Weekly Recap and Recipe of the Week

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

I had a pretty good weekend. Started to get my voice back on Saturday morning and it is not 100% back to normal but it is almost there! Yeah!

I had a great workout yesterday - great from a standpoint of it felt so good to hit it again! Although I had worked out a few times this week, Saturday was the first workout that had some intensity to it. My endorphins were super high when I finished up. I think I even annoyed the DH.

Going to start dropping recipes in weekly for you guys as I do love to find healthy ways to cook. And I will try to take a picture of the recipe and someday even do a VLOG during food prep! :)

Healthy Buffalo Chicken Salad
Half a bag of 50/50 Salad Mix
4 oz. shredded chicken breast (I usually grill mine and cut off any excess fat and then tear it up into pieces)
1/4 cup fat free feta cheese
1 TBS bacon bits
1 TBS blue cheese dressing
1 tsp Frank's Red Hot Sauce

Put salad greens, bacon bits, feta and blue cheese dressing into a large Tupperware container or a pot with a lid and shake vigorously until dressing covers greens.

Put chicken is a smaller container with the Franks Red Hot Sauce and shake vigorously.

Top salad with chicken and wa-la! Top with some whole grain croutons if you want some additional carbs. Hands down my favorite salad EVER. I eat it once a week at least.

Approximate value: 300 calories - 30 to 35 grams protein, 11 grams fat and roughly 10-15 grams carbs. And pretty yummy in my opinion! :)

Weekly Workout Recap

Monday:
Off - sick and pink eye! RATS!
Tuesday:
Off - still sick...double RATS! Back at it tomorrow!
Wednesday:
Light chest, back and biceps, abs.
Pull ups super setted with flat bench.
Pull downs super setted with chest flyes.
Reverse pull up w/smith machine super setted with barbell bicep curls.
Hammer curls super setted with twisting curls.
Thursday:
Shoulders
Standing overhead barbell press
Lateral raises
Upright rows
Front raises
Friday:
Off
Saturday:
Shoulders (again, I know, my favorite exercise)
Seated shoulder press
24 rep shoulder drill - arnold presses, w's and around the worlds
Front raises
Bulgarian split squats
Triple foot position squats
Abs
Pull ups
Sunday:
Chest Workout
Flat bench, incline bench, flyes and dips

I go to the doc tomorrow morning for tests and will keep you guys posted.

My goal this week is to get to the gym over lunch a minimum of three days! And to make a list of all the things that are emotionally draining me and come up with a plan to address each of them. :)

Talk to you guys soon!
Jess