Another Week of Meals & Plans

Every week I make a plan. I plan my eats, workouts, and what I think I want to blog about. Then I eat, workout, and forget to blog. These weeks are going by so fast and before I know it, it's Friday and another week is gone.

But, here we are, another Monday and another week of planning!

We went out Saturday night and woke up a bit groggy. But with less than 2 months (o-m-g) til our wedding, I knew I wanted to get to grocery shopping and prepping for the week. It's time to get for real serious. I had my dress fitting on Saturday and my next one is in 2 weeks! So I want to feel my extra best :)

Food
Lots of clean eating! Most of these recipes are from Clean Eating Magazine and a Cooking Light cookbook I picked up at Home Goods (steal!)

Monday: Slow cooker white bean chili from Clean Eating Magazine. Prepped and in the fridge Sunday night!
Tuesday: Spinach-Parm Chicken Skillet with frozen steamed feggies
Wednesday: Visiting some friends for dinner! (I think)
Thursday: Chicken Enchiladas
Friday: Pork & Zucchini Stir Fry
Saturday: Wing it!

Workouts
I'm sad that Best Body Bootcamp is over. BUT it's back in just 3 short weeks! So what am I doing until then? I want to focus more on weights these next couple of weeks. I'll be doing a mixture of online workouts and some workouts from BBB. Then January 7th will be here before we know it!

Last week I announced that I signed up for another challenge, Elf for Health. I have to admit, I properly have taken on too much "extra curricular" stuff. I didn't do very good with the completing the challenges. I have been trying (and will continue this week!) to motivate my elf with some tips that I do during the week, but I am not sure I can sign up for another run.

I'm off to watch the rest of Ashley & JP's Wedding on the Bachelorette. What can I say? It's one of my guilty pleasures. Don't judge.

Weekly Planning & HBBC Check-in!

I didn't get too crazy in the kitchen today. The FH and I had a couple one too many drinks last night and we both were feeling it all day. However, I still made it to the grocery store and managed to tidy the apartment up a bit.

Food
Monday - Trader Joe's Salmon Burger with veggies
Tuesday - Dinner at Mom & Dad's
Wednesday - Pork Chops (any good recipes? I never make these!)
Thursday - Chicken Stir Fry
Friday - Ground Turkey Stuffed Peppers

My lunches and snacks pretty much stay the same week to week. Salads, fruits and veggies! Gotta get in my 7-9 servings of freggies everyday!

Workouts
I'm really sad that this is the last week of Best Body Bootcamp until January 7th! I am definitely going to be doing a full recap next week and I think I have already expressed how much I have liked BBB to you, so I won't bore you with too many details. I'm still trying to decide what to do these next couple of weeks. I am thinking about doing the last phase of Jamie Eaton's Bootcamp to keep up with strength training or even going back on a couple weeks from BBB.


Holiday Bootie Buster Challenge
This was the third week of HBBC. So far it's going pretty good, I like how it makes me think about what I am doing each day and motivates me to complete my workouts even if that means going after a long day at work. It has been a little confusing on where to find everything and I wish that there was a spreadsheet like the one BBB has to track our points everyday, instead of doing it once a week. I suppose I could add my own, but I have just been using the print outs and tallying at the end of the week.

Here is how last week shaped up:

HBBC ~ 12/3 - 12/9

Outside Run: 5 miles
Walks with Peanut: 1
Strength Workouts: 3
Cardio: 4
Fruits/Veggie Servings: 6 days
Bonus: 6
Total HBBC Points: 33.1

Week 3 Goal: Drink half my body weight in water everyday. 
Completed! I carry my Camelbak water bottle with me everywhere. Pretty sure my coworkers would know where to return it if I left it in an office room or bathroom because it's always with me.

Week 4 Goal: Stretch or foam roll for at least 10 minutes everyday. I was good about this one week, but then completely stopped once the week was over. My body is definitely more achy after my 5 mile run and workouts last week that I am recycling this goal!

Elf for Health

I also signed up for Elf for Health after seeing some bloggers tweet about it over on Twitter. I am now an Elf for another Elf and we'll be helping each other stay motivated these next two weeks! Looking forward to virtually meeting her and maybe even learning some new things.

Lots going on!

I Sweat Pink!

You might notice I have some fancy new badge in the right hand column on my site...

Guess who was accepted into the Sweat Pink Ambassador program. This girl.

It's funny how things work out. Today I was feeling discouraged with blogging and feeling like I don't have the time to keep up with it. And then, just before the work day ended, I received an email in my inbox.

Well you might be wondering what Sweat Pink is and why applied in the first place? Besides seeing all the other inspiring bloggers who are part of the Sweat Pink community out there, Sweat Pink's mission statement really resonated with me and inspired me to apply to be one of their ambassadors:

"We believe that kicking ass is best done in pretty shoes. We've learned that real woman sweat, and sweat hard. We know that assertiveness, strength, and ambition are the ultimate feminine qualities. We concede that sometimes it takes hours to get ready, but we're also no strangers to just rolling out of bed and going. We're convinced that we run faster in pink shoelaces. We believe in pushing ourselves, and we believe in giving ourselves a break, too. We're all about the rush of endorphins and the thrill of the challenge. We're all for looking great and feeling even better. We're committed to finding our best fit, and making it stick."

 

I'm really excited to embark on this new phase of my blogging journey and hope that I can share some of the love with you along the way!