A Girl's Gotta Start Meal Prepping

Life is a mess filled with hectic schedules, unfinished piles of laundry and too many hours staring at computer screens.

As much as I'd like to take comfort in the monotony of my weekly routines, they make me nuts. They make me feel like everything is just flying by and there's no time to do anything fun. While time goes by ever faster, my waist just keeps on expanding and the number on the scale just keeps on rising.

What's a girl to do about it? A girl's gotta try meal prepping apparently. 

About two weeks ago, The Boyfriend and I decided to start cooking meals on Sundays to last for the workweek in hopes that getting back on track would help us be more in control of our eating habits - less fast food and less junk in general.

It's also good practice for whenever we move in together, but that's a whole other ball of wax!

Anyway, the first week we meal prepped went pretty well! I lost about two pounds, probably just water weight, but I'll take it!

Week 1's meals included: lentils, brown rice, salmon (for me), beef/turkey meatballs (for him), chicken breasts and various roasted veggies.

Then the weekend came, and it was The Boyfriend's birthday, so there was booze, and cake and hibachi and the scale went back up, but we prepped for the second week which didn't go as smoothly.

Week 2's meals included: brown rice, pork chops, egg "muffins," roasted butternut squash and roasted spaghetti squash.

The pork chops didn't go over to well with either of us, the egg muffins were the bomb and I've repeated the dual squashes for Week 3.

Week 2 didn't leave me feeling as "light" as Week 1, but I also didn't stick to the meals as strictly on Week 2. There was Wendy's involved and peach cobbler and other forbidden fruits, but I digress!

Week 3 (the current week) is back to basics. 

On my menu for Monday 10/13/14) through Friday (10/17/14) are:

Breakfast: Two eggs, a toasted English muffin
Snack: Greek yogurt
Lunch: Baked chicken, lentils, squash and asparagus
Dinner: Salmon, brown rice, squash

I need to add in some more healthy fats and definitely fruit -- maybe I'll add in an after dinner snack of a smoothie with fruit.

Either way, I'm pretty sure this is going to be my go-to meal plan for the work weeks for the next foreseeable future. I'm pretty full and satisfied throughout the day and it only requires minimal cooking and preparation the night before when I pack up for lunch.

Now, if I could only wrap my head around incorporating exercise regularly again I'd be unstoppable.