June 25, 2020

55 lbs hang cleans
DB clusters with 15lbs - “clean, squat, press” - I had to chant this to myself as I went because I really wanted to do DB thrusters
Substitute MU with banded ring dip & ring rows (15-25 each round)

Bench press - 10 each of 35lb, 45lb, 50lb, 55lb (40 total reps)


Dinner:  From The Grateful Girl Cooks

Along with steak, we had this vegetable mixture.  I included everything as mentioned in the recipe, but the carrots.  I was afraid they might not taste well in this dish.  Next time maybe I will give them a try.

Summer Squash Bacon Sauté

Prep Time

10 mins

Cook Time

5 mins

Total Time

15 mins

 

Summer Squash Bacon Sauté is a simple side dish with green and yellow zucchini, crisp bacon, carrot, onions, garlic and cheese, and takes only minutes to make!

Category: Vegetable Dish

Cuisine: American

Keyword: summer squash bacon saute

Servings:  servings

Calories Per Serving: 157 kcal

Ingredients

• 2 slices bacon
• 1/4 cup red onion (thinly sliced)
• 1½ green zucchinis (medium sized)
• 1/2 yellow zucchini (or crookneck squash) (medium sized)
• 1 carrot (medium sized)
• 1/2 teaspoon minced garlic
• 1 pinch salt/pepper (to taste)
• 3 Tablespoons sharp cheddar cheese (grated)

Instructions

1. Cut bacon into thin slices (with knife or kitchen scissors). Thinly slice red onion. Cut zucchini in bite sized chunks. Peel carrot and cut into chunks. Set aside.
2. Place bacon pieces in skillet with thin slices of red onion. You don't need to spray skillet, because the bacon will provide it's own "oil" as it cooks. Sauté on medium heat until bacon is crisp and fat (bacon grease) is rendered into skillet.
3. Add green and yellow zucchini (cut into bite sized chunks), and carrot to skillet. Season with a pinch or two of salt and pepper (to taste). Stir and cook in the bacon "drippings" for 4-5 minutes on medium heat, stirring occasionally, until zucchini is slightly browned, and tender-crisp (NOT soggy!). Add minced garlic, and stir to combine. Cook for an additional minute, stirring often. The reason to put the garlic in at the last minute is so that it does not burn (which makes the garlic taste bitter- no one wants THAT!).
4. Sprinkle grated sharp cheddar cheese over the top of the veggies. Do NOT stir. Turn off heat. Place a skillet lid over top of skillet for about a minute (this will melt the cheese). Remove skillet lid, and you will see the cheese has melted.  Use a spatula and transfer veggies to individual serving plates. Serve hot... and enjoy!

January 21, 2016

After work I decided to jump on my treadmill and go for a walk...it's still a little too cold for me to want to go outside.  I turned on my TV in front of it and caught up on my DVR show, The Biggest Loser.  By the end I had walked at a 4.3 pace for over an hour and had gone 5 miles.  Wahoo!  The best news was my foot didn't bother me.  I'm trying to ease back into things to see how it feels.  Maybe 5 miles isn't easing though! :)
My total steps for the day was over 10 miles and close to 19,000 steps!

Breakfast:  Costco choco muffin
Lunch:  Santa Fe chicken salad
Dinner:  flatbread sandwich with mayo, mustard, shredded rotisserie chicken and salt & pepper
Snack:  choco & pb protein "shake" *
Water:  45 oz

*Recipe from WELLBEING WITH AVERY

Peanut Butter Chocolate Smoothie

• Servings: 1
• Time: 5 minutes
• Difficulty: easy

What goes in the blender:

8-10 oz. of Unsweetened Almond Milk (or coconut milk)

1 tsp Unsweetened Cocoa Powder

1 Frozen Banana

3tbsp PB2

2-3 ice cubes

Directions:
Add all ingredients to blender and blend until smoothie is of desired consistency.

April 15, 2015

15 KB Swings (30 lbs)
30 sit ups
200m run

3 rounds

*I have also gone on my 2.5 mile walk for the last 2 nights.  Yesterday was a rest day at the gym for me...late night to bed the night before!

Pre-workout Snack - 1/2 granola bar
Breakfast - toasted flat bread with cinnamon&sugar flavored cream cheese
Snack - fruit snacks
Lunch - 1 flatbread pb&j with bag of BBQ Jimmy John chips, 1 foil wrapped choco egg
Snack -  trail mix granola bar, Dole mixed fruit puree
Dinner - hamburger corn casserole*

Water - 6 c.

Hamburger Corn Casserole

1 ½ - 2 lbs. hamburger
1 onion (cook with hamburger and drain)
1 can cream of mushroom
1 can cream of chicken
1 c. sour cream
1 can corn drained
½ bag medium width noodle 
½ tsp. salt
¼ tsp. pepper


Drizzle with ½ stick of butter.  Sprinkle with paprika or salad supreme.  Top with bread crumbs and bake @ 350 for 40 minutes.

