Evaluating goals
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healthy_eatingIn the introductions post, panda asked what is your main healthy eating goal? It's been two months since then and I was wondering how everyone was doing with regard to their personal goals.
One of my goals was to eat more than microwaveable food and rice and beans when I'm cooking for myself at home. I think I'm halfway there. I've gotten to the point where I cook one proper meal or, at least one proper dish that includes vegetables, a week. I feel less like I'm eating out of a box. Or just eating my weight in cereal.
But cooking even once a week has been a bit of a lifestyle shift. Not a big one - it is only once a week - but enough of one that it feels like a pain in the ass because I have to go to the grocery store with ingredients in mind. I have to spend time I would doing other things on cooking. I guess what I'm getting at is it's a mental shift for me too, and I'm glad I'm doing it, but it's still extra effort that I'm not used to. I don't think I'm ready for two cookbook meals a week.
Another goal has been to eat three meals a day. The daily tracking post has helped me stick with eating breakfast, which is the meal I am most likely to skip. Though I haven't been tracking consistently, thinking about having to report what I'm eating has helped anyway, both with not skipping meals and with cooking once a week.
How are you all doing with your goals? Has this comm helped? Is it not doing what you were hoping? What's been hardest? Have you figured out any tricks to help with your goals that you want to share?
panda asked what is your main healthy eating goal? It's been two months since then and I was wondering how everyone was doing with regard to their personal goals.One of my goals was to eat more than microwaveable food and rice and beans when I'm cooking for myself at home. I think I'm halfway there. I've gotten to the point where I cook one proper meal or, at least one proper dish that includes vegetables, a week. I feel less like I'm eating out of a box. Or just eating my weight in cereal.
But cooking even once a week has been a bit of a lifestyle shift. Not a big one - it is only once a week - but enough of one that it feels like a pain in the ass because I have to go to the grocery store with ingredients in mind. I have to spend time I would doing other things on cooking. I guess what I'm getting at is it's a mental shift for me too, and I'm glad I'm doing it, but it's still extra effort that I'm not used to. I don't think I'm ready for two cookbook meals a week.
Another goal has been to eat three meals a day. The daily tracking post has helped me stick with eating breakfast, which is the meal I am most likely to skip. Though I haven't been tracking consistently, thinking about having to report what I'm eating has helped anyway, both with not skipping meals and with cooking once a week.
How are you all doing with your goals? Has this comm helped? Is it not doing what you were hoping? What's been hardest? Have you figured out any tricks to help with your goals that you want to share?
