… find out! Try to buy organic fruits and vegetables when possible.
2. Plan your meals.
Being unprepared makes it easy for your 80/20 rule to turn into 30/70 ruin, so set yourself up for success by creating a meal plan. Start by planning out your meals – including healthy snacks – for one week. Eventually, you may be able to plan and shop for meals for an entire month. What does a typical 80% day look like for Kelly Rowland? Here’s an example of a meal plan for a day in the life she shared with Women’s Fitness magazine:
Breakfast: Oatmeal or egg whites with spinach. Then, to drink, spinach, kale, apple and ginger fresh juice
Snack: Apple with almonds
Lunch: Spelt pasta with homemade tomato and meat sauce
Snack: Kale and hummus
Dinner: Fish, and a salad made up of rocket, cucumber, kale and celery
3. Know your peak 20% moments and plan accordingly.
Do you like to go out on the weekends, or tend to “fall off” your health game during the holidays? The 80/20 rule is not about eating perfectly healthy and organic 100% of the time. That 20% is your wiggle room. If weekends are your time to relax, focus on eating 80% healthy during the week. If you have dinner plans after work, consider skipping snacking on junk food during the work day.
According to Vogue, Rowland is grounded by her faith and her relationship with her husband Tim Weatherspoon. “At the beginning, I was scared of the idea of loving one person. I was nervous about being with one person for the rest of my life. I’d had the worst relationships and I was so scared and said: ‘How about we take a break from dating?’ and he said: ‘What if we took a break from dating and God sent you a guy and that guy was me?’ And I was like click! I hung up the phone. I was scared, because I knew he was my husband in that moment. And I almost ran away from that, but I just embraced it. Marriage is awesome, it has its ups and downs, like anything in life, but it’s incredible. My husband is my rock, my best friend. He believes when I don’t, believes that anything can work and that anything is possible in such a positive light. I think he’s a freak sometimes, no-one can see things like that, but he’s a realist and he’s positive and he’s an asshole, but I love him for everything he does, like in the cutest way of an asshole.”