{"id":188,"date":"2009-02-17T11:53:15","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T19:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight-loss-blog\/?p=188"},"modified":"2009-02-27T10:02:13","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T18:02:13","slug":"daily-meal-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight-loss-blog\/2009\/02\/daily-meal-planning\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Meal Planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it that time already? This is Week 3 of my goal to lose 30 pounds in 90 days\u00a0and I am feeling much more confindent about my weekly weigh in. I had a good week staying with my diet plan and\u00a0I managed to squeeze\u00a0in six days of exercise. I felt really driven this week to try to lose weight because of my setback last week. Here goes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My current weight as of this morning is <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>224 lbs<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Wow, a I am so proud of myself this week. I lost six pounds over the past seven days and have lost a total of 13 pounds in three weeks. It&#8217;s starting to look like losing 30 pounds in\u00a090 days (three months)\u00a0is quite a realistic\u00a0weight loss goal to set for myself and I am\u00a0certainly feeling motivated to keep going.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_190\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-190\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-190\" title=\"Daily Meal Planning\" src=\"https:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight-loss-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/meal-planning1.jpg\" alt=\"Preparing healthy, lower-calorie meals for the whole family be challenging, but also very rewarding.\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-190\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Preparing healthy, lower-calorie meals for the whole family can be challenging, but also very rewarding.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I have tried dieting many times before, but this time feels very different. I have learned so much about losing weight, health and nutrition over the past couple of years and it is all coming together in this deeper understanding of what weight loss is all about.<\/p>\n<p>I think the biggest difference between this weight loss effort and my other ones is that I am diligently tracking how many calories I eat every day.\u00a0Planning my daily meals\u00a0has\u00a0become more like\u00a0a science fair project, with adding up calories and trying to balance proteins and carbohydrates. This past weekend I spent three hours carefully planning my meals for this week and writing out a very specific grocery list for just the items I needed, nothing more. When I went shopping I bought only the items on my list, which kept me away from buying food I didn&#8217;t need.<\/p>\n<p>I know that some families, particularly with young children, would have a hard time doing this kind of meal planning and strict grocery shopping. Many of my friends are in that boat and have a very difficult time controlling what they eat at meals when they have to make food for the whole family. In these situations, controlling your portion sizes at meals is extremely important.<\/p>\n<p>I admit that even\u00a0though it is just me and my husband (so far) in our family, planning out our meals and sticking to them can pose some real challenges. Since I am not willing to make two separate meals for us each night, my husband has been &#8220;forced&#8221; to &#8220;diet&#8221; along side me. Although he sometimes gripes about not eating the way we used to, he is also starting to lose weight and feel healthier too. So even though it may be difficult to change what you eat when you have a family to cook for, making healthier, lower-calorie meals will benefit everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think the biggest difference between this weight loss effort and my other ones is that I am diligently tracking how many calories I eat every day. Planning my daily meals has become more like a science fair project, with adding up calories and trying to balance proteins and carbohydrates. <\/p>\n<p>Read More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight-loss-blog\/2009\/02\/daily-meal-planning\/\">Daily Meal Planning<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[37,29,213,8,15,1489,35,16,14,212,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight-loss-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight-loss-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight-loss-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight-loss-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight-loss-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight-loss-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193,"href":"https:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight-loss-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight-loss-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight-loss-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weight-loss-center.net\/weight-loss-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}