I actually MEAL PREPPED for the week!!!

   As some of you probably know, "clean eating" is my Achilles heel.  I love healthy food and eating right, but the preparation and forethought that has to go into it....well....lets just call me lazy.  That and I work two jobs (which translates to roughly 5-7 12 hour night shifts a week, so making time for a workout in my busy sleeping schedule is a big deal....making time for meal prepping makes me a little anxious).

  ANYWAY, last night I decided to take a few baby steps toward being a "meal prepper"  I hard boiled a dozen eggs (quick snack, add to a salad....).  I browned 2 lbs of lean, ground turkey meat (add to omelet, or salad, quick easy protein source ready to go!).  I chopped veggies and separated them into Ziploc containers, I also found a FABULOUS recipe on Pinterest for quinoa egg bites....they were so easy, and FAST, and they're really good warm OR cold!!!

2cups cooked quinoa (I used roasted garlic flavored quinoa), 2 beaten eggs, mix together with 1/2 cup of veggies of your choice (spinach, tomato, zucchini, peppers, etc....), and 1/2 cup cheese (I used feta, but use what you like!) grease a mini muffin pan, put mixture into pan and bake at 350 for 15-20 minutes!


 I feel like I've hit the jackpot!!!  Also, just to be completely honest, I bought several premade salads, and several Kashi Mayan Bake frozen dinners (it's STILL clean eating even if I can't COMPLETELY get rid of the "lazies"!)

   This past week has been rough.  I've been battling the flu, as well as feeling really down emotionally.  I'm not gonna lie, I missed 3 workouts, and the days I DID workout, I felt sad, rundown, not into it.  And, they were half assed workouts.  But, I did them.  Today was a benchmark workout for INSANITY, and despite my illness, and lousy mood there is improvement on the scale, and there is improvement in the numbers. 

   This week, do the best you can, and next week you WILL find that it's better than what you could last week.  Look at those numbers!!  I'm doing things today that I was not physically capable of two weeks ago!  You're next!  Keep making the time, keep digging deeper in your workouts, keep making good choices and watch your body AND your mind get better and stronger everyday!