 I hope you're well. Welcome back to my channel. I've been new here. My name is Sepi. And in today's video, I am basically gonna be trying meal prep for a week. Kind of backwards, I've already done it for a week now. And I'm just gonna tell you that the results are kind of shocking. So I'll come back towards the end of the video, looking exactly the same, and tell you what the results were and the fact that I was basically shook. But in the meantime, can we just take a look at, sorry, one second, like how cute this confetti Starbucks cup is when you pour the liquid in it, these little dots change colors. So they go from like, plain white. It's like all multi-colored and colorful and then the straw is colorful and it's just all so cute. My house is also a bit of a mess right now because we are hosting a graduation party for my sister. She's now a doctor. So that was part of the motivation that I had. Also, I've just gained so much weight during lockdown that I just didn't feel comfortable with myself. I wasn't eating healthy. I was always tired. I'm like, I would go to a gym and usually gym would pick me up. But even going to the gym didn't make me less tired. And I'm realizing now, it was because your girl was eating really, really huge portions of food and just really carb-heavy food. That's just, you know, the stuff that like comforts you during a lockdown. That was what I was continuing with even post-lockdown. So the main reason I wanted to lose some weight was because I'd gained weight from the healthy stable that I was at during lockdown period. And I feel like a lot of people might have experienced this too. This is in no way to say that like there is a perfect weight or size or that you should go on a diet. Everyone needs to see what works for them. And I don't want to be out here encouraging people to lose weight. Just remember, you're beautiful as you are. But if you feel like there's something that you want to improve on yourself, then go ahead and do that. And that is exactly what I wanted to do. So I basically ordered meal prep from this company. It wasn't sponsored. I just wanted someone who had my food ready made and that I just like could just put it up microwave at work or whatever. And it'll be chill and ready. I don't need to worry about it being healthy because the options at my workplace are not healthy. So anyway, I ordered meal prep. It came to my house. But any of you guys wondering, I ordered lunch and dinner for five days. And altogether it came up to 50 pounds or 52 pounds. And then I had to pay eight pounds for the delivery. So it came to 60 pounds. So that works out to 60 pounds for 10 meals, six pounds a meal. So some of you guys might be thinking, that's quite expensive. But when I calculated it, I would go to M&S and like try and buy like healthy salads then buy the chicken to add on. And then a little like, I don't know, snack on the side or whatever, it all came up to like 15 pounds each meal. So I was saving a lot of money there. I genuinely have saved so much money from doing this meal prep this week because I haven't eaten out either. Just one meal I ended up eating out. So yeah, I did end up saving a lot of money but you guys will have to watch the video to see whether I like the food, whether I actually lost anyway and whether I would do it again. So it came in like an iced out packed, like in a box, it really good. This is one of the dishes, beef and puy lentil ragu with roast peppers and papadal pasta, turkey, salsa pepper, Asian noodle salad, fennel and a herb pork with vatala beans. What else is there? Japanese chicken katsu curry, that looks really good. And it's got like all of the nutritional information on each one. I've done my meal plan with them is that I wanted to lose some weight. So it's a calorie restricted carbohydrate restricted one but you have different meal plans for different things. It's like my ones, I think they get lean one. I didn't pick breakfast because I'm actually allergic to a bunch of fruit. So I know so many healthy breakfast involved fruits. I just didn't want to go through that hassle I'd rather have my own breakfast. So I will let you guys know how I find it. So about to try my first meal which is the fajita chicken dies with basmati rice and halloumi. And I will let you guys know how I find it. Just done a workout at the gym. So I'm pretty hungry. I had breakfast today. I had tomato omelet with one slice of brown toast. And I'm gonna try and do this and currently with intermittent fasting. So hopefully that will help if I'm trying to reach my fitness goals but I'm not going to let myself go hungry. So yeah, hopefully it goes well and I like it. The other thing I was thinking was there's no heating instructions on this. So I don't know if this, I don't think this can go into a microwave. I think I have to put it onto a