*Tonight I substituted hamburger for ground turkey.  Also, since my family is fairly picky, I use 2 cans of cream of chicken soup and no cream of mushroom.  For the onion, I sprinkle in a little minced onion for flavor, but don't add a whole onion like the recipe suggests.  Try what works best for your liking.

March 16, 2015

20 KB Snatch (20 lb)
30 sit ups
10 pull ups
100 jump ropes

3 rounds

Last week was our spring break.  I actually did this work out plus a little running at the end on Monday.  On Tuesday, I took the kids swimming and hiking ALL day!!  For the rest of the week, well let's just say I enjoyed my break!  It was nice to sleep in a little, play and just enjoy some time off from work to spend with the family.  With that being said, I am excited to get back to a routine again, at least for 10 more weeks, but who's counting!?!

Pre-Workout:  granola bar
Breakfast - 1 packet apple cinnamon oatmeal, made with water
Snack - 1 pkg fruit snacks
Lunch - flatbread pb&j and grapefruit
Snack - PB & Choco shake*
Dinner - 1/2 BLT and 1/2 Ulimate - (Ultimate - grilled cheese with 11/2 slice of bacon, ham and avocado)
Snack - Handful of chips with salsa or avocado slices
Water - 6 c.

*PB & Choco "shake"
THE BEST SHAKE FOR ONLY 135 CALORIES!

Put the following in a blender and mix up.  Enjoy!
1 c. almond vanilla milk (I add another splash too)
1 tsp. cocoa powder
3 Tbsp. PB2 powder
Crushed ice (maybe 1/4 c.)

February 9, 2015

Helen:

400m run
21 KB Swings ( 30 lb)
12 Pull ups (assisted)

3 rounds

I didn't make it to the gym on Thursday or Friday.  Thursday morning I took my husband to town to have his kidney stone blasted out and Friday morning I wasn't "feeling it"...although I laid in bed feeling the guilt for not going!

Cool Down:
10 tricep dips
50 sit ups
100 crunches
50 squats

Pre-Workout:  PB granola bar
Breakfast - Choco Premier Protein Shake
Snack - Fiber One strawberry streusel bar
Lunch - flat bread turkey sandwich with pepper cracked turkey, mayo and mustard on flat bread
Snack - handful of handmade granola
Dinner - healthy pizza or should I say...Pizzadilla - whole grain tortilla, pizza sauce, mozzarella cheese, orange bell peppers

Idea found HERE
Dessert - (2) No Bake Energy Bites from Gimme Some Oven...seriously AMAZING!!
Water - 8 oz

Today seemed like a great day for me and food.  Yummy and healthy.  I need to have more days like this!

January 24, 2015

Brunch - Omelette (eggs, cheese, ham, bell peppers, salsa, and avocado)
Snack - 3 mini peppermint patties
Dinner - 2 hamburger patties* with brown gravy and salad with bell peppers, avocado and Olive Garden dressing
Snack/dessert - (1) homemade sugar cookie without the frosting
Water - 8 c.

*Hamburger Patties - Mix the following ingredients together with hamburger meat.
1 egg, cracker or bread crumbs, chopped onion, sprinkle ½ tsp garlic and ¼ tsp. pepper
Patty it out and grill.

January 5, 2015

Here we go...

15 KB Swings (25 lbs)
30 sit ups
 400 m run

3 rounds

Breakfast - Blueberry Greek Yogurt
Snack - (2) Nature Valley Breakfast Biscuits & about 10 cashews
Lunch - leftover vegetable soup from dinner & 1 choco covered walnut (that has left me craving more chocolate!)

Snack - (2) Riesens, Chocolate Premier Protein Shake, handful of pb chips
Dinner -
Water - 6 c
*Oh did I mention I "started" today?  Too much info I know, but that might explain the headache and STRONG cravings for chocolate!

Measurements:
Bicep:  9 3/4"  (same)
Chest:  31 1/2"  (1/2")
Waist:  26"  (1")
Hips:  34 3/4"  (3 3/4")
Thigh:  20"  (3/4")
Calf:  13 1/4"  (1/4")

*I wanted to take my measurements to compare where I was at the end of the 6 week challenge I did before.  I knew that I hadn't gained everything back, but yet I could feel that my body had changed some from before.  So there it is...the evidence I needed.  I always knew I gained weight in my butt first, but there's the proof! 6 1/4" total inches gained back!!  YIKES!  Time to get serious about food again.

