Mermaid Style

This week kicks off the Tone It Up Bikini Series! K&K came out with a FABULOUS new plan filled with meals and workouts for every day over the next 8 weeks. When I downloaded it, I almost couldn't contain my excitement...I may or may not have contemplated skipping sleep Thursday night to read through it. I decided sleep was a good thing but did spend some time with the plan Friday to organize myself.  I organized each week (along with recipes) in separate files for easy access.

On Sunday, after a lovely hike with some of my TIU Sonoma/Marin gals, I took the nutrition plan shopping. It was so nice not to have to think too much about what I needed. I normally spend about an hour and a half planning my weekly meals and then writing a grocery list. It gets old, and sometimes I don't meal plan....that's when I eat cake in the staff room or the husband and I end up ordering something for dinner.

So, I meal prep. This weekend, I prepped snacks, salad dressings, chopped fruits and veggies, and made muffins for breakfasts. I made those muffins again but used blueberries....they were even better than the original batch with raspberries.

Top: blueberry muffins and chia pudding
Bottom: Cut strawberries and cucumber, carrots with hummus, ACV "shots", hardboiled eggs

In addition to following the meal guide, I am also following the daily workouts AND working towards a personal goal. I made a tracker so I can keep up with the "100 Miles by Summer" running challenge. I hope to be able to run a 5K without stopping by the end of this challenge. I will (hopefully) be working up to a 10k by the end of August so I can run the Miles for Migraine 10k.

I am now three days into this series and can tell the serious meal prep I did is going to help me succeed. This is a lot of front end work, but BOY does it take the guess work out of the week. It is such a relief each morning to be able to just grab what I need from our drawer and go. Not wondering what I will eat means less chance to eat the bagels that are inevitably in the teacher's lounge.  Not a bad start...hopefully I can keep up the momentum!

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