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Snack Prep for Success
When you workout, your body needs fuel to support that process. Going into that much of a caloric deficit (for some women) can create a hormonal response that makes your body think it’s starving and then you end up gaining weight because your body is holding on to every little thing that comes its way.
I forget to eat. It’s not that I don’t WANT to, I just get caught up in life.
I see this with clients all of the time. The majority of private clients I work with do not eat enough and it’s the combination of a couple things:
Life is busy, we get caught up in all the tasks of the day and we either forget OR we don’t prep food to bring with us when we’re out.
Society, the media, things of the past have drilled into our heads that to “be skinny”, we have to starve.
Both totally screw us over.
When you workout, your body needs fuel to support that process. Going into that much of a caloric deficit (for some women) can create a hormonal response that makes your body think it’s starving and then you end up gaining weight because your body is holding on to every little thing that comes its way.
Couple that with being starving and then once you can eat, you’re going to shove every single thing you find in your face because you’re just that hungry.
All of a sudden, cheese sticks have become your dinner. Along with your kid’s leftover Mac n cheese. The gross one from the blue box.
Looks like prepping my snacks needs to start happening again.
Just as you are intentional with your workouts, you need to be intentional with your food as well. If you’re leaving what you’re eating, even if it’s for a snack, to chance, you won’t win. Then all that hard work you’re putting in, all that time sacrifice you’re making to workout, will be for nothing.
My Top 5 Snack Recipes for the Mama on the Go
I truly never knew I could do so much in an hour until I started contending with getting more than just myself out of the house in the morning.
I feel like your morning is like mine. Granted thanks to my morning routine, I don’t feel like I’m being shot out of a canon SO much but it’s chaos. Making sure everyone is organized, dogs are fed, the kid brushes her teeth, picks out appropriate clothing and eats, making sure I eat (and get coffee because COME ON), and then herding us ALL out the door. I truly never knew I could do so much in an hour until I started contending with getting more than just myself out of the house in the morning.
The one thing I always forget in the midst of this chaos is to prep snacks for myself. Sure I have snacks for the kid, but I’m not trying to drink my yogurt. I know that this bad habit always leads to me running into a store and grabbing some overpriced snack, that’s debatably good for me. Or I just don’t eat which isn’t helping my own health and fitness goals. Either way I’m not winning.
I learned the hard way that I need to have snacks prepped in my fridge. I’m not kidding. Like in their individual ziplock baggies, individual Tupperware (for things like dips), prepped. That way when we’re running out the door and I’m making sure everyone looks semi-presentable, I can just grab something.
Really it hasn’t added to my meal prep workload anymore. I mean it takes two minutes to take baby carrots and divide them into baggies. So I do it when I’m cooking something else and that something else is in the oven or simmering on the stove top. Because I know during that time I’ll have two minutes and I’m not adding onto my day.
Grab these snack recipes. It’s worth it for those days when you know you need to prep some food but you’re exhausted and don’t want to put the effort into figuring out WHAT to prep.
