Week Recap + Food Prep

Before I go into the food I prepared for this week, let's review my goals and how I did this week. My goals were:

• No more fast food
• No more pop
• Try my hardest to meal plan, cook for the week, and eat everything that I made
• Try to move a little bit everyday

I had one fast food meal this week which was a cheese quesadilla from Taco Bell. I didn't feel the greatest after eating it, so that should be a good reminder of why I have this goal. I was successful at drinking no pop at all this week. I consider myself super successful since I drank all plain or infused water this week except for one bottle of flavored while I was out shopping. I did meal plan and ate most of it, but didn't eat it all. I did not work out at all last week due to feeling sick and my Achilles tendon bothering me again.  

I want to keep the goals that I made last week again this week (as long as my tendon doesn't bother me too much to do some kind of workout). I would also like to add another goal. My new goal is to eat less junk food in between meals. Right now I'm thinking I stop on the way home from work and get one serving size of a junk food treat to eat right then and that is it. 

I am excited to eat the food I made for this week. My meals are things that could be unhealthy, but I made healthier homemade versions. 

Breakfast:

Snack:

Trying a new recipe - hope they taste good!

Snack:

Lunch:

 

My adult version of a healthier Lunchable with whole wheat Wheat Thins, reduced fat cheese, lower sodium lunch meat, and grapes.

Snack:

Dinner:

 

Oven baked chicken fajitas

Snack: 

 

Meal Prep for Sept. 16 - Sept. 20 + Quick Recap of Last Week

My goal for the Back to Basics Challenge was to track what I eat this past week. I didn't track anything! Maybe being half on track and half off plan has a part in it... Anyway, I do plan on remedying it this week. I have done WW online, My Fitness Pal, and Lose It! They are all good if you like using them, but I'm not so big on tracking each little ingredient I eat, especially by calories. My goal is to start tracking by posting photos of everything I eat. That is what I did the first time I was successful at losing weight. I might not write a post on my blog everyday, but if I don't I will post something on the Facebook page for this blog.

I did manage to take a picture of one cute outfit from last week. I wore it on Monday, since I have class and there was one little Purdue P on the dress. I actually felt cute wearing this outfit.

I got some cheap ballet flats to wear with skirts, so I still look dressy. I can fit my orthodics in them, but the back of my feet and top of my feet had blisters from the shoes rubbing on them all day.

I enjoy ear cuff earrings, so I was glad I was able to wear them in a "classier" way for work.

I also wore a nice necklace that the hubs got me for Christmas a few years ago.

The only other pictures from the week are of what I spent my Saturday night doing. Reading for class in bed with the dogs fighting and not helping me concentrate. I didn't realize my chapter for Monday was 82ish pages long and put it off until this weekend. I won't do that again!

I did mange to get a quick food prep in as well today. I made turkey burgers for my lunches with whole wheat sandwich thins, toppings (lettuce, tomato, onion, cheese), and sweet potato fries.

I'm still struggling with craving McDonald's Egg McMuffins for breakfast. I once again made my own and my goal this week is to eat more of my homemade ones that McDonald's ones.

I also got some snacks ready for the week.

I didn't prepare dinners, because my hubs cooks two days a week and I typically eat leftovers the other days.

Here's to a week of tracking!

September Shopping Trip + Meal Prep

I used my strategy of one big shopping trip this weekend to get most of what I knew (or predicted) we needed this month. Most of the shopping trip was my groceries for the meals I planned for this month. The following is my haul:

Cleaning supplies

Toiletries

Whole Grains for all my meals- freezer helps with buying ahead.

Jar, canned, shelf stable foods

Boxed goods

Meats and proteins

Dairy and other refrigerated food

The fresh foods I needed and then cooked the wrong recipe. Ooops!

Since it is Labor Day, I decided to do my food prep for the week today instead of Sunday. I baked some egg whites for homemade Egg McMuffins,

I know they don't look the best, but I accidentally forgot to spray the pan I was baking them in and the bottoms burned a bit.

made a chicken bake with salsa and multi grain tortilla chips,

It is chicken breasts, salsa, and multi grain tortilla chips.

baked some protein cookies for snacks,

and made single servings of some other snacks.

I also weighed in for the beginning of my Back to Basics Challenge. I'm currently at 207 and would love to get down under 200 by the end of the month. If not, losing anything will be great compared to the one pound loss over the past few months. I'm trying not to weigh everyday, so I'll do a weekly weigh in for this challenge.

I know I am supposed to be challenging myself to not spend money on unnecessary items, but I did find a couple of things on clearance while out this weekend. Here are the finds:

A Wal-Mart find for $5.

Running skirt with shorts underneath for $3.75.

Shorts for $2.25.

I did not buy this, but it has been in the back of my closet all summer. It finally looks good enough that I could wear it.