This Week
One week from tomorrow I am heading home to attend my cousin’s wedding. I will be seeing my entire family on my Mom’s side as well as my best friend James. Aside from my parents who saw me at Christmas and James who saw me in August no one else I will be seeing has seen me since I started my weight loss journey. Last week I talked about how nervous this made me, that I would disappoint them by still being fat. Thankfully I have the best friends ever and they left the nicest comments and basically told me I was being an idiot for thinking that. I needed to hear that. It totally squashed the anxiety I was feeling. Now I am nothing but excited to go home and see everybody.
I’ve mentioned in a recent post that January was a rough month for me (expect to see a post very soon about finding balance in my life) so with this vacation coming up I want to spend this next week dedicated to a routine that I am hoping will become the norm once I am back from vacation. This includes switching my weekday workouts back to the mornings.
To help keep me accountable I thought I would share with you my workout routine for the next week as well as my meal plans through Friday, which is as far as my meal plan goes right now. I am counting on you guys to hold me to this plan 🙂
Tuesday
No AM workout
Breakfast: Green Monster Smoothie, Lunch: Leftover Asian Quinoa Salad and Mixed salad with veggies, seeds and sprouts, Dinner: Pasta Bake with Tofu Cheese (Whole Foods recipe), Snacks: honeycrisp apple, blood orange, veggies with hummus
PM Workout: AB routine plus assisted pull-ups (at home)
Wednesday
AM Workout: Stationary bike 40 minutes, Stairmaster 20 minutes
Breakfast: Green Monster Smoothie, Lunch: Energizing & Spicy Broccoli Dal and Mixed salad with veggies, seeds and sprouts, Dinner: Veggie Wraps and Black Beans, Snacks: honeycrisp apple, blood orange, cinnamon raisin Ezekiel bread with almond butter
PM Workout: AB routine (at home)
Thursday
AM Workout: Rower 30 minutes, Stairmaster 30 minutes
Breakfast: Green Monster Smoothie, Lunch: Cabbage and Lentil Stew and Mixed salad with veggies, seeds and sprouts, Dinner: Veggie Wraps and Refried Beans, Snacks: honeycrisp apple, blood orange, cinnamon raisin Ezekiel bread with almond butter
PM Workout: AB routine plus assisted pull-ups (at home)
Friday
AM Workout: Stationary bike 40 minutes, Rower 20 minutes
Breakfast: Green Monster Smoothie, Lunch: Energizing & Spicy Broccoli Dal and Mixed salad with veggies, seeds and sprouts, Dinner: Greens and Beans Ragout served over Ezekiel Pasta (Whole Foods recipe) Snacks: honeycrisp apple, blood orange, cinnamon raisin Ezekiel bread with almond butter
PM Workout: AB routine (at home)
Saturday
AM workout: 5K with the people from my boxing gym
Breakfast: Overnight Oats with fruit
PM Workout: AB routine (at home)
Sunday
AM workout: full body workout with weights
Breakfast: Overnight Oats with fruit
PM Workout: AB routine plus assisted pull-ups (at home)
Monday
No AM workout
Breakfast: Green Monster Smoothie, Lunch: Energizing & Spicy Broccoli Dal and Mixed salad with veggies, seeds and sprouts
PM Workout: Combo (half boxing/half boot camp) class and kickboxing class
Tuesday
No AM workout
Breakfast: Green Monster Smoothie, Lunch: Red Beans and Rice Stew and Mixed salad with veggies, seeds and sprouts
PM Workout: Spin class and AB routine plus assisted pull-ups (at home)
So that is what’s in store for the next week. The abs routine at home is just going to be a set of exercises Paul puts together for me. Sometimes I’ll use a balance ball, sometimes I won’t. It will change from day to day. Tonight is the first night for this so I will have to let you know how it goes.
What do you have going on this week? Do you schedule your workouts and meals in advance or do you take it one day at a time?
Thanks for reading!
jakennicksmomma replied:
I enjoy reading your plan for the week. Just a thought, but if you wanted to do another giveaway, you could make a week meal plan for a reader with grocery list, recipes and such. Or, a workout routine a la Paul 😉 I don’t know. Im going to host my first giveaway shortly, so I guess that might just be on my mind. Have fun at the wedding!!!!
January 31, 2012 at 10:38 PM. Permalink.
towardshealthylife replied:
You are going to see your family and they will be happy to see you! Enjoy your time with them. Your plan seems like a good one. I am good at writing plans but not following them. I tend to take it day to day and sometimes I end up working-out late 🙂
February 1, 2012 at 1:01 AM. Permalink.
Latina Barbi replied:
I think you need to practice saying THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU because you’ll be getting a LOT of compliments! MUAH!
February 1, 2012 at 9:27 AM. Permalink.