PLANNING A BALANCED, HEALTHY WEEK
“In terms of eating, it helps that I love to eat and I love to cook.”
“Also, like I said, I love planning. There's a book that I recommend to everyone I meet called Tranquility by Tuesday (….) I have a real soft spot for self-help books, but this is definitely the best one that I've ever read. She talks about a bunch of things. One of them is planning out your week on Friday. So on Friday you take twenty minutes or so and you sit down and you're like, What are the things I need to get done next week? What are the fun things I'm going to do next week? What are the things that I really should do for my health? I take that pretty seriously. It's like, I want to do a Yoga class every week and usually it's Thursday. But if I have a thing Thursday, then I need to have a backup. When am I going to do Yoga next week?”
“And Saturdays are my precious day, where I always try to bike to the farmers’ market. I try to go for a hike. I try to hang out with friends (.…) There are a few times where I'll do things on Sundays, but usually Sundays I don't do any work."
“I like to plan out my meals, so if I'm going to the farmers market, it's usually just buying things that look great and coming up with what I want to cook on the spot. But I go into the week knowing what I'm going to be cooking, so I don't have to make decisions. I just have to execute an already-established plan and doing that on the weekend is really helpful.
"I always just make enough dinner that I can have it for lunch the next day, so I I don't have to worry about packing lunch because I packed my lunch the night before."
“I actually have a bedtime alarm that goes off at 9:40 and that's when I start brushing my teeth, etc. It's a whole thing. When do you need to wake up? Think about that. And then how many hours of sleep do you want? And then what do you actually want to do before bed? So it's reading for half an hour before bed—I love reading the most (…) just purely for-pleasure stuff. So I want to do that for half an hour before bed. So 9:40 is when I start getting ready for bed, and then I go to bed and I can read, and that's joy.”
ESTABLISHING HEALTHY HABITS
“Three times a week is a habit. So, what are the things you want to do you? It's okay if you can't do them every day, but if you do them three times a week, that is great. That's a habit. So I have in my planner little check boxes for ‘Knit’ and I try to knit three times a week. I try to bike to school three times a week. If I do it three times—I checked off all three boxes—it's okay.”
“I love checking off boxes and I like making the decisions beforehand, so that I can just execute the plan.”