![]() Fat: Goat cheese and sometimes half an avocado.Protein: I slow cook and shred boneless skinless chicken breast (about 6 oz.Dressing: Light Olive Garden dressing tossed over just the lettuce (because I end up using less fatty dressing, and it’s the only part of the salad that needs flavor help).Base: Baby spinach, baby arugula, baby kale, shredded carrot, shredded purple cabbage.Entrée salads are huge, balanced, and well-seasoned. I meal prepped these salads on the weekends. Lunch: I’m a big fan of entrée salads and have made a lot of themed ones. You can make a pumpkin spice latte for 55 calories using a flavored low-calorie creamer, and it’s *good.* I also have low-fat/nonfat Greek yogurt with flavored flax seed blend and some fruit for breakfast. View full post on Instagram Here’s what I typically eat for meals and snacks now:īreakfast: Coffee! I take mine with some frothed unsweetened vanilla cashew milk from Silk, or a flavored International Delight creamer. (Hopefully negative attitudes towards people in bigger bodies change in the future.) I knew I wanted a new job and I wanted to position myself as best I could. I was treated differently and had different opportunities when I was bigger. It’s *not* fair and it’s wrong that people hold these biases against overweight people-but this was also something that I could overcome, and I wanted to. I chose this topic of weight bias to examine for a term research paper in my MBA program. Research shows that overweight individuals tend to have a harder time getting hired in general compared to lower-weight peers, and there’s a bias against them being capable as leaders. ![]() I was also inspired to lose weight due to my professional ambitions. At the time, I remember thinking, it’s just a lot of walking anyway, not a big deal to miss out-but now I can’t believe we gave up on seeing parts of the world because our weight held us back. We were also unable to complete a group tour of the Colosseum in Rome. I remember that we had paid for a private tour of the Louvre museum in Paris, and we were only able to see about a third of it because we got too worn out because of our weight. We walked so much that I actually lost 10 pounds in the two weeks we were there. View full post on Instagram I knew something needed to change when my husband and I went to Europe for our honeymoon in August 2017. ![]()
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