My Plan for the Week (1/19)

I doubt I'll do this every week but I thought I'd write this out for my own sanity and thought if anyone else needed a reason to think about their week, maybe this would help.

Saturday I made our food again instead of eating out.  Again, there were sweet treats but they were kept under control even though I reeeeeally wanted just one more thing as the night wound down.  Calories were 3000 that day.  If that sounds appalling, we could do anywhere from 1000-1500 more than that depending on what we got to eat for lunch or dinner from a restaurant.  (If you ever track eating out two meals over the weekend, you may be shocked at what you consume.  I enter calories as close as I can based on what restaurants are in the tracker.)  In addition to that, I burned 1000 calories on the floor bike broken up into two sections.  (1050 but I always subtract 50 calories for lack of accuracy)  I didn't drink quite as much pure water as I wanted but 32 ounces and four cups of tea and a decaf coffee with almond milk for over 8 glasses of liquid that day.  As I was making the caramelized onions for our burgers, I also threw together turkey mushroom meatloaf so I could have that ready to roll this and next week.  I like it on nights when I'm craving comfort food because it's only 200 calories for a good sized slice.  

Today I've got the crock pots working overtime as I have turkey chili brewing in one and a 3 lb pack of chicken breasts going in the other.    I'll have the chili ready for a dinner and likely use the other for a weekend meal as we really love chili cheese fries.  Obviously, the cheese will have to be kept to one serving or if I am feeling particularly healthy, with nutritional yeast.  You can find fries at Whole Foods with no salt added and bake 'em up in the oven.  Or if we're waxing nostalgic for Hawaii, I'll cook up some brown rice for a chili rice bowl.   (For comparison's sake, chili cheese fries depending on the restaurant can run from 650-1350 calories and sat fat 25-50g or my version 500 cals and 5g sat fat.)  The chicken breasts, which run about 8-9 oz per breast, will be frozen and pulled out as needed for stuff like stir fries with cauliflower rice, enchiladas with red pepper hummus and taco sauce and/or BBQ lavash pizza.  The goal is to make prep during the week as easy as possible on myself.  If I have it in me, I'll throw together a few cauliflower rice bowls for lunch this week but that might be pushing it.  We also got low sodium cottage cheese which helped me hit my protein goals last week.

On the exercise front, we've got a bit of a deep freeze right now but the temps will warm up to the 30's eventually.  Sadly no snow left to shoe in so we'll have to decide if we want to walk the park before the kids get out of school or around 5pm when they should be crawling home.  If not, then time to throw something more formal back in the mix in the basement.  I wanted to start strength training this week but I'm wondering if that's a good idea because I have some overhead priming/painting on tap and if I have bad DOMS then I might not be able to do it.  We'll see how the week goes; maybe I can fit it in somewhere in the there like bodyweight exercises.  Stair push ups, lunges, squats and stuff like that to get the muscles ready to get back in action.

I need to get water on point.  I know that's my weak spot so I think since emails are too easy for me to snooze, I'm going to need to set my watch alarm for every 30 minutes.  I also need to balance getting in too much so that I'm not up weeing all night long and screwing up any chance at sleep...yet another thing I must tackle but not this week in addition to everything else.

Sorry if this is riddled with typos.  My proofreader is watching the last episode of Silo so I'm leaving him alone.  

Anything you want to do to help yourself in the coming week?

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