Weekly Meal Planning

Well, I think I've decided to give the weekly meal planning thing a shot. If it works out, I think it could be very beneficial, and if it doesn't, I haven't really lost anything. I was informed yesterday that I was overthinking it and going crazy about every little detail...who, me? Overthink things? Stress myself out over tiny details that nobody else would notice? Never!....uhhh yeah. Anyway...

I've decided I'll do my planning on Sunday mornings for the following week. Since Chad has Sundays and Mondays off, that will be the most practical for grocery shopping, and I prefer to start things on Mondays anyway. For this first week, I think I'll start the planning process a little ahead of time. That way I'll have a little more time and hopefully not get too stressed out about it. Since one of the things that I need to do in order to make this work well is add quite a number of recipes to my WW tracker in order to calculate their points value and that's a fairly time-consuming process, extra time is a definite plus. I think I'm also going to create a list of main dish ideas that I can refer to while I'm making my meal plan so that I don't end up making the same things over and over (which is what I tend to do now) or drawing a complete mental blank when I try to think of things to cook. Perhaps I'll post the list here on the blog if you guys are interested in seeing it.

Yesterday's meals:

Breakfast: Oatmeal (with raisins!), banana - 10 points
Lunch: Tomato-beef broth, salad - 15 points
Snack: Apple - 0 points
Dinner: Chicken & broccoli stir-fry with General Tso sauce, rice, milk - 23 points
Dessert: Pudding with Cool Whip - 4 points
Total: 52 points

Only 3 points short of my target, I did pretty well yesterday! I've actually done well all week so far, both with diet and exercise...I really hope I lose when I weigh in on Monday.