This morning I made myself an oatmeal, banana, strawberry, vanilla shake. (Wow, say that 10 times fast!) It was fantastic! I honestly never would have thought I would "drink" oatmeal. Now that I am on this clean eating routine I am finding more and more uses for my vitamix! It is honestly the best investment ever.
I felt full on just that shake today, and managed to drink tons of water (about 3 1/2 liters of water!) throughout the day. For lunch I had an egg salad wrap again with apples on the side, and for my snack I cut up some bananas and peeled an orange, melted some pure dark chocolate (Bernard Callebeau) and dipped half of each fruit in this chocolate mixture, I complimented that (if you can call it that) with some sugar snap peas, which actually were quite bitter and not very tasty. I was disappointed in that but I still ate them.
When I first started clean eating I followed the meal plan given to me to the T, now I find it to be second nature. I will check the paper anyway and find that I am already following the macros she gave me.
I do have to say that I made the most delicious supper! I wanted to make that greek chicken that my Joelene had me taste at her house with the tzatziki sauce I bought. So I did. I just searched "Chicken Souvlaki" on pinterest and it came up with this absolutely mind blowing recipe (which I will share below), with that I made garlic parmesan cauliflower and a garden salad, and I also served a plate of mixed vegetables (since we didn't have any carbs I didn't want my family being hungry), the plate had: cucumbers, carrots, broccoli and tomatoes. Which actually tasted very good with the tzatziki sauce too.
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| How to make the Light Greek Chicken Souvlaki: Chicken breast (chunked) I used 3. 1 tablespoon minced Garlic 2 tablespoons Dill 2 tablespoons Oregano 3 tablespoons Oil 1 tablespoon Lemon Juice 1 teaspoon each Salt & Pepper Mix the above spices together in a bowl, add chicken chunks and stir until completely coated (I used my hands); keep in fridge for minimum 30 minutes to marinade or overnight. Cut up 1/2 an onion in thin slices and julienne a red/green pepper and cook with chicken chunks in a frying pan. How to make the Roast Garlic-Parmesan Cauliflower 4 tablespoons oil 3-4 cloves garlic, minced 1 head cauliflower salt and pepper 2-3 tablespoons parmesan cheese Cut cauliflower into small pieces (like seen above) and put in baking dish Microwave oil and garlic together in a bowl for 20 seconds, stir and spread over cauliflower. Preheat oven to 400F Cook cauliflower mixture in oven for 15 minutes, stir with spatula and put in for another 10 minutes, take out and put parmesan cheese on top, and put in oven for an additional 10 minutes. |
Even my baby loved the chicken and cauliflower! I mixed some up in the baby bullet for her and she so enjoyed that. I will likely be making this recipe again next week. The great thing about the chicken is it can be served like I have it above with any healthy side dish or even as a great lunch in a wrap with the tzatziki sauce.
After supper I went to work out. This was the most difficult workout we have both done. Now my work out partner is quite skinny (in my books) and also quite fit, she has competed in fitness challenges, she is a fitness trainer herself, and well she is just really in shape to cut it bluntly. She said tonight that the workout we did kicked her ass... I am SO PROUD I was actually able to keep up with her. I can't recall everything we did but I will say what we did do that I do recall and these might be slightly out of order as well.
My Workout (to my recollection):
Wall squat (30 sec)
Lunge kicks (left leg) holding 10lb weights in each arm (30 sec)
High Knees (30 sec)
Lunge kicks (right leg) holding 10lb weights in each arm (30 sec)
Burpees (x5)
Squat with 10lb weights in between legs (30 sec)
High Knees (30 sec)
Side abs holding 10lb weights (leaning to one side, then up, then other side and so on) (30 sec)
Burpees (x5)
Bridge Raises (raising our pelvis to the ceiling and opening and closing our legs fast) (30 sec)
Side lunge (left leg only) holding 10lb weights in left arm (30 sec)
Wall squat (30 sec)
Side lunge (right leg only) holding 10lb weights in right arm (30 sec)
High Knees (30 sec)
Plank and knee twists (30 sec)
We did this above workout 4 times! We didn't stop in between each move until the end. For circuit 1 & 2 we had a 30 second break at the very end and for circuit 3 & 4 we took 1 minute break at the end.
We also did our AB challenge:
20 crunches
20 leg raises
30 second plank
I am not even 100% sure I remembered everything we did for our workout but you get the jest of it. It was intense, especially because there was literally NO BREAK! I am not going to lie, after doing one of these circuits I had this wave of fear come over me, like "holy crap I have to do 3 more of these? I honestly don't know if I can do that!" Then when she gave me the option to finish at 3 circuits and do a different (but still intense) finisher. Nope. I stayed firm that we would follow through and finish the 4 we commited to. Come hell or high water I am going to push past these mental blocks my brain puts up and this "I can't" or "I don't think I can" way of thinking. YES I CAN! I CAN AND I HAVE AND I WILL! You just have to push yourself past your limits, dig deeper, close your eyes and focus on the end goal. That's what I do, I focus on the person I am going to be in 5 months.
It's your workout: Make it count! It isn't for anyone else but YOU. If you want it bad enough you can do it and you will do it, your body can do more then your brain thinks. I am living proof of that. I continue to surprise myself with how strong I am getting, with all the workouts I am able to do, I push past those fears and that pain and the I can't do it thinking and I just get it done. In the end of today's workout I was encouraging Joelene because we are a team. If I was working out alone who knows if I would have pushed to the last 4th circuit. It has been my pattern when I do it alone I put in effort but not like this, and then I just say "ok that's good enough" but I could have done so much more. I am already feeling it in my legs, my abs, my butt my arms. I love that ache, I crave it.
I can hardly wait to post before and after pictures. Each time I step on that scale the numbers will be going down and I swear I will NEVER be this size and this weight again.
Well that's my blog people, I am amped as you can tell and I am very motivated. So I hope you can read this and take some of my motivation through my words and dig deep for yourself, if I can do it so can you! I'm off to make myself an apple pie shake now. Yum!
Until tomorrow.... :)
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