Minimal Salads

Losing postpartum weight is such a challenge, especially if you just had your repeat c-section. Top that with muscle separation or diastasis recti. I have a tendency to put on several extra pounds during pregnancy, happened the first time when I had my daughter at 26 years of age and then again when I had my son at 34 years. So you cannot blame it on the child's gender or maternal age. I think its just hormones and I have the bad pregnancy hormones like many other women. I remember being so jealous of the beautiful glowing pregnant women at the maternity hospital when I went for regular checkups. What am I doing wrong? I had the perfect pre-pregnancy weight, walked 2 miles most days during the full 9 months, ate healthy, especially after I had borderline GDM my 2nd time, but but but...well my motto - lets not fret about things that cannot be controlled, I am so overjoyed and grateful to God for my two beautiful children. And I know I can get back my healthy body again, I have done it once, and I will do it again :)

So lets start with diet. I try to follow a low carb diet even after I was given the green signal after I delivered my baby that I am free of blood sugar and can get back to my normal eating habits. But to be honest, I liked the GDM diet and am trying to stick to the good habits I have started with help from my then nutritionist.

I have uploaded a video of what I eat in a day on my YouTube channel, hope you will like it. I will upload a few more in the coming days. There I share what I eat and the total estimated calorie intake in a day. I am a breast feeding mom, so once I stop breast feeding altogether, I plan to alter my diet some more.

Recipes for easy salad, I will keep adding as I make and take pictures of them -

1) Spinach/Mango/Sunflower seeds 

Ingredients -

Spinach - 2 cups, washed and cut
Mangoes - 1/2, sliced
Sunflower seeds - 2 Tbsp
Fresh lime - 1/2 tbsp
Quinoa chips - 10

Method -
Super easy, just take the spinach in a plate, top with mangoes, sunflower seeds. Drizzle the fresh lime and take a side of your favorite chips, quinoa chips are healthier choice. I also like lentil chips.

This is best with sweet mangoes. I mangoes are not sweet, add some honey instead of the fresh lime.
This is extremely low calorie food, so make sure to eat some protein with it, like a boiled egg/buratta cheese/chicken breast pieces etc.

2) Kale/Oranges/Almonds

Ingredients -

Kale - 1 cup, washed and cut
Oranges - 1/2, peeled and diced
Almonds - 2 Tbsp
Extra Virgin Olive oil - 1 tbsp
Parmesan cheese - 2 Tbsp
Chicken dumplings - 5 (I used the store bought ones)

Method -
Take the kale in a bowl, top with oranges, almonds and Parmesan. Drizzle the olive oil and take a side of some chicken dumplings. I toasted the store brought (frozen) ones on a pan w/o oil on low heat. Took about 10 minutes to get ready.

Do share your favorite salad recipe in the comments below :)

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