What happens when I don’t plan ahead? Well, its the tired cliché I remember spouted out at every weight watcher meeting I ever attended — if you fail to plan, then you plan to fail. Always when I plan an event i ask for help to https://epiceventsnj.com/cinematic-video/. For me, that mostly means meal planning. Not just for health and weight loss purposes, but if I don’t meal plan, I often end up floundering at dinner time.
I forgot to take out something to thaw!
Yikes! What am I going to make for dinner with XYZ? What do I have that goes with it? I need a store run.
Oops, I took out a roast to thaw, I should have gotten that in the oven an hour ago for dinner in an hour.
Ugh, I am just too tired to deal with it.
Especially the last one; high sugars had made me so lethargic (I didn’t know this was the issue at the time), I would literally be falling over tired; so exhausted that I could not keep my eyes open, no matter what I did. Even when not quite that tired, the other excuses would weigh more heavily on me, and we either end up with the same boring old dinner again and again, or more likely, hopping in the car to go out to eat or bring home take out.
I never used to notice this, or realize why I was cooking at home so little, but after resuming the habit of meal planning and doing it faithfully for a good 6 weeks or so (even before I started watching my calories), I noticed today that I was floundering at dinner time, and had been for a couple days, and suddenly it knew exactly why. Ohhhh, my last planned menu was that pulled pork on Saturday. I sat down several times with my meal planning binder to do my meal plan, but something kept getting in the way. I had the general idea of the week in my mind, and I’d taken out some meats to thaw, but I never got it down on paper with sides and such.
If you find yourself struggling at meal time, whether it’s breakfast, lunch, dinner or all three, I recommend trying meal planning for a few weeks and see how it really reduces the meal time stress.  I personally like the planner from The Project Girl, but even just jotting down my weeks worth of meals on a scrap paper works.