21 Day Fix Meal Plan: Week One

Tomorrow I am starting the 21 Day Fix and I thought I’d share my meal plan and progress along the way. But before I do – I need to get real for a minute, because I can almost see your dramatic eye rolling from here. I don’t blame you – I have tried a lot of weight loss and meal plans over the last 2 years, and while I have had success with a lot of them (particularly the Whole 30) I always find myself back where I started…. Overweight and unhappy.

Confession Time…

(If you are just here for the meal plan – skip to the bottom)

So here it is. For the last 5 years I have struggled on and off with anxiety, binge and emotional eating.  I don’t want to blame it on my husband’s job, because I don’t think that made too much of a difference, but at night when there was no one to talk to I get anxious and I listen when my brain says – “You deserve that xyz food – do you know what you had to deal with today?” I struggle with eating little to no food all day because I’m go go go, and then smashing it all in at night. I’ve yo-yo’d my weight so often I know it’s even more unhealthy for me than just being overweight.

But here’s the kicker. I can’t remember a time when I looked in a mirror and thought – “Hey – you really look good today.” The negative talk has overtaken me more than I care to admit. If I said half the stuff out loud to others that I say to myself – I’d have ZERO friends.  Even without saying it out loud – it has impacted my relationships, my friendships, and my family, and that is why I can’t give up trying.

When I started running I finally found an outlet for the negative crap. I started to feel good for longer stretches of times. I didn’t let my emotions take over at night because I was in bed at a decent hour sleeping. Then I got hurt and I told myself I wouldn’t let the bad creep back in, but I did and today I feel like it’s worse then ever. I’m so unhappy with myself that it even makes all the amazing and happy things I have in my life hard to see. I love being a mom. I’m thrilled to be working again. I’m even happy to start running again, but I can’t seem to break the cycle of negative and emotional crap.  So in all honesty, I will try anything to stop this cycle. So if you must roll your eyes at me – go ahead. Trust me, there is nothing you could say to me that is worse then what I say to myself. But I’m here and I’m starting over again, and I’m hoping I can just get it to stick and find a way to be compassionate to myself along the way – I know I’m worth more than the way I treat myself.

Why 21 Day Fix

Well first off – I am not a coach and I’m not using a coach. I ordered the 21 Day Fix right off the site, but you can also get it from Amazon for a $72. (That is an affiliate link – if you buy from there I get a small %, but if you have a friend who is a coach – that is cool too.)

I just wanted to do it by myself. I have friends who are beachbody coaches and I love them, but sometimes it can be overwhelming. Plus, I’m not completely starting my fitness from scratch here. Trust me, I’m not bad-mouthing coaches in ANY WAY – they are awesome and if you’re the type of person that needs someone in your corner – go for it. I just wanted to share my review without being or coming from a coach, because it seems like most of the reviews online are from coaches.

I liked that it’s 21 days. I tried the 8 week beach body challenge from Tone It Up, but when we had a bad week and I got behind I never got back on track. 3 weeks seems manageable.

I really like the idea of re-learning portion sizes.

I like the 30 minutes a day workouts. I really wanted to find a program that could compliment my half marathon training. I think this will be it.

21 Day Fix Meal Plan

There is no way you could to the 21 Day Fix without a 21 Day Fix Meal Plan. I used to love meal planning, but lately I’m flying by the seat of my pants. Not tomorrow – I’ve got my 21 Day Fix Meal Plan all set!

I kept my meal plan SUPER simple this week. It’s basically the same thing every other day. My husband is deployed, and my son is pretty easy – if he doesn’t want to eat what I’m making I will make him something else, but usually he will eat what I eat.

Prepping was easy. I roasted a bunch of veggies, baked my chicken, cooked my ground beef, made my quinoa, and quinoa pasta, and chopped up my veggie salad. Everything else I can make really easily at night. I will probably cook a few turkey burgers at once too.

The thing I am most worried about is how much food this actually is!! Seems like SO MUCH!

Another note: I am not using Shakeology. I couldn’t afford it at this time. It’s pretty expensive. I will be using either my Isopure zero carb protein or my Vega meal replacement when you see protein mentioned.

I will be posting my weekly results and how I’m feeling about the program as well as sharing all my meal plans.  Wish me luck!!

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Emily

Emily is a wife & mom living in Las Vegas. The owner and writer at Our Knight Life, Emily loves sharing her two adorable boys and journey through motherhood. Emily has run four half marathons to date and is always training for her next big race. She also enjoys creating healthy recipes for her family and sharing family friendly product reviews.

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