Monday Challenge

How did your Sunday go?

I am halfway through my challenge.  I did 40 min on the treadmill (alternating walk and run), 3 sets of 7 squats with weight and 3 set of 7 pushups, then a little bit of plank.

Now, for this week's recipe.  Still trying to choose.  I love winter because you can make soup, and I love a good soup.  I made two last week, and I think I'll make another this week.  Or maybe a chili.

Stumped for recipes?  Here are 101 Healthy Soups to choose from.

Now, for Monday's challenge:
Eat every meal and snack sitting down.

The idea here is to reduce mindless eating.  If every time we eat is intentional, we won't consume the excess calories from a handful of extraneous calories here and there.

Good luck!

Day 4 - food planning

So my cat erased the original post by walking on the keyboard and closing the window I was writing in, but that's ok.  Kitty love.

Yesterday I made a meal plan for the week.  Dinners are the hardest to plan for.  I chose 3 recipes and got the ingredients, plus staples (eggs, almond milk, goat cheese, apples, pears, etc.)  Here's the plan for the week:

Mon - Thai green curry with chicken - an old weight watchers recipe I had printed out from the website.  Freeze 2 portions
Tues. - trivia, so I'll be out, but I always get the same grilled chicken salad at caddies.
Weds. -  Chicken and spinach soup with pesto which I cooked up today but added 1 c carrots instead of 1/2 c and also red pepper flakes for a kick.
Thurs. - Beef Stew Provencal - from a weight watchers cookbook.  Freeze 2-3 portions
Fri. - out
Sat. - Kale and Trader Joe's turkey bolognese sauce, other veggies
Sun. - Leftover green chili

Yay!  I use a lot of weight watchers recipes because they are actually pretty tasty and I have many of their cookbooks.  Online sites like Eatingwell are also great resources.  For the paleo side of things, health-bent has some great meatball recipes, though they don't put calories so I input the recipes into myfitnesspal to get the nutritional values.

Breakfasts I always eat the same things: 2 eggs with 1/2 english muffin or low carb wrap, or egg whites with a little cheese and green pepper in a low carb wrap, or occasionally oatmeal with almond milk.

Lunches are from what I make for dinner, which is why I cooked the soup today, so I would have lunch for tomorrow.

Ok, I'm sleepy and have to teach 6 AM spin class, so that's all for now!