Cook. Eat. Repeat.

One of my girlfriends came to stay with me for an extended weekend and she made a comment about my so called “healthy lifestyle” that hit home. She said: “All of you guys trying to loose weight don’t even make this shit look appealing. It just looks like a lot of painful work”. She was right it seemed like someone had a gun to my head stopping me from enjoying this journey. 

But her comment lit a fire under me and I have since been scouring the internet and bookstores looking for meals that make this so called lifestyle sexy. The biggest thing I could take away was: cook, eat, repeat… 

That is to say find meals you like that are both healthy and delicious and make them staples and with time you will learn how to jazz it up without adding calories. Below is a sample of a day of easy meals that are my staples.

• Once a week I bake my proteins and leave them in the fridge for easy microwaving 
• First things first within an hour of waking up somewhere between 5:30 am and 6:30 am, I drink 32 oz. of room temperature water first thing in the morning even before I brush my teeth
• I prep my water overnight with the fruits in it. The longer it sits the more delicious it tastes. So I usually have it sit all day and all night.

For Breakfast: 

• Egg White Fritatas with tons of Vegetables, chicken sausage plus 1 strip of turkey bacon

Around 9 a.m. 

Old fashion Oatmeal with flax seed and almond or coconut milk plus 8 oz. glass of water

Sometimes I switch it up, I’ll have the oatmeal at 6 am and the Fritatas with Chicken Sausage later at 9am

At Noon:

More Vegetable with Salmon plus 8 oz. glass of water

3 p.m. I have 8 oz. glass of water plus 1 oz of Wonderful Almonds they are already pre-packed its easy to grab and go

Between 3 pm and 6 pm I hit the gym/tracks as hard as my body will allow 

6 p.m. My final meal of the day 

1 medium sweet potato with either fish or beef and more vegetables plus 8 oz. glass of water

THAT IS ALL FOLKS... 

I will be posting some healthy & delicious recipes that I have been trying soon 

- The Fit Me

The Path To Take

Seek His will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take. Prov. 3:6

Hello Fit Fam,

It has been a while since my last post but I am super excited to share some good news. #DrumRoll…The scale is finally tipping in the right direction.

I finally have the will power to back away from that piece of cake/rice/bread or whatever. These pictures are very big deal for me. If you have read any of my previous post you will know that I just recently started struggling with my weight. I have always been a skinny girl and somewhere along the line between my late twenties till now (a rather short span of time) I became a thick plus size woman.

But first of all here is the back-story about the scale pictures above, I was helping a friend pack up her townhouse and I saw this book The 4-Hour Body by Tim Ferriss. I asked my her if I could borrow the book, and after about 30 minutes of arguing about it, she refused to loan me the book however, as soon as I left her place and went straight to the bookstore and found it.

Sorry guys I did not buy the book because of the following reasons:

1. The book is almost as thick as my bible if not thicker
2.  It had way too much information that had me feeling overwhelmed and
3. All I needed was information about weight loss

So I start to thumb through the book to get the gist of it and right off the bat the author tells me to use this book as a buffet and NOT to read it cover to cover. Great!

Here’s a Direct Quote “Most people won’t need more than 150 pages to reinvent themselves. Browse the table of contents, pick the chapters that are most relevant, and discard the rest . . . for now. Pick one appearance goal and one performance goal to start.”

On top of that while I was in the bookstore I pulled up the website on my phone and a lot of the information that was geared towards me had been condensed just for me. In order to follow his advice, here are my two goals?

• My Appearance Goal: Loose Weight using the Slow Carb Diet
• My Performance Goal: Running Faster and Going from 5K to 50K

Stay Tuned for my progress. I am super excited!!!

-The Fit Me