I work with ladies every month and among the top challenges most face, it’s the dread of meal prep and making simple, healthy recipes for their family.
Totally get it. When I first committed to eating clean and getting my fitness back on track I spent SO much time trying to perfect meal prep. Worried I’d fail and fall off track if I didn’t have everything washed, chopped, organized, packed and ready to go 100% for the week.
What an effing waste of time. It is not about being perfect, it’s about being consistent. It’s about keeping things simple and manageable. Once I accepted that, got on an 80/20 plan (meaning, 80% clean eating and 20% flexible) daily, stayed consistent with my exercise regimen (30 minutes, 4-6 days a week), I found that I could simplify my meal prep AND still get results. Boom!
Let Go of Perfection
Now, when it comes to meals, this was the second time suck for me. I’d be so focused on eating healthy meals, most of the time it involved ingredients that my family just looked at me with that “you’ve got to be kidding me glare.” So I’d cook double meals to make everyone happy. For real. I don’t know what I was thinking? Other than, I was SO sure that if I didn’t have exotic superfoods in the first five ingredients it wasn’t going to be healthy enough to eat and I’d fail again at my meal plan. Let me tell ya, I’m glad I let go of that BS and got back to the simple basics of great whole food home cooked meals.
As you come back for more tips and tools for meal planning and recipes, I hope I can help guide you on what is and isn’t working for me so you can find balance, results and happiness for yourself and your family.
If you take away anything from this, let it be; that you can have great results without being perfect. But you do have to be consistent by prepping what you can, control the foods you choose when you haven’t prepped (eating out), keep moving your body and know that a happy family is a healthy family. So find meals everyone will love, then look to “clean them up” a touch in ways only you know and they still love to devour.
xo, Tiff