1/8/20
Wow, already two weeks into this journey of eating clean. I certainly haven’t been perfect but have been paying attention. I think my biggest accomplishment is when I would get off track for a meal, I would get right back on immediately following. In the past, my getting off track would snowball me into a month or longer of eating anything and everything in site which as you can image, doesn’t help the waistline (or glucose levels!)
My second win is getting started on December 26th so that come January 1st, I already had nearly a week of eating clean under my belt.
And lastly, my third win was planning all dinners. I have a menu board on the fridge and meal plan every sunday for the following week. The planning includes getting all the grocery shopping done as well. So helpful to have it displayed on the fridge as when I am running late the husband or daughter can start the meal prep.
A couple of areas for improvement for the following week should be planning my lunches ahead of time. I have a bad habit of standing in front of the fridge in the morning trying to figure out what I am going to bring for lunch. I probably need to make a big batch of homemade chili and individually freeze it for grab and go lunches and do more research on some easy lunch ideas that can be made ahead of time.
Second area of improvement…..water….ugh. So bad at this. I can consistently get in about 50 oz of water a day but half of that is coffee. Maybe I need to start small by trying to increase my amount each week by 10 oz or something. I try to jump right back to 100 oz which always seems so far out of reach. With a goal that large am I setting myself up for failure? Not intentionally, but it kind of feels like it. And, as I type this sentence my water reminder goes off on my phone lol. I should probably start to use that app. Interesting enough I just put in my 12 oz of coffee and it converted it to 10.8 oz of water. I’ll try using this app for a week and see how it goes. The name of it is WaterMinder. I do believe I paid for it but it was only a couple of dollars.
For dinner I made the following recipe. I think it could be better. If I make it again, I will opt for less chicken and more whole wheat pasta. https://homemadeforelle.com/clean-eating-chicken-lasagna/
And the win for the day, I used the water tracker and got in 77.6 oz today. That’s HUGE! See ya tomorrow!
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