Back in Action – Week One

Its time for a little accountability Friday… for the next 8 weeks I will posting food and workout schedule for the coming week. The hope is that I can get on track, between the new job, setting up the home gym and the holidays its been a few months without any consistency. For the first time though, I actually feel pretty good! I have been maintaining the same weight for the last year or so, which is about 5lbs less than I typical settle at. I love food and definitely didn’t do much to saying no to anything during the holidays, and that has carried right through ski season, but I feel good about how quickly I should be able to regroup and get back on track. Not letting the weekend carry through the week has been something I have been struggling with for a long time, I am very much an all or nothing person.

But I really do think it is as easy as it sounds…

…if 80% of the time, I am consistent with my diet and make sure to fit in as many work outs as I can, then 20% of the times, that aren’t ideal, but taste delicious don’t derail me too much. One saving grace with my change in schedule and office location has been our Peloton, we ordered it around Thanksgiving and were quoted a 3-4 week lead time but had it delivered the following weekend! And I have been obsessed with it ever sense.

I really love the live classes, for me I think it is partially the commit to starting at a specific time but I also feel a little more engaged. I am even extra pumped now that they offer yoga as well. The few classes I have tried have been great, now I just need to work on the perfect space.

This weekend is a ski weekend, we are heading to New Hampshire in the morning. Staying at the Glen House a new hotel (I’ll be writing a Mt. Valley post soon) near Wildcat Ski Mountain. So that will count as my workouts this weekend, probably should be doing a little more, since weekends aways mean more food, but hey, I’m very thankful for that 20%.

Peloton Schedule for the week! Tuesday Robin’s 45 minute Tabata Ride and Thursday Jess King;s, 45 minute Hip Hip Ride. I am putting a maybe on Robin’s Friday Live DJ class, its one of my favorite classes but not sure what we have going yet. My schedule during the week will also probably be some morning workouts, I need to get back into lifting weights. Its been a few months off, so I am interested to see how much strength has changed. My current training schedule is legs, shoulders, glutes, back/biceps, chest/triceps, Monday through Friday. I like keeping the same schedule, even if I miss a workout because it is easy mentally for me. Shit happens, sometimes I’m tired- sometimes I just want to go to dinner- and sometimes I make all workouts.

Quick Meals + Snack Options

• Greek Salad Jar – This is a staple, its great for an afternoon snack or a super filling lunch when any protein is added. My go to is tuna, I love the blue horizon pouch its the perfect size and doesn’t smell like canned tuna. Check out the ingredients here!
• Smoothies and Juice – Both of these are making a comeback for me, I have been opting for smaller or nothing for breakfast, quesi IF, basically just eating more intuitively, sounds silly/simple but if I am not hungry I don’t eat (more about this later).
• Homemade sous vide egg whites, using an egg poaching pan and a carton of eggs whites. Takes about 4 minutes, you can tell they are done when they start to puff up, you can also add anything you want, from veggies, to meat and cheese.

I am not sure yet what I am going to do for lunch or dinner, this week, I will try and follow up with that later! Keeping it simple has been key, air-fried chicken has been a go-to for us lately, you can do anything with it. I did French Onion Soup chicken again last week, it is a favorite of mine but thinking of maybe fajita bowls for lunch this week.