make a healthy, nutritious meal plan for myself and stick to it

so far, so good.

My basic plan is yogurt and flaxseed meal for breakfast, sandwich for lunch, balanced meal for dinner. I am allowing fruit, nuts, soup, and salads without limits (well, limiting the nuts to a reasonable quantity). Yesterday I had a banana and some grapes as snacks; today I had tomato soup with lunch and some pistachios before dinner.

and most of the things I have managed to get at least semi right have been either by putting things on autopilot (“Payroll deduction for retirement? Okay, sign me up!”) or by putting one foot in front of the other (“Time to sign up for next semester’s classes . . . geez, if I keep this up, I’ll have a degree!).

So let me try it for my meals. I heard somewhere, 21 days to make a habit, so I will try this till June 3.

Breakfast: Easy, I always eat the same breakfast anyway. Yogurt, flaxseed meal, and milk.

Lunch: Harder. If I don’t make a lunch for myself in the morning, I end up eating m&ms from the vending machine, five-day old pizza from the fridge, or nothing at all. So, made in advance, a sandwich—turkey and cheese on whole wheat bread.

Dinner: Nornally, this would be hard. I don’t plan. I don’t cook. And even if I did either, I have no time. But I decided to try DineWise to give my poor hubby balanced meals. We ordered a value pack of the Healthy Lifestyle meals, and they came on Friday. So we are ready to go. Balanced meals, microwave ready—I’ll just add soup or a salad and maybe bread.

Snacks: Hard. I am used to reaching for the easiest thing, which is never anything good for me. I will have bananas and grapes at the ready. Maybe I’ll buy some carrots. I will not buy chips or cookies.

Just 21 days. I can do it!