plate which is a long one when I'm at work. But this week I'm only at work two days and then I have three days of annual leave and I've got the weekend off. Actually I'm working the clinic on the weekend but still, you know, got a chill week this week so I can kind of do this more properly. My bad, it actually seems to have heating instructions and stuff on the bottom bit there. So yeah, maybe just check that out if you guys order this. But yeah, so it says that I can actually remove the sauce pot and replace film. There is no sauce pot. Was that shit? Cause I literally just emptied it onto a plate. Oops, let me look and see. So I probably should have like cleaned the plate to make it look more appetizing but I honestly couldn't be bothered. This is my first meal. It's a chicken fajita with basmati rice. Let me try it and give you a review. So first things first. It looks a bit too hot. Ooh, there's halloumi. Ooh, nice. Okay, there's halloumi, there's chicken, there's tomato sauce, there's vegetables. It said to warm it for three and a half minutes but I think three and a half minutes is way too long. So let me see. It's nice. This is actually really nice. You know what the halloumi in the chicken, with the chicken and the tomato sauce makes it taste really good. Wow, I'm surprised that this is actually like healthy diet food and the portion seems like a nice size. I'm gonna eat all of this and I'll let you know if I feel full by the end of the meal. But honestly, on a taste scale, especially for a food that's been, I'm gonna base this on ready meals I've had. I would give this an eight out of 10 for ready meals and I would eat it again. Definitely, I like the halloumi in it. So it's 7.30 p.m. and I'm gonna have my dinner now. I'm gonna have king prawn, teacum masala and roasted vegetable pilaf. So I will let you guys know how this one is. I just realized I forgot to tell you if I found the lunch filling. I did find it filling, which is why I'm having my dinner slightly later. Like I would have liked to have had it like maybe around seven. Yeah, so I'm just gonna try this one now and let you know what I think. Also my eyes gone so swollen, maybe, it is definitely a hay fever season, guys. So this is what it looks like. I would say the microwave instructions on this are a bit dodged because it says three and a half minutes for all of them and this one was like exploding in my microwave after two minutes. So make up your own microwave times. Okay, let me try this for you guys. I'm gonna have a little spoon. Smells good. It tastes really good too. I actually recommend this one as well. Probably give this one a seven. I liked the other one with the halloumi more, but this is still very good. I quite like it. Obviously, don't give me wrong. This is not restaurant standard food or like, you know, you're not having, I'll explain it, you're not having like a bougie. I can't compare this like a bougie dinner or even like a normal dinner. This is like, you have to compare it to ready meals because that's exactly what it is. And for ready meals, I'd give it a seven out of 10. So bearing my 10 out of 10 is probably like an M&S lasagna or something. So yeah, this is quite good. I would say considering it's healthy, it's even better. So day two's lunch is roast chicken with cumin and pomegranate and beetroot and bulgogi. And then it comes with this sauce, which I have no idea what is in there, but I'm going to try this. I'm at work and I just warmed this in the microwave and try this and I'll let you know what I think. A quick intermission from editing me who couldn't rate her meals in front of her coworkers because that was a bit awkward. This lunch, it was, I would say, a five out of 10. That sauce was really weird. Actually, I'd say it's a four out of 10. If you gave it to me again, I wouldn't want to eat it. So yeah, that kind of says what it is about it, but it was relatively filling. Yeah, four out of 10. Didn't really love it. The day before was much better. So in good news, I think over 50 staff members have told me they like my pink dress today. In bad news, I'm so hungry. I really need to eat my next meal now, so that's what I'm going to do. So this is the chicken katsu curry, which I'm having now. It's the second meal of the day, which I'm going to have for dinner, and it actually smells like katsu curry, so I will tell you if I like it or not. So this chicken katsu curry was really nice. I feel like, can you hear me if I don't do this? I don't know why all the YouTubers do this and they talk to my members. Okay, sorry, fucking about here. This chicken katsu curry was really nice. It's not like a wagamama chicken katsu curry, so don't get gasped out here, but for a little healthy version, I would give it like a six out of 10. I really liked it. It was actually probably yummier than the halloumi