Eating healthy as a life-style was a process. Almost like becoming an atheist (hahaha). I first stopped eating gluten around 2013 when I was officially diagnosed with a gluten intolerance and found out it was the trigger of migraines and other very unpleasant symptoms.

Then I started moving towards eating more natural food, less processed. This path had ups and downs and I still don’t avoid it 100% (specially if you consider that whey protein IS an ultra-processed food BUT can be good for you).

Then, about 5 years ago, I adopted a low-carb lifestyle that has served me very well. I am healthier, have more energy, and feel way better at the age of 45 than I did throughout my 30s. More recently, I have gone one step further and am paying more attention to my protein intake, since I have been working out again (with weights) regularly for a year now (I have never stopped doing some sort of exercise, but weights in particular had been a while until last August).

But when you travel like I do and want to keep your healthy life-style, you need to get creative.

When I’m on the road I default to go to local grocery stores as opposed to eating out. It’s cheaper and I can focus on healthy food. Of course this is not 100% of the time, I also eat out, but not every meal of every day.

I also carry with me whey protein individual packs and protein bars (the only one I found so far that is actually made of real food and does not have a bunch of shit added to it are Quest bars).

But when I’m at my sister’s, things are easy because I get to cook.

My nieces and brother in law are travelling and it’s been just me and my sis for the past week. So, yesterday, we decided to eat pizza.

I get a lot of the recipes I make from another blog called All Day I Dream About Food. Other than the fact that I TOTALLY relate with the name, she have the most amazing recipes, low-carb, high protein, delicious.

When I want to indulge myself and run away from my everyday basics, there is where I go.

So I used her Easy Protein Pizza recipe for the base (it’s made of cottage cheese, whey, eggs, etc) and leftover chicken from the day before XD

I then added some homemade tomato sauce (garlic, onions, tomatoes, a bit of tomato paste, salt, pepper and basil).

Added some cheese (I know, shredded cheese is way easier but I forgot to buy it and manually sliced it was).

By the way, did you know that the cheese slicer was invented in Norway?

Added leftover chicken and onions

More cheese, because WHY NOT?

Et voilà:

It was pretty good and packed with protein from eggs, chicken, cottage cheese and Whey.

I usually don’t watch for calories, so I have no idea how many calories it has. I only worry if I could eat it guilt-free, knowing I won’t be feeling like crap tomorrow.