In an effort to get my groove back and my booty whooped into shape, I have started (once again) running about 30 miles a week and doing 30 min weight training sessions every day after work. So far, so good. I don’t have as much trouble on the working out and breaking a sweat part as much as I have a problem with food. How much do I really need to eat and when is a tricker formula than it sounds. This is especially true because I can’t eat particular food because my stomach is so sensitive and I really have to plan in advance. I have been trying to collect a few recipes that are simple and easy to do, because by the time I get done at the gym, it’s 8pm and I am starving. If I am really running low on time, I go for my "quick" meal ingredients to make a salad and add beans as for protein or I simply have a protein shake – GNC’s generic cookies and cream flavor is the best.
Also, I don’t know about y’all but my top 5 favorite diet busters are so hard to give up…everything in moderation, right? The only problem is I don’t know how to eat these things in moderation. I could eat buckets full of this stuff:
1) Beer and Wine
2) Chicken nuggets and wings with lots of SAUCY SAUCE
3) Ice Cream and frozen yogurt
4) BREAD in all of its forms
5) French fries
I apologize ahead of time for the lack of measurement in these recipes, but literally I just eye-ball most of the things I make, so it’s hard to say. Just taste it, add to it, repeat, repeat, until finally satisfied.
Turkey Trot Burgers (watch out now, they have a little a bit of a kick!)
Ingredients:
1lb ground turkey
½ diced yellow or white onion
1 fresh garlic clove or 2 teaspoons minced garlic
Eyeball it – onion powder
Heavy hand of ground black pepper
1 fresh minced jalapeno
Dash of paprika
Heavy dash of chili powder
Dash of crushed red pepper flakes
1 egg white
Variations –
depending on what you feel like, add BBQ sauce, hot Sauce, soy sauce, or salsa directly on the meat. I think it makes it more tender…
Caramelize your onions…
Directions:
Fold ALL of the ingredients into the ground turkey meat and separate into patties. Cook on the stove in a skillet or on a grill for about 10 min.
Breakfast in the morning, breakfast in the evening, breakfast anytime!
For a very low cal, but delicious breakfast try this egg white omlette with stewed cinnamon apples
Ingredients:
4 egg whites or 3 egg whites and one full egg
Chopped veggies of your choice
(cheese - optional – I recommend pepper jack or Colby jack)
Two small apples or one large
Cinnamon
2 or 3 splashes of Orange Juice
Dash of salt
Directions:
Chop the apples up into chicken-finger sized wedges
Pour the OJ on top of the apples and as the pot warms up, keep sprinkling the cinnamon on top of the apples until the cinnamon gets thick with the orange juice – at this point the heat should be on medium
Add the dash of salt
Stop cooking when the apples are soft and the sauce is thick
Crack your eggs and separate your yolks from your egg white. Spray a pan with non-stick spray and throw in any veggies you have laying around – onions, peppers, jalapenos, mushrooms, spinach… it’s all good! Then add your eggs. Egg whites are ready when they are no longer runny.
Nacho Mama’s Guacamole
As many avocados as you please, but for this recipe’s sake (makes about 2 cups) 4 medium avocados
1 small tomato
¼ yellow or white onions
Dash of cumin
Lots of garlic! I use about 2 teaspoons of minced garlic but this is up to you
Onion powder
3 squirts of lemon
Ground black pepper
Salt is kind of optional here – I would add a tiny but, but honestly you won’t miss it and I am an advocate for consuming less salt
Looking for a little more pizazz? Try adding jalapenos, poblano peppers or diced red peppers
Directions: FOLD, don’t mash these ingredients together in order to preserve the chunky texture. Refrigerate.
Throw guac in a pita, on a sandwich with bacon, on a salad, eat with chips, with celery, heck eat with eggs - the possibilities are endless!!
My alternative cardio sessions when I am not running are composed of the stairmill (like a stairmaster, but the stairs are moving) walking at at least 4.0 on a 5.0 incline, bootcamp classes, and cycling classes. I definitely think that on days when you are not feeling particular motivated, working out with other people gives you the boost you need. I recently read that even 10 min a day of breaking a sweat can keep your metabolism revved up. Get up and go do something. I wish my cubicle had a treadmill.
I recently did the Warrior Dash, which was a great experience. It is definately more about the fun than the competition. I would encourage trying it one time, but unless the obstacles get more creative, I probably won't do it again. There were walls to climb, mud to trek, firepoles to slide down, barbed wire to crawl under, you get the picture.
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