A Secret to Diet Success: Bite-Sized, Doable Meal Planning

Bulk Chickpea Stew - Winter Kit (www.papillionskyphotography.com)

Be Prepared for Your Next Meal Before It’s Time to Eat 

If you are ready, really ready, to make dietary changes that work this time – you are going to have to befriend meal planning.  It is an unrealistic expectation to put on yourself to think that at the end of a long, time-starved, day you are going to spend 20 minutes first cleaning vegetables, then 20 minutes chopping and preparing them, then 30 minutes cooking them…and this assumes you already knew which recipe you were going to make, which you probably didn’t until you got in the car and were driving home- oh, and that wasn’t a pleasant drive since your first two picks you knew you didn’t have the ingredients for and there is no way your stopping at the store tonight.  So it’s no surprise that cereal, pasta, hot dogs (even if organic), pizza or take-out becomes the foundation of your next meal.  I get it.

I get it because I’m only a nutritionist part of the time. I’m also a time-starved small business owner, a member of a household that has a personality of its own (why can’t houses stay dusted looking or vacuumed for longer than 4 hours), and a woman who wishes she had more time for friends, hobbies, and work life balance.  So I get it.  And I know the only time that I stay successful is when I commit to planning.  You are going to eat everyday, so befriend and commit to a process that makes you eat smarter.

1st – Commit to Just 2 Bulk Recipes that You Will Make within the Next 3 Days

A doable bit-sized start is just to make 2 bulk recipes (a bulk recipes makes at least 6 servings – if a recipe doesn’t, just double it).  This will ensure that you have healthy, cell nourishing meals over the next 4 days while you continue to regroup.

I’d love to see us commit to this together by responding to this post with the 2 recipes that you will make.  And no judgements on which recipes – we’ll work on quality next, first we need to focus on planning and just getting in the habit of making them.  Because, this really is the secret to diet success. ~ Teri