Hello and happy Wednesday! Is this week dragging, or is it just me? Sheesh, I swear I thought it was Friday every since I woke up Monday. Maybe it’s the fact that I have like three exams this week, but I seriously cannot wait for the weekend.
Thankfully, we have this little WIAW party to distract me in the mean time 
I am the queen of procrastination.
Lets see what I’ve got!
Random dinner of tilapia, cucumbers, spaghetti squash, spinach, carrots, and nutritional yeast. It actually worked really well together! Oh, and I top literally everything with nooch. It’s a problem.
Oh yes. I’ve been loving yogurt bowls again – plain Greek yogurt with blueberries, Ezekiel Almond cereal, and almond butter. Yummm.
Turkey burger, butternut squash, sweet potato and peanut butter, cucumbers.
Still loving this stuff… Can’t get enough!
Some more tilapia, broccoli, cucumbers, sweet potato, and nut butter.
Eggs with spinach and ketchup, Ezekiel cinnamon toast, and sweet potato with coconut oil and cinnamon. Apparently I’m loving sweet potato haha. And yes, that is two sources of carbs in one meal. Carbs = muscles! Do not fear them, please!
Another reason you shouldn’t fear the carbs…. oatmeal. A cup of dry oats, almond milk, stevia, cinnamon, egg whites, and topped with melty coconut peanut butter. Never gets old
Random power bowl where all the veggies are hiding under the chicken. Green beans, wilted spinach, carrots, hemp seeds, nutritional yeast, chicken, and coconut aminos! My favorite mix lately.
Random snack plate of homemade protein bars, some topped with almond butter. They are pretty low-calorie, so I needed more than usual to get my calories in for that meal ha.
Those muffins are little b’s cinnamon apple protein muffins and they are delicious!
And last but not least, I still have my egg white/cinnamon/stevia omelet topped with almond butter every night before bed. My muscles need to be fed even before going to sleep – protein and healthy fats. Sorry this look like poop.
Do you eat anything before bed?
What is something that you eat every single day no matter what?
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ok your “CRAPPPY” iphone pics put mine to SHAME!!
and m?
pistachios.
always.
daily.
needed or not :-0
Miz recently posted..Im in love with Sweet Relish!
It’s a good thing I’m eating breakfast right now because your eats always make me hungry!!
Liz @ iheartvegetables recently posted..What I [Snacked On] Wednesday
Every of your meals looks sooo good and yes to carbs! How some people can eat little to no grains/potatoes is beyond me
. While I’m not into sweet potatoes you make them seem pretty awesome.
Eating right before bed is happening every night for me and I’m not about to stop anytime soon
. Chocolate banana oat bran with almond butter is something I eat every day – combining a lot of my favourite foods it’s a winner.
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eggs and/or egg whites are a daily must for me. And of course, nut butter of some sort. Speaking of which, I really, really want that coconut peanut butter, it sounds insanely delicious.
And you’ve made me really want sweet potato, but that tends to be a daily occurrence for me.
And yes on the not-calorie-dense bars. I just made JE’s pumpkin protein bars over the weekend, and I know that for me to take them as a snack today I’ll need a few of them + nut butter to make me satisfied. But I’m cool with volume eating!
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THANK GOD someone else is with me on not fearing carbs! God sometimes I feel like the entire blog world is like “ahhhh carbs! Ahhh paleo is the best!”
It looks like a yummy day’s worth of food to me 
NO. Carbs are not bad for you. They’re good for you, especially active people and athletes.
Rant over
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I’ve been loving yogurt bowls lately too and have definitely been having some Greek yogurt at least once a day as of late. I do pretty much eat an apple every day no matter what. What recipe do you use for your homemade protein bars? Those look great!
Danielle @clean food creative fitness recently posted..What I Ate Wednesday
Your eats look delicious! I’d love to know the recipe for your homemade protein bars- do you have them posted on your blog anywhere?
Also- where did you get your coconut PB? Sounds amazing!!
Happy WIAW
Every week I am so impressed with all of the homemade protein bars you make! Lol I need you to come bake for me
Are most of the recipes from the web, or do you make up your own?
Oh amd I going to try and make the egg white with but butter this week! I have been meaning to for a month now lol, but I just keep forgetting!
Jana @ Happy Wife Healthy Life recently posted..WIAW: Just Another Manic Monday
I’m happy for you to have your yogurt bowls back. When I reintroduced yogurt, life just got better. Also, seeing your meals is helping me to get over my carbophobia, so thank you for that! If I’m hungry before bed, I’ll have a spoonful of peanut butter or something else with a bit of fat and protein. It does the trick!
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I need to try making my own protein bars, I am so intrigued by these.
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OMG I AM SERIOUSLY DYING RIGHT NOW!! Your food looks spectacular!!!! That omelette, the spaghetti squash, the butternut squash, OMG my stomach is pissed that I don’t make it such delicious meals! LOL!
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I love toasted Ezekiel bread, especially when it is topped with nut butter and cinnamon! It is also awesome with pumpkin butter
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Hannah @ CleanEatingVeggieGirl recently posted..Roasted Part 6: Dijon Broccoli and Cauliflower
Yogurt bowls with cereal! Omigosh that’s definitely something that I eat everyday without fail, and I think my addiction is just getting worse, to be completely honest… but I kind of like it
And I’m pretty sure that it would be impossible for me to sleep without eating something before bed. Night time snacking is definitely a must.
