Keep Calm and Eat At Home

Eleven down, 29 more to go! Today’s tip does involve food. At the beginning of the year, I started doing better with this particular tip, but lately I've failed at keeping this diet regime. The super busy and non-patient will probably relate.

11. Eat at home. Meals eaten away from home have an average of 134 more calories. More often than not, when we are in a hurry, we reach for convenience items like fast-food and take-away for our meal options. Not only does this aid in expanding our waistlines, but has the opposite effect on our wallets. Just this week, I ate out on Monday night (Burger King before my night chemistry lab), Wednesday afternoon (Chick-Fil-A after a late afternoon appointment), Thursday night (dinner at Chuy’s), Friday night (game night pot luck), and Saturday morning (breakfast at Cracker Barrel). Over all, I spent about $43.00 and when I weighed, I had gained 2 pounds. Now, that may not seem like much to some, but for strugglers like me in both weight loss and money gain, that is a bit too much!! The take home message—cooking/eating at home can not only save your waistline, but your budget bottom line.   

Exercise report: I was so sore yesterday after my adjustment that I didn't have a proper gym workout, but I did manage to burn lots of calories by laughing and playing broad games with some friends.  Today, I also choose an alternative form of exercise by volunteering to pack dry meal mixes with my church Connect group. We had a great time packing boxes for the NICE foundation (http://nicefoundation.org/) and Kids Against Hunger (http://www.kidsagainsthunger.net/). By the end of our shift, our group of 10 members had packed 16 boxes and in total, the volunteers packed over 5000 meal packages.  We had a great time for a good cause and we able to incorporate lots of fitness moves like squats, lifts, and Russian twists J