2025.Q1.W9

Monday, February 24th, 2025

Breakfast: V8 + Energy , Pomegranate Blueberry (Not pictured), Quinoa with potatoes, carrots, and onion

Lunch: I accidently skipped lunch due to cleaning house. I did have a Prime berry freeze dink.

Supper: Culver’s – Cranberry Bacon Bleu Salad with Grilled Chicken and Raspberry Vinaigrette dressing

Exercise apple fitness+ Upper body strength with dumbbells 10 minutes, Medication 10 minues

Nutrition Calories: 941, Protein: 61 g, Carbs: 132 g, Fats: 20 g, Fiber: 15 g, Added Sugar: 12 g, Sodium mg

Tuesday, February 25th, 2025

Breakfast: Flax Plus Pumpkin Raisin Crunch with 2% milk

Lunch: Turkey, Quinoa with potatoes, carrots, and onions, scotcharoo (not pictured)

Snack: cubed cheddar cheese, green grapes (not pictured)

Supper: Turkey, hummus

Exercise apple fitness+ lower body strength with dumbbells 10 minutes, meditation 10 minutes

Nutrition Calories: 1766, Protein: 109 g, Carbs: 242 g, Fats: 44 g, Fiber 27 g, Added sugar: 9 g, Sodium: 1290 mg

Wednesday, February 26th, 2025

Breakfast: Old fashioned oats, frozen raspberries, 2% milk, chia seeds, honey. Apple. True Lemon Drink Mix (not pictured)

Lunch: Coconut Crushed Tilapia, Rice Pilaf. Green Tea.

Supper: Quinoa with potatoes, carrots, and onions.

After Supper: flour tortilla, taco meat, hot habanero Monterey jack cheese, taco sauce. Grapes. (Not pictured.) (Unfortunately I still felt hungry when I got home from work. Wednesday is my ‘late’ night for work and I tend to have difficulty balancing my meals throughout the day on Wednesdays.)

Exercise apple fitness+ treadmill walk 10 minutes, meditation 10 minutes

Nutrition Calories: 2119, Protein: 95 g, Carbs: 309 g, Fats: 56 g, Fiber 36 g, Added Sugar: 28 g, Sodium: 2755 mg

Thursday, February 27th, 2025

Breakfast: Oats, strawberries, walnuts

Lunch: Taco salad – shredded chicken with taco seasoning, bag of Doritos crushed, lettuce, tomatoes, chickpeas, shredded cheddar, black olives, taco sauce, packet sour cream (not pictured)

Snack: two snack bags of strawberry crème Simply Chex

Supper: Simply Nature Organic Blue corn tortilla chips, Turkey breast, quinoa with potatoes, carrots, and onion (not pictured)

Exercise apple fitness+ upper body strength with dumbbells 10 minutes, mediation 10 minutes

Nutrition Calories: 1972, Protein: 91 g, Carbs: 249 g, Fats: 71 g, Fiber 36 g, Added Sugar: 11 g, Sodium: 2673 mg

Friday, February 28th, 2025

Breakfast: Egg and Cheese Omelet, grapes, cubed cheddar cheese (not pictured)

Lunch: Baked fish, cauliflower, waffle fries

Supper: Pig in a blanket (x2), ketchup, white cheddar mac-n-cheese. (I did have another pig in the blanket after taking the picture. I did not add more ketchup though.)

Exercise Hot Vinyasa Yoga 60 minutes, meditation 10 minutes

Nutrition Calories: 1799, Protein: 69 g, Carbs: 207 g, Fats: 78 g, Fiber: 14 g, Add Sugar: 11 g, Sodium: 2997 mg

Saturday, March 1st, 2025

Breakfast: two slices whole wheat toast, butter (not pictured) (I had made oatmeal with powdered peanut butter and a couple chocolates. This tasted horrible but one of kids loved it.)

Snack: Lenny & Larry’s The complete Cookie

Lunch: soft pretzel with cheese sauce from concession stand, grapes

Supper: Turkey breast with sliced cheese on sesame seed bun, two pickles

Exercise no exercise today

Nutrition Calories: 1210, Protein: 64 g, Carbs: 154 g, Fats: 43 g, Fiber: 13 g, Added Sugar: 8 g, Sodium: 2091 mg

Sunday, March 2nd, 2025

Breakfast: Oatmeal with apples and slivered almonds

Snack: Lenny & Larry’s Complete Double chocolate cookie

Lunch: $1.50 hotdog from Wal-Mart. (I actually thought I was buying egg muffins because the price tag label stated that.) (not pictured)

Supper: Salad – leftover turkey, lettuce, tomato, cucumber, homemade raspberry vinaigrette dressing. Two mini slices of bread with butter.

Exercise apple fitness+ slow flow yoga 20 minutes, meditation 10 minutes

Nutrition Calories: 1523, Protein: 69 g, Carbs: 177 g, Fats: 65 g, Fiber: 20 g, Added Sugar: 7 g, Sodium: 2067 mg

Week Review

Grade: 27/28, 96%

Did I reach my goals this week? If not, why?

Yes, I did great at reaching my goals this week. I didn’t work out Sunday and I don’t really have any good reason as to why I didn’t work out. We were at volleyball most of the day. When I got home, I decided to clean. I could’ve worked out in the morning before volleyball though.

Why do I feel this way about my progress?

I feel great this week about my progress because I completed all my tasks except working out one day.

What were my 3 biggest wins?

1. Going to Hot Yoga. It’s been awhile since I went to Hot Yoga and I was nervous about doing this as I feel out of shape. The class was small so that was helpful but it felt super hot, probably because it’s been awhile.
2. Practicing medication every day. This helps me relax and get focused.
3. Going to church. I’ve been going to church more often lately and I tend to feel better afterwards.

What made me happy?

Exercising, yoga, meditation. Also, I made a few new recipes as I’m trying to make my eating habits better and more nutritious. I made a whole wheat bread. Like kneaded the bread and everything. This is a lot for me as I never thought I’d give it a try. I didn’t see the point in it, that much work when you can buy it from the store. I know the store bought bread is not healthy for you though. It is very satisfying making your own bread once it’s complete.

What lessons did I learn or what insights did I gain?

I am tracking my food in weight watchers which was one of my goals. My goal was just to track what I’m eating which is good because I was out of control with my nutrition. My nutrition is improving from where I started. As a new goal with the new ‘year’, I need to make more defined goals.

Same with my exercise; my goal was to exercise for 10 minutes per day. Which I am improving with this as well considering I never did any formal exercise prior to this ‘year’. With the new ‘year’, I will need to make more defined goals with exercise as well.

How can I improve next week?

This week I did amazing. Some of it may have to do with the fact that I knew I’d be posting this and I wanted to be completely transparent. I struggle sometimes to continue good habits. Next week, I hope I do just as good as I did this week.