#cooler plan 1

[emilydoesscience]

Essential Prep

Eggs boiled, chicken grilled, tomorrow's portions measured... Let's go week 2!

[emilydoesscience]

Monday

Eating was great! cereal, cucumbers, chicken, quinoa, sweet potatoes, salad, portabellas, some breads

Swam 1500m, nice and easy to rest my legs from yesterday's run :)

[emilydoesscience]

Day 3

6am Cereal (was too rushed to cook. See? Planning.)

9am...uh forgot to eat but I said NO to a donut

12pm I said NO to pizza (pizza from "the best place in Rockville). I had chicken, rice, spinach, an apple, chobani

4pm 2 hard boiled eggs with mustard

6pm mystery date night (hopefully healthy choices available..)

OK, so this cooler thing is H.A.R.D. You MUST plan. The extra 10 minutes of sleep this morning cost me a carb-free breakfast. I forgot to set food alarms today, so I had trouble with the timing of meals. The last two days have left me not hungry, but like an angry carb monster. Dan had rice and a sandwich and I was mad! I wanted more rice, not my half a handful! I had a little bite of brownie yesterday too, which makes me mad that I cant not have "bad" food every day. I'm not a perfect eater by any shape of the imagination, but I think that every day I'm getting a little better at this. My goal is to try this plan until Istanbul, so I have 8 more days to keep working on it :) I think I might switch to cooler 2 when I get back, it's not as restrictive which makes me think I will be able to handle it better. My carb-monster tendencies make me want to try paleo again just to break that habit. We shall see...

[emilydoesscience]

Day 2

9am 2 eggs, 

12pm rice, chicken, spinach, cucumbers, 1/2 apple

3pm 2 hardboiled eggs, cucumbers, tomatoes

6pm rice chicken spinach, tomatoes, 1/2 apple

Notes: I woke up late. This feels like a ton of food. Yesterday all I wanted was some bread. I had a little end crust nugget from a loaf. I immediately thought, seriously self? you couldn't go one day??. Then I remembered it was a crust nugget and went on with my day. Still, did a pretty bang up job. This will be easier as it goes on. Planning and having the food in the fridge makes it 1000x easier!

[emilydoesscience]

How's it go?

To fail to prepare is to prepare to fail

Clean Eating Cooler Plan #1 starts tomorrow. Going to try to do it until I leave on the 14th. I will be having some dairy in the form of cottage cheese in my protein pancakes.

Tomorrow's food, prepped and ready in my sweet ass lunch bag:

6am protein pancakes

9am 2 hard boiled eggs, 1/2 apple, cucumber

12pm tuna, rice, yam/squash mix, spinach

3pm 1/2 apple, rest of tuna/rice/spinach mix

6pm chicken, yam squash mix, lettuce

water and green tea.