I pressed the reset button and got back into the challenge this week with all my heart. My big lesson this week is that I need to get planned and organised around food – because that is what gets me through the day and week. What is more it stops me ‘snacking’ on wrong foods! I also learned that my time at Fernwood is in the morning – the longer the day goes on the more excuses I have for not going!
There seems to be loads of discussion around the food – I started the 28 day breakthrough before beginning the challenge and from that I learned two things. 1) my daughter wouldn’t eat the meals, and our family has two rules – we eat together and we eat the same thing. So it was back to our family meals. Plus I have a thermomix and I can’t have it just sitting on the bench! The other thing I learned with the 28 day program was that there was way too much meat for me, so for the 12 week challenge I switched to the vegetarian option – yummo! The bonus us that I have healthy snacks and lunch planned – so I don’t skip a meal and then graze!
I really don’t like dealing with food and hate thinking about what to eat – so I plan meals for one month, I (online) supermarket shop once a fortnight and do fresh foods (fruit & veg market, butcher and health food shop) weekly. I also try and cook up on the weekend – including meals and school snacks.
The biggest challenge I have had with the meals is fitting them into my meal planning for my family – then I was shown the search function in the recipes. Now I can plan it all out!
I have a really busy week with work coming up – so next week anytime at Fernwood is going to be bonus time – I will be spending time preparing ahead a lot of meals so that I can take them with me and still eat well!
This week Emily made me work hard in PT and it felt good and I also got a new program, which is always a good motivation to keep on going!