Motivational Monday - Weightloss Sucks

I feel like every Monday I’m writing about how the weekend wasn’t great and I need to get back on track. Well today is no different.  I did however predict that would happen what with all the exciting things happening this weekend.  So to prepare I made sure to eat really well all week and work out every day last week...i don't know how much it really helped but oh well.  Could this weekend still have been better? Absolutely!  Could I have certainly made better choices on menus? Or course!  But I did what I did and it’s time to move on!  My body can certainly feel it this morning! "I'm feeling big, I'm feeling chunky, I'm feeling big, I'm feeling plumby" I got so use to eating less food and much lighter meals that all the eating out this weekend threw me for a loop!  So I’m drinking LOTS and LOTS of water this morning to help flush out my system!

 

This is how I felt today!!!

I have some yummy new recipes on the menu for this week!  I’m going to get back on my work outs in the morning.  I didn’t make it  to the gym this morning because I was feeling sick from the new medication, so I’m hitting the gym after work!  I could feel the difference at work today though!  Even though I was sooo tired this morning so I didn’t want to wake up, it made the first 2 hours at work a lot harder!  That is motivation enough for me to keep pushing myself to get up and go before work.  I really do feel so much better, I get so much more done, and it just sets my whole day off right!   My main goals this week is just to re focus, to work out every day and push it a little harder!  I have been doing interval running on the treadmill which is walking 2 minutes running 3 walking 2 minutes running so on so forth!  My goal this week is to keep getting my speed up and hopefully my running time up longer!  Then diet wise I’m really looking at clean eating to help clean my body of all the crap I put in it! This means low carbs, fresh fruit and veggies, healthy proteins and organic and non processed food where I can.

Here are some of the recipes I tried a few weeks ago that I haven’t posted about yet

 Crab stuffed portabella mushroom

 taco bake

 Tomatoe and ground turkey stuffed mushroom with asparagus and tomatoes

 Garlic and herb shrimp with cilantro lime quinoa

 Spicy marinara Meatballs over quinoa

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Here is what’s on the menu for this week.

Monday

Red Chicken Curry on Quinoa

Red Curry is one of my favorite things and it has been a recipe I have done for awhile!  My sister introduced it to me a few years ago and I have loved it ever since.  I have adapted it a bit for my needs, and now serve it over brown rice or quinoa to make it healthier, but it is so packed with veggies that it is pretty healthy to begin with!  You do need to watch serving sizes, because if you load up too much on quinoa that will be a very high carb meal.  It also has a lot of sodium in the original recipe which I try to cut down, and it has coconut milk which can contain a lot of fat!

Tuesday

Turkey Tenderloin with roasted Cauliflower and Carrots

This one is pretty self explanatory.  These are all things I already have in the fridge or freezer that I’m looking to use.  This is a pretty easy meal since I can basically chop up the veggies, season it all and put it all in the oven in the same dish!  I’m all for one dish dinners, yah for simplicity!

Wednesday

Taco Bake

This is a meal especially for Eric.  I found it on Pinterest here.  I did It two weeks ago and he loved it and requested it again!  This one is good for me because it’s low in carbs, BUT watch the serving size and watch the toppings.  The nutritional info the website gives you isn’t including any toppings so those all have to be added and will add up quickly!  We like to put olives, avocado, tomatoes, lettuce and some fat free sour cream on ours.   I also subbed out a lot of things in the recipe to low fat or fat free and use fat free half and half instead of cream and also used egg beaters instead of normal eggs.  Anywhere I can cut fat and calories I try to.  Eric was thrilled to actually get real ground beef instead of ground turkey!

Thursday

Grilled Salmon with sautéed green beans and mushrooms

This is a regular on the menu!  I love me some mushrooms and fresh crunchy green beans.  Salmon is a fish I can eat and It’s super tasty, so I don’t even feel like I’m eating that healthy!

Friday

I want to have some friends come over for a dinner.  I’m waiting to hear from them, so I haven’t decided on hat I’m cooking this night yet.

Saturday

Lunch

Flatbread Pizzas with Salad

Of course Eric would still prefer normal pizza, but this is our compromise.  I use the flat out whole wheat flat breads with organic sugar free tomato sauce.  Then we just put whatever toppings on that we like!  I think they taste really good, and you are getting a lot healthier version of pizza.

Dinner

Date night out – Jason’s deli Salad bar, or maybe Subway

I have a special date planned this weekend for Eric and so we will be doing a picnic, so we will probably just grab something quick, but I’m still going to try and make good choices.

Sunday

Oven Roasted Chicken with roasted red potatoes and sautéed asparagus and cherry tomatoes

I don’t normally eat potatoes because of the carbs, but I’m making an exception because we have a whole bag that needs to be used.