My husband and I are attempting to set ourselves up for success! We are human...obese humans at that! We have to be especially prepared for lean meals! We need to not be able to find an excuse to eat out or to eat unhealthy!
We did a kitchen clean out about a month ago! Yes! We threw out food! I hated to do it, but it was junk and it was killing us slowly. We used to rarely grocery shop, so no worries, we MAY have had half a brown grocery sack full of groceries to throw out. The top things that heart our hearts as it went to the dumpster were two boxes of Velveeta Shells and Cheese and one half-eaten jar of Jif Crunchy peanut butter! (I will post more about peanut butters as soon as I gather more info! I am researching this, folks!)
Now we grocery shop at least twice a week. And we set ourselves up for success...
Our daily goal is to eat 5 servings of veggies each day. This is so fun! Try it! Veggies will fill your stomach up faster than that snack-sized Snickers you had yesterday! Yeah...you! :0)
One serving of a vegetable in a snack bag, ready to grab, is so awesome when you feel a little rumbly in your tumbly!
1 serving is about:
5 broccoli trees
10 baby carrots
1/2 a sweet potato
4 slices of onion
1/2 bell pepper
1 cup greens for salad
15 grape tomatoes <------- my personal favorite! My new quote is, "I guess I will go force 15 grape tomatoes down!"
You will notice I have 6 strawberries in a baggie above too! Fruits are a great snack also! Just make sure you have more veggies than fruits!
For lunch most days, I grab an assortment of three personally-packed snack bags from the arrangement above and throw in a palm-sized piece of grilled chicken breast or roasted turkey. (If I feel real hungry in the mornings, I will pack some wheat thins, but I normally do not have room for them after I eat my meat and veggies first. Timing the carbs last is part of the preparedness for success as well. Just do it for yourself! Your body will love you for it. It will show you the love by dropping at least 2 lbs the first week you eat veggies each day!
Peanut butter is high in fat, but the good kind of fats. Some of the "natural ones" are better for you. But, my family can only handle JIF natural. Plus, it is high in protein and since one of my children doesn't eat much meat, it is good for her!
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of this new blog, love you!
ReplyDeleteLove you too, Heather! Thanks for reading! Deaver's doctor suggested MaraNatha peanut butter, so we eat that now, but when comparing nutrition details, it is not much different than others. The ingredients list is way different! www.precisionnutrition.com says to not eat anything that has more than 3 or 4 things listed on ingredients labels.
ReplyDeleteI was going to suggest MaraNatha as well...I love their almond butter. You can grind and make your own peanut butter at some stores, that is the best way I think. I also fell in love with Sunflower Seed Butter while working at a tree nut/pine nut free preschool! I really like your snack bag suggestion, so simple! I love reading blogs from "real" people I know because it makes me feel like it's true and not just something someone out there wrote. Make sense? I seriously think that it's not really about cutting things completely out {except things that should be...if that makes sense}, but paying more attention to what and how much we eat. Someone once posted on fb that we should eat less CRAP = Carbonated drinks, Refined sugars, Artifical Sweetners/colors, Processed foods and eat more FOOD = Fruits/veggies, Organic lean protein, Omega 3 fatty acids, Drink water. It's simple and hard at the same time. You really have to pay attention to those labels. Things I never thought would be in some stuff really is.
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