Here is how I write my meal plan each week and if you’re looking for new recipe ideas, check out my meal plan archives!Ĥ- Keep the pantry and freezer stocked with healthy helpers. Frozen riced cauliflower cooks up in less than 6 minutes and makes an awesome veggie-heavy and low carb swap for rice. Monday is meatless, Tuesday is Mexican, Wednesday is Italian, Thursday is slow cooker, etc, and switch up the meals each week. You can even keep the theme the same every week. It makes it easy for me to snag when I’m hangry and need a snack while I make a meal (happens quite often).ĭon’t over commit with meal planning, but even having a loose plan makes a big difference. Having fresh produce ready to eat and in clear containers makes it easy for kids to grab. Snack foods can really increase my grocery bill quickly so I suggest checking out lower prices stores like Trader Joes, Aldi, or Walmart or ordering online through Thrive Market which has some pretty impressive discounts on certain items.ģ- Meal plan and do Sunday food prep. For some reason it’s always an unpopular suggestion (probably because it does take some real time and effort) but personally I see no way around it. You might even discover some new favorites (like key lime lara bars- YUM). If you are a snacker, start buying healthier options to replace the junkier foods as they run out.
It’s really hard to drink 3 sodas if your focusing on getting in your body weight in ounces of water. Maybe it’s 2 glasses as you work your way up to 8 a day, but add the good stuff in and you’ll see it will slowly start to edge out the less healthy habits. Make a goal that challenges you but is realistic. Instead, add in a better option- like water.
A diet mountain dew is certainly not getting anyone closer to a healthier way of living, but if you’re used to having 3 a day and yank it out from under you (or your kids) all at once, deprivation is going to rear its ugly head. A common idea is to nix all the junk you eat/drink that you “know” you shouldn’t. So spend sometime and figure out why you want to make the change you’re looking into before just loading up your cart with buzzwords (kombucha! turmeric!).Ģ- Focus on adding, not subtracting. I’ve found that having a strong why for any goal is key in staying motivated to make new habits when life starts getting in the way.
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If you want to focus on eating more real food, maybe it’s learning how to phase out convenience foods that you’ve become reliant on. If it’s more nutrient dense meals, perhaps it’s starting to look for new ways to add vegetables into meals. For better digestion, maybe it’s adding in probiotic foods and/or supplement. Narrowing down your particular focus can help guide you to which area you start working on first. If I was starting from scratch with my health, here is the plan I would follow.ġ- Identify main health objectives. What does healthy look like to you and why is that goal important? A more nutrient dense diet? Less eating out? More energy? Clearer mind? Better digestion? Stronger immune system? Decreasing inflammation in your body? I’ve felt that way with fitness more than once, but found the best way to start the process is just, well, to pick a spot and start. Once we’ve fallen so far off a wagon, it can feel too intimidating to figure out where or how to jump back on. 3 kids in 5 years is no joke (not that I know, but from me just trying to keep up with two, I can only imagine the fun and chaos of keeping up with three). (I also think this would be a great post for around new year’s resolution time!!) Thanks for all you share, after many years your blog is still one of my favorites!įirst let me say that I highly doubt you are alone in this. Many nights lately I’ve realized I’m not even serving a vegetable with dinner!! I hope I don’t sound whiny and pathetic, but I would love some tips for starting a healthy lifestyle from ground zero. Kale salad?! I’m lucky if I can throw some romaine in a bowl with ranch and get that on the table. but after having three kids in five years I’m afraid I’ve fallen so far off the wagon I don’t even know where to start getting back on! I still follow a few “healthy living” blogs from back when I used to actually BE healthy, but now everything seems too daunting.
Back before kids I used to eat pretty healthy, exercise, etc. I would love to see a post about where to START making your family healthier. I have another reader request today and though I deleted all the names from the suggestions (I never know if people want to be mentioned or not), if this is you, please come hang out with me.
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