I mentioned how inspired I was by Denise over at Running Journal to eat healthy. She has been preparing her food ahead of time and taking it with her. Great idea! Except, that I spent hours in my kitchen Monday evening preparing and cooking food. It was a lot of work, but it was very nice to come home yesterday after work and simply heat up a healthy meal! I got off work at 6, and was home with dinner ready at 6:35. I called my husband to tell him dinner was ready, and he was like, "you're home with dinner ready already??" He knows that IF I make dinner after work, we don't eat till closer to 8.
Anyways, Monday evening I made several things. For dinner that evening (which created healthy leftovers for lunch) I made a vegatable and chicken pasta. It was a recipe I found on http://www.kraftfoods.com/ a long time ago and is very yummy. It has asparagus, zucchini, and red peppers, chicken, and pasta. For the sauce, you use chicken broth, 4oz 1/3 less fat cream cheese, and a little parmesan cheese. It makes a lot of food, and I have eaten on it for a couple of days now. Since I had extra asparagus, peppers, and onions, I went ahead and sauteed those up with some chicken and teriaki sauce, made some brown rice, and stuck that in the fridge for the next day. I also chopped up veggies and fruit so I would have healthy snacks to take with me and make some hard boiled eggs. I have packed my food for the whole day to take to work with me the last two days and am trying to eat every 2.5-3 hours. So far, it's working out well. Yesterday I got hungry here and there, but today is much better. Hopefully the hunger pains will subside after I train my stomach to eat smaller portions again.
I guess I will repeat the meal prep on Friday. I anticipate running out of food then. It does take a lot of work to prepare all that food in one evening, but then it makes the rest of the week so easy. Having my lunchbox makes what to eat not a question, and I'm much less likely to eat out everyday. I hope to continue this!
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I'm a big believer in packing food ahead of time---One it makes you eat healthier but it also helps you spend less money! Both of which I am trying to do! Good work and sounds like a great recipe!
ReplyDeleteMy main goal is to survive! LOL!
ReplyDeleteI don't really know what to expect time wise. Right now, I'm hovering around 23:30-24:00 for 2 miles. Slow as a snail! At this point, I would say to add another ~ 13:00 to run another 1.1 miles {given that I'd be dead tired}, so I guesstimate at this point it would take me 36:00-37:00. But that's at this point. I don't know how much improvement to expect between now and March 7. What do you think is feasible? I know everyone is different, but I would hope to see some improvement... I just don't know how much improvement to expect! Thoughts?