Eating healthy wasn’t as absolutely insanely disgusting and awful as I thought it would be. Oh, don’t get me wrong, some days I really struggled (hence the bag of chocolate chips I stored on the top shelf of our cupboards for “those days”). Before we really started focusing on eating healthy, we frequently had wheat tortillas, bread, and pasta in our house, so that wasn’t a huge change. I also set little goals for myself, so each time I hit a goal I got to eat an extra treat. Gosh, I enjoyed those treats!
The biggest thing I learned was portion control. Before we would have a HUGE bowl of ice cream for dessert, almost every night. Even while doing Insanity, we had some ice cream on the weekends, but in a much, MUCH smaller portion. Look at the difference!
I mentioned in the last post that we had five small meals a day (sometimes six if we had a little dessert at night). Below I listed a few of our meal ideas that we frequently ate. Honestly, I’ll probably keep eating the same stuff now that we are done, but with a little bit extra at some meals (like a buttery breadstick on the side of pasta! mmm!)
Breakfast Ideas
Fruit & Yogurt
1 cup yogurt
1 cup fruit
1/2 cup whole grain cereal or granola
Eggs & Fruit
1 hard boiled egg or 3 hard boiled egg whites
1/2 cup fruit
1 slice wheat toast with peanut butter
Breakfast Burrito
1 egg or 3 egg whites
1 whole grain tortilla
part-skim mozzarella cheese sprinkled
Sliced tomato
1/2 cup fruit on the side
Cereal
1 cup whole grain cereal
2/3 cup milk (we use 1%)
1/2 banana
Lunch + Dinner Ideas:
Turkey BLT
1 slice bread
Turkey deli meat
1 slice turkey bacon
Veggies
Small banana or apple on the side
Chicken Ranch Wrap
Whole wheat tortilla
Grilled chicken (3 oz)
Tomato + other veggies
Lettuce
1 Tbsp ranch
Peanut Butter & Jelly
Half PB&J Sandwich
Yogurt
1/2 banana
Whole Wheat Pizza
Whole wheat pizza dough (we cook our pizza in a 9×9 pan and each have two decent sized slices!)
Sauce (we use either homemade tomato or alfredo sauce, or a little bit of bbq sauce for bbq pizza!)
Chicken
Veggies
Part Skim Mozzarella
Chicken Alfredo
Whole wheat pasta
Guiltless Alfredo Sauce from Our Best Bites
Sautéed veggies 
Extra treats and snacks:
Handful of Almonds
Cut up veggies or fruit
Air popped popcorn with a little bit of salt
Pudding + fruit parfaits (the Insanity meal plan recommends sugar free pudding)
Fruit Smoothie
1/2 cup frozen peaches
1/2 banana
1/2 light vanilla or fruit flavored yogurt
couple ice cubes
The smoothie looks divine. I think I'll go make it for breakfast!
i definitely need to use some of your ideas.
i feel like i eat way more than i need to in my portions.
my husband needs to eat a lot, but i dont, i just always forget.
K
I needed some of these ideas. Thank you!
we&serendipity
Wow, this all looks amazing!!!
awesome ideas! don't know how well i could sick to that though haha
Thank you Lex! I've been needing some healthy eating ideas!
Yum!!! Thanks so much for posting this!
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This is great! Thanks for all the yummy meal ideas!! You are seriously getting me so motivated to lose this baby weight! You are amazing!
Portion control is HUGE. I know a lot of people that work out a lot and then go eat a huge meal and are confused when they don't see results. Even if it's a healthy meal…eating a ton of it isn't good!
Thanks for the recipe ideas! They sound yum!
I am so glad that you posted this because I was going to send you an email and ask about it! I am starting Insanity because of you and will have to try out some of these recipes. Thanks a million cute girl! XO
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thank you for sharing! i'm trying to get summer ready and your meal ideas are perfect!
Great healthy-eating ideas! I love using smaller, pretty plates to help with portion control. 🙂
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Thank you for posting all the meal ideas! I'm at college and it's so hard to eat healthy especially when I'm only buying for one and don't have a ton of money to spend on all the healthy food out there. Your ideas are great! Thank you!
I've made two of these recipes this week and loved them! 🙂 Thanks so much!