Prepping for the Week (4/1/12)

Good evening you guys!  Well I'm winding down my day by posting yet another blog.  I swear I'm trying my best to keep up.

It's Monday (sigh) and my typical routine as follows- breakfast, work, study, workout, dinner then bed.  Exciting stuff huh?  I'm currently sitting up-right in bed, watching 'Bethenny Ever After.'  I love her.  Anyways.. this post is dedicated to Sunday prep-day which usually involves cutting, sipping on wine, cutting, sipping on more wine, and packaging my food for the next two to three days.  There's two days I usually dedicate this day to and that's Sunday and Tuesday and the occasional Friday.

The menu for this week includes a salad of some-sort and a new recipe, Jamie Eason's 'Turkey Meatloaf Muffins.'  Yea..weird huh?  Muffins?!  I took on this recipe because I wanted to see what the hoopla was about.  And when I say "hoopla," I'm referring to the trending pictures on Instagram.  When I googled it, the result took me to bodybuilding.com and my first reaction was, woah!  This means low carbs, high protein, portion-sized eats and guess what, I was right. :)

Jamie Eason's Turkey Meatloaf Muffins

(Before putting in the oven)

(right out of the oven)

You can Google the recipe online or just follow this link: Jamie Eason's Turkey Meatloaf Muffins 

Or you can get it here!! :)

Recipe:

• 2 lbs ground turkey (or chicken)
• 3 egg whites
• 1 cup quick cooking oats
• 1/2 tsp ground cumin
• 1/2 tsp dried thyme
• 2 tsp dry yellow mustard - Note: I couldn't find this so I just used wet yellow mustard (2 tsp)
• 2 tsp black pepper
• 2 tsp chipotle pepper spice (I found this in a McCormick brand)
• 1 tsp salt
• 2 tbsp garlic powder (2 cloves minced)
• 1 small onion (finely chopped)
• 2 celery stalks (finely chopped)

Directions: 

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.


2. Spray muffin pan with canola or olive oil.


3. Mix all your ingredients together in one large bowl.


4. Roll the mixture into balls and place in muffin pan. Muffins should be about the size of a racquetball.


5. Bake for 40 minutes.
   
Makes 12 muffins.

I copied and paste this by the way.  Haha I'm so lazy but whatever!  The result- it was filling and delicious!  It's kinda spicy but I like spicy!  But the thing is.. I don't eat meat too often so I'm left with a lot of balls haha.  So this week, I'm passing out turkey meatball muffins to my coworkers, friends, neighbors.  Jk on neighbors.  But I HIGHLY recommend making these because they're so convenient especially when you're on the go and they're only 80 calories per 'muffin!!'  Yes.  Amazing!!

Btw ever since I copied and paste the recipe and directions, I'm not able to go back to the alignment of my paragraphs.  Dang!  Oh well, I'm done anyways.  Have a lovely night everyone!

- Abigail

 

{iLoveSundays}

Good morning to everyone!..and Happy April Fools' Day!!

I didn't realize it was April until I looked at my phone.  My goodness this year is passing by so quick!  And I don't want to because I have my TEAS test to take on May 30. EK!!

Anyways, I do apologize for the lack of postings this past week.  I have been kinda "Debby-downer" for the past couple of days but this morning, I felt kinda refreshed and a some-what, improving mood.  My beautiful Sunday (because that's what I'm going to call it) started with a bowl of watermelon that was prepared by the grocer and I had some REALLY ripe mangoes to go with it.

Looks delish huh?! ;)  When I woke up this morning I was contemplating in going to spin class at 9:45am (and I can still go too because it's only 8:30am) but then decided not to.  So instead I opted for a low to moderate- impact workout today since I took a beating from yesterday's early 75-FRIKIN-MINUTE Total conditioning class.  Yea, it was intense but mannn my body felt and looked good too. HA!  And tomorrow I have Total conditioning again.  So today.. I will be doing a 30-min. HIIT cardio-drill, provided by my handy Nike Training Center app- which by the way, I HIGHLY recommend downloading and you'll see why- followed by hot vinyasa.

[ Hot vinyasa- is a yoga class provided by my gym, Lifetime Fitness, which is basically doing yoga in a hot room but in a vinyasa form.  Vinyasa or Ashtanga Vinyasa is a constant flow that's fast paced and more fitness-like which allows the body to generate more heat (as in burn morn calories) by going through a series of sun salutations and such. ]

I do yoga at least once-a-week because it gives my body a sense of calmness especially after having a week or a couple of days of heart-pounding, kick-my-A workouts. haha And I've noticed that I get a certain kind of muscle tone after I do yoga- one that is lean, and toned other than the usual feeling or result I get from strength conditioning. So altogether now.. yoga does a body REAL good! and more flexible too. ;)

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 Raw Meal blend- (either w/ AB or banana)
 
Oh I also need to add this to my post especially from yesterday.  I posted my post-workout meal on Facebook and Instagram and had a couple of questions to what it was.  It's a "Raw Meal" meal replacement blend from Garden of Life.

I bought it on Amazon because it's RIDICULOUSLY expensive at Whole Foods.  But I bought it because it's (a) raw, of course and (b) it's fast and convenient especially when you're on-the-go (like I was yesterday).  And I usually blend it was banana but that day I blended it was a tablespoon of almond butter because I had an intense workout.  But it's really delicious and filling.

Try it!  But buy it on Amazon.










Okay, my lovely people, I hope you have a wonderful Sunday because we all know we have to go back to work tomorrow.  Ugh! I least for me but it is a four-day week because I have off on Good Friday.

Love,
Abigail