Food Prepation with Friends

Well first off let me tell you that i never thought food prep for a meal plan … you know a healthy one not a party plan … could be so much fun.  Brook Tetik our nutritionalist gave us a list of food to bring to her home so we can not only learn what we should eat but how to cook and package it for 2 weeks taking the guessing factor out of eating.  We get there and there are 3 of us getting our first lesson.  From roasting veggie to making chicken breast on the grill to salmon on the grill and brussel sprouts to die for.  We received our meal plan a week before so we could get familiar with the process of HOW to eat.  I didn’t realize that eating the correct portion was the key to losing weight.  OK…BACK UP THE BUS!!!!  Yes i knew that. But after battling weight loss all my life itreally hard to get the mind to convince the fork to pick up the food and insert into my mouth. Sounds basic but scary as hell when you think everything you eat is putting weight on you.  The fact is….what you don’t eat is adding weight to you.  So actually I was starving myself.  Staying on a 1200 calorie plan when with my workouts I was burning that before lunch. My body had no choice but to hang on to what weight I had to survive.  My metabolism went into starvation mode.  It needed what I had to survive.  It wasn’t letting go of anything.  So we measured our food and figured out what our grams vs ounces was and what grams vs tsps equalled. I feel now that I’m eating too much food but I also feel more alive and alert then I have in the past.  Yes I said alert.  Because not only was my body starving but so was my brain.  The fatigue and the lack of decision making was all being affected.  Your brain needs fuel just like your body does.  So after 3 hours of cooking and measuring and having a blast learning how to cook for myself and my family the healthy and balanced way I on to a new road of my journey.