Healthy Pasta Recipe and This Week's Meal Plan

Hey guys!   I know that I haven't blogged in a while.  I took a few minutes to step back, evaluate my goals and create a game plan for achieving my goals.  But I'm back!

The most difficult part of my health journey is, hands down, nutrition.  Working full time as a pharmacist in a fast paced setting that doesn’t allow for any downtime at work makes it difficult to stay on track with my nutrition goals of eating clean & healthy.  Most days at work, I’m struggling to even eat regularly!   

To make things as simple as possible, the first thing that I do is follow a simple nutrition plan and portion size solution.  This helps take all of the guesswork out of knowing how much I should be eating.  I know my nutrition goals for each day because I use the nutrition guides that are included with my Beachbody workout programs to calculate my targets.   I don’t count calories, but I do count the number of servings of each food group.  And I follow the portion size guidelines using my color coded containers because it’s so easy to overeat, even with healthy foods.  This concept works very well for me and the way I like to eat.

The second thing that I do to help make my nutrition as simple as possible each week is to make a meal plan.  Worrying about what we’re going to eat absolutely, in all honesty, stresses me out.  So making a meal plan each week, only stresses me out once (while I’m planning).  One day of stress is MUCH better than 7 days of added stress!  Right?!?

This week’s meal plan is above - this is week 3 of 21 Day Fix Extreme!   AND I just have to share a new recipe with you guys!  It’s whole grain penne pasta with chicken, mushrooms & spinach from Ellie Krieger!  If you don’t know her, you have to look her up.  She’s a nutritionist with simple, healthy, balanced recipes that the whole family will love!
Here's the link to this WONDERFUL recipe!
Whole Grain Penne with Chicken, Mushrooms and Spinach

P.S. For all of my 21 day Fixers (the nutrition plan that I follow), the portions for this recipe would be 1 red, 1 yellow, 1 green 

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