Better For You Breakfast Giveaway!!

Guys, I am telling you the Turkey Meatloaf I posted in the the previous post, I have been eating every night since Sunday and not sick of it yet! It is probably the best meatloaf I have ever made. Ever.

Ok moving on. My eats have been…well boring and much of the same. what can I say? I am not that interesting in the food department these days! I am however trying to get a wide variety of fruits and vegetables in my diet, not repeating the same thing every day or every week.
Breakfast
I have here some oatmeal (1/4 cup dry) mixed with cinnamon and nutmeg over some fresh berries and 4oz eggwhites (1/2 cup) I have been getting emails asking me if egg whites and oatmeal together really does taste good and my answer is YES, it really does! (well to me at least!)

My trick lately has been that I have been making the oatmeal the night before on the stove top with water and maybe some almond milk if I have any on hand. After it is done cooking I put it in the fridge overnight. In the morning I just heat it up and serve it over hot eggs and either fresh or frozen berries. I find that the oatmeal becomes doughy, chewy and even more flavorful when it sits overnight. Its the small things, right?

Chocolate protein shake after a Shoulder/Abs workout. I have recently been lifting a bit heavier to add some more muscle to my frame, so my weight workouts have been a bit more intense, which I love! I have been doing a drop or ‘burn’ set for my last set of each exercise.

Drop sets are not only a great way to bust out of a plateau, but drop sets allow you to utilize more of your muscle fibers during an exercise and therefore increase the intensity of your workout. A more challenging workout will lead to greater muscular strength and endurance and also muscle hypertrophy. Hypertrophy is the process of building up the muscles to make them bigger. Drop sets are a GREAT tool if you are looking to increase challenge factor and the intensity of yoru workout.

Example: You would perform a set of 3x12lb Bicep curls. After your 3rd set of 12 reps, drop the dumbbells you are using and immediately select 8 or 10 lb dumbbells and perform more repetitions. Continue performing reps until you are unable to carry on. At this point you could drop weight again and pick up 5lb dumbbells and perform a final group of reps until you are unable to continue. This constitutes a double drop set as the weight was reduced twice.

This happens to be BSN chocolate fudge protein mixed with water and ice!