know
Tofu is not very flavorful so you kind of want to work at it work a little bit harder to get some more flavor into your tofu it is best that you do this overnight if possible or maybe at least just an hour ahead of time slice up your
Tofu put it into your marinade make sure all of the tofu is under the marinade but just for today this is what I’m doing so I sliced them up I’m going to add a bit more seasonings in between these cracks and slices then we’re going to add these slices onto a baking sheet
Lined with parchment paper just so it doesn’t stick to the tray and we’re going to put this in the same oven as the Brussels sprouts you can see here I’m trying to dip the tofu into the marinade as much as possible here before I put them on the lined baking sheet as
I mentioned you definitely want to work harder to get the flavor into your tofu otherwise tofu is kind of boring actually without its flavors don’t waste any of that marinade get as much of that off onto the tofu as possible and we’re going to stick it into the oven to roast
Until crispy so I’m going to give these about half an hour to roast all righty it looks like the Brussels sprouts are ready you can see they are a little bit crispy on the tops but it definitely isn’t overdone as Mercy came to snack on my Brussel sprouts we are going to have
Her help with our dressing so I’ve started with a whole orange here we cut it in half and we’re just going to get the juice out so this whole orange yielded about a half a cup or so of orange juice you can actually use grapefruit if you want to or some lemon
Juice that would be really nice and citrusy I’m drizzling in about a tablespoon of olive oil some salt here and then we’re going to give it a stir and taste once the dressing is done I’m just going to lift up this whole parchment paper full of our brussels
Sprouts into a bowl here so that we can dress it in the bowl let’s drizzle that delicious orange juice sauce on here it’s always nice to dress your vegetables when it’s warm just because all the flavors kind of penetrate into the vegetables a lot better and then I wanted to add a little
Bit of spice or sweet red onion into this so that’s what I am doing here and when I tasted this I realized that I should have tried adding a little bit of mustard if I could do this over I would put the mustard into to the orange juice
Dressing and for some extra orangy flavors I chopped up one more orange and I just mixed all of that up into this delicious salad you want to make sure that you’re tasting as you go if you want some more salt go ahead and put some salt some
Spiciness would be nice in here make sure it is perfectly seasoned to your liking now on to the next item that we’re going to prep which are some mushrooms and some Swiss chard this was was one of the items that were offered at the hot bar at Whole Foods Market but
They used kale instead so instead of kale I just used Swiss chard I want these mushrooms to be kind of chunky so I sort of quartered these baby Bellum mushrooms you can definitely chop these up as thinly as you like I just left it chunky and then we’re going to chop up
Our Swiss chard as thinly as possible add it to our cast iron with some onions some grape seed oil and some salt we’re going to keep this quite simple here because the mushrooms are really meaty and I really love the flavor of the mushrooms itself you can see that
There’s a lot of liquid that the mushrooms excrete so I cook it until most of the juices are cooked out and then it is nice and ready for meal prep on to making our tofu scramble so I have a larger pot here because I knew
That I was going to need more room to cook the tofu and the beans so in this pot I have added a little bit of grape seed oil some onions here and and I am crushing and tearing up our tofu you can really just mush it in between your
Fingers to make it sort of a scramble type texture or if you want to just put the tofu inside the pot and just use a spatula to break it up season it with whatever you want I have some onion powder here you can use some garlic
Powder and to make it a little bit eggy I have this Indian black salt which is named kalaok this is such a unique ingredient I decided to try it out this salt actually makes your food taste eggy because of the sulfur in it so we have
Added some of that we’re going to season this with a little bit of smoked paprika and ancho chili powder while that’s cooking I have the tofu ready here and as you can see I just wanted to make sure that the the bottoms are nice and crispy and they’re not just like soggy
And soft back to our tofu we are adding some pinto beans which I have drained and rinsed I noticed I needed some more seasonings here so we’re going to be generous with it you can add whatever seasonings you want I added some cumin powder some more of that smoked paprika
And ancho chili powder we’re also going to add a little bit of Italian seasonings now you can use some oregano if you want and some more onion powder of course I then decided to add a little bit of cheesy flavors so I added some nutritional yeast as well but you can
