I move it to an area where it isn’t right in my face. My husband knows that the minute it’s there, I’m moving it. Restaurants almost always slap a basket of bread and butter on the table. If the menu looks completely off the wall, like a Chinese restaurant, Thai restaurant or some such, because of sauces and stuff, I just take the hit, order something vegetarian, enjoy the meal, and then adjust calories for the remainder of the day to account for it. I also don’t use their dressing the majority of the time, because while the salad has 180 calories, the dressing has 380!!!) This pretty much works everywhere.
(I’ve been known to go to our local sandwich shop, Togo’s, and order an Asian Chicken Salad with no chicken! They look at me oddly, but in reality it’s a pretty good salad. If they don’t have anything that fits my needs, or if I don’t like the looks of things, then I go back to the salads, and I find a main course salad that works.
If yes, then I look at those and find one that fits my needs.
#DDP YOGA FOOD LIST FREE#
If I don’t know ahead of time, and can’t look at the menu, I look first to see if they offer gluten free choices. For me, taking the guessing out of going out saves me from sitting there agonizing and trying to decide if I’m going to stick to my plan or “bend the rules” to fit what will almost fit. I know what I can have, and I stick to it. Since going plant-based, it’s actually quite a bit easier, I’m not sure why, but anyhow, these planning steps help no matter what you eat!įirst of all, if I know ahead of time, like when we have lunches at work, that I’m going to a particular restaurant, I look at the menu and I find things that fit in with my food plans, and my food lifestyle. I don’t know about you, but it used to be that eating out was really difficult. I mix this all together, and put it in the fridge for the next morning. In addition, sometimes I’ll add organic butterscotch flavoring (Frontier makes it), or I might add a spoonful of decaf coffee (one of my favorites!). hemp hearts, 1/3 cup raw whole organic oats, 1 cup of unsweetened almond milk, and 1 scoop of a protein powder. It gives me energy that lasts from 6 am to 12! SO awesome. For breakfast, I have to admit, I have an addiction. I pop it into the fridge in one particular spot and that saves me 5 minutes in the morning.
#DDP YOGA FOOD LIST CRACKED#
I take a container and put in 1 cup of cooked quinoa, various frozen vegetables, adding to about 2 cups, and a sprinkling of sea salt and fresh cracked pepper. For my evening meals, I fix those each day without much issue.Įach evening, as I’m making my dinner, I make my breakfast for the next day and I make my lunch. At this point, I have a skeleton of food for the week, at least for lunch. I find that they thaw mostly by lunch if taken out at 6 in the morning. I then wrap each one individually and place them into a large freezer bag and freeze them. If I want some special veggie burgers, now is the time that those get made. I may also chop and roast a big batch of mixed veggies. Once it’s done and cooled, I usually put it into one large container. I’ve been making 1 cup dry, but this week, I realized I need a bit more, so I’m going to up it to 1.5 cups of dry. Typically, this includes a large batch of quinoa. I’m relaxed, I have some time, and I spend a bit of time cooking some of the things I know I’ll need. I personally don’t write anything down as far as what I’m going to make, because usually I make a lot of something and just eat it every day, but you could also do that.įor me, Sunday afternoon is the perfect time for food prep for the week. I know what I need and I know what I have. If you use the last of something, you’re responsible for either adding to the list or telling my husband, the List Master about using the last of it.īy Friday afternoon, I try to decide what I want to eat next week, and adding to our weekly grocery list, as we usually shop either on Saturday or Sunday.
The list is kept up to date by all members of the family, all the time. We have a list for the “regular” grocery store, as well as a list for Whole Foods, and another local market called New Leaf. It allows you to have multiple lists, for different kinds of stores, and we use it for everything. To track our needed groceries, we use an application called Our Groceries. (Well, that’s what we are “supposed” to do, right? Anyone who knows Engineers knows that this can be nebulous.) Nonetheless, I apply this to my eating as well. While your mileage may vary, I’m hoping that some of what I do will help you in your own weight loss journey.īy day, I work in an Engineering environment. The majority are about “what about when you go out? What about lunches?” So I decided to do a blog post about my personal planning.