Those Who Fail to Plan...

Plan To Fail....

That is seriously me. In an effort to learn myself, I've found that I give myself too much credit. Let me explain!!

I decided that I was going to do better. I am going to plan my meals, eat breakfast, lunch (twice a week), and dinner at (or from) home. Well, I did good, for about two weeks, then, I got cocky. Thinking to myself, 'oh, I'm good', 'I can make healthy decisions now'. As if I haven't been trying failing to make healthy decisions most of my adult life.

So, I know, what I should have known a long time ago but ignored, is that given choices, I don't make the healthy ones. Not with enough consistency to chance it, especially not after a measly two weeks. I cannot trust myself to go to the cafeteria and get a salad when chicken tenders and french fries and cookies and Mountain Dew is staring me in the face. I will not choose soup and salad at Wendy's when a junior bacon cheeseburger is calling my name. If I go to the vending machine, I will almost always choose M&M's over animal crackers, or nuts. It's like, I am successful at making healthy decisions when I plan, that I somehow forget, that it's the plan that makes me make healthy decisions.

The key, is doing something about my new learned knowledge about myself. I will plan my meals. That's the only way. I understand there are times when life will get in the way, however, I know that will be the exception. I am going to grocery shop once every two weeks. Typically, when I go to the store, I look and see what I'm short on, and replace. Instead, I will come up with a menu of things to eat for two weeks, and buy the things that I need to prepare those meals. A very simple concept, that I somehow refuse to do.