Week 1 Done!

The first week always seems like it's the hardest so I'm glad to say it's done! In my first week of the reboot I lost a little over 3 pounds. I haven't taken my measurements yet so I'm not sure how many inches I lost but I'll do that later today. Three pounds doesn't sound like a lot but it is in the weight loss and fitness world. On top of the weight loss though, the energy that I have is incredible and I just feel so much better than I did before I started this round of 21 Day Fix. I feel healthier, I'm not craving the junk food that I use to live off of and oddly enough, I took a sip of one of the kids cokes this morning and the after taste was disgusting.


Week 2 is off to a great start so I'm hoping to keep the momentum going! The kids had dentist appointments this morning and I could've easily said "I don't feel like cooking breakfast so we'll just run through the drive thru" but I didn't. I got up this morning and cooked bacon & eggs for everyone and by the time I took them to the dentist and got to work (2-1/2 hours late) it was time for my morning snack so I'm munching on my almonds and just finished off my yummy grapes!


I did all of my meal prep for the week yesterday while the kids were playing outside and the hubby was at all-star nominations for our little league. That means no excuses!!! I kept things simple this week, like really simple, so that I could make sure I got all of my containers in and see if that makes a difference. I did forget to make my toast this morning so that means I'll only get in 1 of my yellow containers today or I can eat the other one with my ham & turkey this afternoon for dinner so I can make it a wrap instead of just a ham & turkey roll up. We'll be at the field every day this week after getting rained out for the first 3 days last week then on Saturday both kids have all-star tryouts and I have to go to New Orleans to get fitted for a bridesmaid dress. I knew this week would be busy so I knew that if I didn't get everything prepared yesterday I would be setting myself up for failure and I don't want to do that! After all, if I fail the only person I have to blame it on is myself!


My workout from today will be the always awesome Total Body Cardio Fix including those dang surrenders. Lets hope I have as good of luck this week as I did last week with my not being extremely sore after doing them. I'm going to try to get through them today without having to use my knees for support and progressing from there. It's kind of a big deal to not use your knees because those suckers are hard...don't let them fool you!


Keeping things simple as far as nutrition goes so breakfast was the same stuff as always, 1 scrambled egg & 2 pieces of bacon. I already wrote about my morning snack. Lunch is going to be shredded chicken which I made in the crockpot yesterday, sweet potatoes, steamed broccoli, and a side salad. What I've learned over the past 14 months doing the 21 Day Fix is that a lot of days I struggle to get my lunch down because it is so much food. I've found that what works for me is to actually eat 1 red, 1 green and 1 yellow at my regular lunch time, after I finish my workout, then an hour or 2 later I'll eat my salad and that seems to work better and not be as overwhelming. I like lunch being my biggest meal because I don't eat a ton in the morning and I don't like eating a lot at night so it works for me. I could even go as far as making two meals out of my lunch by saving some of my protein to eat with my salad later in the afternoon instead of eating it all at once with my broccoli & sweet potato. Anyway, afternoon snack is sliced strawberries mixed with 3 oz of greek yogurt. I know the book calls for plain greek yogurt but I hate the taste of it, it's so bland, so I use vanilla...oh well! Dinner is scheduled to be a ham/turkey roll-up with a salad but since I forgot my toast this morning, I'll put my ham on a whole wheat tortilla and have a wrap so that I can get both of my yellow containers in today.


My meals this week will be exactly & I do mean exactly the same as the one for today. I decided simplicity is the key for this week to make sure everything goes smoothly and it also gives me time to go through more recipes to find ones that the whole family will enjoy but is still fix approved. Boring I know, but if it works, it works!


Off to get a little bit done before my workout!