Day Five: This Week's Plan

You know that obnoxious saying, "Fail to plan, plan to fail"? It's obnoxious, right? But it's also, I've discovered, very true. It was so easy not to overeat or consume an entire bag of chips while I was doing the Whole30, because I made a plan every week of what I was going to eat. And until Red Vine-Geddon, I stuck with that plan. So as much as I hate cheesy, obnoxious sayings, I definitely want to continue to plan my meals for the week, with the idea of not failing in mind.

This will be my first full non-Whole30 week, and I was so excited to include things that weren't allowed on the Whole30. Rice, people, rice! If I can't have cheese, I at least want rice. And there is no gluten in rice (which I didn't know until post-Red Vine Gate), so I'm okay on that front too! As an aside, I'm going to keep eating butter, at least for a little while to see if I have any reaction to it. Because butter is mostly fat, according to the internets, it doesn't always cause the same problems that other dairy does. And I've never been particularly anti-butter, regardless of how "bad" it is for you, because butter is amaze-balls. So I'm hoping my body can handle it.

So here is my food and fitness plan for the week. Please note, I live all alone and usually cook full-sized recipes, so there is an abundance of leftovers in my life. As long as the food was good, I'm okay with that.

Sunday
Breakfast: Chocolate Banana Shake, Breakfast Sausage
Lunch: Dirty Brown Rice with Shrimp
Dinner: Dirty Brown Rice with Shrimp
Fitness: Walk 1 Mile

Monday
Breakfast: Breakfast Sausage, Grain-Free Pumpkin Spice Muffin, Almonds, Banana
Lunch: Dirty Brown Rice with Shrimp
Dinner: 2 Applegate Farms Uncured Beef Hot Dogs, Steamed Green Beans, Brown Rice

Tuesday
Breakfast: Breakfast Sausage, Pumpkin Spice Muffin, Almonds, Banana
Lunch: Dirty Brown Rice with Shrimp
Dinner: BBQ Chicken Salad
Fitness: Walk 1 Mile (Walk 5 min, Run 30 sec, Walk remaining)

Wednesday
Breakfast: Breakfast Sausage, Pumpkin Spice Muffin, Almonds, Banana
Lunch: BBQ Chicken Salad
Dinner: Steak, Steamed Broccoli

Thursday
Breakfast: Breakfast Sausage, Pumpkin Spice Muffin, Almonds, Banana
Lunch: Steak, Steamed Broccoli
Dinner: Applegate Farms Hot Dogs, Steamed Veggies, Brown Rice
Fitness: Walk 1 Mile (Walk 5 min, Run 30 sec, Walk remaining)

Friday
Breakfast: Breakfast Sausage, Pumpkin Spice Muffin, Almonds, Banana
Lunch: Hot Dogs, Veggies, Rice
Dinner: Pasta Pomodoro

Saturday
Breakfast: Chocolate Banana Shake
Lunch: Pasta Pomodoro
Dinner: Pasta Pomodoro

So that is the plan for the week. Sunday is already off to a good start. I've walked my mile, made breakfast sausages for the next couple of days (I like to half the recipe and prepare 3 on Sunday and 3 on Tuesday evening for the rest of the week. My first week of Whole30 I made all 6 on Sunday and by Friday, it was a little iffy on whether or not I should eat it. I did anyway and survived, but they just taste better when they're not almost a week old), and had an adventure in using my two-year-old Ninja for the first time. Here's hoping the rest of the week goes just as well!