 Hey y'all, welcome to What Chelsea Eats. Thank you so much for joining me today. I wanted to talk to you briefly about a question that I was asked on Monday after the live and I realized I never did a video ever on food prep and that's something that I do quite frequently and I don't do it in a traditional sense but I wanted to come on and just say in the first of the year I plan on doing like some videos where I actually show you what I do as far as food prepping and give you some ideas of what you can do for food prepping and I know that's not helping you now because I'm not showing you what to do but I want to just tell you what my thoughts are on it and I can give you a general overview as to really what I do what works for me. The bottom line is is whatever food prep plan you decide that you're going to do it has to work for you it can't be what I do it can't be with Sally Jo down the street does or Tamika down the street does it has to be something that is going to work for you in your lifestyle. So personally um day to day I prep my meals for the entire day unless I know that I'm going to have a really busy day and I won't have time to prep it for the next day like the following day so say I'm prepping for today and I know that this day is going to be busy and I have an early morning the next morning where I won't have time to do any food prep then I will prep for two days but usually that's the most prep that I usually do and I want to just tell you the reason I am not doing a food prep video is because I am on my 60 day juice feast and there's no food to prep except for my juices and I've already done that so I can't really um prep that and actually the last few days I've been just juicing in the morning for my daily juice so can't really uh show you too much prep but here's what my day typically looks like I wake up really early in the morning I spend time with God um and pray I get some exercise and if I have detox methods that I want to take care of for the day I will do those and then I will take a shower or I will start my food prep one of those will happen um it just depends on what my detox method was so if I got in the sauna because I'm all sweaty I'll go ahead and get in the shower first and then go to the kitchen and start prepping my food but if my detox method was something else that doesn't require me to be sweaty sweaty I will go and make my food and then go take my shower and get ready for my day but what I do typically is I'll make um juices and smoothies in the morning and I'll make a big salad and so I know that if I have those things ready then that's what I'm going to eat I happen to work at home so all I have to do is stick that food that I prepped in the refrigerator and yes it does help me to prep my food even though I work from home um 10 10 most people who work from home tend to work more than they would if they actually works outside of the house that's unfortunate but it's easy to get rubbed into doing that and so you have to use your time management skills very well but I don't always do that so um I will find time in that morning to carve out everything for the day so when I get hungry for breakfast I go in the kitchen and I will get whatever it is for breakfast and usually it's one of three things it's like fruit a big bowl of fruit uh that I just cut up or just stuck in a bowl and or I will have a big juice which is 32 ounces for me or I'll have a smoothie which is 32 ounces for me which is a leader depending on where you are in the world and not only do I make the food for me but I make it for my husband too he eats exactly what I eat unless he wants to go out and make um a special trip to go get something that he wants to either make for himself or he buys at a restaurant so I make those things for us both and then I will make um a salad or some type of vegetable dish or vegetable soup or something like that and I'll make it and I get everything done within an hour so at the end of the day when it's time to have dinner all I either do is pull the bowl out of the refrigerator and I usually separate it into two different bowls give one to my husband and I'll eat the other one or if I have made like a soup or a warm dish or something like that I'll pull it out put it on the stove and heat it up and it's just as simple as that if I happen to work outside of the home this is what I would do I would have myself a cooler that I could either put my food in the refrigerator in the office or I would have it in my car in my trunk in you know inside my inside of a with ice packs that's what I would do I'd put my food in there when it was time for me to eat I'd go outside get my food or go into the refrigerator and get my food and eat it and my dinner I would leave it at home um and when I got home I would pull it out of the refrigerator and either eat it if it doesn't need to be cooked or I would pull it out and heat it up and serve my family that's what I would do if I was working outside of the home the thing is is that you have to set up in your mind that you want to succeed on these plans because it is our society has made it too easy for us to just go grab something that is uh convenient but yet it's not good for our health so you have to make it so that the things the healthy foods that you want to eat are convenient for yourself now also you didn't hear me talk about snacks because typically I don't eat snacks um but if I am going to eat a snack it's going to be you know a piece of fruit or two maybe a handful of um seeds or nuts or something like that but I usually make big enough portions in my meals um to where I don't need a snack but if you know you're a person that needs a snack then you should pack a snack even if you pack too much food or you make too much food you can always eat it either later or the next day so you have to make up in your mind that you are going to succeed that you're not going to make these other choices don't leave yourself room to make other choices put all the parameters in place that will help you succeed and then you have to do some examining of your own heart do you really want to succeed on this plan or really are you just kind of trying it to see if it works because if you're just trying it to see if it works it doesn't always work that way because our natural tendency is to not do the convenient I mean the inconvenient thing which is to prep your food and be ready for the day um so you have to say in your mind look come heck or high water this is what my plan is to do this is what I want to do and you have to have your reasons why you want to do it in front of you so that you do make it a point to succeed but if you don't want to succeed I'm telling you you can find a thousand reasons not to but if you want to succeed do what you've got to do to succeed and also there are people who do what I do um for multiple days like it doesn't just have to be one day you can do you know your food for two or three days it doesn't have to be just the one day like I do that just happens to work for me you have to figure out what works for you and make it work for you but like I said in the in the change of the new year I will be doing some food prep videos right now I'm juicing I just don't have anything to prep so anyway I hope you all like this video if you liked it please give it a thumbs up share it with a friend also don't forget the 90-day walk to freedom from fibroids group coaching program starts on Sunday September 15th if you want to join I still have some spots available and I will talk to you all soon take care