Opt to not use it if you don’t want to for a little bit of umami I did add some coconut aminos just for some sweet and salty notes to this once it is all nicely cooked we’re just going to taste it for seasoning always taste as you go
Once you are happy with your food the tofu scramble is ready for meal prep I found these containers at tjm they were actually fairly cheap but you can definitely use some glass if you prefer we’re going to fill the large compartments with the tofu scramble and
Then we’re just going to fill up the other small containers with some mushrooms and the brussels sprout salad you can by all means mix and match this if you don’t want your brussels sprouts with your scramble don’t use it in there if you want all tofu go ahead and use it
You can actually just separate this if you want to as well you do you I also wanted to mention that I’ve been loving overnight hemp seeds they act exactly like overnight oats and I actually almost forgot about the tofu steaks here so I’m just going to do one contain with
The tofu steaks add our vegetables and our mushrooms don’t forget the tofu scramble if you want some extra protein in your meal prep as well going back to the hemp Seas really quick you can definitely if you want to just separate this for me to keep this very easy and
Less dishes we’re just going to add the hemp seeds and chia seeds in the same container you don’t like to mix salty and sweet items you can definitely just you know um do it separately so this is the exact same same so I have some hemp
Seeds here some uh chia seeds and some blueberries and then the night before I’m just going to add some coconut milk and some water you can add some nuts if you want anything that you like so some cinnamon would be great in here too you
Can just leave it as is once it soaks overnight you have the the most delicious high protein sort of like an overnight oats but with hemp seeds for dinner it’s the thing you have leftover right there there’s also so I wasn’t going to calculate this
But Trey has talked me into it and we decided to break everything down to see how much protein we are actually eating if we ate one of those meal prepped containers how much protein she’s eating how much protein I’m taking because I’m eating one of those containers uh a day
Plus my uh perfect aminos so we’ve calculated in one of those containers with all the food that we prepped we are eating where 63.5 s g of protein just in that container and then with my perfect aminos I am getting 10 more G so that’s 73.5 s g of protein that’s a
Lot an average woman needs roughly I think it was like um um think about 50 50ish grams of protein a day um I know my my doctor recommended that he wants me anywhere between like 40 to 60 gram of protein a day I’m not on any type of high protein
Um diet or anything that’s just what the goal that he wanted me at originally so you know it sounds sounds about right I’m I I I average about 188 lb um and so you know going off with what he said and what Google’s saying it sounds about accurate considering she’s
Only eating one me a day 73 gr of protein that’s that’s it’s a good amount of protein so if you add two of those meals plus a breakfast I mean you’d be right extra that’s a lot of protein protein shakes you can if you want to do
Protein shakes you can go ahead and do that um dinner if you want to just double up and just do the same thing for dinner you can do it that way as well and you’ll get plenty like that’s a lot of protein yeah the supplements alone
Amino acid supplements that we use it is 99% um exsorption rate um as long as you take it on an empty stomach and so she’s like guaranteed getting about 10 grams 10 grams every single day you know because you have to take in account that even though she’s consuming that amount
Or you’re consuming that amount it there’s a lot of variables that go into play like um how well your stomach’s digesting how how well you’re absorbing it like just because you’re putting that number into your body doesn’t mean you’re actually absorbing all of those um amino acids and breaking down all
Those proteins and building them back into other proteins because yeah protein is first broken down by your body um by a catabolic process and then built back up broken down into amino acids and then built back up into protein so that’s the reason like why I ultimately advocate
For amino acids over protein but you know like proteins are still good thanks babe and there you have it everybody meal prep I have six meals here there’s actually leftovers in under an hour this is high protein low carb I hope this was motivating for you to get in shape this
Year and just get healthier this year these are some ideas that I was inspired by and I love these they taste absolutely delicious interested in this journey and this type of content we would love for you to come along on this journey we would love to share all of
Our meal preps for losing weight so since there’s leftovers that’s what I’m going to have for breakfast as well