Is it too cliche to start a blog on the first day of a new year? Probably. We'll see if this makes it past February... It seems like a good way to organize my plans for being the healthiest I can be though.
My word for 2012 is "participation". I am a planner and a goal setter. I don't really call my goals resolutions because for some reason they seem like different things. Most of my goals revolve around my health- eat nutritiously, workout four times a week etc. One of my goals is to continue to plan my meals weekly. I've been planning my meals on for about a year now and have been able to stick to that plan for the most part. I started working out with my friend who is also a personal trainer a few months ago. As a dietitian, I know that those who have the most success with weight loss keep track of their foods in a journal. This has proven challenging for me for some reason. I have an app on my phone, I've kept a little notebook, but for some reason I have always found myself behind in journaling.
My hope is that by using this forum I can have a place to have my plans all together for my meals and my workouts. I'm not a writer- at least not a creative one. I spend all day writing technical paragraphs so I may have lost my flair for making things sound catchy. I also have no idea how to put a photo in a blog post and I'll be figuring this all out as I go. I don't know if anyone will really read this. Maybe my boyfriend since he made me tell him what I was doing and wants to make sure I don't write bad things about him...
So if you happen to come across this and have ideas on how I should make it better than let me know.
Ok so onto the planning part. Of course it wouldn't be real life if some sort of wrench didn't throw itself into my nice, neat meal plan. Seriously two hours after I wrote out my plan I received a phone call from my boss asking me to come up to Dallas to iron out a mess at a sister building. Which is an honor and I'm glad she trusts me enough and thinks highly of my work to call me into battle. On the other hand, I didn't plan on the first week of the new year causing me to discard my meal plan, have to rearrange my workouts and getting further behind at work. What a good opportunity to practice flexibility!
Monday:
B: banana nut muffin, milk, apple
S: mixed nuts
L: roast beef, rosemary potatoes, braised red cabbage, side salad
D: creole tilapia, wild rice, sauteed zucchini
W: meet up with Rachel for some major butt-kicking. I will not die.
Tuesday:
B: banana nut muffin, milk, apple
S: pretzels
L: big salad with tuna
D: Buddha bowl (rice, greens, lentils, sweet potato and tamari dressing)
W: weights and run around the block
Wednesday:
B: yogurt, blackberries, toast, milk
S: mixed nuts
L: unknown!
W: abs sequence in hotel
I'll be in Dallas around this time but my boss is notorious for skipping lunch. I, on the other hand, am not so I'll probably pack a salad or leftovers for lunch on Wednesday. The rest of my meals will be unknown but my goal is to have a salad for either lunch or dinner and to have a balanced plate for the other meal.
Thursday:
W: hotel fitness room workout yay! Usually my boss picks a nice hotel so I should have access to a small gym. I don't have a gym membership or fancy workout equipment at home so I'll probably use this opportunity to use the elliptical or bike. Worst-case scenario I can do a mini bootcamp in my hotel room.
Friday:
D: portabella and spinach bowties, salad
W: Hike and bike trail or weights/run around block at home
Saturday: I usually don't plan out the weekends but I figured that with being gone for most of the week and eating out a bunch I won't feel like going out more. We'll see...
B: eggs of some sort, toast, fruit
L: sandwich at mom's
D: teriyaki pineapple tofu, rice, asparagus
W: Rachel butt-kicking time!
I think this is actually a pretty good plan. Hopefully my work scenario doesn't have me working horrible hours this week so that I'm too pooped to workout but I think I did a pretty good job of making it possible.
~k
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