Meal Prep Success: My Week of Healthy Eating

‘Its been a week’, one sentence I would prefer shifting to, ‘What a week!’ with happiness and enthusiasm. When do I feel that way? When I feel good, when I am aligned with my body, I thrive.

This week although I had some lows, I set myself up for success, and failure. Everyone can fail, being successful or a failure is a ultimately the choice. I meal prepped some breakfast egg cups, I made sure to pack my breakfast every morning and take with me. I also made sure that I ate lunch everyday and keeping protein in mind, a healthy dinner.

I supported myself through a hiccup of ‘am I worthy of this’ … aka do I really need to spend this money on me – something that has been what Ive been consistently working on! Do I need this to feel better and live pain free?

Afterall the gynecologist’s solution was the birth control pill and/or pain pills regularly. I am not going back to that life.

I am worth it.

For a full week Ive been drinking my vitamin and mineral drink with additional vitamin D and Omega’s. I have also walked our dog everyday, one thing that I committed to for him and me – training. After 5 days straight of walking, he walked the best yet!

By the end of the week I was also sleeping better and even after an impromptu 2.5km walk, I experienced no pain or discomfort – so thats a big win!

After a successful breakfast morning week last week, I decided to change it up a bit and I am thrilled with the result! A full ham slice in the bottom of each muffin tin, first brush oil inside the muffin tin – I love coconut oil for this! Into the ham slice I added chopped onion, broccoli, pepper and feta cheese, then I put a whole raw egg on the top. Set the oven to 375 and baked for 20 min – they are perfect!

I also baked the sourdough bread that I had prepared the afternoon before and when the egg breakfast muffins were done, I also baked some protein chocolate chip muffins!

Fun fact, a couple weeks ago I made these muffins for the first time, I didnt know what I did “wrong”, they didn’t rise at all, rather were more dense – like some of the protein cookies Ive tried before. Last weekend when I made them, I realized I left out the baking powder. They certainly did rise, but also lost that doughy dense texture. Today when I made them, I added 1 extra scoop of protein powder and didn’t add in any baking powder – to prevent them from rising. I took a family recipe and ramped it up into the perfect quick grab and go protein bite! Approx 6 grams of protein per muffin.

So am I worth it? 10000% When you dial into yourself what you need and desire deeply, it flows with ease. Much like last night, knowing there wouldn’t be much parking space we car pooled with others to the local hockey game, as the game was nearing the end, it hit me, we were stuck there at the mercy of someone else until they were ready. Not that big of a deal, thankfully as our vehicle was about 2.5 kms away, it was a beautiful mild evening, I walked there in less than 20 min, I think less than 15. I proved something else to myself.

Along with journaling daily, everyday in the morning and most evenings. Reading a page from a couple books that Ive been reading all year a page a day as well as meditating – this is such a powerful practice!!!

The things in life that ARE meant for you – will come with ease. Be open to that and understand that we are all unique, what is meant for me isn’t for you, and thats OK!