Plan your figure future

You rush in from work starving and grab the first thing that looks yummy. Bread slathered in bread and butter perhaps? Or come lunchtime, after having worked through without a snack, you nip to Pret A Manger. Except, your determination had to buy a skimmed milk coffee and a crayfish salad with no dressing goes out the window.
Instead, as you guiltily brush off the crumbs you realise you've wolfed down a cheese sandwich or a pastry without even realising. Sound familiar?
Most diets fall down simply due to lack of planning. You might think that planning your diet is a bit much. Yet everything that is important in life - career, a summer holiday, even a party is usually planned or thought about. So, why not put some thought into your diet on a weekly basis, particularly when your body shape or fitness (or lack of) can improve every aspect of your life if you get it right?
By planning, it doesn't mean calorie counting as who can be bothered with all that. Yet setting out snacks, breakfasts, lunches and dinners and ensuring you've got the right food in the house means you are much less likely to come a cropper.
Today, I was lucky enough to have some leftovers in my fridge when I came in from a full on training session involving 500m sprints, squats, sits ups and pulls ups.
A delicious lentil and quinoa spicy salad with a poached egg was the perfect recovery meal. Without it, I would no doubt have shoved something unhealthy in my gob.
For the rest of the week though, I'm planning - give or a take any spontaneous event to eat the following. How about you?
I will blog the recipes for the some of these so keep your eye on the blog/twitter.

Brekkies
Poached eggs on Rye
Porridge with yoghurt
Scrambled eggs with spinach
Muesli with yoghurt & fruit

Lunches
Spinach avocado and grapefruit salad
Lentil Sambar
Thai cucumber Salad
2 x eat out



Dinner
Black Bean and Corn Spicy Frittata
Bean Burgers with Cabbage salad
Lemon Sole with capers
Bass with butter beans and tomatoes
1 x eat out

snacks
Spiced plum and orange yoghurt ripple with poppy seeds
ryvita/cottage cheese
plums, blackberries, apples, pears, melon
skimmed milk protein shake