I always wanted to get myself to eat a salad for lunch, but never was motivated to make it the night before. I found that if I made all of the salads for the week on Sunday afternoon, I found it a lot easier to take each day. I know teaching doesn't always allow you enough time to eat a full salad though, so how about hummus wraps? hummus and crackers? fruit with yogurt?

I find myself getting more and more discouraged because I am bored with my lunches. I too take salads everyday. I am supposed to be eaten gluten and dairy free as well and it has also been a challenge for me. I have lost 23 lbs so far and do not want to find it but I am about to embark on finding it because I am bored.

I need all the support I can get through this. Another too is I don't exercise and I know I need to for all of this to work properly. I start and do it for a couple weeks then I quit. How can I keep myself motivated to keep exercising?

I found making stuff for the week works well too. Or, if you have a fridge at work, take in a week's worth of food so it's all ready there. I teach and our math dept all pitched in 20 bucks and we were able to get our own full size fridge with lots of space.

I also like to wash/cut up fruits and veggies as soon as I get home from the grocery store so that it's all ready to go and requires less prep work in the morning.

You might try lean cuisine frozen salad entrees! They are great you microwave the entree (salad toppings) and pour them over lettuce. They are great and run less than $3 per meal.

Hi! I am also a teacher... I try to vary what I bring as I find I get bored too if I bring the same thing every day. Usually a couple days a week I bring a sandwich- I use the Flat Out bread (90 calories), turkey, lettuce, tomato then bring an apple and some almonds. 1-2 times a week I bring either some homemade soup or a can of progress lite soup. The remaining days it's either tuna or a salad or sometimes dinner leftovers. Once in a while a lean cuisine frozen meal. I always work through my lunch so it's hard to find the time to slow down and eat.. but I find if I don't I'll end up eating a birthday cupcake that one of the kids bring me or something like that that I shouldn't be eating! (I teach kindergarten

Do you have a microwave? If so your lunches don't have to be boring at all. Some of my lunches are things like the following:

Chicken breast
Acorn Squash
Romaine Lettuce and Kraft Calorie wise Asiago Caesar dressing

Tuna and Light Miracle Whip wrapped in Romaine lettuce

Turkey Breast, lettuce and mustard on weight watchers bread

Chicken Breast, salsa and romaine lettuce


or really any left overs from the dinner before.... I haven't been in the office much since mid December but by mid week here I will be back at work and back on track I hope!

Great ideas. Thank you as we'll for the post. I've been doing left overs or frozen dinners.