Meal Planning

Dinner the other night was a hit!  It's amazing how something so simple can be such a huge hit!  We had taco salad last night, a very basic taco salad.  Little man had 2 bowls!  He didn't eat the tortilla, but I won't complain!  Hubby & I love those taco salad bowl pans!  I used them to bake up the entire package of tortillas that I had so that today for lunch it will be a quick and easy throw together.

I find that I am more successful when I have a plan.  All the way down to my workout plan.  Each week I sit down and make a menu for the week and base my grocery list on that menu.  It's the best thing I could have possibly done for my family.  I even assign each meal to a day so that there is no question what we will be eating.  In return it's easier to not go out to eat.  Do you create a meal plan?  Do you find that you struggle to create a meal plan?  

Another thing I have found is that I have more fun trying to lose weight and exercising when I have a buddy or something on the line.  My friend Cheri and I have a small competition to see who can lose the biggest percentage of weight.  Our deadline was originally Valentine's Day, but now it's sometime in the fall. :)  It really doesn't matter what the end date is (until we get closer to our goal weights) because what does matter is that we are there for each other and pushing and motivating each other.  My friend Shannon had challenged me to doing 10 minutes every day on the elliptical (I've kinda fallen off track).  It's a great motivator to have someone pushing you to do it and knowing that they are doing it too!  Do you have a "workout buddy"?