June 5, 2013

100 double unders 
50 hand stand push ups
40 toes to bar
30 shoulder to overhead 165/100
90 m walking lunges

Time:  18:45

* So here's what my workout really looked like:
300 singles
A total of about a 3 minute hold
20 toes to bar & 20 knees to elbow
30 SOH w/ 65 lbs.
90 m walking lunges

FOOD:
Let me start off by saying that my eating has been really bad lately (in comparison to how I have been doing in this challenge so far.)  The ME from 4 weeks ago...I'm still doing great and I can't get too hard on myself, but honestly there is ONE WEEK every month (if you know what I mean) where my brain takes over my stomach and I become a slave to food.  No joke...we are talking bloated, 5 pound weight gain, etc.  Thankfully I haven't gained 5 lbs. in the last few days, but I have been CRAVING the junk and the sugar!!  Today my kids wanted to have an ice cream cone after lunch...ICE CREAM!!  My all-time weakness!  So I pulled out the recipe below, which cut the calories and was just as good!

Breakfast - Blueberry Greek yogurt
Snack - 2 slices of banana bread (good or bad, the loaf is almost gone, thanks to me.  Time to find a new snack!)
Lunch - 1 pizza stick and 2 slices of turkey
Snack - Chocolate "Wanna-Be" Ice Cream *  I ate the "ice cream" plain.  You know, with a spoon.  Forget the graham crackers.  They looked great too, but I had to have a bite or 2 right then!  Next time I will have to try the inside with the graham crackers.

Dinner - I left at 4:30 to head to my son's basdeball game, followed my working in concessions so I didn't get home until almost 10:00.  By then I was too tired to eat so I ate only a jell-o and 1 1/2 graham crackers. It was more of a snack than dinner.

Water - 10 c.

* Chocolate "Wanna-Be" Ice Cream Sandwiches

Ingredients

• Approximately 30 graham crackers, broken in half
• Large box sugar free Instant Chocolate Pudding
• 8 ounces sugar free or lite whipped topping*
• Milk
• Sprinkles and nuts, optional

Instructions

1. Prepare pudding with milk, according to package directions. Whip in whipped topping and blend until smooth.
2. Place a large dollop on a graham cracker and top with another. Dip each side into sprinkles or nuts if desired.
3. Place in individual zipper seal sandwich bags and freeze until firm.

June 3, 2013

In honor of Michelle and Michael . . .

44 burpees
700 m run
2 rounds

Happy Birthday!

Time:  14:29

FOOD:
...I'm thinking since there are only 2 week left in my challenge, it is time to clean up with the eating.  I have done really well I feel, especially considering my ADDICTION TO SUGAR!  In the past 4 weeks, there have only been 4 cheat days.  I never thought I could do that, so I am proud of what I have been able to accomplish so far.  The last 2 days I slacked off a little, so it is time for me to {hopefully} refocus.  Here we go...

Breakfast - Peach Greek yogurt
Snack - 2 slices of...what else? banana bread, choco. protein shake, 1/4 of a bagel with cream cheese (finished off my daughter's breakfast.  Not all of this snack was at once...but with the cleaning I got done yesterday, it worked up an early appetite. 
Lunch - 1/2 turkey sandwich on flat grain bread, scoop of Asian Ramen salad 
Snack - Raspberry Lemonade Crystal Light Slushy *

Dinner - 1 burrito
Water - 10 c.

*Being that it is summer and my kids were snacking on Otter Pops and snow cones all day, I was in the mood for something to cool down with too.  I found this recipe and I thought I would give it a shot since it seemed like a healthier option.  It was {obviously} a little tart, but I really enjoyed it and I have more for later tomorrow.  
Servings:  2

Raspberry Lemonade Crystal Light Slushy
Ingredients
2 Cups of Ice
1 Packet of Raspberry Lemonade Crystal Light
1 Cup of Frozen Raspberries

Directions:
Make packet of Crystal Light as instructed with water.
Pour ice, frozen raspberries and then crystal light drink into blender, blend and enjoy!

June 2, 2013

FOOD:

Breakfast - 2 slices of banana bread (I really need to stop making this stuff!)
Lunch - (1) BBQ Chicken and Bacon sandwich on a roll*, Asian Ramen salad, and a slice of banana cream pie (from Veyo...yes, that makes the difference there!!)

Snack - 2 handfuls of Ranch Doritos and another slice of banana cream pie.  IT IS THAT GOOD!...and totally worth it!

