Wednesday whines: fast fashion, so much fiber, not delaying healthy habits til the holidays are over

Is it fast fashion when I wear it forEVER tho?

The tl;dr of this first whine is that all my clothes are cheap. I am definitely choosing quantity over quality... ($20 Target juniors jeans and $12 Target clearance shoes in that pic)

Whine 2: eating like a grown up is a pain. I am still eating at least 30 grams of fiber (mostly from fruits and veggies) and between 75-90 grams of protein every day. Gah. SO MUCH FIBER.

Here's a sample day

Breakfast: Gimmee Some Oven energy bites (I use sun butter) and cuties and like to make about 20/recipe-- about 7 g protein and 8 g fiber

Lunch: Turkey sandwich w/ lettuce and mustard, giant apple, leftover roasted veggies-- about 30 g protein and 14 g fiber

Snack: Zero suagr Greek yogurt, granola, plums-- about 15 g protein and 4g fiber

Dinner: this (made ahead on Sunday) (I did make my own cream of soup recipe too), which is 23 g protein (yay!) and 3 g fiber (**whomp whomp**) Plus more leftover roasted veggies for another 6 g fiber (smaller portion than lunch)

Dessert: hot chocolate with Absolut vanilla vodka (NO NUTRITIONAL VALUE SHUT UP).

Totals: roughly 75 g of protein (should try to drink milk or something with breakfast) and 35 g fiber. It is getting much easier for me to meet these macros all the time w/o weighing and measuring, but I am not quite there yet.

Part of me wants to throw caution to the wind and drink peppermint mochas 24/7 because HOLIDAYS, but then! I listened to THIS PODCAST, and she talks about how you should meet eating habit goals BEFORE January because "the holidays" is like 2 meals-- maybe 4 tops if you split time between families. SO TRUE EMMA, SO TRUE. Bah humbug, but also, this is so smart. And! I have already had a mocha this season, so I am not being an extremist.

I am also going back to tracking calories (at maintenance) for a few weeks because I have started to eat random bites and tastes-- this is FINE. No food is off limits. But if I want to eat, say, chocolate covered pretzels, I should sit down and enjoy a portion of them. If I am having a mocha, then maybe I don't also need a sweet something mid afternoon and could have string cheese and carrots and cottage cheese instead-- stuff like that. If I want sweets after dinner, then I should have an energy bite or a Chobani flip yogurt (both are filling and also feel treaty) or a bowl of ice cream or some chocolate chips or whatever it is I want instead of eating bites of Minnie's ice cream and a cookie or two (or 7) on the fly as I pack lunches. The intentional enjoying of a dessert is SO MUCH MORE SATISFYING (hence my planning to enjoy a sweet drink tonight after kindergarten bedtime). I guess the whine here is that the old metabolism ain't what she used to be, and I have to really be intentional about nutrition if I don' want to just slide back into old habits that weren't serving me.