Monday Motivation

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Sunday Shape Up!

Time for Meal Prep!!

Grilled salmon, sauteed spinach, green beans, sausage and deviled eggs....enough to keep me on track for the next few days without a lot of additional work.

My goals for this week:

-achieve 100 ounces of water per day
-be active at least 3 times this week

And that's it! I think keeping my goals simple and realistic will be a lot more rewarding than trying to overthink it. Let's see how I do!

Day 13

Weight: 262.2! officially down 9 pounds since October 21st. Nice :)

Unfortunately, I was sick with strep throat all weekend, so that may have influenced the number just a bit. I went off plan to ingest copious amounts of orange juice and saltine crackers :(

Day 9

Breakfast: carbmaster yogurt (caramel spice cake), coffee with sugar free coffeemate

Lunch:  chicken piccata with capers, 2 cups spinach

Day 8

After this weekend's carbtastic fiasco, I'm re-committing to keep tight to Induction guidelines this week! 

 No weigh-ins until next Saturday, November 2! My weight on Saturday October 26 was 264. 2; my goal weight this coming Saturday is 261.

Breakfast: 2 deviled eggs, coffee with HWC & Splenda

Lunch: Chicken piccata with spinach and capers, 4 hot wings, ranch

Dinner: 3 crab cakes, small grilled chicken breast

76.1 oz water

Day 6

Weight 264.2

Breakfast: medium coffee with cream/splenda, leftover pasta from maggiano's (smh)

no lunch

Dinner: More PASTA!!!

no workout

50.7 oz water

Day 5

Weight: 265.6 (miracle of miracles! I'm down half a pound even though I went off-plan last night).

Breakfast: Atkins Advantage Cafe Caramel Shake

Lunch: 1 chicken thigh, 1 cup green beans (breaking up my lunch into two meals today, keeping my portions small, to help counteract any potential damage i may have caused with my pasta fiesta last night)

Snacks: Kroger carbmaster yogurt (pumpkin pie), blueberry tea with splenda

Dinner: 1 chicken thigh, 1 cup spinach topped with alfredo sauce

Snack: medium coffee with sugar free coffeemate

no workout

94.7 oz water

Meal Prep.

Meal prep. All about meal prep. If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!

(pictured: hard-boiled eggs, parmesan cheese breaded chicken, sauteed garlic green beans and spinach)

Day 1

No weigh in (oops)

Breakfast: 2 deviled eggs, 1 cup sauteed spinach, coffee with cream & Splenda

Lunch: parmesan-crusted chicken breast, 2 cups garlicky green beans. 16 oz water


Snack: medium McDonald's coffee with cream and Splenda

Dinner: Wendy's Double cheeseburger with no bun (with lettuce, onions, tomatoes and pickles)

66 oz water total 

I didn't hit my water goal OR workout today. Bummer. Tomorrow is another day!

Monday Motivation

Monday. That's a 4-letter word to most folks. I wanna turn it around and make Monday the day I get fired up and re-focused for the week! I'll be sharing motivational quotes/pictures, as well as claiming my goals for the week!

My goals for this week:

Sunday Shape-Up: Diet

Sundays. The day of the week when I plan my eating and exercise schedule, do my grocery shopping, and pre-cook my food for the week. If you fail to plan, you plan to fail!

This week I'm beginning Atkins Induction. I'll be consuming lots of leafy greens, eggs, poultry and water to begin flushing excess water from my body, resetting my tastebuds, and kick-starting my weight loss!

A lot of my meals will look the same this week. I think this will help me get into a routine and make certain foods (like green veggies) a habit.

Atkins Gets a Bad Rap.

When someone mentions the Atkins diet, most people immediately think of meat, eggs, cheese....and lots of it.