I saw on Pinterest someone pinned something about freezer cooking. Where you prepare/cook a months worth of food in one day and freeze the rest for easy meals later. It's an idea I should consider. Since my husband seems to want the easy and quick meals he is used to (canned beans and junk food) and not the meals I cook, I could freezer cook single servings of foods for me. I will have to look into it more. Seems it would take a lot of planning, but it'd be worth it. I hate wasting food and most of the time you can only purchase things in certain sizes or bundles that are too large for just one person who only eats a single serving per meal.
I've been having carnation instant breakfast for breakfast every day for many years now...probably going on something like 10 years, so this will be a hard habit for me to break. I realize I could easily replace carnation with a smoothie and actually get some of my servings of fruit in, instead of going days without the much needed vitamins we get from fruit.
I found this great meal schedule that I should try. I would more likely work out before lunch, so it would need a little tweaking. I found a different gym on a different (closer) base that offers zumba classes at 11:30am on Thursdays. I should definitely get my butt in gear and try it out this week! So to tweak this a bit, I would have to do the pre-workout snack before going to the gym. Since I would get done with zumba around lunch time, perhaps have a post-workout smoothie with lunch afterwards. Here's what my schedule would look like:
Breakfast 6:00am
Snack 8:30am
Pre-workout 10:30am
Post workout smoothie with Lunch about 1:00pm
Snack 3:30pm
Dinner 6:30pm
Late Snack no later than 9:00pm
Some things I need to work on in my diet
My diet needs to be more balanced - I usually have no problems consuming enough servings of dairies!
EAT FRUIT! If I don't eat it, I should at least drink it! A smoothie a day!
Eat more veggies!
Watch my carbohydrates
Consume less sodium and sugars - been going waay overboard on sodium!
More fiber...maybe actually use the Bene-fiber I have sitting in my hallway closet!
(BTW, Red means I need to work on it or I'm over the RDA. Orange means I'm slightly over. Pink/purple means I did good!)
Daily Consumption
Cups of Water (5 cups), : 4.5
Total Calorie Intake (1000-1500): 1530 I guess this is just slightly high considering I was pretty sedentary today.
Total Fat Intake (<30% of TCI): 43g 2-3% of TCI, good!
Total Carbohydrates (125-175mg): 236.5mg That's 61.5 over. Probably due to having to eat spaghetti for both lunch and dinner!
Total Carbs from Sugars (<40g): 87.5g High again!
Total Carbs from Dietary Fiber (20-35g): 12.75g A little low again...Bene-fiber!
Total Cholesterol (<300mg): 57mg
Total Protein (44-60g): 48g
Total Sodium (<1,100mg): 2011mg! WAAAY over again!
. . .
Breakfast: 1 cup of 2% milk with carnation - 250 calories, 5.5g fat, 39g carbohydrates, 30g sugar, 4mg cholesterol, 13g protein, 210mg sodium
Snack: 1 slice banana bread, with butter spread - 292 calories, 11g fat, 45g carbohydrates, 17g sugar, 5g dietary fiber, 5mg cholesterol, 90mg sodium
Lunch: Spaghetti (angel hair pasta, one meatball, parmesan cheese in tomato sauce) - 373 calories, 6.5g fat, 60.5g carbohydrates, 7.5g sugar, 3.5g dietary fiber, 16mg cholesterol, 15g protein, 850mg sodium
Snack: Raspberry fudge chunk greek frozen yogurt - 100 calories, 3.5g fat, 14.5g carbohydrates, 12.5g sugars, 12.5mg cholesterol, 3g protein
Dinner: Spaghetti - 373 calories, 6.5g fat, 60.5g carbohydrates, 7.5g sugar, 3.5g dietary fiber, 16mg cholesterol, 15g protein, 850mg sodium
Snack: 3 pieces orange chocolate - 142 calories, 10g fat, 17g carbohydrates, 13g sugar, .75g dietary fiber, 3.75mg cholesterol, 2g protein, 11mg sodium
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