So I was lying in bed in my nightly hip-opener followed by savasana (yes, I'm becoming that much of a yoga nerd), thinking about how I hadn't yet posted my 2012 goal round up for the impending end of February*, when it hit me.
Next week is Spring Break, which means next week is likely to be the least stressful week of my semester. This is a perfect time to try the clean-eating scheme I've been cooking up for the past few weeks, since every blogger and their brother has gone on Baron Baptiste's 40 Days to Transformation.
Since I don't have the time or money for the 40 Days Program at the moment, and unlike other students, both of these principles extend to my spring break as well, alas, you will not see me competing on a wet tshirt contest on MTV.
However, I do have 10 days of break that will allow me more time to plan meals, go food shopping, and make things from scratch. Hooray!
Here's what I have in mind: from Friday, March 2, to Sunday, March 11 (race day!), I will create my meals from scratch whenever possible. Barring dairy products (particularly cheese and yogurt, which I always buy organic anyway) and grains (can't make my own bread, sadly) I will not consume processed/packaged foods. I expect my consumption to look something like:
Breakfast: Yogurt, Oatmeal, or Eggs
Lunch: Enormous salad. This will likely be the most difficult part of my plan, because for some reason I am terrible at making interesting and edible salads. Suggestions are appreciated.
Dinner: Pasta/quinoa with a meat or fish.
Snacks: Fruit! Yogurt! Veggies! Nuts!
Regarding beverages: No coffee shall be purchased from a coffee store, no cup brewed from a Keurig machine. Only homemade, lightly sweetened lattes or green tea will be consumed when water is not.
Eating out: It might happen. After all, my birthday is fast approaching. I'll make good choices if I find myself in a restaurant.
AND: I will try my hardest to blog about these adventures daily. No excuses! Just clean eating!
Here's to a cuh-razy spring break!
*Suffice it to say that my goals are going fine. I still haven't made it to the Farmer's Market (weekends are busy!). I started biking and almost hit a child on a pogo stick and an old man. I made my mother's sausage and sauce recipe this month. I have not been able to eliminate carbs for my diet. Finances are fine. Race training is going okay, but I'm finding "long" races kind of boring and may modify that goal. Yoga has sometimes been hard to fit in this month but I'm trying to supplement with at-home practice whenever I can. Tada! Consider those goals... rounded.
Next week is Spring Break, which means next week is likely to be the least stressful week of my semester. This is a perfect time to try the clean-eating scheme I've been cooking up for the past few weeks, since every blogger and their brother has gone on Baron Baptiste's 40 Days to Transformation.
Since I don't have the time or money for the 40 Days Program at the moment, and unlike other students, both of these principles extend to my spring break as well, alas, you will not see me competing on a wet tshirt contest on MTV.
However, I do have 10 days of break that will allow me more time to plan meals, go food shopping, and make things from scratch. Hooray!
Here's what I have in mind: from Friday, March 2, to Sunday, March 11 (race day!), I will create my meals from scratch whenever possible. Barring dairy products (particularly cheese and yogurt, which I always buy organic anyway) and grains (can't make my own bread, sadly) I will not consume processed/packaged foods. I expect my consumption to look something like:
Breakfast: Yogurt, Oatmeal, or Eggs
Lunch: Enormous salad. This will likely be the most difficult part of my plan, because for some reason I am terrible at making interesting and edible salads. Suggestions are appreciated.
Dinner: Pasta/quinoa with a meat or fish.
Snacks: Fruit! Yogurt! Veggies! Nuts!
Regarding beverages: No coffee shall be purchased from a coffee store, no cup brewed from a Keurig machine. Only homemade, lightly sweetened lattes or green tea will be consumed when water is not.
Eating out: It might happen. After all, my birthday is fast approaching. I'll make good choices if I find myself in a restaurant.
AND: I will try my hardest to blog about these adventures daily. No excuses! Just clean eating!
Here's to a cuh-razy spring break!
*Suffice it to say that my goals are going fine. I still haven't made it to the Farmer's Market (weekends are busy!). I started biking and almost hit a child on a pogo stick and an old man. I made my mother's sausage and sauce recipe this month. I have not been able to eliminate carbs for my diet. Finances are fine. Race training is going okay, but I'm finding "long" races kind of boring and may modify that goal. Yoga has sometimes been hard to fit in this month but I'm trying to supplement with at-home practice whenever I can. Tada! Consider those goals... rounded.