chicken thing, but the halloumi with tomato chicken sauce was really like pushing the bar up. I don't know why I was like so out by that. So guys, today is day three, but I'm really like hungry. All I had yesterday was my two meals. Today's one is Italian beef with basil, walnut and pesto, but I don't think I'll be full. I bought some extra vegetables. My capital's around, but I'm so hungry, so let's see how I do this. Okay, this one was actually vile. I had like three spoons of it. The beef was super weird. Give this one like a literally two out of 10. Really didn't like the meat, just it was gross and like the potatoes. I ended up eating just plain vegetables from like the canteen at work, which was really sad. So considering how hungry I was as well, it made me extra grumpy and yeah, wasn't a lifestyle guys, gonna put it out there. So let me tell you what happened yesterday. I warmed up my salmon that I was given for the meal prep and basically, I didn't realize that the sauce pot was inside the salmon dish. So I ended up accidentally cooking the sauce pot into the salmon dish, but lucky for me, we had some salmon at home. So my dad recreated the exact same dish from me in the exact same portion size. That's what I had, but I didn't record it because I just thought like, this is a bit of a flop, not gonna lie. And then in the evening, I went out with Saina and I had some tom yum soup. So I thought that was like, to be honest, even the smaller portion than what my meal prep thing was, but I basically can't go without breakfast. I think that without the breakfast, the meal prep is like not enough, not sufficient calories for me to suffice through a day. Not that I'm calorie counting, but more like calories in terms of energy that I require to actually function in a day. But when I have breakfast and then I have the meal prep lunch and dinner, I actually feel like I'm finally eating the correct portion size before I was eating too much, feeling too heavy and tired and groggy. And now I know why I was always so tired. It was because I was eating too much. So yeah. So this is what I'm having for breakfast today. I'm having a bagel thin with one whole egg and an added egg white with avocado. I think that's like a perfect breakfast. And I'm having it with a ice-cold latte with semi-skim milk and sweetener. And look what everyone else is having for breakfast, please. Self-roachers cakes that I got my dad yesterday. Bread, cheese, soul. But yeah, I think that my meal prep is going well. So far, I'm really happy with that. So I just got home from the gym. I've done a workout. And this is probably the first workout I think I've done. I think I did one on the first day that I started this diet or whatever you want to call it, this meal prep. And I actually feel like I can't do anywhere near as much as I could before. So I'm starting to realize like if I want to do intense workouts, I obviously need to eat more to fuel those workouts. But it was good for like a low intensity. Like I did a list, like a low intensity strength workout. But yeah, if I want to do something high intensity I'm gonna need a lot more energy to fuel it in my opinion. But anyway, it's been about an hour and a half since I've been home from the gym. And I'm gonna have lunch now. Usually I have protein shakes, but I haven't been because of this meal prep. I didn't have one because of this meal prep. So I'm gonna see what is on my little lunch menu. So on the menu, I have chili and garlic, chicken thighs with tomato, rice. This is all the energy info and the ingredients. And I'm excited to try this one. I'm gonna put it on a plate just to make sure there's no stall support that I need to fricking get rid of. I was actually so annoyed yesterday when I realized that I like had put the sauce pot into my plate because I was like, I actually really wanted to try the salmon out of all of the dishes that was there. So yeah, I was just a bit frustrated. But I'm gonna try this now and we'll see what I think. So here it is warmed up in the bowl. First impressions is, I feel like there's the perfect amount of like rice and beans and tomato. But I do think there's not enough chicken. If there's more protein in these portions, then maybe I would have more energy for the gym. So I'm just trying to think like how I could possibly like adapt this so that I would have more strength. So let me try this now. This was nice. I just feel like I kind of lack seasoning. Like I'm gonna need to add salt to this now and pepper and some chili. But it tastes quite good to be honest. And I think you just need to kind of season it up yourself. So I'm gonna do that. I literally just woke up from like an hour long nap on the sofa. I had the worst sleep last night because Haifee for season is upon us and it is absolutely awful. And as you can tell, I look like I've just