Preppin meals....It's a part time job!



 

Most advertised meal plans these days encourage eating more frequently than the typical BREAKFAST-LUNCH-DINNER cycle.  Consuming smaller portions more often throughout the day is designed to kick your metabolic motor into overdrive, therefore burning calories on a more consistent basis.  Such a schedule also helps prevent over-eating.  When you have longer periods of time between meals, your body tells you it is much hungrier and consequently you overeat, and more than likely, at a much faster pace than if you were only trying to nourish your body rather than curb that hunger feeling. 

Well, the Fighter Diet does follow that plan of eating more frequently throughout the day but the meals are DEFINITELY not smaller! The plan recommends that a person my size should consume around 7 pounds of vegetables a day! DO YOU REALIZE HOW MUCH THAT IS!!! To give you a little perspective, the picture with the veggies in the saucepan, that included 3 zucchini squash, 2 yellow squash and 30 small spears of asparagus.  All of that didnt even reach 2 lbs. 

This 'diet' has more components than any other meal plan I have ever researched and really challenges what I think is common sense weight management...."smaller meals more frequently throughout the day".  No Way! This diet wants you nourishing your body with VEGGIES VEGGIES VEGGIES! Really, as much as your body will allow you to consume.  Although, really, as much as your pocket allows you to purchase!!

I am doing my best to train my body into consuming more than usual as well as figure out what type of meal planning will work best for me.  My chicken scratch list in the pic helps me with weekly meal planning as well as accurately logging my food in fitness pal.  I am weighing everything I am putting in my body with the HIGH HOPES of being successful on this plan. 

I GOTTA DO SOMETHING!!!! PLEASE GO AWAY FAT! :)

Here are some of the WODs I made for Lane this week....DEFINITELY TRY THEM AT HOME!

 



Killin it in the kitchen for LEAN MEAN results!

Back in action, but this time I have a different focus....I'm KILLIN IT IN THE KITCHEN!

Most people already know that for months I have been unable to kill it in the gym.... medical restraints have withheld me from doing what I love, and obviously, my body is adjusting accordingly, ie: GETTING LOOSE! This has been one of the many hurdles I have faced this year and I am finally trying to alter my mentality from doom n gloom to ENCOURAGED AND MOTIVATED!

If I can't stay in shape with workouts, I have to redefine my patterns in the kitchen.  I need to put all my energy that desperately craves to be back in the gym, into focusing on new ways to be HAPPY AND HEALTHY!

Gosh, there are soooooo many diets, mealplans and trainers that offer advice on healthy eating....how in the world was I supposed to choose one......left the decision up to my 'go to trainer' Ms. ROCK SOLID!

Her decision........

The 'Fighter Diet' is probably one of the most strict and intense meal plans created for shredding fat and toning up, so of course that is the one Karrin chose for me :)  But in all actuality, she knows just what I need to overcome my recent obstacles...A CHALLENGE! A way to distract my mind from one area of my life and refocus it on another.  An opportunity to make myself healthier inside and out. 

Lane and I are taking on this Fighter Diet together....but he sucks and gets to accompany it with Naturally Intense Training!!

My plan for this blog is to share my journey on this meal plan, creative new recipes, hopefully some physical changes but mostly to keep myself accountable and hopefully find some happiness once again :)

Lane and I will be challenging ourselves to 4 weeks of this 'lifestyle' with the physical goal of losing weight.  My goal is to lose 8 lbs, Lanes goal is to lose 21 lbs.

I will be tracking my food on Fitness Pal (jmass1017) so please add me if we aren't already friends and you are interested in my caloric progress, because if you followed my last blog, you know that is a real struggle for me!

So....here I go, once again.  Ready for a new challenge in my life, just hoping this one brings positive results!