1/6: Meals and Fitness for the week
Hi friends 🙂 Sorry for the blog silence yesterday! The only thing I had to write about was my legendary headache. I even took a few Tylenol, which is a testament to how bad it was.. usually I’ll just deal with it. When I got home for the day, some snuggles and giggles made it all much better 😉
Let’s see… what else happened this weekend?
The Pilot took Liv to her baby class while I was at work:
We had her first birthday photos taken -watching her smash the cupcake was my favorite thing ever
We went to friends’ house on Friday night. I’m not sure how/why she hasn’t tried it yet, but it was Liv’s first time having pizza. She loved it! Pizza Friday may need to become a regular thing
aaaaand we had a date night! We were trying to decide between Life of Pi and This is 40, but decided to rent the latter.
Life of Pi was in real 3D, and the cinematography was reason enough to see it in theaters- it was truly exquisite to watch. I hadn’t read the book, but found it to be an amazing story about man’s ability to survive and the animalistic nature of humans.
The movie does have religious themes in it, and while I try to keep my blog as religious as I do political (which is not at all), it gave us a lot to talk about on the drive home.
My date:
Here’s what this week’s tentative fitness plan looks like:
Sunday: Runday
Monday: OFF
Tuesday: HIIT and Strength (testing out Winter Shape Up workout 1)
Wednesday: Teach Zumba
Thursday: Teach Buff Booty and Glide
Friday: OFF
Saturday: Power yoga
As far as eats go, sugar detox is officially over:
(white chocolate moose munch)
I feel like this past week was a good kickstart back into my normal eats, instead of the holiday variety which included a cookie or two after every meal. The fact that I made the detox on my own terms (wine, chocolate and goat cheese everyday), it wasn’t too big of a deal. It feels nice to be back to normal-ish, though 🙂
(Coffee and a jar of bfast cookie dough cereal to take to work)
Meal ideas:
–Kale frittata with millet crust
-Liv’s birthday dinner: order pizzas and make cupcakes
-Slow cooker chicken tortilla soup
-BBQ pulled pork (for the Pilot), chicken, quinoa lentil salad
-Prep: amazeballs, chop veggies, make Liv’s pancakes and turkey muffins, maybe try this Paleo bread
Going to enjoy a lazy Sunday morning and then see where the day takes us.
Hope you’re having a wonderful weekend!
xoxo
Gina
It’s the LAST day of 12 Days of Fitness! Thank you so much to everyone who joined me for this fun little workout challenge. If you participated, please leave a comment and let me know how it went! Hopefully you enjoyed the extra credit blast to your usual workout routine.
Here’s the last day:
12 sumo burpees
11 weighted squats
10 overhead presses
9 lateral lunges (each side)
8 bicep curls
7 tricep dips
6 pull-ups
4 toe touches (each side)
3 mountain climbers (each side)
2 pushups
1-minute plank (can be 6 rounds of 10 seconds up, rest for 3 seconds)
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I enjoy this workout and wrote it down to take with me this week to the gym! Thanks for the awesome countdown workout , I LOVE these! I felt the same way, it really is difficult to get 100% on track right after indulging in wine and cookies for a week so as I slowly enjoyed my last cookie a few days ago and sipped the last drip of my champagne yesterday, I am ready for a CLEAN slate 🙂 Have an amazing week! Love + Shine CourtStar
Yum! Cookie dough cereal – how?!
Glad you’re feeling better now! Oh, I can’t wait to see Life Of Pi, but I’m betting it does’t compare to the book, because what ever does?! I’ve got to try that Chicken tortilla soup! Thanks for the idea.
I loved the 12 Days of Fitness! I looked forward to doing it everyday. In matter of fact, I’m off to complete day 12 right now 😉
I was debating over if I wanted to see life of pi or not. I couldn’t decide if I would like it, but now I think I’ll check it out.
Ugh! A headache all day? Hope you’re feeling much better today:)
Me and my hubs have a couch movie date in store for tonight. We’re gonna watch Bridesmaids. We’ve seen it before but it makes me laugh every time. So vulgar but so freakin hilarious!
I have a question that I hope you can help me with. I am needing some protein powder and I’m not sure which ones are good for me or bad. I usually get SW when it’s on sale through Open Sky but I missed out last time. I was just gonna roll with some from the store for now. Do you recommend a particular brand/kind? Or can you at least tell me what to look for that’s in it or should not be in it?
