The MizFits Guide To Healthy Living.

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M.

I’ve started writing out our dinners and it does help. Most of our lunches are the leftovers. I’m finding that bringing in more fresh fruits and veggies has been more of a transformation to what we grab for snacks than anything else.

I’m also making a large batch of dark greens salads at the beginning of the week and it’ll last for a full week.

I get lazy and don’t want to have to chop veggies every day. It helps to have the little containers of precut veggies for me. Plus I’m more likely to snack on sliced cucumbers.

(By the way, I’m the same way with my oatmeal! I hate when it’s all hot and soupy. Give it a few minutes, let it thicken up and cool off…yummy!)

I love your blog! And I am in awe of your muscular body!

Over long how of a time do you eat this breakfast? Also about how many calories does all of this add up to?

I eat a piece of a toast and a fried egg (ugh… I should probably stop frying it, huh?) every morning when I first get up, and then in about two hours I am starving and so I have yogurt with frozen fruit. By the time I get to lunch I am starving again, so I wonder if I need to add more calories to my morning meal(s). Maybe I need to add a Morning Star sausage?

Thanks for all of your advice!

I have planned and written out what I was going to eat in the past. It worked until I ate something off my plan, and then I got too hard on myself for “messing up.”

I still keep a food journal, but now I write what I eat after I eat it. That helps me see the relationship between what I eat and how I feel later on. That’s what I’m working on now.

I still plan my meals, but I do it in my head now. I’m one of those individuals who enjoys planning and organizing – ahhh!

I also add cinnamon, sometimes some nutmeg, and maybe a little honey. I also cook them a lot longer than most people because I like them really, really soft and gooey…

And I make it with half water, half milk. Adds a little protein in there, not a lot but hey…also I like that texture better.

V.

When I joine the Biggest Loser Club nearly two years ago (product placement!) I used their meal planner RELIGIOUSLY. I planned each and every meal, down to the tiniest ingredient – for a week at a time. Later, I started doing it a month at a time, because that’s how often I do major shopping. If I had those plans done, by golly, I was good as gold. I packed each day’s food the night before, and I ate exactly what was on my plan exactly when I was supposed to. And I lost, and lost…

It wasn’t until I started playing fast and loose with my meal plans that I started having trouble losing. Even now, I find that if I decide in advance exactly what I’m going to eat, I am so much better off.

It helps that I have to pack every meal except dinner and evening snack (I eat six small meals), because they all get eaten at work. So it’s pretty easy to stick to.

Anyway, that’s what works for me.

V.