As promised, here’s my first of hopefully regular posts that will give you a peek into my life – nutrition, exercise, etc. If there’s something specific you’d like to hear about, please let me know and I’ll do my best to incorporate it! So we’re clear, I started this post on Monday and, well, am now just finishing it, so…it’s more of a mix-match of my week, rather than “one” day in particular. But, it’s a fair representation of most of my days!
I try to do meal planning for dinners on Fridays, make a shopping list, and then shop on Saturdays. This week’s “menu”:
Saturday – Butternut Squash and Pear Soup with Grilled Cheese
Sunday – Grilled Lamb chops with Pea Puree and a Quinoa/Lentil/Super-grain mix
Monday – “Bang Bang” Shrimp Salad
Tuesday – Rice, Beans, and Kimichi with a Fried Egg
Wednesday – unclear; husband will be gone for dinner, so I tend to just toss something together to make it easy!* This didn’t happen; he was back for dinner and I had nothing planned or ready after a long day with toddler. Instead, we had Wendy’s. Yep. I had the Apple Pecan Chicken Salad with a side of small fries and a very mini vanilla frosty.
Thursday – Chicken on the Grill, Green Beans
Friday – Probably take-out; hubby and I try to do a separate dinner from little man on Fridays, a stay-at-home date night, if you will. So, we feed N and then put him to bed and eat together after
Breakfast is currently some variation between a yogurt and fruit bowl, eggs with avocado toast, or now that the weather is warming up, smoothies. Husband does cereal or an English muffin with PB and banana.
Lunches change week to week. This week, husband wanted BLTs, so he’s making them with bacon, a little lettuce, tomato, and avocado. I often eat leftovers.
So, more specifically, what today looked like? Well, I started the day with a HIIT workout – 20 minutes of intense cardio from a Christine Salus youtube video, then a quick strength circuit:
3 rounds
10 reps tricep push-ups, 10 mini pulses
12 reps squats (1st round with dumbbell on left shoulder, 2nd round with weight on right, 3rd round, alternating)
12 reps jack-knives on exercise ball
12 reps each side, alternating forward then back lunges, weight on one shoulder
I like to keep my workouts short and intense. I only have so much time in the morning to get it done, while N bonds with hubby before hubby starts his workday. That means if I don’t want to get up early (and these days, my sleep is sucking so I need to maximize the quantity at all times), I have about 90 minutes to get up, workout, shower, and get dressed before I’m “on” for the day.
Breakfast was a yogurt bowl: Whole Milk Grass-fed Plain yogurt with a drizzle of elderberry syrup, chia seeds, passion fruit, fresh strawberries, pistachios, and frozen blueberries. N had nearly a half cup of watermelon, some Power Os (a bean-based cereal), and about ½+ cup of the yogurt I had with chia seeds and just a bit of elderberry syrup. ( I also had a chai with whole milk and some yogurt-covered almonds while working out of the house this morning).
Lunch: N had a slice of ham, a quarter of a tomato, close to a cup of grapes, some whole grain crackers, and about a ½ cup sweet potato. I had a piece of avocado toast, dates with PB, and some kale chips. I had some orange dark chocolate later and some tea.
Snack: I made N some grain-free sweet potato muffins yesterday. He had a few left-over ones (mini) with a fruit strip.
Dinner: We’ll be having grilled chicken wings that have a dry rub of honey and ginger with green beans. N will likely have some of the chicken, a few beans, a pear (yep, the whole thing), and either leftover lentil/super-grain mix or some leftover rice with red beans. Currently planning to bake some blueberry muffins (it’s rainy and gross here and I just feel like baking). Husband and I will likely have one or two after N goes to bed.
My day was spent working on some continuing education credits with a webinar on some gene mutations and fertility, a little shopping for the new nursery, and continuing our kitchen organization project (the kitchen has very little useful storage or counter space; finding creative ways to reorganize so that it’s more user friendly and doesn’t make me want to pull my hair out every time I’m in it!). I just finished working on some notes about future fitness offerings, like recorded and live workouts, for when my certification is official! N and I will be attempting to assemble the new compost bin we got (!). N’s contribution will probably be trying to climb into it as I’m assembling it, throwing blocks into it, and generally getting in the way while he attempts to “help”. So, I’ll also be practicing patience this afternoon!
