Whole food meals built around the way you actually eat, from breakfast through to dessert. Nothing restrictive, nothing you need a specialty shop for, and a new recipe added every week.
Written by Melissa, who cooks every one of these in her own kitchen.
Welcome to the recipe library at Pilates Classes Online. Real food for women who move, written by the instructor who cooks it, with the macros already worked out so you do not have to. A new recipe lands every week, so the library you join is never the library you end up with.
Over fifty recipes covering every meal of the day, not just the smoothies and salads these collections usually stop at. Mornings are handled by things like the blueberry oat breakfast smoothie and the Greek yoghurt berry bowl, both quick enough for a weekday.
Lunch runs to the chicken caesar lettuce wraps and the spicy glow bowl. Dinner covers everything from the coconut curry lentil soup, which freezes for three months and improves every day it sits, to the one pan lemon herb chicken thighs with broccolini for a 35 minute weeknight and the powerhouse steak with garlic mash and greens when a salad will not do. Then there is dessert, because dark chocolate dipped strawberries with sea salt take three ingredients and make the point that eating well is not a punishment.
Timing matters as much as the food. What to eat before and after Pilates covers the whole window, from the light snack half an hour before to the recovery meal within the hour after. If you want the short version, nutrition and Pilates boils it down to seven practical points.
For a quick pre session option, the Greek yoghurt berry bowl gives you 15 grams of protein in under two minutes, and avocado rice cakes are light enough to eat 30 minutes before you get on the mat. Pair either with any of the mat Pilates classes in the library.
Most of the library is built on anti inflammatory principles, which sounds far more complicated than it is. It means colourful produce, healthy fats, oily fish, whole grains and spices like turmeric and ginger, most of the time. The anti inflammatory diet and Pilates explains why pairing the two works better than either on its own, and there is a well documented evidence base for anti inflammatory eating outside this site too.
Nothing here asks you to eliminate a food group or count anything. Restriction creates stress, and stress is itself inflammatory, which rather defeats the purpose.
Protein is what your muscles rebuild with after a session, and it is the thing most women eat too little of. The spicy glow bowl lands around 35 grams with sweet potato, cottage cheese and hot honey. The powerhouse steak comes in at 45 grams, the chicken caesar wraps at 42 for a lunch that takes 20 minutes, and the lemon herb chicken thighs at 38 for dinner.
Numbers are on every recipe card, so you can see what you are eating without opening a tracking app.
Every recipe here is one Melissa actually cooks. Her Pilates practice started during lockdown and the food side followed for the same reason, because she wanted to feel better rather than smaller. Read her story here, or have a look at the blog for the thinking behind the meals.
A new recipe lands every week, so it is worth checking back even once you have cooked your way through your favourites. If you have a question about any of them, the FAQs cover most of it.
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