Brandi Bartmess

Okay wanna know something crazy? I pretty much eat the same things day after day after day. It's true! I don't really struggle with food boredom, I have my yummies that I eat that I enjoy and I don't really mess with it. I did attempt over and over and over at one point, to find new foods not because I was bored, but because I wanted to simply try other things and I heard it was good for me...(this was before I earned my Fitness Nutrition Specialist Cert). And what I found was if it's going to require more than a few ingredients and more than 10 minutes to make, I aint gunna make it! Gah I can't even tell you how much time and moonies I wasted in the grocery stores hunting down things like Quinoa Flakes and Coconut Flour (no, we do not have a whole foods or Trader Joes here! #Waa) and time baking, substituting and, eventually, throwing out what I call "food for the priveledged". I just DON'T have time to pretend to be Martha Stewart in the Kitchen (although I luh you girl, you the best!). I have so many other things I want to be doing with my time and I certainly don't have a love or desire to be spending oodles of it in my kitchen (my husband would differ...whatever he aint going hungry so don't judge me lol)!

That being said, on this page are what I typically eat every day, and what I've found my body/energy levels/daily life prefer the most. Trust me, you won't be surprised lol. But, if anything, i hope this goes to show that keeping it simple (with the occasional treat) gives you the maintainability in your health when you implement whole, minimally processed foods into your diet. And you don't need to go "super food this" and "super food that" to become healthy. Sure it can optimize health, but it's not the missing link to achieving it. 

I'm not going to add in the macros (don't hate me) but the fact that people like to add in different items or do without, or use different ingredients changes those macros. And I would rather you learn to experiment with how much food you want on your plate using these recipes as a general "guide" but ultimately the portion sizes are up to you :) But I can tell you these are definitely "macro friendly"! Most all of these are low at and high protein.