Okay, it’s no secret that I enjoy my workouts. I’m addicted. They make me feel great! I have hit this huge plateau that is driving me crazy. I bust my ass everyday (well almost every day) and burn INSANE amounts of calories. I’ve got that down. From crazy cardio, to weight lifting to Shaun T’s Insanity. I burn them and I burn them properly. Now, that being said I struggle every single day with food. The clean eating bit should be simple, right? For me, I could list off a gazillion reasons why I fail at it. What it boils down to is improper planning.
So, I’m an accountant. There are stereotyped accountants and then there is me. I have horrible personal planning skills. In fact, I hate to plan ahead. It comes from a very messed up past but in my mind I somehow have put it in this category of if I plan ahead, I am setting myself up for disappointment. Yes, I’m sure I can get some sort of counseling to fix that but that is definitely the number one reason I’m a piss poor planner. I plan for something that I feel should be very successful or exciting, and when the event comes up; it doesn’t turn out as my control freak self thinks it should, and I get majorly bummed out. To avoid the bumming, I fly by the seat of my pants on most things. In trying to be a responsible adult, this mentality doesn’t work too well. Anyhow, where I’m going with the entire planning bit is BUDGET. I suck at food calorie budgets, store budgets and personal budgets for my home. I know I suck at it, and I know how to change it. The problem is that entire planning ahead thing bites me in the ass every time.
Clean eating. To be successful at clean eating, you have to plan ahead and budget your daily calories. I was able to do it for about 3 months while I got in shape and did Shaun T’s Insanity by Beach Body. So, knowing I conquered it before just means simply repeating that behavior weekly for the rest of my life. UGH! Plan out your meals and be accountable for them. If you pack your lunch and snacks for the day, you don’t binge eat. Look at your calories and plan accordingly. I like protein shakes and I like fresh veggies. That should make some of this easier on me. The entire planning a weeks worth of dinners part sucks. It’s just like preplanning your outfit the night before. I can pick out something to wear, but when I get up…..me not being the shining star in the morning…..may not feel like wearing what I picked out because I just don’t feel like it. That is kind of the same thing with my taste buds. How do I know what I will be in the mood to eat 5 days from now?? Well I have some financial woes to back up this damn preplanning bit. When you go to store every 2-3 days to buy dinner, you don’t just buy dinner products. You buy more cereal or milk and fruit and this and that because you are getting low. In the past, I haven’t had a grocery budget per say because groceries is a must have. That being said, my grocery bill has gotten out of control, to where it interferes with other monetary areas of our lives. The only way I can reel this monster back in is to plan out meals and go to the store with a list and stick to the list (and leave the kids at home). This shouldn’t be rocket science, but it isn’t easy either for me. I’ve came up with a fun idea for this next week of planning out my menu and incorporating clean eating. I’m going use my handy dandy Fitness and Self magazines and Pinterest to make my meals at night more entertaining. I will plan out my menu and make my meals per recipes I find and share them with you all and give you a dollar amount. This should make it more entertaining for me, the only person that can disappointment me in this genius plan is ME. J
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