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exercise 15k steps to burn 2300 calories before 10pm.  Up the HITT portion to 20 reps of 4 steps up and backdown backwards.  TIP...when walking for some reason you will burn more calories holding arms at 90 degrees instead of swinging arms at side.  I find this form also encourages you to speed up.  When training for half marathons I was told to do this and hold my thumb and index fingers like you were holding a potato chip.  I did high steps while drying hair, brushing teeth.  Well mostly…

Here are 3 easy ways to make hummus that are so delicious and a really good balance of the right kind of carbs with healthy fat. Just add a good protein source with them and you're golden!

Chad

Food leftovers of same meals made yesterday.  I will be doing more of the same tomorrow.

water 150 oz

exercise 13k steps to get 2300 calories burned by 10pm.Steps included HITT.

1. Protien powder, oatmeal, banana, peanut butter

2. Hard boiled egg, pumpkin, blackberries, grapes, nuts

3. Hard boiled egg, pumpkin, grapes, carrots, nuts

4. Cucumber, cheese, nuts

5. Pork loin, green beans, walnuts

H20, Black coffee, tea w mint

11,088 steps today, forgot to put 9000+ steps yesterday but also quitting smoking, I set a quit date today, it's one step at a time...

Meal 1: Berries mixed with protein powder, ground seeds, & water + oat groats w/splash of coconut milk.
Meal 2: Mixed vegetables with steamed brown rice + 2 veggie spring rolls.
Meal 3: Peanut butter bar
Meal 4: Corn tortilla chips and red pepper hummus + tomatoes + peanut butter bar

Water: 10 glasses of water spread throughout the day.

Exercise: Away all day today but did get 5,000 steps in.

Today began with meal 1. Oatmeal and blueberries  2. Greek yogurt with 1 scoop protein and strawberries and some pine nuts  meal  3. Too busy to eat  4. Not eaten yet, but something with chicken.  The reason for skipping a meal and for not eating yet is because my husband and I spent close to 4 hours cleaning up a section of a yard for the daughter of a, now deceased, a hoarder of metals.  The mother is also deceased and the daughter, who is in her fifties has health problems and is unable to…

Pretty excited to start and goal my mindset that I gotta get this done.  Looking forward to looking and feeling healthy!!

 I haven’t seen my mom since Christmas time and I didn’t plan on telling her about my journey, I just wanted to surprise her I guess when she came to visit for Easter. Well, she kind of guessed something was up by some of the things I’ve shared on Facebook like healthy meals and exercise information, not to mention I think my daughter said something to her. So she was aware and asked me during a phone call how much I lost so far, And what was I doing,which of course I told her.  but she wasn’t…

1. What did your meals look like?

MEAL 1:  Greek yogurt, strawberries, nuts

MEAL 2:  Cottage cheese, almonds, apple

MEAL 3: Banana, spinach, avocado, protein power, water

MEAL 4:  Beef jerky

MEAL 5:  Sweet potato chili

2. How much water did you drink?

WATER INTAKE:  Coffee with creamer, water in shake, 2 - 24 oz bottles of water, I also grabbed small cups of water when I could like when I ran to the kitchen or bathroom.

3. What did you do for exercise and/or more…

I just finished for the night working in the garden using rake, pitch fork and wheel barrel to move very wet heavy hay.  I spent about 4 1/2 hours and I only put a dent in the mess.  We had 4 (5 ft round bales of hay) in that area which the goats ate and slept and did other things on.  They were well beaten & packed down so it will take a lot more hours to complete before we can use the rotiller in there.  I was hoping it would not rain tonight, but there is a 100% probably by morning, so I…