Mom Works It Out by Angela Gillis

Weekend, meal prepping & looking for snack ideas.

I’m enjoying some time off work to run some errands around town. There are lots of things to do plus it’s my BIRTHDAY week.

I've renewed my drivers license. First time since 2010, I'm not sure I look that different! #weightloss #weightlossjourney #webeatfat #fitspo #fitfluential #sweatpink #iambft

I had to get my driver’s license renewed in person. I haven’t had to get a new picture in a long while because I’ve been able to renew online. This time I had to go in to get it done. I wasn’t there all morning but I was there for awhile. But I don’t think I look much different from my picture, right?

Bowling party

I’m not really trying to celebrate my birthday all week but it just seems like it. On Saturday, I invited some of my near and dearest friends to go bowling to celebrate. I had the “party” the weekend before because my birthday is always around July 4th and no one is every around. Thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate my birthday early with me. It was much appreciated. I guess now I might need to stop saying people don’t like me.

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Yesterday morning I woke up to no breakfast because I didn’t have any bananas.  I can’t have oatmeal without bananas and Willie didn’t make any eggs.  So we had to make smoothies.  Willie was whipping up smoothies for everyone but they were really thick…kind of like a DQ blizzard.

So this is our last week of vegetarian so we meal prepped again but it was a little lazy.  We actually had some extra stuff left over so I had to use that.

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What’s on the menu for this week?

Oatmeal and eggs for breakfast
“Fried” tofu rice for lunch.
Bean and cheese enchiladas with plantains and squash for dinner

I’m a little deficient on the snacks this week but I’m currently working on the situation. Today I just made a protein shake but tomorrow I won’t be so lucky. I’ll be posting about snacks sometime this week.  Snacks are really important.

What are your favorite snacks?

Five most important exercises for strength

Five most important exercises for strength

I missed my five things Friday yesterday because I was busy but that doesn’t mean you’re going to miss out on this great part of the blog.  This week I’ve been teaching out of the wah-zoo and I’ve been trying to keep up with my own running workouts.  I missed a strength training workout that I’ll hopefully be able to do today. Last night I did my long run.  It was pretty, hot and windy all at the same time. I’ve been working out a lot this week and I’ve been working on some projects which really got me thinking…

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Vegetarian eats this week: sloppy joes and some …

Vegetarian eats this week: sloppy joes and some rice “salad”

It’s been a long week and I realized that I didn’t share with you what we made this week to eat. There’s no time like the present to share. It’s nothing spectacular and was kind of a slow week in our house for no reason at all. But it’s the a time of the week where I show my vegetarian eats this week! We haven’t really changed up our breakfast in like 3 years so we’re still eating the same egg and overnight oats. It works. I don’t even do anything different to the overnight oats which I should. I…

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Another day and the best version of yourself

Another day and the best version of yourself

This post will be about nothing. I have a lot of ideas floating round in my head but nothing is sticking. I probably have too much floating around in there to focus on one thing. It’s not just a today problem, it’s been a week long problem. It’s Monday and that means I usually post inspirational/motivational things but I can’t just pin point one message today so you’re going to get many or nothing at all. That gray area in life doesn’t exist to me. I’ve really tried to come up with something to share with you today, but I’ve…

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Week three of meatless eating

Week three of meatless eating

Hello all! Yesterday was a crazy nuts day. Tropical Storm Bill dumped a lot of water on our city and was just a very scary and frustrating day. We can see clearly now that the rain is gone so I thought it would be best if I returned to the blog. So this is week 3 of us switching to a more plant based diet and things are going well. I’ve been worried about being low energy and not being able to really live this way because I struggled with it so much before. Now with proper research and planning,…

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Get a healthy dose of Vitamin D

Get a healthy dose of Vitamin D

It’s summer so let’s go out and enjoy some rays and soak up some Vitamin D.  Vitamin D is important for keeping strong and healthy bones and is vital for the body to absorb all that Vitamin C. As women, I’m really concerned about osteoporosis especially as I grow older and getting a healthy dose of vitamin D will hopefully keep that away. It’s a rainy day here in southeast Texas so it’s only appropriate that I talk about Vitamin D.  It’s hard to get your vitamin D when the sun isn’t out. This D vitamin helps our immune system…

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Lessons for achieving your goals

Lessons for achieving your goals

Want to achieve your goals?  The biggest tip I can give you is to stay focused on your goal. There are many distractions in life and there will be obstacles that will take you off course.  Those are the times when you should check-in with yourself to regain focus on what you’re actually working towards. Weight loss is never an easy road and it’s easy to get frustrated or to lose hope.  Keep pushing through those tough times to build your strength, resolve and character. If it were easy, everyone would be doing it, right? Always have a plan to…

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Five things: Weight Loss Edition

Five things: Weight Loss Edition

Happy Friday everyone!  It’s been a long week but I’m glad I made it to Friday.  The bad news is our air conditioning is on the fritz so it’s hotter than biscuits in our house. I had to get some AC is out provisions.  Hopefully, the unit will be fixed today but I’m skeptical. Anyway, I wanted to start doing the Friday Five thing but with a twist…with some helpful information for people so this week’s topic will be weight loss. 1. Weight loss is a process.  It’s not going to happen overnight so be patient.  It always helps if…

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Summer cooking: Pea pesto and mustard greens

Summer cooking: Pea pesto and mustard greens

It’s summer so that means it’s time to get creative with our summer cooking. Light and easy is what summer is all about and that should translate to the kitchen. If you haven’t noticed, it’s kind of hot outside. (Well at least where we live it’s pretty hot.) I couldn’t think of anything because I had my head trapped in some cookbooks. When I finally shut the books and went to the store, my mind opened up with lots of possibilities…and then all I wanted was pea pesto and mustard greens. Maybe it’s because my favorite color is green, but…

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Blog interrupted: a new week reset, going meatless, …

Blog interrupted: a new week reset, going meatless, and biking.

I like to post the motivational stuff on Monday’s because it’s just a good way to start off the week but I’ve fallen behind on blogging because I was sick and I didn’t want to go anywhere near a computer on my work planning day. It’s kind of been a mess. I’m yet to post my recaps from San Diego or any other blog planning so this is where I’m at. The good this though is it’s Monday, a new week to do new things! It’s time to start anew and achieve new things! It’s time to start a fresh…

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Goal setting for June

Goal setting for June

It’s a new month and one of my goal was to go back to setting monthly goals.  In keeping on with that goal, I am present you with my goal setting for June 2015.  This is a really big month for me because I’ll be working toward my first 12 hour race…in July…in Georgia. It’s going to be hot so I’m going to be focusing a lot on hydration. 1. We are switching to a vegetarian diet for the month of June.  We thought it would be a good time to switch because it’s summer and my training has slowed…

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