PS: I have no idea why some of this text is outlined in white. Have tried for 20 minutes to fix. Just all gonna have to deal with the ugliness...
Few people have any next, they live
from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
Setting a goal is not the main
thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that
plan.
Tom Landry
American Football Player Coach
As we enter week 6, I am certain of
one thing -- without planning, your program will fail. Planning
encompasses so many different components each day. If you are a morning
work out person, laying out your clothes every night is an essential part of
the plan to make that early morning commitment. It's easy to use the
excuse that your clothes are in the laundry basket in the basement, and it's
absurdly early to be stumbling about trying to find them... and decide you'll
do it the next day. If you are an evening work out person, you have to
plan to bring your gear with you to work, so you'll head right for the gym.
A stop at home generally spells the end to your good intentions.
As I write, the scent of oven-fried
chicken and sirloin tip roast is making my home redolent with amazing,
mouth-watering scent. Six chicken legs and a 3-pound roast. And I'm
cooking for one. Why do I do this on a Sunday night? It's the only
way I can be sure that I'll have healthy, delicious dinners every night this
week. I can leave work at 8 pm, and not have to drive through somewhere
cause I'm too tired to think about cooking. This is so do-able! It
doesn't even take much more time than just cooking one dinner! In fact,
it makes my life so much easier.
Workout clothes laid out. Dinner
prepared for several nights a week. This relieves a lot of pressure each
day. And, there's another thing I do to prepare, a trick that I only
recently started, but it is one of my best. I make an egg scramble on
Sunday morning that creates at least 3-4 breakfasts for the week. Talk
about easy! It's difficult for me (and maybe for some of you) to figure
out how to get a good breakfast in when I'm rushing about trying to get to
work.
Here's what I've been doing:
Cut
up a bunch of veggies (onion, yellow bell pepper, broccoli, spinach) and saute
(I love coconut oil or bacon grease for this part)
Saute
some meat and chop up (chicken sausage, bacon, ham; use your imagination)
Scramble
10 eggs (I use coconut milk; but water, almond milk will be good too)
Add
eggs to the veggies and meat. Scramble. Enjoy deliciousness.
Separate the left overs in easy to carry containers (I can get 4
breakfasts from this recipe). Microwave every morning after gym time.
Or, just to get your day kick-started.
The
bonus of establishing a good plan is that there is no guess work left each day.
Take the stress out of your nutrition and your exercise by creating and
executing a good plan that works for you.
Would
love to hear your tips for planning that works for you!
Welcome
to Week 6!!