Sunday Story…Fitness Challenge

Hopefully, you are going to participate in the fitness challenge Ellie is kicking off on Monday (tomorrow). This first week is learning week…you won’t be perfect and that’s OK! But I wanted to give you 3 tips to help jump start your new food regimen!

#1 Plan ahead at the beginning of the week.
Look ahead at your week and decide how and where you will be eating your meals. Then do Food Prep on Sunday afternoon/evening. That’s right, cook up a bunch of food so it will be in the fridge and ready to go at any time during the week. Roast some veggies in the oven (potatoes, butternut squash, beets, and carrots….root vegetables!) use different spices on different things for different flavors. Fire up the grill and cook a bunch of animal protein…same thing with different spices. Find your crockpot (slow cooker) and throw a hunk of meat in with some more root veggies. Put things in some Tupperware and place it in the fridge. Oh, and eggs (especially the whites) are your friend!

#2 Prep the night before
If you can’t or didn’t do your Sunday food prep then the night before prepare double the food for dinner. Eat dinner and when you clean up put it in some Tupperware and take it for lunch the next day.

#3 the Morning Of
Sometimes life just doesn’t cooperate and your food prep just hasn’t happened. Don’t despair…you aren’t stuck with the vending machine at work or the week-old muffins someone left behind. Get up a little earlier and look at your schedule, find some pockets of time like on the way to work or lunch break (do not decide it’s easier to go to Fast Food!)…stop at whole foods or another market and grab a healthy snack or 2 or 3 to get thru the day with intention rather than submitting to the whims of whatever you can grab.

None of this stuff is rocket science hard. But it does require you to be intentional and do some pre-planning. Just like most of the things in life!

John Mariotti
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