Healthy Holiday survival Guide DAY 1

Healthy Holiday survival Guide 

& 

Party Dress Challenge!

DAY 1

I woke up this morning and I wish I could say I was "raring" to get going on my Healthy Holiday challenge, but I would be lying (probably not the best way to start this thing out!)

I ran in a Mud Run yesterday with some friends, (sounds healthy right?)  Well at the end, they had the most AMAZING kettle corn, and yes, I ate the entire bag!

Needless to say, I wasn't feeling so hot this morning (you'd think I'd learn!), so when my alarm went off at 4:45 am to teach my abs class, I was,  let's just say, "less than motivated"

LUCKY for me I have a great group of Ladies to workout with, and I had the added motivation of the challenge starting today.  Now it's 6:30 am, I gutted it out through the abs class and I'm FEELING AMAZING!

For the rest of the day I've just got to stick to my eating plan, squeeze in some lifts for back and bie's and do ZUMBA tonight at 6:45pm and I will have completed my workouts for day 1!   YESSSSS!

Now I'm gonna start preparing my food for the day, Here's the way my meal's will look for the next 2 1/2 months

 I will be eating 5 to 6 meals throughout the day every 2 hours.  

The only way this works for me is I if I prepare all my meals ahead of time. (that's why I'm sitting here cooking turkey meatballs at 6:30 a.m. LOL! 

Portion control is also HUGE! Protein should be the size of the palm of your hand.    Everything else, Carbs, fruit, veggies, is a cup.   (What you can fit in your hand)  I like to keep things simple, if not, I wont do it! :)

Here's a sample of my diet.

meal 1 -Protein, Veggies, & Fruit (I try and get my fruit in the 1st 3 meals)

*egg white omelet (1/2 cup liquid egg whites) with 1 cup veggies and 1 cup fruit

meal 2 - Protein & veggies

*3 turkey meatballs with 1 cup green veggies.

meal 3 - Protein, veggies, and a healthy fat

*9 oz boneless skinless chicken breast and 1 cup steamed green beans and an avocado

meal 4 - Protein and veggies

Turkey burger with tomato, pickle and yellow mustard with lettuce as the bun

meal 5 - Protein and veggies

*9 oz boneless skinless steamed chicken breast, 2 cups lettuce, 1 tomato. with balsamic vinegar dressing.

meal 6 - protein, veggies, healthy fat

1 cup spaghetti squash with ground turkey tomato's and basil on top.  drizzled with 2 TBS olive oil

**** SO HERE WE GO!

xoxo

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