Annie Lawson is an author. The 55-year-old shares her day on a plate.
6.30am Weak skim milk cappuccino. Then two eggs scrambled with smoked salmon, spinach and avocado – no bread.
7am Another weak skim milk cappuccino on the balcony but only two sips when I spot a huntsman on my dressing gown.
7.30am Two Kit Kat fingers to assuage spider stress.
9.30am Buy lunch on the way to work (a seeded bagel with cream cheese, salmon and rocket) and another weak skim milk cappuccino to replace the abandoned one. I’m pescatarian and trying to minimise gluten due to reflux and Hashimoto’s disease.
1pm Find a sachet of oats in bottom of my bag and have it with blueberries I left in the fridge and skim milk.
3pm A giant Caramello Koala from a vending machine. Green and jasmine tea. I also drink over two litres of water throughout day.
6.45pm A quick dinner of sweet potato with lentils, a salad of chickpeas and tabouli, avocado, tuna, fresh coleslaw and feta with a splash of balsamic vinegar.
7.30pm While hosting a public book club at a St Kilda pub, I have a glass of prosecco, then a glass of champagne.
8.30pm Book club ends and I have another glass with the group and possibly another. But occasional blow-outs are fun!
10pm A Berocca, milk thistle tablets and two Gaviscons, washed down with a chamomile and lavender tea.
Dr Joanna McMillan says:
Top marks for… Your actual meals are excellent, especially that cracking dinner, which is high in fibre, protein and a whole orchestra of nutrients. Hydration is also a win, with water plus green, jasmine and herbal teas delivering useful plant phytonutrients.
If you keep eating like this you’ll… Have the foundations of a high-quality pescatarian diet but the chocolate rescue missions are swinging the day from nourishing to sugar-skewed, especially when those missions start at 7.30am. Alcohol also aggravates reflux and disrupts sleep, so you’re right to limit the book club blowouts.
Why don’t you try… One of the newer high-fibre, gluten-free loaves or seeded wraps, and expand beyond bread with gluten-free wholegrains such as quinoa, buckwheat, brown or black rice. For the 3pm chocolate emergency, try a sweet snack of Greek yoghurt with berries and grated dark chocolate, or a couple of medjool dates stuffed with a walnut or almond.
Annie Lawson is the author of Stoic in Love and Stoic at Work and hosts Bookoholics book club.
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