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Originally Posted by rockinrobin
I'd also love for you to have a plan in place for when you can't plan. Easier go to healthy foods that you WILL turn to instead of the *other* stuff.
Ah yes, the go-to meals. Mine have changed. I plan but there are nights I don't have a plan as life just sort of happens...a lot.
My new go-to meals are chicken stir-fry, as I always have frozen chicken and frozen veggies on hand. My other go-to meal is a rotisserie chicken from Meijer (Kroger, Walmart, wherever). We're fortunate to live right across the street so it's just as easy as hitting McDonalds. Worst case scenario I run in and pick up a rotisserie chicken and two frozen veggie sides. Easy. In a time pinch, I'll do McDonald's grilled chicken sandwich, no may, and I split the bottom bun in half and use each half as top and bottom. That's just over 200 calories for the whole sandwich, doctored that way. It's rare I do that.
Furthermore, I'd love to see you analyze yourself as you start this process of getting back into the game mentally. It is hard to get the start but it sounds like the spark has ignited.
For me, I always know that once I have three days (three GRUELING days) of clean eating under my belt I will be good to go. If you can just hang on for three days, you can do anything.
My favorite tip, which I hand out all the time (sorry frequent readers), is to set a time frame for yourself. I chose to remain committed to plan for one year without any excuses. I was not allowed to give up for a year no matter what. I did this because giving up in the face of slow weight loss was my biggest problem. Once I conquered that problem, the weight has come off. My year has come and gone and I've made a new commitment to a new year of staying on plan no matter what. And each year for the rest of my life I will recommit to this lifestyle. During that first year, it was all about forming habits and it worked really, really well. What I'm doing now is just me. There's no going back because this is now just me. To that end, you might consider a set time frame of a couple months, six months, a year, 12 weeks that you can commit to.