Bianca's weight loss: back to basics [part 3]

Good God, keep blogging it's harder than I thought, proud of my boyfriend @exyle, he does that everyday.

But lemme start it.

Thinking about my new diet - or new nutritional education as we call it in Brazil - I try to recall how the ideal meals looked like back then. Yes, brazilian, because this South American body doesn't lose weight like a Dutch girl, this way I need to think and eat like if I'm in my home country.

Still in Brazil, I'd wake up everyday and have my breakfast. I believe I used to eat the same breakfast since I was kid. That would be something like this:

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A loaf of bread, ham and cheese or butter, milk with chocolate or coffe, tea, and a piece of fruit. Seems a lot, but we believe breakfast is the most important meal, so I must be generous.

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A "snack" three hours later, a fruit or tea/coffe. That simple.

Two hours later, lunch.
In Brazil, differently than Holland, we have warm meals.
In the right picture above, you can see a tipical brazilian lunch - well, at least where I used to live.
Rice and beans, a salad (any) and meat (any). EVERY DAY!
It can change of course, sometimes different beans or different salads, never with fat sauce. The meat was mainly beef and chicken. And that's it.

During afternoon we have another snack, but this time more similar to breakfast. Usually coffee, bread or a piece of cake. If it's hot enough, add a super cold juice.

At dinner, you repeat the same as your lunch. YES! THE SAME. No mistake. The slight change here is that now the portion of salad is bigger than the portions of rice and beans, and meat. We try to make dinner lighter for a better night of sleep. I still remember my grandma saying "indigestion gives you nightmares", and she was damn right.

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a fruit for snack, not bad. This is guava and passion fruit

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It was so simple back then. If I wanted to lose weight I'd just have to reduce my portions and cut the treats on weekend. It was so organized and certain, I knew what to do... I still do, right?

Since I moved to Holland I lost the track, I changed for better in so many aspects, but with my eating habbit I might be downgrading - time to change.

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Cale and Banana. Both types I never found in Europe, only in my beloved Brazil

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In a few hours I'm going to have dinner again, not matter what is the temptation today, I need to return to my roots and I'm sticking with rice and beans just like the old times. I might not need to get back home to change it, but home is coming back tonight, and this is going to transform my life again.

Thanks for reading,
B