Streamlining

I feel like I spent my entire Sunday preparing for this week. I remind myself that "shopping for vegetables" also entailed running to Barnes & Noble, and Target, and Ulta...only about 45 minutes of my errands were diet-focused.

Afterward,  I cut vegetables and weighed and divided fish and meat portions for 90 minutes or so.
As I write, I'm overseeing 6 chicken breasts on the grill that will be sliced and tossed into salads. I'll freeze most of it, so shouldn't have to do this again for a couple of weeks.

So, 2 or 3 hours of total effort today, in hopes of streamlining most of my meal prep for the rest of the week. Last week I was prepared for lunches, but seemed to be back to the drawing board—or rather, back to the cutting board—in the evenings, with onions and garlic.


Summer is coming and with gardening, camping, and boating added to the mix, there will likely be a lot of Sundays that I will resist shopping and food prep at the end of the day. I'm already mentally preparing myself to distribute or shift the work, to stay on course. It's not that far away.

I'm hoping that this will just become easier as I naturally start to have what I need on hand, and can just come home and prepare a meal much as I had been before Phase 1.

In the meantime, I should have nothing to do this week but eat and exercise.