The Night Before the 21 Day Fix

Being thin has never been easy for me. I have fluctuated between overweight and normal weight my whole life...with a few brief stints at underweight (and I do mean brief!). I haven't had a scale in my house in years, as I tend to fixate on the numbers more than I should... I do weigh myself from time to time at the gym or if I have to go to the doctor, and my weight has been pretty steady at 128 since I had my son, who is now 3 years old.

I work out quite a bit, but my diet tends to leave something to be desired. My husband is a junk-food junkie, and unfortunately, he's the skinny one. I try my best to eat healthy, but a kinda-sorta clean diet hasn't been working for me, so I decided to go ahead and give the 21 Day Fix a try. I hesitated a bit because I am a vegetarian, and I think a lot of sample meal plans and recipe suggestions are often meat-centered...so it doesn't really work for me, but I am hoping that I can come up with enough variety of healthy vegetarian proteins that I don't get burned out.

Anyway, I decided that I'd start this blog--mostly for myself--but hey, if some other vegetarian who is attempting the Fix stumbles upon it and it helps them at all, then that's fantastic.

I started using the containers a bit last week to help familiarize myself with the program. I was surprised how easy it was after a day or so to remember how many of each container I should use, and also, how non-balanced my diet has been.

Here is what I am allowed to eat each day:

Daily Container Allowance

Green--3

Purple--2

Red--4

Yellow--2

Blue--1

Orange--1

Teaspoons--2

Oh, and did I mention that I am a really picky vegetarian? Going to have to try some new things and get creative with my meal planning if I am going to avoid getting burned out on this. So here goes...In an effort to alleviate some stress for tomorrow, here is my plan for my containers for Day 1:

Breakfast:

Chocolate Vegan Shakeology with 1/2 Banana

Morning Snack:

Whole Wheat Waffle and Peanut Butter 

Lunch:

Salad: 50/50 mix, Broccoli/Carrots/Cauliflower (1/2 container), Hard-Boiled Egg (1/2 of my second red), Vegetarian Chicken, and Sunflower Seeds

Afternoon Snack:

2% Cottage Cheese, Hard Boiled Egg

Dinner:
Asparagus (15 spears)--1-1/2 servings  broiled in Olive Oil, 
Brown Rice/Quinoa

Dessert:

Greek Yogurt and Mixed Berries