316: 5 Habits Making Your Life Way Harder as a Mom (and what to do instead of them)

Here are the five habits that are making your life harder that you need to stop doing right now.

Number one, winging mealtime, specifically yours.

Habit number one that was making my life harder.

Neglecting my own nutrition and just kind of winging it when it comes to feeding myself.

I know that sounds basic.

I know that you know that you need to eat, right? Like we all know that, but there is a very specific version of this that I think a lot of moms kind of fall into.

You make breakfast for your kid, you make lunch for your kid, you're cleaning up after lunch and you realize you're hungry and you just sort of graze whatever is left.

a handful of crackers, the other half of that sandwich, maybe it's the crust like me, whatever got left on their plate becomes your lunch.

And somehow you're registering this as, okay, I ate.

It doesn't register as like, oh, I actually just ate toddler's rejected lunch pieces as my meal for the day.

That's what I was doing.

And it impacted my energy in the afternoon, my focus in the afternoon, and my mood in the afternoons.

I kept wondering why I was hitting a wall every day at 3 p.m. and why I wanted to eat the entire kitchen after Everly went to bed.

And part of that answer was I hadn't actually fed myself that day.

I didn't properly fuel myself that day.

So here is the shift that I made.

You probably know what I'm gonna say, but I'm gonna say it anyway.

I started eating meals, okay? And here's what I did to help me with that.

I made a mini rotating menu for my lunches because honestly breakfast isn't that hard for me and dinner isn't that hard for me.

because my husband cooks both of those for me,

okay? So lunch is where I tend to struggle.

So I'll tell you straight up, I don't enjoy meal prepping and I don't enjoy meal planning.

I don't like having to eat one thing for lunch all week.

I like options.

I'm a mood eater, okay? I'm a mood reader when it comes to my books and I'm a mood eater when it comes to my food.