Right on, Robin!
Sometimes it is really hard to eat earlier in the evening.
Here at the MakeMeThinner Cottage we try to eat about 6:30 PM but guess what?
Sometimes even the experts mess up!
We had quite a time on our road trip with our meal schedules, didn't we, Jan?
There were some days - ok, every day this last week was rough in terms of meal times.
We were doing Healthy Tastings and meeting with people for rather long periods of time. I find it difficult to stop mid-sentence and slurp on a shake or to eat a bar when I am doing a presentation. We started our day about 6:30 AM and there were days that we had two packets under our belt and then ended up go too many hours before we got to eat again.
No wonder Paul ate my demonstration bar right off the display table! Poor
Guy! He was a Starvin' Marvin.
The night we ate at Chili's after 9 PM was really a challenge. I ordered a green salad, grilled salmon with steamed broccoli.
The salmon was hard as a rock - I think the chef was trying out a new technique that didn't work...I know that I should have sent it back but it was late, there were a lot of people at our table and the server was having a rough day. I chose to be
gracious and not a
grouch... any way, all I ate that day was a packet of Peach Oatmeal, a Chocolate MF Plus for Women’s Health Shake about 10 AM and yes, Folks…it was after 9 PM that I had a green salad with no dressing and some broccoli.
Very,
very bad...
When we got back to the hotel after 11 PM, I had a packet of Peach Oatmeal, an hour later I had a Chai Latte and then woke up at 3:30 AM and had a RTD.
Our body will grab every nutrient and calorie we give it. It is needful to eat on time, to not skip meals and yet I know that life happens. When we go too long between meals we can get into foody trouble...
In an ideal world, we eat the L & G earlier in the evening but the Medipolice do not haul us away if we dine at nine.
Do not skip packets…follow the guidelines in the Quick Start booklet for the portion sizes and vegetable choices. The Take Shape For Life Program is different from what most of us are used to. It is not a no carb diet, it is a nutritionally balanced meal plan designed to help us de-flab and maintain muscle mass, good energy and it makes it possible to stick to the program until our optimal weight is reached IF we do not add extra foods to the meal plan. That is what kept me cheat-free on the program for those 7 months - adding extras messes with the fat-burning state and cravings return if you eat foods not on the program.
Shake it up and shake it off!