I must apologize… I had started yesterday’s post in the afternoon
at naptime, but didn’t get it finished. I
was feeling really tired last night and didn’t feel like sitting at my computer
to write a post. I just wanted to sit in
The Big Orange Chair and relax. So here
are my two days wrapped into one post…
Workout Day 4 of “Build Your Best Body”
This is the sweaty part.
Week 2 of “4 Weeks to A Leaner You” meal plan
This is the yummy part.
Today’s workout was great!
I felt a great improvement since last Monday. I can already start to see more definition in
my arms. And that’s just from doing ALL these Push Ups and of course, eating CLEAN. I know that I will not be as sore tomorrow as
I was last Tuesday. My form is improving
and so are my numbers. The key to a
great Wall Squat is…squeeze your BUTT.
Not with your hands of course, silly.
When you sink down into your squat against the wall, squeeze those butt
cheeks together and think about what you are working…Quadriceps, glutes and
hamstrings…WORK IT!!!! The magazine
article suggests that you squeeze it all, but it is easy to forget about
squeezing the butt. Don’t forget!
My Planks were all 1 minute +. So by that, I can tell my abs are there and
doing their job. My goal for this summer
is to have proper definition of my Abs.
Today’s food…
Breakfast: BLT
A BLT sandwich for breakfast…quick, easy and very good.
Snack: Protein Shake with a Cheese String
Nothing too exciting.
Lunch: Halibut with Sweet Potato and Kale Quinoa
I made up the Quinoa mix this morning and the only problem
with that is...
that I had to control myself from eating it at snack time.
I like this meal except I find the Halibut a bit on the dry
side.
Snack: Apple served with Hard Boiled Egg Whites and Hard
Boiled Egg
Dinner: Tilapia served with Brown Rice and Sautéed Spinach
with Onion
The meal plan did not call for onion but I enjoyed the onion
with the sautéed kale last night that I thought it wouldn’t hurt to add a bit
to this meal.
The picture of the meal has gone missing it was that good.
It was dee-lish!
Well I am going to move onto Tuesday January 15, 2013 and
Workout Day 5 of Build Your Best Body
Workout Day 5
So this week I added an extra day of strength training workouts,
and today is the day. I thought it would
be tough this morning going back to back, but I was okay. I ROCKED out 13 Decline Push Ups in my first
set. I am still quite sucky at the
Standard ones that follow, and then I redeem myself with the Modified, and do
alright with the Incline ones. That was
the same for yesterday as well. Oh well,
at least I am trying and that’s what counts.
Today’s food…
Breakfast: Egg Whites, Rolled Oats, Blueberries and Walnuts
I wasn’t quite sure how this meal was to be made up. As you can see in the picture the way it is
written in the magazine…
I boiled up the eggs.
Cooled, peeled and cut them. I
threw the egg white in with the rolled oats, water, blueberries and walnuts and
cooked it as you would oats. It seemed
to turn out okay. It was good. It was filling that’s for sure.
Snack: ½ Pink Grapefruit with Red Velvet Pancake
Okay so my snack was supposed to be cottage cheese and the
grapefruit but I used the last of the cottage cheese when making these
pancakes. The pancakes are not on the
meal plan, but I have wanted to make them for a very long time. I had bought some beets a couple weeks ago
and I needed to use them up. I only had
a half serving with a dollop of Greek Yogurt on top. This worked out to about the same calorie
count as the cottage cheese would have been.
Now you are all wondering about the Red Velvet Pancakes…right???
The recipe was part of Tosca Reno’s blog back in December
2012. The recipe comes from Theresa Jenn Lopetrone. Remember her??? She was my Plank It Challenge inspiration last
spring. I am back at my planks in my workouts now and this morning all four of them were over 1 minute.
I had to modify the recipe slightly as I was making a double
recipe and I didn’t even have enough cottage cheese for a single batch. But I didn’t check that before I started…SO…I
added some Skim Milk to the mixture and a little bit of water. Excellent recipe Theresa!!! I have posted her recipe on my "Cook With Me" page.
Since today in the daycare it is Pancake Tuesday, I served them up to the daycare kids. They loved them!!! Of course I didn’t tell them that there were beets and cottage cheese in them. Do you really think they all would have eaten them if they knew??? Some yes, some no. But they all ate them followed by a bowl of homemade chicken vegetable soup. CLEAN eating for kids. LOVE IT! Healthy kids = Happy parents.
Lunch: Turkey
Sandwich
While the kids ate their pancakes and soup, I had my yummy
Turkey Sandwich. It was massive today
for some reason.
Snack: Chocolate Protein Shake with Cashews
I threw the cashews right in the shake and mixed it up.
Dinner: Tilapia with Sweet Potato and Kale Quinoa
Having the leftover Quinoa mix from yesterday’s lunch, make
for an easy dinner before the kid’s swim lessons tonight.
SO good!
I have enough leftover for two more servings. I am going to check the meal plan for the
rest of the week to see if I will be eating it again. If not, I am going to freeze it for next
week. Remember if you are cooking and
freezing meals; be sure to freeze it in portion sizes so that you only have to
thaw out what you need.
Tomorrow’s food day looks awesome! I get to try my hand at making sushi tomorrow
for lunch. I will probably go and cook
the quinoa after I post this. I will
tell you all about it tomorrow.
Until then…Stay Strong!
Good night
Trina
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