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NEW SERIES: Fit women's food diaries – this week, Lenka Gourdie, CEO of lush handbag site bagservant.co.uk

Lenka Gourdie, 40, CEO at BagServant, a lush website selling high street and designer handbags, works out six times a week and eats an impeccably healthy diet. Here’s her diet and fitness diary – prepare to be inspired

‘I weigh 68kg and 174 cm tall. I am not skinny but people say that I look good and fit. I am obsessed with what I eat, but I do drink alcohol and love a glass of wine now and again.

Lenka Gourdie
Lenka Gourdie

Monday 

Breakfast: a bowl of oats, 100 per cent cocoa, almonds, blueberries, flax seeds with almond milk. Along with a mug of green bean coffee.

Lunch: watercress soup with sardines.

Snack: a protein shake with 100 per cent cocoa nibs.

Dinner:  lentils with coconut milk, peppers, watercress and brown rice.

Workout: 20 minutes on the cardio cross trainer and 20 minutes doing lower body weights and abs.

Tuesday

Breakfast: a slice of sourdough brea with avocado, pomegranate seeds, strawberries and an egg white, with a mug of green bean coffee.

Lunch: a protein shake with cocoa and coconut oil.

Snack: Boojabooja truffles (dairy free truffles).

Dinner: sprouted beans with leek, roasted tomatoes and chia seeds.

Workout: Barry’s bootcamp class

Tuesday's breakfast: sourdough bread with avocado, pomegranate seeds, strawberries, egg white and a mug of green bean coffee.
Tuesday’s breakfast: sourdough bread with avocado, pomegranate seeds, strawberries, egg white and a mug of green bean coffee.

Wednesday

Breakfast: quinoa with almond milk, pistachios, pomegranate seeds and cinnamon with a green bean coffee.

Lunch: fennel and pear soup with cayenne pepper.

Dinner: tabula (bulgar with tomatoes, cucumber and olive oil) with salmon and rocket and a glass of rose wine.

Workout: barre workout for 30 minutes and a 10 minute bike ride.

Lenka's dinner: sprouted beans with leeks, roasted tomatoes and chia seeds.
Lenka’s dinner: sprouted beans with leeks, roasted tomatoes and chia seeds.

Thursday

Breakfast: oats with 100 per cent cocoa, almonds, blueberries, flax seeds with almond milk and a mug of green bean coffee.

Lunch: watercress soup with lentils.

Dinner: a protein Shake with coconut oil and cocoa.

Workout: kettle bells and cardio for 20 minutes.

Friday

Breakfast: a protein shake with cocoa.

Snack: 100 per cent cocoa with coconut oil.

Lunch: a wholemeal tortilla with avocado, lentils and watercress.

Dinner: a sourdough pizza with a glass of wine.

Workout: a day off from exercise, but still got to around 20,000 steps on my FitBit fitness tracker

Lenka with her sourdough pizza on her day off from exercising.
Lenka with her sourdough pizza on her day off from exercising.

Saturday

Breakfast: a bowl of oats with 100 per cent cocoa, almonds, blueberries, flax seeds and almond milk.

Lunch: a tortilla with watercress, avocado and mackerel.

Snack: some almonds.

Dinner: lentils with coconut milk, watercress and beetroot with a glass of wine.

Workout: 60 minutes of weight training in the gym

Sunday

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Pulse burger with salad, sweet potato chips and a wholemeal bun

Breakfast: homemade vegetable shake: flaxseeds, ginger, spinach, wheatgrass, lemon, cucumber, fennel, spirulina and coconut water.

Lunch: fennel and pear soup with lentils.

Dinner: pulses burgers with salad, sweet potato and a wholemeal bun.

Workout: a 16km bike ride.

 

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