Dinner - Asian Ramen Salad

*I've made these sandwiches several times now.  The first time, my husband told me they tasted like something you would order from a restaurant.  Apparently we need some finer dining experiences, but I'll take that compliment!  Plus, for a taste that is that good, they are SUPER EASY to put together, especially on a work day!  Here ya go, courtesy of Six Sisters' Stuff:

Slow Cooker Cheesy BBQ Chicken Bacon Sandwiches
Ingredients:
4 chicken breasts (mine were frozen)
1 (16-20 oz) bottle of your favorite BBQ sauce (we love Famous Dave’s)
1 lb bacon strips, fully cooked
2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
6-8 large onion rolls/buns

Directions:
Spray slow cooker with non-stick cooking spray. Place chicken breasts in the slow cooker and pour bottle of BBQ sauce on top of them. Cook on low for about 6-7 hours or high for 3-4 hours. Shred chicken and set aside.
Set oven at 425 degrees. Split onion rolls in half and lay on a large baking sheet covered in foil.  Put some shredded BBQ chicken on the top of half of the bun.  Place 2-3 strips of bacon on top of the chicken and top with a handful of shredded cheese.

Put the baking sheet in the oven and bake for 3-4 minutes (until the cheese is melted and the edges of the bun are golden.
Top with the other half of the bun and enjoy!

June 1, 2013

FOOD:
Breakfast - 2 slices of banana bread
Lunch - Asian Ramen Salad*

Snack - Homemade Cinnamon Roll (I thought I could pass on this, but since they were my Mother-in-Laws homemade recipe and I only get 1-2 of these a year, I couldn't resist!)
Dinner - (1) Quesadilla - Meaning one tortilla folded over...dipped in Ranch.
Water - 10 c.


* RECIPE:

2 bags of coleslaw mix

3 packages of Chicken Ramen Noodles - set the seasoning packets aside

3 green onions, diced

1 1/2 cups slivered almonds (or whatever close amount you can find)

1 stick of butter (1/2 stick workds just fine in my experience, but Ann says use the whole stick!)

1/2 cup canola oil

1/4 cup salad vinegar

1/3 cup sugar

flavor packets from Ramen noodles (3 of them)

Place the three "bricks" of Ramen noodles into a gallon bag. Using a mug or your fist, gently break apart the Ramen noodles into bite size pieces. Melt the stick of butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the Ramen noodles (not the seasoning packets) and slivered almonds, stir, and cook until toasted and lightly browned. Spread out on a cookie sheet and set aside to cool.

In a medium Ziploc container with a tight fitting lid, place the vinegar, oil, sugar, and the seasoning from the three Ramen packets. Close the lid tightly (the screw top ones work best) and shake to combine ingredients to make a dressing. Set aside.

Just prior to serving, add the coleslaw and green onions to large serving bowl. Top with the toasted Ramen noodle/almond mixture and the dressing. Use two large spoons to toss and mix together all ingredients. Serve immediately.

{Makes about 12 servings}

*You can prepare the sauce and toasted ingredients up to a day or two ahead of time. Keep them stored in separate airtight containers, and when you are ready to serve your salad, just empty both containers over the coleslaw/green onion mix, toss and serve!

(Source:  Dwell on Joy)

EXERCISE:
1 1/2 mile walk with my kids
pulled weeds
cleaned the backyard (lots of lifting so it counts. :) )
Yes...a weak day of exercise, but I think it counts.

May 29, 2013

50 double under buy in

21-15-9
deadlifts 185/135
box jumps 24/20

50 double under buy out

Time:  6:18 (With DL of 115 lbs.)
The DU didn't count with the time so I did 300 singles when I got home since the space at the gym was a little crammed today.

FOOD:
Breakfast - Strawberry Greek yogurt
Lunch - Smoked Turkey sandwich on round grain bread, Babybel mini cheese wheel
Snack - 2 choco banana slices, 1c. almond milk & 1 slice banana bread
Dinner - Crockpot Fiesta (aka chicken burrito)  I can't remember where I got this recipe, and there are no pictures to follow, but it is a super yummy, family favorite.
     4-6 chicken breasts
     1 can RoTel (I use mild)
     1 pkg. taco seasoning
     1 can cream of chicken soup
     1 1/2 c. shredded cheese.
Cook on low for 6 hours or high for 4.  Shred chicken with fork after it has cooked and serve on a totilla with shredded lettuce and ranch (if desired)
"Dessert" - strawberries & watermelon and a slice of banana bread (apparently I am a sucker for anything with bananas!)
Water - 9 c.

May 13, 2013

WOD:

400m run
30 box jump
30 SDHP (35/53)  (Sumo Deadlift High Pull using kettlebells or dumbbells)

Time:  18:26 Rx

Food:

Breakfast - chocolate with banana protein shake
Snack - 2 graham crackers
Lunch - turkey sandwich on wheat with mayo, mustard and cucumbers
            1/2 an apple
Snack - dark chocolate covered bananas
             1 piece of jerky

Dinner - Philly Beef Sandwiches.  I have made these in bell peppers before and the taste of the pepper was too strong even though I do like bell peppers.  I grilled hotdog buns and then pull the onion, philly beef and cheese on the bread.  (mine without cheese)
Water -