woken up or that I've been crying, not been crying, but I was having like the weirdest, just have like the weirdest, most random vivid dreams. But yeah, like I literally fell asleep on the sofa for like an hour after my meal. I would say like it's a satisfying meal if you're not really moving much. But I think when I was on call, my meals were, yeah, I think I needed like a breakfast included in my meals when I was on call because I was way too weak. But yeah, now I feel fine. I could go back to sleep but I don't wanna like ruin my sleeping pattern. So I'm just gonna like get up and get on with my jobs. So for my final meal, I have beef and puri lentil ragu with roast peppers and pavadale pasta. I'm actually looking forward to have some pasta but I can need some carbs for more energy. So this will be good. I still have this salt and pepper Asian salad and noodles that I didn't have last night because I had the tom yum soup instead. But I'm gonna give this to Sol to have for dinner because she really wants to try this KBK package. So I will give it to her. Okay, so this one probably looks and smells the most appetizing other than the salmon one which I ruined. All the meals I've had so far. So let me try it. Sorry, this lighting is literally awful. Yum, I'm so excited to have some pasta. I literally love pasta. Anyone who knows me loves sushi and I love pasta. This tastes like a Waitrose ready meal pasta if any of you guys have had Waitrose ready meals or just ready meal pastas. This sunlight is actually kidding me. Yeah, this tastes really good. I'm actually gonna enjoy this and devour it and maybe eat it slowly so it lasts longer. But if I'm still hungry after, I might have like a bit of like chicken or something because I don't wanna be hungry. Like that's not the purpose of this. So yeah. So five days down the line and this is my figure. So my stomach is a lot more flat. Like as in genuinely speaking, my tummy was like, obviously like I'm standing straight now. So like if I stand like relaxed, like this is what I sound like if I stand straight. My tummy is a lot more flat. I feel much better. I have lost all in all 2KG, which is incredible. I think 2KG sounds about right for the first week that you go on a diet, but on average you want to lose between half and one kilo per week for healthy, safe weight loss. I don't think there's much more weight I want to lose beyond this. I think it's more now about turning up and sculpting. So I knew that my weight was good before. I just felt like I had a lot of extra fat on me. So it's now it's more about losing that fat, turning it into muscle again and feeling strong again, which I'm so glad about. I'm really happy with the results. So much so that I've already ordered my food for next week because I feel like it's really helped me to understand portion sizes and helped me to know what food groups I should eat more of. The only thing I would say is I felt like the meals didn't have enough protein in them. So maybe that's just because I chose the weight loss, get lean option. But if I maybe had chosen the maintenance option then it would have more protein. But I think with next week's food I'm literally gonna buy some more chicken and just add in some more chicken because I feel like I want to be satisfied. For sitting at home, being sedentary, not doing anything, it was fine. But if I was at work on call, which I was for two of those days, I was working a 13 hour shift. One of those days I didn't have breakfast because I missed it because I woke up too late basically. Then I ended up just being like absolutely exhausted, starving, grumpy. But the second day when I had breakfast I felt much better. And I think one day I added in some vegetables as well. So I wasn't afraid to kind of adapt it to eat a bit more if I felt hungry. But yeah, this week when it comes around again I'm definitely gonna incorporate some more kind of more protein and just keep it kind of healthy and light and good and getting strong again, which is what I ultimately wanted from this kind of challenge. Would I recommend it? Yes, and I am doing it again. So that is my kind of update on this. I hope that you guys enjoyed this video. If you did then please give it a huge thumbs up and leave me a comment down below. Let me know if there's more challenges that you guys want me to try. Trying something out for a week was actually quite fun. And it's something that I want to continue with in the case of this challenge, but maybe something else I would hate it. So let me know if there's something cool, something else that I should try. Also don't forget to check out my socials that I always link down below in the description. My Instagram is purgentbunny, my Snapchat is seppysamoy, and my TikTok is purgent underscore bunny. I love you guys so much and I'll see you in my next video. Bye.