mummy's meal planning

WHAT DID I GET MYSELF INTO????

WOW. Meal planning for the 21 day fix is HARD. I’m sure it’ll become easier as I go along, but I had a very tough time. I haven’t actually started yet either. I wanted to prep first and to be able to get my grocery list and meal plan in order. That seems like the biggest hurdle, but one of the biggest things to push you towards success. I don’t know how people do this without preplanning. There would be no freaking way. The good thing is  once I have the food prepped for the week, I won’t need to worry about it until the following week. I’ll have everything ready to pull out of the fridge: Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks. 

I also didn’t realize how restrictive this program was. It’s insane to think that I’m only allowed to eat ONE cup of carbs/starches a day! I think I did a REALLY good job of dividing everything up evenly, so that I’m not starving throughout the day. I’m a creature of habit, so I don’t mind eating the same meals every day. I do it now. If you hate eating the same thing over and over again, then you’ll definitely hate my below meal plan. Sorry! Doing it this way works better for my budget and made it a lot easier to meal plan.

I know this will be a big challenge, but I’m geared up for it. I don’t eat very much during the day now, so it’ll definitely be a change for me to up my food intake with the below plan. It’s at night that does me in. I’m usually starving by dinnertime. Of course, I’m sure that’s all due to the fact that I’m barely eating during the day. I’m hoping by doing this, I can adjust and not be so ravenous at dinner time, so that I’m not tempted to reach outside of my meal plan.

I welcome the challenge though and despite how difficult the meal planning was, I did like putting everything together. I have it all color-coded on a spreadsheet and I even have printables to write meals out at home. I feel like I am all geared up now and prepared to start. I’ll tweak my meal plan as I go along and become used to eating this way. The first few days will be a little hard. I don’t eat tons now and I don’t eat very bad, but I do eat more carbs than 1 cup a day!