Country and Corgis: Meal Plan Week 13

Happy Monday lovelies! Life has been busy here in the McCarty household. E has been working 60 hours per week. I have been refocusing my energies back to getting healthy. I said one of my goals for 2015 was to use this blog as accountability, and I'm sorry readers that I fell off the wagon the last couple weeks. I've been struggling with motivation and progress. The past 3 weeks have been a standstill. No weightloss, poor exercise commitment, and poor housewife commitment (haha). It's hard to not see progress and keep committed. One of my problems has been staying on track during the week, but when the weekend comes I feel like it's ok to splurge. Or if I've been to the gym, it's ok to eat those extra 200 calories. I've also been drinking more and more diet soda.

I took some time to refocus myself and realize that even though I haven't lost weight in the past 3 weeks, I also haven't gained any. While the scale hasn't moved, I've noticed progress at the gym and with my workouts. I started this journey barely able to complete the low impact version of T25 cardio. I've been doing the workout now for about a month, probably at least once a week. I can now get through the entire workout without feeling like I'm going to puke and without taking a rest. That's huge progress! Another struggle was maintaining my endurance on the elliptical. This past Sunday I totally rocked my workout. 45 minutes non-stop on the elliptical while maintaining an average speed of 3.6 (w/e that unit of measurement actually is). That's huge progress from only being able to maintain that speed for about 10 minutes or so. Let's remind ourselves that the mirror and scale are not the only indicators of progress.

Are you struggling like me? Just remember to take things one day at a time. Progress and change do not happen overnight, but all of your hard work will pay off!

I've got a couple of events this week, so I really need to kill it with my workouts and really try and focus on my nutrition. My goal this week is to eat an apple if I'm craving a sweet snack, and a 100 calorie pack of popcorn if I'm craving salty. Here's what else we're eating this week.

Monday:

Brother's Birthday Dinner