Day 4 of 30

This is the easiest diet by far that I've ever done. I'm rocking the socks off of this thing. Although I'm still working on how to make this work for the kids. Here's how I've been managing my time to make the 3 meal a day plus snacks thing work out for my husband and I. In the evenings, I pack our lunch. Some easy things I can just throw in there and reheat are meatballs, andouille sausage and homemade BBQ sauce, etc. I bought these awesome tupperware containers that hold the meal in the bottom and then have a couple of different compartments on the top for fruit and such. Yesterday we had pineapple glazed meatballs and a mix of berries. Today we're having our leftover bison stuffed bell peppers and fruit. Tomorrow I think either meatballs again or sausages in some kind of sauce. Pretty simple and lots of protein to kick start my afternoons. I also prep our breakfasts the night before. I found this protein smoothie base that is made up of 16 oz of brewed and chilled herbal tea (I've used peach and red raspberry so far), a scoop of egg white vanilla protein powder, and any and all fruit I have lying around the house.  Yesterday it was raspberries, strawberries and bananas. Today it was blueberries and bananas. So I blend those all up together with no ice and then put the blender in the fridge. In the morning I add a cup of ice and blend until smooth. It's enough for both of us to have a 12 oz smoothie! Yum. Oh and snacks. I bought a little 11 oz container of almonds, cashews and dried cranberries with sea salt at the store. A serving is a 1/4 cup, so I have snacks for a week.

I've also been drinking at least 64 oz of water (in my starbucks cup with a straw. I don't know what it is about drinking with a straw, but I drink SOOO much more during the day!) and taking 2000mg of fish oil per day. The thing I notice the most is that I'm less sore after workouts. I think I'm properly hydrated, plus the fish oil works like a healing agent. Awesome. Now I just need to find the time to work out. We worked out at home on Sunday doing a air squat/push up/sit up Tabata. I didn't work out yesterday, we have swimming lessons tonight, I have my school club that I sponsor tomorrow...So it looks like Thursday, Saturday, Sunday? Ugh. This is going to be my challenge.