Sunday, March 30, 2008

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

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Jessica...I hope to God that I am not on your list.

~C.

Jessica said...

C-
Are you kidding me??? How long have we been blogging together? You are the one who keeps it real for me, makes me laugh, smile, all those good things. You are NOT on my list.
Silly wabbit.
Jess