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Oh man, ALL of your meals look so good! I’ve unfortunately had to cut out grains and dairy, so I’m missing my greek yogurt like crazy. But I just need to make peace with myself that the pain isn’t worth it. ::Sigh::
I’ve heard nothing but amazing things about it but still haven’t tried it.
Might have to check out this Sugar Cookie Sleigh Ride
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Your pictures aren’t terrible, silly. They still manage to leave me hungry. Um, yes. I need something to eat before bed! I can’t imagine not snacking, I’d for sure wake up in the middle of the night starving. It’s just a must. I’m also obsessed with nutritional yeast, literally just pile it on anything!! Jealous of your tea! Next year I’ll have to try and hunt some down to finally try.
Lisa recently posted..What I Ate Wednesday – Baked Oats
Oh yum I am so obsessed with that tilapia plate you have there. Lookin realllllly yummy. This post has got me craving sweet potatoes, no surprises there. I still just cannot get on the oats train! Weird blogger over here! Don’t worry give me crunch bread and I’m a happy babe in carb-land. Miss you!
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i love that tea too!! itz best with vanilla almond milk and vanilla nunaturals!! yum!!
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I’m impressed you eat that before bed! I can’t fall asleep if I eat anything even 3 hours before I go to sleep
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I want the eggs and the Ezekiel toast. I hope my grocery store carries this tea.
I always eat before I go to bed! Usually some casein pudding of some sort with some nut butter yummm
i normally eat egg whites in some form..or greek yoghurt every day. mmm.
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yum everything looks so good! i have a sweet potato daily, they’re just to good and so filling. That eggwhite before bed looks so good i just may have to try that! i eat a snack whatever im feeling for the night but nothing ever to close to bed for some reason!
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Mmm, I just love seeing all your delish, clean, healthy food!
That omelette…how you got it so neat and perfect looking, is completely beyond me. ( My omelettes= a scrambled mess)
I have a kind of lame question for you: when you cook your chicken, for example, the chicken in your powerbowl, how exactly do you cook it? And do you season/marinate it at all?
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Thanks
Xxx
everyday lately I have been eating lots of eggs and coconut oil LOL
your eats look sooo good. making me what a winter squash right now
xoxo
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I want to come over and eat all your food!!! It looks so good! I love eating before bed… even if I’m not hungry!
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Glad to see someone else out there loves carbs! Who cares if you have bread AND a sweet potato at a meal! Both are perfectly healthy and are great options for refueling…especially if you work out during the day! I would never think twice about having more than one carb at a meal!
I would like to THANK YOU for publishing the best idea of nut butter on sweet potato, for there is NOT one sweet potato I consume without sunflower seed butter or tahini or both on it hehe
Hi Brittany! Your blog is one of my favorites and you’re a total inspiration to me
I was wondering what macro food groups you suggest to eat before bed if you’re trying to build lean muscle/lose fat? I’ve heard lots of different things from complex carbs to cottage cheese and I’m somewhat confused haha.. Thank you! Good luck on your exams and have a great week
Hi, Dorothy!! Thank you so much
I would suggest only having protein and healthy fats before bed. I personally do egg whites and nut butter because it is the perfect ratio of the two. Carbs are used for energy, and while you’re sleeping you aren’t active. Protein and healthy fats will be used by your muscles during sleep which is why it is the perfect combo. You could also do and type of lean meats like chicken, steak, etc. or something like a runny egg or egg whites with nut butter. You could also do cottage cheese because it is a slow digesting protein! I know I would rather have something sweeter before bed, so I would go with eggwhites/nut butter or cottage cheese/nuts/nut butter 
I usually stick with only veggie carbs for dinner as well, because I am not moving around at all after dinner so I stick with protein, healthy fats, and veggie carbs. Then I have my protein + healthy fat before bed. Hope this helps!! 
I have been eating yogurt + cereal before bed almost every day for the past little while. I did read that it is actually a GREAT time to be getting protein in, so your muscles have time to utilize it for recovery. I’m just going to go with that and continue to get my Greek on.
Your food looks beyond delicious…
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Hey, greek yogurt is still protein!!!:D
I love my carbs too, especially in the form of bread and oats. I wouldn’t last even a day being Paleo haha!
I always always eat a snack before bed. I would wake up starving in the middle of the night if I didn’t!
Chelsea @ One Healthy Munchkin recently posted..What I’m Loving Wednesday
I just ate dinner and yet that bowl of oatmeal totally has me drooling. It must be the nut butter.
Gina @ Health, Love, and Chocolate recently posted..WIAW: Confessions of a Nut Butter Addict
Oh I always eat something before bed. I honestly don’t see how someone can’t. It’s usually a yogurt (that’s been in the freezer for a 1/2 hr), with slightly frozen pb2 & whatever toppings I’d like to add
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I’m so bad about photographing my food, and I tend to eat the same thing again and again, so it’s probably better that way. Lately it’s been frequent eggy oats, egg scrambles, and some form of chicken every day. And protein pudding and PB before bed!
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All I ever remember is crappy iphone pictures. And then I rarely use them.. so I just have this phone full of pictures of food.
And that sugar cookie tea? YUM
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i love greek yogurt with fruit & nut butter! seriously so filling!
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I eat sooo many carbs!! I love them! I eat a PB&J almost every day. There might be one day here and there I don’t, but I loveee my PB&J’s! I need to try nooch!
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o my gosh..all of this looks delicious!! great example of eating to fuel and replenish muscles
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Ooh those cinnamon apple protein muffins look really good! I’ll definitely have to check out that recipe.
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