In the past 10 days I’ve hit my calorie goals, done all of my workouts, I am feeling strong and accomplished. Instead of focusing on my workouts, which were all the standard ChaLean Extreme Burn Circuit, I thought I would share my eating.
Breakfast:
Eggs, sometimes with a slice of {real} buttered toast {homemade} or steel cut oats with pecans and apples sweetened with a little honey. I drink hot tea with stevia.
Snack:
Almonds or an apple. Water.
Lunch:
Tuna, on a bed of lettuce or on one slice of bread {homemade} or fruit and cheese or yogurt. Water.
Snack:
Usually more almonds. Water.
Dinner:
Either baked fish with lime and garlic and fresh veggies or salad and rice, baked chicken coated in flax seed with salad and fresh bread. We also enjoy a chicken fajita. Yum. I have 1/2 a glass of sweat tea.
Workouts happen after dinner.
Calorie Goal: 1,400 a day. May goal of 5 pounds lost update: 2.6 pounds. It was 3.6 and then the wrong time of the month hit.
We are eating super healthy, real food, with less than 5 ingredients on the labels. As you can see-we are eating mostly fish and chicken, with fresh veggies and fruits.
I have NOT felt deprived or hungry, despite the super heavy workouts I have been doing. My body is really liking this!
How was your week?
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Sam Kelley
Wife to one and mom to six. I love my Lord, my family, organizing and fitness. I'm a homeschooler who takes pictures obsessively. I love good tea. I don't eat meat.
Hi Sam,
Thanks for sharing what you eat! Controlling that is harder for me than exercising! I love food, but I keep telling myself I love thin more! :) I know what you mean about that time of the month and the scale. I don’t even weigh myself that week. It messes with my head too much! Have a great week!!!
You know what? I don’t think I will either. It is so defeating!
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Oh – and my current breakfast obsession is a piece of toast topped with avacado and a bit of salt. But otherwise I’m also a steel-ground oats girl (but with blueberries).
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For 6 months I ate nothing but oats with bluberries for breakfast. I get stuck like that! Then I ate over a year of weight control maple and brown sugar WITH peanut butter. yum-o
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WOOT! Your snacks are identical to mine – though I usually add some peanut butter to the apple bc I heart PB. Your menu is so fabulous – would you mine sharing the recipe for the flax-coated chicken? AND I count this as another thing we have in common – your food goals mirror mine. What do your kids like for snacks? This is the hardest part at my house.
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Our kids eat fruit for snacks-also hummus and approved crackers. There are many hummus carriers with 5 ingredients!
The flax chicken is not really a “recipe”. We just season the chicken and dredge it in a mixture of flax and wheat germ. We brown it in a bit of EVOO and finish it off in the oven. It is very earthy and yummy!
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that is awesome! Good for you! I love how you posted what you were eating… great choices!
And yummy too! Have a blessed Mother’s Day!
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I’m inspired! Great job this week! I have done great with exercising this week and not so great with my eating. :( I hope to do better next week! My goal for my family is for us to eat whole, healthy foods all of the time. I already make most everything from scratch, but it consists of a lot of cookies, brownies, etc. Would you be willing to share your bread recipe? I’ve tried many and still can’t get settled on one that we really love. Thanks!
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The bread recipes we use come from our bread machine. Do you have one? I can give you the ingredients but I don’t know how well it would work without the machine. It does a fabulous job!
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I do have a bread machine! I would love to hear how you make yours because the kind I have made in the machine hasn’t turned out so well.
What size loaf will you be making? I always do a 2lb. Also, wheat or white or both? {I haven’t ventured beyond those and they are both good. :)}
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I will be making a 2 lb. loaf & I have white and whole wheat flour.
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Must be added in order as listed:
White Bread-
Water 1 1/2 cups (room temp)
Unsalted butter (room temp, I use salted..) 3 TBS.
Sugar or honey (I use honey) 1 TBS.
Salt 1 1/2 tsp.
Bread flour 4 cups
Nonfat dry milk 1/4 c.
Yeast, active dry, instant, or bread machine 1 1/2 tsp.
100% Whole Wheat-
Water 1 1/2 cups (room temp)
Salt 1 1/4 tsp.
Honey 2 TBS.
Whole Wheat Flour 4 cups
Vital Wheat Gluten 1/3 cup
Yeast (same kind as above) 2 1/4 tsp
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Thanks so much! I can’t wait to try this! :)
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