Here's my thing with diets or the art of dieting that always destroys my hope and my momentum....I hate monotony when it comes to food. This is the reason most guys are so much better at losing weight than us ladies. They can eat egg whites and spinach everyday for 3 months. They can eat salads with chicken on top every day and not want to gouge their eyes out by week 2. Guys love routine. They have something in their brains that make it okay for them to adjust to this new lifestyle. To quote Ricky Gervais "Ya hate it, cause it boring, but you know you have to do it, so you do it." Oh Mr.Gervais if only it were that easy.
So I became the queen of meal plans. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner I had down. Things start to go great until about halfway through the week, when I don't feel like cooking anymore. This throws off the entire meal plan because on Thursday we are suppose to have leftovers from Wednesday. See my dilemma. Then my beautiful wife says, "instead of making meal plans, why don't we plan our meals around proteins or a particular dish and go from there. Mondays =fish, Tuesday= taco night or mexican, Wednesday= pasta, Thursday = chicken, friday = dine out, Saturday = fish, sunday = vegetarian. This sounded like an awesome plan, but then it got too monotonous. I officially lost interest when I baked chicken a week ago. I didn't want to eat chicken. But it was thursday, so I baked it anyway. Now I've lost interest in this new plan and the cycle continues.
Today I'm going to try something new. I'm going to make a meal plan where I can cook more than one dish a night. Hopefully by removing the burden of making 3 meals a day for 7 days straight it will help me get into a routine. I've actually heard of people that make all their meals for the week on Sunday. I'm not that motivated. But doubling up on dishes once or twice a week doesn't sound bad at all.
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