So, that’s a day in my life. Little crazy. Little messy. Mostly healthy. Mostly good. Oh! And I’m on Instagram now! Eeek! Follow me at aub_the_RD!
Saturday – Butternut Squash and Pear Soup with Grilled Cheese
Sunday – Grilled Lamb chops with Pea Puree and a Quinoa/Lentil/Super-grain mix
Monday – “Bang Bang” Shrimp Salad
Tuesday – Rice, Beans, and Kimichi with a Fried Egg
Wednesday – unclear; husband will be gone for dinner, so I tend to just toss something together to make it easy!* This didn’t happen; he was back for dinner and I had nothing planned or ready after a long day with toddler. Instead, we had Wendy’s. Yep. I had the Apple Pecan Chicken Salad with a side of small fries and a very mini vanilla frosty.
Thursday – Chicken on the Grill, Green Beans
Friday – Probably take-out; hubby and I try to do a separate dinner from little man on Fridays, a stay-at-home date night, if you will. So, we feed N and then put him to bed and eat together after
Breakfast is currently some variation between a yogurt and fruit bowl, eggs with avocado toast, or now that the weather is warming up, smoothies. Husband does cereal or an English muffin with PB and banana.
Lunches change week to week. This week, husband wanted BLTs, so he’s making them with bacon, a little lettuce, tomato, and avocado. I often eat leftovers.
So, more specifically, what today looked like? Well, I started the day with a HIIT workout – 20 minutes of intense cardio from a Christine Salus youtube video, then a quick strength circuit:
3 rounds
10 reps tricep push-ups, 10 mini pulses
12 reps squats (1st round with dumbbell on left shoulder, 2nd round with weight on right, 3rd round, alternating)
12 reps jack-knives on exercise ball
12 reps each side, alternating forward then back lunges, weight on one shoulder
I like to keep my workouts short and intense. I only have so much time in the morning to get it done, while N bonds with hubby before hubby starts his workday. That means if I don’t want to get up early (and these days, my sleep is sucking so I need to maximize the quantity at all times), I have about 90 minutes to get up, workout, shower, and get dressed before I’m “on” for the day.
Breakfast was a yogurt bowl: Whole Milk Grass-fed Plain yogurt with a drizzle of elderberry syrup, chia seeds, passion fruit, fresh strawberries, pistachios, and frozen blueberries. N had nearly a half cup of watermelon, some Power Os (a bean-based cereal), and about ½+ cup of the yogurt I had with chia seeds and just a bit of elderberry syrup. ( I also had a chai with whole milk and some yogurt-covered almonds while working out of the house this morning).
Lunch: N had a slice of ham, a quarter of a tomato, close to a cup of grapes, some whole grain crackers, and about a ½ cup sweet potato. I had a piece of avocado toast, dates with PB, and some kale chips. I had some orange dark chocolate later and some tea.
Snack: I made N some grain-free sweet potato muffins yesterday. He had a few left-over ones (mini) with a fruit strip.
Dinner: We’ll be having grilled chicken wings that have a dry rub of honey and ginger with green beans. N will likely have some of the chicken, a few beans, a pear (yep, the whole thing), and either leftover lentil/super-grain mix or some leftover rice with red beans. Currently planning to bake some blueberry muffins (it’s rainy and gross here and I just feel like baking). Husband and I will likely have one or two after N goes to bed.
My day was spent working on some continuing education credits with a webinar on some gene mutations and fertility, a little shopping for the new nursery, and continuing our kitchen organization project (the kitchen has very little useful storage or counter space; finding creative ways to reorganize so that it’s more user friendly and doesn’t make me want to pull my hair out every time I’m in it!). I just finished working on some notes about future fitness offerings, like recorded and live workouts, for when my certification is official! N and I will be attempting to assemble the new compost bin we got (!). N’s contribution will probably be trying to climb into it as I’m assembling it, throwing blocks into it, and generally getting in the way while he attempts to “help”. So, I’ll also be practicing patience this afternoon!
So, that’s a day in my life. Little crazy. Little messy. Mostly healthy. Mostly good. Oh! And I’m on Instagram now! Eeek! Follow me at aub_the_RD!