Okay, now what?

Okay, so now I know what NOT to eat, but what DO I eat?  It's time to make a plan.  Sunday is shopping day here so on Saturday we sat down with the ol' cookbooks to see what we could make that would work with my now limited, food options.

This week was more than just planning dinners.  I was now out of my regular "smoothie" breakfast routine as well as my "green juice" lunches.  This was going to take some time.  After reviewing my calendar, I knew I was going to have to plan some breakfasts that would be quick and easy.  I started with a couple days of hard boiled eggs, one day of my "old" smoothie recipe and then a couple days of fried eggs.  Now my family knows how much I "love" eggs so this is already off to a rocky start.  I don't mind eggs here and there, and even better if I don't have to clean up after them, but for the next 5-6 days!  YIKES!  Okay, it gets even better.  Let's throw in a couple of days of egg salad over greens and for "meatless Monday" a frittata!  OH YEAH, I can feel the feathers popping out now!

We balanced lunch out with some leftover salmon on greens and then one day of tuna.  Not too bad however we found out it was going to work out best if we could prepare some of our ingredients the night before.  For snacks I was focused on celery sticks with almond butter and cheese with some nuts.  Not too bad for week one.

Dinner for the week kicked off with a salmon dinner.  Now, we are not well versed in cooking fish which was one of the reasons this "meal plan" was feeling a bit challenging.  The side dishes were great and turned out on time only to find out the salmon wasn't really cooked yet.  Of course!  That's why we try these kinds of meals out on the weekend!  Not wanting the rest of the meal to go bad we went ahead and started with our broccoli and mushroom side dishes while our salmon finished cooking.  Off to a great start.  The rest of the week was mostly a blur of chicken dinners and a taco salad.  Really?  More poultry?

I'm quite the "scale" watcher so of course I continued to weigh myself daily.  I know this isn't a good practice however, at some point in time, I felt that weighing myself daily would keep me from going off the deep end.  I don't think that's been decided yet.  I also decided to journal my meals.  You know how easy it is to "remember" just how well we ate, right?  I think that's call selective memory, or something like that.

While there were some ups and downs, I ended the first week down 3.2 pounds!  There were some changes getting used to having eggs each morning but overall, it was a good week.  I didn't feel crazy that I was missing out on anything.  My biggest mountain to climb was Spring Fest.  I know this isn't the last event of its kind (they are just starting here now that the weather is improving) but I know I'm going to have to learn how to navigate around the food vendors and eat what I need to for my health.

Cheers, and ciao, to week one!