Wednesday, October 21, 2015

The Power of Accountability

The other day I shared with you my meal plan and told you that I make a new one every weekend. Well, as it turned out, last weekend was crazy busy and I just didn't get my meal plan done. I was going to do it on Monday, but for some reason I didn't. Luckily we had leftovers from Sunday, so Monday's dinner was done. Couple of weeks ago I made clean freezer meals, so I just picked out one of them for Tuesday, and phi-uh, problem solved again.

make the healthy choise for dinnerBut then came Wednesday. That's the one day of the week that we have activities after school. My son has basketball right after school (we literally run to car from bus stop) and of course he (and the rest of the family) is starving by the time we get back home. On the way home from the community centre there is a pizzeria. Thinking about the dinner in the morning, I was really tempted to just settle for a pizza. But then I thought of the two accountability groups I'm coaching and how it would look to them:
    1) I had an unhealthy pizza for dinner, even though I say you should avoid them, when not having a planned cheat meal
     
    2) I failed in my nutrition just because I didn't take the couple of minutes to make the meal plan



    So instead, I took a piece of salmon from freezer and made a quick salmon soup before heading for basketball. We had a delicious salmon soup with some real rye bread for dinner and I didn't have to feel guilty :) And after dinner I finished my meal plan for this week. That was a close call, but thanks to my awesome accountability groups, I made the healthier choice :)
    21 Day Fix meal plan to help making healthy decisions
    Meal plan to the rescue

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