That first picture melts my heart! I feel much better too after not having my daily dose of Christmas cookies! But, dark chocolate and vino never left my diet 🙂
I’m surprised how much I enjoyed the 12 Days of Fitness. I was doing it each morning as soon as I got out of bed and loved how it gave me some extra oomph. I used to workout in the mornings but got lazy. Ill have to make this a habit again. Thanks!
Hi there! My sister introduced me to your blog because we were pregnant at the same time. I have an 11 month old girl and it has been fun to read about some of your similar experiences! Ashamed to admit, but I am not one to exercise much ( I leave that to my sister : ) ), but am needing
to to get rid of this baby belly fat!! Any suggestions? I have been doing planks and they seem to help.
Thanks!
Jeanie
Headaches suck but thank goodness for tylenol.
The Life of Pi sounds phenomena! Good to know you liked it! Guess that’ll be next up on the list!
I love that pic of you and Liv! And the 3D glasses crack me up. I wanted to post a pic pf my man with them too, but he wouldn’t let me 🙂 I saw Life of Pi too and it gives quite some stuff to think about, I didn’t read the book either. I got a bit inpatient in the end though, I thought it was a bit drawn-out. I did the 12 days of fitness challenge and I loved it!! The 12 sumo burpees were killing 🙂
It’s really difficult to return to normal eating after the holidays. A mini-detox like that is a great idea! By the way, I love that Moulin Rouge cup! Super cute!!
I had to start over on the workouts – I caught the flu, ugh! Just re-finished day two 🙂
I’ve heard so many good things about Life of Pi…I really want to see it now–I love when a movie brings up discussions like that.
Loved the 12 Days of Fitness!! Since today was the last day, I made it my work-out and did it 5x back to back – great circuit!!!
The challenge went well. It was super easy to fit those extra exercises in during randomly daily free time. Very convenient!
The 12 days have been so great! I have noticed such an improvement in my plank doing it for a minute every day. I’m excited to continue doing it every day and up my time by a little bit every week. I definitely feel stronger than when I started! Thanks Gina!
Can’t believe Liv is almost one. She’s precious!
Thanks for the link to chicken tortilla soup; bought ingredients today!
Trying out the slow cooker soup tonight! Thanks to you, we are doing a sort of detox over here too, but I guess it’s sort of like getting back to normal. Between my pregnancy and the holidays, we were being way too lenient with our diets. So we’re done with all the snack foods we were consuming and back to nuts and veggies and other healthy things for snacks. Back to just having chocolate and fruit for dessert and are saving other things for truly special times. I’m 6 weeks post partum so I’m just starting back up at the gym (very slowly) but I cannot wait to do some of your workouts when I’m bit more recovered!
Oh, and movie nights are extra fun and such a special treat once you have kids! Glad you had a fun date.
Just threw that bread that you linked to above in my oven. Here’s to hoping it comes out just as good as it looks. I’m hoping for something quick to add to my morning routine this week and I bet it will be delicious topped with sliced banana, chia, and homemade raspberry jam!
Sorry about your headache funk. I’ve been in a cloud over here all day as its raining and gloomy. Getting dark early doesn’t help any either. 🙁
let me know how it turns out- i’m so excited to make it!
thank you- hope you feel better too <3
I tweeted about it @i_heart_kale. Mine ended up taking 85 min to bake, but worth it!!! So good!
it came out AMAZINGLY. i need to make some now for sure
Love that first pic of you and Livi!
I clicked on the link for the Paleo bread- looks amazing! Going to have to try it!
I did the 12 days of fitness and really enjoyed it! Thanks for continuing to post your workouts, I refer to them almost everyday to get my sweat on!
Loved the 12 Days!
Looking forward to Winter Shape Up-thanks for all your hard work, Gina! 🙂
I’m so so sorry you had such a bad headache! As a fellow migraine sufferer, I know how frustrating headaches can be. I hope you feel better!
Glad to hear good things about The Life of Pi–I’ve been on the fence as to if I should see it or not!
I want to make the crockpot chicken tacos this week but can’t find the recipe. Can you post the link?! Thanks!
Thanks for the 12 days of some new, some old ways to get my body challenged! I really enjoy your site. Thanks for being a huge help & encouragement to us fellow booty busters 😉
thank you so much for reading! i’m glad you liked the little challenge 🙂
i just tried the cookie dough cereal for bfast. Wow, so good!!! I would never have thought of doing that on my own. 🙂
so glad you liked it!
Did you use rolled oats or instant quick oats? I just realized your photo for the regular version(not raw) looked like the quick oats not whole rolled oats. Unless pic it just looks that way
i’ve done it with both- and both turn out great 🙂