9/18: Meals and Fitness for the Week
Hi friends! Happy Sunday! Hope you’re having a wonderful weekend. <3 I’m popping in with a quick post because P and Liv’s BFFs (who are the exact same age as them!) are coming over to play for a while. For a few hours, we’ll have 4 kids in the house haha.
Last week, we crushed it on meal planning and cooking at home. Even on a night where I was so tired from teaching and takeout would have been easier, we rallied and made dinner at home since all of the ingredients were here waiting. I’m excited to keep up the momentum and do the same thing this week.
Here’s what last week’s fitness schedule looked like + our meal plan for the upcoming week:
Workouts from last week
Sunday: Orangetheory
Monday: Teach Spin
Tuesday: Upper body workout (20 minutes) + teach barre
Wednesday: Teach Spin
Thursday: Teach hot barre
Friday: Lower body workout (a mix of the latest BODYPUMP release + some 21dayfix lower fix)
Saturday: Jazzercise!! (I’ll have a post up all about it tomorrow)
What I liked about it:
I feel like it was a good mix of workouts. I like doing barre, OTF and Spin each week in addition to my own thing. I mentioned before that I want to get yoga back in there but it’s just a matter of finding a time that will fit, or missing that week’s OTF to do yoga instead, which I might do this week. I think it definitely included some great variety.
What could have been better:
Last week, I didn’t have the energy or mojo to get in very many of my own strength workouts. I didn’t get in Squatember, and usually took a walk with P in the stroller instead of taking her to Kids Club at the gym to get in a short strength workout. She usually doesn’t mind at all being in gym childcare, but she’s cried a couple of times when I’ve dropped her off. I always tell them if she keeps crying to come and get me; it’s not worth it to me, and I can always work out at home. Good news is that when I took her on Tuesday, she didn’t cry at all.
Also, I didn’t really get an official off day which is a fail on my part. Since some days were easier (Jazzercise was easy cardio and on Thursday, I coached most of class), it was NBD, but usually I like to have at least one full off day each week.
As usual, we’re getting our Sunday Trader Joe’s list together and prepping as much as possible. We did really well with the plan last week, and I have to give a huge shout out to these chicken fajita rolls. I was not expecting them to be as awesome as they were. The chicken was super tender and they were so easy to make.
Meal Plan for the Week
Here are the eats we have planned for the upcoming week.
Breakfasts:
Green chile breakfast casserole
Egg scramble with oats
Pumpkin protein oats
Lunches:
Big salads with tuna or chicken and sweet potato
Avocado toast and salad
Protein smoothie (with goat whey, Shakeology, banana, frozen berries, cocoa powder, almond butter, almond milk, and ice)
Dinners:
Turkey lentil loaf (and muffins for P!) with roasted potatoes
Pan-seared salmon with Mediterranean salsa fresca and cauliflower rice (or brown rice)
Mustard herb crusted chicken breast with salads
Garlic shrimp with roasted veggies and sweet potatoes
OUT: Tender Greens night
OUT: Camping 🙂
Snacks:
Flourless pumpkin bars (can’t stop, won’t stop)
Homemade hummus with veggies
Egg scramble
Chicken and cauliflower rice bowls
So, tell me friends: are you planning and prepping for the week?
What’s on the menu? Any new fitness classes?
xoxo
Gina
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Exciting news: I’m going to become a group fitness instructor! My school has a program where we learn in a small group through ACE, then shadow the class(es) we want to teach (& get specific certifications for TRX, Yoga, SPin, etc). SOO my plan for this week is 3 GF classes (kettlebell, total body tone + we’ll see) + 2x squatember 🙂
ahh that is awesome! ACE is a great cert, too.
so excited for you!!
Hey friend! I also will resort to cooking dinner if I know I’ve picked out something quick, everything is thawed, and I have everything else is on hand. If that’s the case, I actually prefer to cook so that hubs can come home on time instead of picking up takeout and give this mama a break! Haha. Just the usual workouts for me. 2 to 3 Mike walks with the little plus 20 minutes or so of yoga. Nothing too intense but I’m finally back in ALL my pre pregnancy clothes so something must be working. Happy week!
that’s amazing. and i totally hear ya on the dinners, but it can be tricky sometimes haha.
hope you have a great week <3
Things totally fell into place for us too! After ten months of parenthood we finally made all of our meals at home. 🙂
haha i’m so glad it finally happened. with two, especially when tom is working late, i feel like there’s no way. it will definitely keep getting easier as P gets older!
Ahh where are you teaching Hot Barre????? How do you like it compared to pure barre etc.
it’s the same as regular barre but we heat the studio to 90 degrees
This sounds amazing. Where can I come take it? Also, what do you like best: cardiobarre, pure barre, or barre 3?
We try to cook at home alot, but usually go out to eat at least once or twice on the weekend. Sometimes we pick up pho soup with grilled shrimp and I add some extra veggies at home, but when we go to eat Mexican food I always feel like I take ten steps backward on my losing weight goal b/c I never how to order ” healthy” if I order fajitas I feel like the veggies r covered in oil- any helpful suggestions? I do great all week, then feel like I’m back to square 1 on Monday. It’s a vicious cycle and in ready to make progress.
i think you should order what you really want and enjoy it! i used to ALWAYS get fajitas, and would find that i didn’t even enjoy them as much, and often they are covered in oil. i think you should make it worth your while and then you’re motivated to make cleaner choices throughout the week with that to look forward to. i like to do like 80/20. so that 20 is usually enchiladas with rice and beans when we get mexican 🙂
hope this helps a little <3
It most certainly does help. Thank you for taking the time to respond. 🙂 much appreciated
Meal planning and some prep got done yesterday. I even prepped some craft projects for my little one. I’m planning on taking a new level Pilates class. I’m a little nervous to move out of the beginner level – but I love the reformer so much!
Goat whey for your protein shake? I haven’t read anything on that type! Is it safe for pregnancy?
i would ask your doc to be sure, but i would use it during pregnancy
Hot barre is intriguing! Have you told us more about that yet?
it’s the same as regular barre! just heated to 90 degrees
Came upon your blog looking for specific recipes for a client’s meal prep and found some very interesting suggestions here! I think I’ll have to try to the flourless pumpkin bars myself 🙂
Appreciate the honest take on being tired but pushing through and doing proper meal prep anyway.