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Tuesday, May 27th

“Forget yesterday - it has already forgotten you. Don't sweat tomorrow - you haven't even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift - today.”  Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Sometimes we tend to beat ourselves up over what we have done in the past, but truth be told, we cannot change it.  I can’t honestly say that I am always happy with where I am on the scale, but it is a reflection of what I did the week before.  Honestly, no matter what the scale says if I don’t change what I didn’t do well the week before, the scale may not change for me.  So I am focusing on small goals and trying to get back to where I know I need to be.  Focusing on meal planning and if I can do this for a week or week and a half and buy groceries for those meals, I should definitely be on the right track.  This is not always easy, but it is necessary.  Not just for my weight loss journey, but for my money saving goals as well.  I am feeling pretty good about the headway I’m making with saving money, but that is a work in progress as well.


I did prepare the breakfast burritos and the spinach lasagna rollups.  I am hoping to get a meal or two prepared in advance so all we have to do is heat them up instead of trying to cook everything.  My ultimate goal is to try to prepare multiple meals on the weekend so that we don’t have to cook during the week.  I know it will be less expensive for us if I do that in advance because we will be less likely to give in to eating out because no one feels like cooking.

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