Never Give Up

Good Morning and Happy Sunday to you and your family. We have had a fairly low key weekend, which has been nice compared to the previous weekends we've had. This morning I am putting together our weekly meal plan while Jax is watching some Youtube videos, I hope to get to ther grocery store this afternoon and get some meal prep done for the week. With busy mornings and Chris getting out the door to work, having a few things prepped for our lunches just makes the world of difference in the mornings.

Right now we are just entering week 7 or and 8 week program....22min Hard Corps. We started this program as soon as we got home from the Carribean Cruise. One thing I have learned along this journey is that The Compound Effect plays a HUGE role in our success. We have had get together and events where we can't control every aspect and that's ok, but what has changed in us is we use to let that throw our entire routine off...we would give up and say we would start over again on Monday. This journey isn't about "starting over" every week. It's about doing the simple things every single day and over time your results will compound and you will achieve better results. The KEY thing to remember is that nutrition plays a KEY part in all of this...one meal isn't going to throw your results completely out the door just like one workout won't give you a 6 pack.

We have committed to drinking our Shakeology consistently every single day because the results we have with that added nutrition are far better than without(we've tried not having the shakeology) It's the equivalent to 6 trips to the salad bar....I don't eat near enough veggies in a day to ever achieve that!

We generally workout Monday to Friday at 6am and on weekends we sleep in until Jax wakes up and then we workout after that. It makes it a little more difficult but he enjoys climbing on us and we like him to see that we are truly trying to be healthy.

I generally plan our meals using the "What to Eat"  magnetic meal plan that way I can see it on my fridge daily for a quick reference

This is what this week looks like:

Breakfast:
1/2cup Oatmeal with 1/2 cup Berries, 2 Hardboiled Eggs and Tea

Snacks:
Apple with 1tbsp PB
Other options:
20 Grapes and light cheese string
Rice Cake with PB and sometimes sliced banana
1/2c cottage cheese and 1/2c berries with a sprinkle of cinnamon

Lunch:
Shakeology: 1c spinach, 1c frozen berries, 1c water and 1 scoop shakeology blended
Chris will be having chicken wraps
Jax tends to have leftovers

Afternoon Snack:
1/2c cottage cheese and 1/2c berries with a sprinkle of cinnamon

Other options:
Apple with 1tbsp PB
20 Grapes and light cheese string
Rice Cake with PB and sometimes sliced banana

Dinner:
Sunday: Meatloaf
Monday: We are away at the Cottage until Tuesday...I am in charge of planning snacks
Tuesday: Chicken Fajitas
Wednesday: Tilapia with Salsa and Feta
Thursday: Pico De Gallo Chicken
Friday: Homemade Pizza(Using Tortillas)
Saturday: Away

Our side dishes vary throughout the week from Salads to Roasted Veggies, Sweet Potatoes and Quinoa.

I will be adding to the Recipe list on this website this week as well.

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The Hea tit Up Summer Strong Challenge is under way and because of the interest in it I will be adding a second group for May. If you are interested please feel free to submitt an application and I would be more than happy to chat with you about your goals!

Have a beautiful day,
Michelle
xoxo

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