Fitness, Family and Fun: Week #1

Phew we made it through the first week with Shawn T.

I will be honest, we did not commit 100% this week as we were extremely busy, but we took that leap and jumped into these new workouts not knowing what to expect!

It wasn't perfect but we did our best.

The first step last week was getting our food organized!
Beginning of last week we made sure we stocked up on all the regulars at Costco.
When our kitchen is stock with all these good foods, there's no excuse for us to be eating poorly. Unless hubby sneaks off to the nearest convenience store for a bag of Doritos

Here are some of the items we tend to buy in bulk each week:

Eggs
Ground chicken
Chicken beasts
Salmon
Cottage cheese
Greek Yogurt
Cheese
Almonds
Apples
Bananas
Strawberries
Blueberries
Melon
Sweet potatoes
Hummus
Cucumber
Zucchini
Broccoli
Mushrooms

We made a menu plan together for our dinners last Saturday.
During the week I typically stick to the same thing for breakfast snacks and lunches. Since I work out of the home, it's just easiest to prepare all the lunches and prepack them so I can grab them and go in the morning.

We switched up our dinners, but it would consist of a protein, carb, and healthy fat.

If you've ever read the nutrition book "THE ZONE" - the insanity elite nutrition plan typically follows that structure. Balancing meals with a protein, healthy carb and healthy fat at each meal.

So having those meals prepped and read to go was key for us!
And having a plan each nigh for dinner saves me from that 4pm, "what am I going to do for dinner tonight" dilemma. (Which usually leads me to making poor, quick choices)

After the kids were in bed, that's when we had time together for our workouts together.

These workouts were intense. I hated it, but loved it at the same time! Feeling SO great that we got through one each night.

Some days the warm up felt like the hardest part of the workout!!
But then there's a nice 7 minutes of stretching before he kicks it into high gear.
We had to take breaks here and there but I know that we will only improve as the weeks go on.

This weeks plan-- I'm going to sit down and make a meal plan shortly, the regular grocery items are all ready stocked in the fridge. Since we had a crazy busy weekend I will meal prep tomorrow night.

OH

Thought I would share this as well.

This past weekend was my Birthday. And for my birthday the hubby let me go out for a little shopping spree. I hit up my favourite store RICKIS.

Not only was it my birthday, but it was also a celebration of all the hard work I've done in the past 8 months. I still cannot get over having to go down in sizes from what I think I'm at. This is from years and years of being LG and XL, size 14, 12. What a great feeling to see all your hard work has paid off. But I'm not done yet ;)