80/20 Lifestyle

It’s Saturday! I don’t anticipate blogging much during the weekend but I did want to pop on to share what you can expect. My intention is to blog as often as I can, Monday - Friday. If I don’t post one day, check back the next day! I don’t plan on taking extended time off right now because blogging is a part of my current self care goals.

I shared my current weight-loss goals, yesterday. If you happened to miss that post you can find it, here. 

Right now, I am aiming to track my nutrition 5/7 days a week. Yesterday, I treated myself to a cold brew (vanilla cream with cold foam) and hashbrown at breakfast, and I went out to eat for dinner while on a date night with my husband. This is part of balancing a healthy lifestyle for me.

If you’ve been here for a while, you may remember that I firmly believe in an 80/20 lifestyle. That is, making the best choices 80% of the time and leaving room for date nights, and the occasional treat 20% of the time. An all-or-nothing lifestyle is not a long-term solution for me.

So, I’ll make sure to show some of the 80% type of lifestyle choices that I make and some of my 20% type of lifestyle choices.

Even though yesterday fell mostly in the 20% range of things with a breakfast treat and dinner out with my husband, I still made a healthy choice for lunch (homemade buffalo turkey wrap) and went for an afternoon walk by the Lake.

If I were operating in an all-or-nothing mindset my day would have been blown at breakfast. I wouldn’t have seen the worth of going for an afternoon walk. The truth is, every choice we make adds up, and in order to move toward a more healthy lifestyle overall, I’m going to be making better choices most of the time, but it honestly won’t be the best choices all of the time. Balance in everything is healthy, and that’s what I try to keep in mind.