Everyone has a different amount of time that they can spend. I'm blessed to be able to take care of the girls and I feel like at times I'm really busy, but there's always some time that I can use to think about what I want to do for dinner, how many points I'm going to use for each meal and everything else that I need to do to make the day the best that I can. The book has some great ideas for creating time for people that seem to have no time.
Today's task is to create a calendar to schedule my dieting. The examples in the book are pretty detailed, but I chose to keep it simple. If I want to add to it later there's definitely room to do that (click on the pic if you want to be able to read it).
If I get up and head to the gym first thing, that gets me off to a great start for the day (I noticed that over the weekend I didn't exercise and it was much harder to eat healthy). I have realized that if I'm going to cut back A LOT on my eating that when I do eat I don't want to feel like I'm dieting. I want to be able to sit down with my family and to eat what they're eating. I don't want to "diet." I want to be making lifestyle changes. So I've been a little more obsessed with finding yummy, healthy recipes lately and it's been fun. If I plan early in the day what we're going to eat for dinner I have time to calculate the points and I don't let myself get to dinner time without a plan. Last night I was without a plan. I was at the grocery store later than I should have been (mainly because I had two unhappy kids with me) and so I grabbed a pizza. I didn't end up eating pizza, but by me eating something different it defeated the whole purpose for me. So today dinner is planned already :) Here's a big pot of brown rice that go with tonight's *Chicken Curry (not the whole pot, but I thought I'd cook the whole back and freeze some).
I feel like I'm really getting it when it comes to sitting, and I've gotten pretty good at shooting down my sabotaging thoughts so far. I didn't eat with a smaller plate yesterday (I think that I used a bowl for every meal), but today I'm breaking out the salad plates (thanks Holly). Yesterday was a good day. I even went for ice cream with the family and got some sugar free yogurt that I ate two thirds of and threw away the rest (not something I would have done before).
Hope you're doing great! Let me know. Here's to a great planned out day!
If you saw the Bountiful Baskets on my calendar and don't know what it is definitely check it out here and see if they have a pick-up location near you. You get a whole basket of veggies, and a basket of fruit for only $16.50. It's awesome! Definitely worth trying out.
*This recipe is so yummy, but we have to cut WAY back on the cayenne pepper so that our mouths aren't on fire.
Update- Afterthought: Maybe cooking the whole bag of brown rice was going bit overboard, lol.
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