Learning From Mistakes... Tho'arigjae[origj

Well, it's been just over two weeks since I completed my plan of action for 2011, and I've taken to opportunity to look back at how I've done so far this year.  The answer to that question is plain and simple: crap.  While the year started out promising, a personal crisis swiftly led to things falling apart in a big way.

My Fiancé and myself had some big issues to face, and it turns out it was far too easy for healthy living to take a back seat.  To be fair, at the time neither of us were in a fit state to even think about cooking, let alone cooking healthy food, and we survived on pizza and fish and chips for a week.  In hindsight, I've learned a few valuable lessons from the experience.

First and foremost, having gone back to old eating habits, it really hit home just how crappy I feel eating crap food.  No big surprise there, but I couldn't understand how I'd lived for years, thinking that was the normal way to feel.  The realisation that it's possible to feel a lot healthier, and the contrast between how I feel eating well and eating crap has made me determined to eat better from now on.

The next major lesson to be learnt is how easy it is for things to fall to pieces.  Now while I'm not beating myself up for the lapse, I do think that I need to learn from this.  There is always the chance that something bad will happen, and that eating healthy will again be the least important thing I'm worrying about.

So, the thing I need to do is come up with some way of making sure that eating healthy is as easy as possible.  My current thinking is to be better prepared, by preparing a week's food in advance, so that preparation time later is greatly reduced.  It's a hell of a lot easier to grab a packet of vegetables from the freezer and defrost them than it is to cut them up when you're stressed out and worrying.

The idea could even be extended to preparing entire meals and freezing them, so that all we need to do is re-heat them.  The lure of pizza and the like will be greatly reduced if it's even easier to prepare a healthy meal.  I guess it all comes down to preparation, and as they say, failing to prepare is preparing to fail.  Now's the time to make sure I prepare for success instead.