Meal Prep Sunday – let’s kick some portion controlled butt this week!

Fail to plan and plan to fail as they say. Abs are made in the kitchen is something else they say.

I’ve talked about my personal struggle with nutrition before, and the struggle is REAL. But, if I have a plan and pieces in place to make following the plan a little easier, then I do much better. In an effort to be tight with my nutrition, I am going back to the structure of timed nutrition. I really struggled with this last year, but I think I was just making things too complicated. And, after going through the Ultimate Portion Fix program, my eyes have opened and some things have clicked. Yay! Now, I just need to put what I have learned into practice.

On the menu this week:

Meal 1: shake, berries (pictured) and almond butter
Meal 2: post workout drink, fruit
Meal 3: rosemary english muffin (pictured) with eggs, spinach, mushrooms, and ghee (pictured)
Meal 4: romaine and deli ham with avocado mayo on seed bread
Meal 5: baby carrots & hummus (pictured)
Meal 6: meat & veggies, seeds

This gets me the macro balance I need and fits my personal meal plan. I will just have a few things to do in the morning to get ready for the day!

For my preworkout meal, I’ve been doing basically the same thing for a year. There are some people who swear by sticking with what you know works and some people who swear by changing things up. For now, I am going to stick with what I know on this meal. All I have to do is grab my shake stuff and my almond butter and get to it. Every Sunday Morning, I wash and prep my berries in their container, so they’re ready.

I have a few fruit options for my post workout meal. This week will be either a gala apple, a Bartlett pear, or 2 tangerines.

My post workout meal aka breakfast, I will be doing an egg scramble with spinach, mushrooms and ghee. I’ve put the sliced mushrooms, spinach and ghee in plastic containers so all I’ve got to do is grab a pan, fry it up and eat it with my muffin. Ghee is a new food for me. Eggs are one of my food sensitivities, but I am going to give them a try this week and see how I feel. They’re so easy and I have missed them. The rosemary English muffins are a recipe from the new Ultimate Portion Fix cookbook. They are tasty and family approved! Everyone tried one and wanted more. Since I am a little worried about so much food in a relatively short time frame (3.5 hours), I might try taking the omelette stuff to the office and using this egg thing I got from Pampered Chef and making it in the microwave… Maybe I will test this and post about it this week (look for an IG story)!

For lunch and afternoon snack, I’ll make my sandwich in the morning. I’ve tried prepping them in advance before, but they don’t really stay fresh by the end of the week. I have my lettuce ready to go, so it’s just a matter of throwing it together. I did pre-portion my baby carrots and I’m using the little pre-portioned hummus tubs from Costco.

Since I cook dinner every night, I didn’t prep anything for that. I’ve got several meat and vegetable options, so as long as I remember to take something out of the freezer, dinner is practically done. This week’s options are tilapia, steak, hamburgers, chicken, taco salad, and pork chops. Veggies are asparagus, broccoli and carrots, cauliflower fried rice, power greens, and zucchini/yellow squash.

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