How am I doing?

Man this week hasn't gone as I planned at all, but I haven't fallen off completely so I'll take that and run with it!  My arms are still sore from working them out earlier this week, so I can definitely say that I went hard (balls to the wall) haha sorry I just had to.  There's something about having someone workout with you that just makes you want to push yourself hard and get it done!  My friend and I were going to do leg day Wednesday, and I don't know what happened, but we didn't end up going.  So we were like ok we're going Thursday!  Well yesterday my baby girl was sick :-(  She woke up around 2 a.m.-ish earlier thursday morning with a high fever and stuffy nose.  So yesterday I decided to stay home with her and not leave, because when she's sick she gets super attached to me!   I couldn't even go to the restroom without her freaking out on me and crying...poor thing.  I did decide to do leg stuff at home so I didn't feel like a complete failure.  I did 3 sets of 10 rep  regular squats no weights because I only have 20lb weights at home and mama can't handle that yet.  I did 2 sets of 10 rep leg kickbacks, and 2 sets of 10 rep leg raises, 2 sets of 10 rep glute bridges, and 25 rep russian twist with about 5 lb weight (I guessed on that because I just grabbed one of my kid's toys lol)  All in all it had me sweating, but I also felt like a whimp because I just remember what I used to be able to do when I was working out before.  I know I know it'll take me a little time to get back to that, and I'm on the right track.  I'm just really bad at comparing myself to myself....

So today my little girl is feeling better than yesterday so I'm going to go to the gym with my friend later on.  We're going to go ahead and do legs still even tho I did some yesterday.  My plan is to do the machines and do some dead lifts.  I also want to do more ab workouts, because I really didn't do as much as I would have liked to yesterday.

I have been doing better at my diet so I'm pretty happy with that!  Been sticking to different proteins and veggies, and brown rice.  I haven't been super creative with my dinners lately, but for most part they've been healthy for me.  I'm not really on a diet, but the way I'm approaching things is that for breakfast and lunch I've been trying to eat light and low calorie.  That way for dinner I really don't try to restrict myself too much.  Even tho for dinner I don't cook horrible food either, so it's really been working out for me.  I have kind of allowed myself to have 1 sweet something a day, but I feel better about it because every other meal has been healthy, so that's where I splurge on calories.  I don't calorie count, I don't initially restrict myself on any foods, and I don't plan to.  I just know how I am with stuff, and restricting isn't the way for me.  I know what foods I need to eat, and what foods will help my body with building muscle and lean me out.  I know all of this, and I just know if I'm going to be having too many calories in a day by the foods.  If I want sweets then I know that for lunch and dinner I need to eat smaller portions and lower calorie so that when I splurge on dessert it won't completely mess me up.  I also try to counter-act the bad foods with the gym too.  This obviously won't help me lose 2 lbs a week, but hey this is a life-style right?  If I can develop these habits to last me along time then I think I can have a balance with foods I want and foods I need to fuel my body with.  We'll see.....lol.

I actually remembered to take a picture of my dinner last night so I'll share the recipe and show you guys how it turned out.  It was kind of what I had in the house and something I threw together, but it turned out really good I must say!

So let's call this....Chicken Broccoli Bowl (so original I know)
1 medium to small onion
3 small to medium green bell pepper (If I had red or yellow I would've used those along with, but I only had green)
1bag of steamable broccoli
Grilled chicken (I used rotisserie chicken from wal-mart...easy peasy)
Brown Rice
2 tbsp. Hoisen sauce
1 to 2 cups beef broth
1 tsp. thyme
1 tsp. garlic powder w/parsley
1 tsp. chipolte chili powder
Salt and Pepper to taste

Saute the onion and green bell pepper in pan, and add all of the spices.
Heat up broccoli and add a little bit of same spices to get it caught up with the green peppers and onion, then add together and set aside.
Add chicken to skillet to warm up, I used rotisserie chicken from walmart, so all I had to do is get all the white meat from it, make it bite size, and add to skillet to heat up.
Mix the hoisen sauce and beef broth together, then pour over chicken, and let heat up.
I had the brown rice that you stick in the microwave for 2 minutes and boom it's done.
Now just assemble all together....Brown rice, broccoli mixture, topped with chicken!

This was such an easy, fast meal!  I didn't add spice to it because I shared with my 2 yr old, but I would even add some hot sauce, or siracha sauce to give it some kick since the hoisen sauce is a little sweet.


I know this has been long, but I skipped a couple days of blogging so I feel like I need to catch up...bad Kylah!  I haven't been keeping track on the scale, and honestly I haven't even taken my measurements or taken pictures.  It's hard for me at this stage because I'm genuinely grossed and disappointed about by my body.  I know I'm doing what I need to do to get better, but it's seriously hard to look at myself in the mirror right now.  I promise Sunday I will weigh myself, take pictures, and measurements so that I can keep track of it!  I may need some wine before I do all of that :-S

Until next time guys!!!
~Kylah~