I’ll explain myself right now: to me, eating an animal’s heart is not weird, it’s just meat. If it’s weird to you, substitute it for regular beef. Why I love heart? It’s cheap (under 3€ per kilogram), very tasty and also lean. Here is my bean and heart stew recipe.
Makes 3 servings.
What do you need?
1 beef heart, about 700 grams
1 packet (= 400 grams) of frozen green beans
1 large red bell pepper, about 200 grams
60 grams of butter
15 grams of oil
salt and pepper
How to make it?
First of all, take your beans out of the freezer some hours before you start cooking. Let them defrost well.
When they are defrosted, start cooking the dish. Boil a pot of water for the beans. Add in the beans and some salt and cook for about 5 minutes (check what the packet says to get best results).
Get your pan preheating to medium high heat and add the oil to it. Chop up the beef heart into pretty small cubes. When the pan is hot, add the meat and make sure you don’t burn it. Season with salt and pepper. Make sure you don’t forget your beans and drain them when they are done.
Chop up the bell pepper and add to the pan, add a dash of salt. Fry for a little while and then add the meat and bell pepper mixture to the beans in your pot. Put in the butter and let it steam for some minutes, until the butter is melted and all the tastes have combined.
Serve up! Bon appetit!
What about nutrition?
The whole recipe is 1550 kcal, 137 grams of protein, 46 grams of total carbs (including 22 g of fiber so about 24 g of net carbs), 93 grams of fat.
If divided into 3 servings, one serving is 517 kcal, 46 grams of protein, 15,3 grams of total carbs (including 7,3 g of fiber so about 8 g of net carbs), 31 grams of fat.
16th of February 2013. Exactly one year ago. An unhappy girl has finally made a decision that this is it. She has had enough of this body that is nothing she wants to look like. Tired of being obese, tired, heavy. Yesterday she weighed herself and got numbers she never thought she would see: 85,5 kilograms. BMI of 30,7. Tears, self-pity, despair…
The plan called LCHF starts from that day along with 3 workouts per week. In the first week she loses 5,5 kilograms. Amazing! The first 3 months go in a similar pace: losing or zero (or nearly zero) weeks. Everything is easy and 13 kilograms go in 12 weeks.
First bigger weightgain week comes in June 2013. But this doesn’t stop her. She has her obstacles and mistakes and bad moments but no matter what: she keeps going. She falls but gets up every single time.
In the meanwhile, she has started to work out 5 times a week and gotten stronger and healthier.
My weight throughout one year. Easy beginning, rough end.
Gains and losses
Cumulative change
And today is the day that this girl, ME, celebrates her one year anniversary of living a healthy lifestyle. I have lost quite a bit of weight and am working out 7 times a week. And I have a lot of goals that are ready to be accomplished. I’m not at my ultimate goal weight of 63 kg yet but I’m more than sure that I will get there. One day! I can and I will!
And while being on my journey I decided to create this blog. And I cannot express what a great decision this has been for me! I’m happier and more positive and finally have a place to express my thoughts considering workouts and nutrition. Most people who read my blog are so supportive and give great advice. Thanks to my blog I’ve met people who I otherwise would have never met. I have found people who share my interest in food and sports. What more could you ask for? Great opportunities are flying on me all the time. Thank you all for that! 🙂
And to thank all of my wonderful readers I’m hosting a giveaway right here on my blog!
The winner will receive 2 prizes: 500 ml jar of organic extra virgin coconut oil and a motivational jar filled with great quotes courtesy of müüü.ee (thank you, Marelle!).
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The giveaway ends on the 27th of February 2014 at 4 PM Eastern European time. The winner will be the person who offers the best title for my blog OR chosen by random if I can’t find a blog title I really like.
Good luck! 🙂
To end this important post, here are some before and after pictures. Or actually, on the “before” I’m not my heaviest and the “after” is actually “on my way”.
To read my full story click here and here. To see more about results, click here.
2009 vs 2014. From my Instagram2012 vs 2014. From my Instagram
I’m ready for new adventures and accomplishments! Are you? 🙂
Nourish, Train & Flourish 