Ugh! I'm stuck in traffic.
The other day Dean called and was trying to reach get to an appointment but was in heavy traffic due to road construction. The road was blocked and he needed to find a detour. It was going to take some doing and some extra time but he was able to find an alternate route.
We face roadblocks in our battle to reach our fitness goals. Roadblocks, that is all they are, we just need to find detours around them. Like detours they are not always the fastest easiest route.
Detour #1: Grocery Shopping, this one thing can make or break any person on their way to their health and fitness goals. Take an inventory of what you have, make a grocery list of items needed to make all the items on your food plan for the week. I find the grocery list helps me, in that I can check it off. I have a purpose, and I can get in and out in the least amount of time. I make the grocery list for the whole family to participate in, if they need something or see something is low they write it on the list. That way when you get home from shopping they can’t point the finger at you and say why didn’t you get this?
Detour #2: Leftovers, I hear more often that people won’t eat leftovers. And you don’t have to but you don’t have to cook a whole meal each night either. By cooking a turkey you can make sandwhiches, turkey soup, turkey pot pie, turkey ala king etc, and you only cooked a turkey one time. The same can be done with hamburger: tacos and spaghetti. Cook a whole chicken, then create meals like baked chicken, then stir fried chicken, chicken pot pie, chicken and rice etc....
Some have asked if I can cook the meals for them each night.
If I did the cooking for you, you would be eating leftovers all the time. :)
Detour #3: Meal planning. Each week in order to shop effectively you need to plan out all the meals and snacks your family will eat. But meal planning does more than that. As a wife and mom, the one who stands in the kitchen at 4:45 is me thinking quickly what in the world can I throw on the plate for dinner that night. When I plan the week this thinking step is already done. I can of course adjust the meal plan too. Who says you can’t have Tuesdays meal on Thursday? You’ve already have the supplies on hand, you might have prepared some of them. A plan is a plan, but it is there to help guide you into healthier eating not make you feel restricted to the point you can’t breath. Find ten meals you and your family love, write them down. Now plan it out so you can rotate those recipes around. They can look different each time you serve them by adding a different veggie, salad, or really shock them and fix brown rice instead of pasta. Planning my meals has the added benefit of being cheaper. I find eating like I do is actually cheaper than others I know who are buying things already prepared, from a box, or from a can.
Don’t get stopped by the roadblocks, make a detour and find your way around trouble spots. What stops your progress and how can you find your way around it?
We face roadblocks in our battle to reach our fitness goals. Roadblocks, that is all they are, we just need to find detours around them. Like detours they are not always the fastest easiest route.
Detour #1: Grocery Shopping, this one thing can make or break any person on their way to their health and fitness goals. Take an inventory of what you have, make a grocery list of items needed to make all the items on your food plan for the week. I find the grocery list helps me, in that I can check it off. I have a purpose, and I can get in and out in the least amount of time. I make the grocery list for the whole family to participate in, if they need something or see something is low they write it on the list. That way when you get home from shopping they can’t point the finger at you and say why didn’t you get this?
Detour #2: Leftovers, I hear more often that people won’t eat leftovers. And you don’t have to but you don’t have to cook a whole meal each night either. By cooking a turkey you can make sandwhiches, turkey soup, turkey pot pie, turkey ala king etc, and you only cooked a turkey one time. The same can be done with hamburger: tacos and spaghetti. Cook a whole chicken, then create meals like baked chicken, then stir fried chicken, chicken pot pie, chicken and rice etc....
Some have asked if I can cook the meals for them each night.
If I did the cooking for you, you would be eating leftovers all the time. :)
Detour #3: Meal planning. Each week in order to shop effectively you need to plan out all the meals and snacks your family will eat. But meal planning does more than that. As a wife and mom, the one who stands in the kitchen at 4:45 is me thinking quickly what in the world can I throw on the plate for dinner that night. When I plan the week this thinking step is already done. I can of course adjust the meal plan too. Who says you can’t have Tuesdays meal on Thursday? You’ve already have the supplies on hand, you might have prepared some of them. A plan is a plan, but it is there to help guide you into healthier eating not make you feel restricted to the point you can’t breath. Find ten meals you and your family love, write them down. Now plan it out so you can rotate those recipes around. They can look different each time you serve them by adding a different veggie, salad, or really shock them and fix brown rice instead of pasta. Planning my meals has the added benefit of being cheaper. I find eating like I do is actually cheaper than others I know who are buying things already prepared, from a box, or from a can.
Don’t get stopped by the roadblocks, make a detour and find your way around trouble spots. What stops your progress and how can you find your way around it?
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