Since I birthed our little booboo, I’ve been trying to lose all that lovely baby weight. I gained 30 pounds, but of course didn’t realize it; since I mean, my stomach was tight, and there was no muffin top to be seen. Everything else; the puffy face, bigger legs and arms was just uhhhh….swelling, I thought.

I’ve talked about how I couldn’t lose any weight. It took two months before I saw the scale budge because I didn’t realize I was eating the same way I was while I was pregnant. So, I started with our gym’s nutrition program on January 4, and have since continued. To date, I’ve lost 13 (of the 30) baby pounds. < I’m proud of that.

I’ve been pre-planning, pre-making, and pre-packing 80% my meals. It’s a pain in the ass on Sunday and a lot of it has become semi-homemade in nature, but during the week, I am so happy I have these things in the fridge–no dishes to wash, we’re not staring at each other asking, “What should we have for dinner?” and I have no excuses.

Because I’m a real human person, Tuesday night is Chipotle night, and I give myself 24 hours on the weekend to eat whatever I want. What’s odd is that I always think I’m going to destroy food all day long, but I really don’t eat much on those days. It’s more like junky quality, over quantity.

This is one of the recipes (I use this word loosely, as this is just assembling things together) I make for breakfast some weeks when I’m sick of eggs. It takes about 10 minutes to make multiple servings of, it’s easy to portion, andddd like I said, it’s not eggs.

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Ingredients

• 4 wide mouth mason jars (or any take-away container really, mason jars are just all I had)
• Wide mouth jars or containers should be used so it’s easy to dig your spoon into it, easier to mix, and you’ll keep your hands clean. Notice my jars are not wide mouth, so now you know what I didn’t.

• 1 large tub of plain 2% Fage greek yogurt
•  2% yogurt because it tastes better than 0%, and Fage because it’s not as sour as Chobani. Also a large tub, because it has 4 servings, so you can eyeball it into your four containers.

• Vanilla Chex cereal
• Vanilla Chex cereal because granola is way overpriced. It’s just oats, and that’s ridiculous. Chocolate Chex would also be quite tasty here.

• 16 oz package of sliced strawberries in syrup, in the freezer section
• These are pre-sliced and already sweetened, so I don’t have to do anything. Plain, fresh strawberries would be fine, but I want something that tastes more like a fruit-on-the-bottom yogurt. I drain the syrup so I’m not really using it, and there are about 3-4 servings per container, so it’s easy to portion.

Method

Portion out the drained, sliced strawberries into the bottom of your containers.

Dollop in the greek yogurt and press it down to remove any air pockets.

Pour the cereal on top. I used 1/2 cup per container. I’d recommend not putting the cereal in until the day you want to eat it, as the cereal gets a bit stale in the fridge, but it’ll be okay if you want to just go ahead and get it all over with.

Store in the fridge.