Plant-Based Whole Food Awesomeness

As it is a new year and everyone with a gym membership knows that with each new year comes resolutions of losing weight, getting fit, and eating better. While my own resolution has nothing to do with any of these things I thought that someone might be interested in knowing what an active person on a plant-based whole food diet eats... or rather, how THIS person on a plant-based whole food diet eats on a daily basis.

Breakfast:

I ALWAYS start my day with a product called Vega (currently known as Vega One). Vega is a 100% plant-based whole food supplement that has 100% of all recommended daily intake values of vitamins and minerals including protein. It's important to note that it's virtually impossible to be protein deficient without also being malnourished; but if you're concerned about that sort of thing... Vega's got ya covered.

*Supplement Facts from the Vega website.
I take two scoops so the true daily intake is twice as much as what is shown. Two scoops was the old serving size of Vega One's predecessor, the Whole Food Health Optimizer. 

*Photo from www.Sambazon.com

I prefer to have the Natural (unflavoured) Vega One with Sambazon Acai juice. It's an organic, fair-trade acai source that has acai and some cane juice in it but nowhere near as much as any other acai juice I've tried. Sambazon is thicker than any other acai juice as well. Lately, I fill up my Blender Bottle with Sambazon and add two scoops of Vega One shake it (Like a polaroid picture) and drink it up... down in one go. Breakfast every single morning. It's filling, energizing, and keeps me feeling full for several hours.

Sometimes, if I'm feeling really hungry or am going to workout like a mofo I'll have a small bowl of a shredded wheat cereal with unsweetened Almond Milk.  USUALLY a Kashi shredded wheat but sometimes I prefer an Arrowhead Mills cereal as the Kashi is actually pretty sweet. I don't have this every day as I like to limit my gluten intake, but it's a really nice "second breakfast."

At around 10am I have my Vega Sport Pre-Workout Energizer in the acai berry flavour. I love this stuff so much that in the summer I like to mix this up and freeze it and eat them as little "popsicle" treats (as long as it's before 3pm). When I first tried it I wasn't expecting it to do anything apart from taste good so I was impressed when it really did give me a ton of energy but NOT the jittery, "I just had an energy drink" kind of energy, but more of a focused motivation and desire to run, dance, workout, kick that microbio exam's butt kind of energy. It's a little pricey but worth every penny in my book! I usually buy the tubs but they were backordered from the shop I usually order from so I ordered several single serving/sample sizes which are really handy if you go to a gym or travel.

*Supplement Facts from the Vega Sport website.

I drink the Pre-Workout Energizer about a half an hour before I plan on working out and then I usually have a half of a banana during the workout as I usually workout for an hour to two or three hours and the sugars and carbohydrates in the banana help maintain my energy level.

After my workout I ALWAYS drink Vega Sport Recovery Accelerator in the Apple Berry flavour. It is my FAVOURITE thing EVER! It tastes amazing and I'm never sore after my workout no matter how intense it is and never have trouble sleeping. Did I mention that it tastes amazing???

*Supplement Facts from the Vega Sport Website

I drink the recovery accelerator almost immediately after I've finished my workout but no later than 20-30 minutes post-workout. Worth the expense, I promise!

For dinner I usually go for some steamed organic broccoli florets. Any brand'll do but I tend to stick with this one or the Meijer organics line. Make sure the ingredients list only has broccoli... no added salt, butter, or anything. 

As a girl who lives in a city where there are literally cornfields IN the middle of the city I like some sweet corn with my broccoli. It's important to go organic with corn as it's one of the most common GMO's. This stuff is my absolute favourite! I go nuts for it and have to pace myself. 

And some brown rice! 

I like to mix it up with the veggies but ALWAYS more veggies than rice. 

*Snacks could be anything from raw almonds to fresh mangoes. Dried fruits are good, too but make sure there's no added sugar. Fruit is sweet enough on it's own... it doesn't need any help.

It's important to eat when you're hungry. I graze all day long. Don't restrict yourself, fuel yourself.