It can be hard to stay on track when the weekends come around. Most people are taken out of their routines and therefore do not plan meals the way they do during the week. When the weekends roll around there are more social gatherings, driving your kids around to different activities, or going to different family outings. Here are a 4 tips I use for staying on track on the weekends:
Meal Plan: Meal plan for the weekends. A lot of people meal planning for the week, but forget about the weekend. If you know you have a busy day Saturday and will not have time to make lunch or dinner for that night, make a slow cooker meal on Friday (or any day you have 10 minutes to chop some vegetables and meat up and throw some other ingredients in). For example, yesterday while Griff was napping I chopped and assembled all of the ingredients for chili in under 10 minutes and 6 hours later not only did my house smell really good, I knew we had lunch and dinner for Saturday.- Pack Snacks: Here are some snack ideas:
- avocados (and a spoon and knife)
- almonds with sea salt
- dry roasted cashews
- chopped up vegetables (my favorite is cucumber with sea salt)
- hard boiled eggs
- Lara bars (my favorite is lemon). There are only 3 ingredients in these bars. Avoid all other bars! If there is an ingredient in there you cannot pronounce, don’t eat it!
- Always have 1 or 2 water bottles with you (sometimes you may not be hungry, you may be thirsty)
- Eat 3 meals: Life gets busy! Whether it is sleeping in too late to eat breakfast or pack a lunch or your kids are running around and you never found 1 minute for yourself. Try and prepare breakfast and your lunch the night before; put it in a container in the fridge so you can just grab it. When the morning comes all you have to do it grab it. You can even set an alarm or reminder on your phone to grab it before you leave the house. The point of eating ALL three meals is that you won’t get over hungry by the time 4PM rolls around where you then attack everything in the fridge, your local Starbucks, or wherever it is that you go. Dinner goes back to meal planning. If you didn’t make dinner and you have stuff in your fridge, but you have zero motivation to cook anything, just get up and cook yourself some eggs. Who doesn’t like breakfast for dinner??
Don't drink too much alcohol: Some people (myself included) eat more when they drink. I find that whenever I start to feel tipsy I start worrying that I am going to be too drunk and feel like crap the next morning. When that happens I convince myself that it would be best if I ate more. Another challenge is when dessert comes out at the end of a party or a dinner I tell myself it is ok to have some cookies, why not? When I go back and self reflect I realize the nights where I feel like I had full control and didn’t cheat or feel like crap the next morning were when I did the following: started the night off with hot water with lemon, once my salad or raw bar came I then ordered my drink of choice. After that making sure to alternate between water and alcohol. Another important tip is not to mix alcohol, even if you start off drinking red, stick to red throughout the whole night.
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