Recipie: The Healthy NOT "Ranch" Dressing

A friend of mine introduced me to this and i tweaked it just a little bit. This is a healthy alternative to dipping your veggies or having a salad with Ranch Dressing- since we all know that rance is a sin!!!

Ingredients
2 cups Low Fat Cottage Cheese (I use Darigold Trim)
1 packet Ranch Seasoning & Dips Mix
3 TB cold

Directions:
Mix 2 cups of low fat or fat free cottage cheese and 1 packet of ranch seasoning with 3 TB water. Blend with a hand mixer until smooth-ish.

I eat this with 3 stalks of celery cut up and 1 cucumber as a mid afternoon snack!

Try is out and let me know what you think!

Example Diet & Supplements

I've had quite a few people requesting samples of what i eat during the day, how often and what supplements i'm currently taking to help me along in this transformation journey. So here's an example of a day in the life of me :)

0430: Pre-Workout: 1/2 banana, 1 scoop of protein (I useVPX Syngex whey protein- vanilla dream flavor

0630: Post-workout: is either 2 scoops of protein or 1 scoop of Cytosport Monster Amino

0800: Breakfast: 4 egg whites (prepared usually as scrambled or hard boiled), 1/2 grapefruit OR 1/2 cup cooked oatmeal sweetened with Splenda & cinnamon (sometimes i add the other 1/2 banana from preworkout to my oatmeal.

10:00: Morning snack: 1 scoop protein, 1 apple OR 1/2 cup cottage cheese mixed with 1/4 cup yogurt. and 10 almonds

1200: Lunch: 4 oz of chicken or 4 oz fish, 1 cup veggies (broccoli, asparagus, peppers or celery), 1/4 cup cooked brown rice.

1500: Afternoon snack: same as morning snack

1800: Dinner: same options as lunch. The veggies for dinner are generally sweet potatoes and asparagus.

2030: Evening snack: 1 scoop of protein OR 1/2 cup cottage cheese sweetened with cinnamon.

Supplements:

Fish Oil- 2 gel caps in the morning with breakfast, 2 gel caps with evening snack
ThermoGenII (fat burner with green tea extract & yohembe)1 cap in the morning, 1 afternoon and 1 before 4 pm
Digestive enzymes 1 capsule 3 times a day (breakfast, lunch, dinner)
Probiotics 1 capsule 3 times a day (breakfast, lunch, dinner)
Mulivitamin 1 capsule before bed.
glutamine 1 scoop in my protein once a day.

I'll post some recipes later on this week and updated pictures later this month! Happy training!

New Year... No Excuses

The new year is here and with that everyone makes resolutions. Most resolution are to lose weight, eat healthier or workout more. Mine is simply to make no more excuses. My biggest excuse for my body is that i've had a kid- that all of this would be so much easier if i never did. Before i had a baby i weighed 105 lbs, could eat whatever i wanted and not gain an ounce. But the fact of the matter is that i DID have a kid, i DID gain the weight and this is how my body is now. Since i hate it, i have to change it- simple as that!

Going back to everyone else's resolutions- no excuses can go a long way. "I'm too tired to go to the gym today" GO ANYWAYS! "I have no appetite to eat what i should" EAT IT ANYWAYS... the reason most people fail at their resolutions is because they make excuses, fall back into their old habits and give up.

I had an ex that gave me the best advice of my life.. i use it all the time to this day- and remembering it helped me get back on track for my fitness plan and goals. He told me "Reese- you can't take over the world all at once, you have to take one country at a time. Start with the little ones, move your way to the big ones, and eventually you've conquered it all. Its the same thing with your goals. Start slow and small cut out sugar or soda first... then watch your calories.. slowly add in your workouts and make new habits for yourself. Its the only way to succeed.

11 weeks til the competition- time to have a completely clean diet, cardio every day and solid effort on every lift i do! Wish me luck!

You may call me SLACKERRRR!

I slacked. There you go, I said it! The last 3 weeks i got lazy- had a hard time really making it to the gym between work and kiddos and just letting my body recover. So...i only have a couple of pics.

My diet change that we worked on has helped a lot! My biggest issue now is that i have no appetite to eat and so i'm forcing myself to eat what i do.

This morning i started the next 4 week workout plan. We've decided to double up my workouts- insane cardio on the treadmill in the mornings and either an at home workout or full body workout at the gym after work so that i can stick with it and still have time for my family.

Look good...Feel good?

So i'm not sure whats been going on, but since i've started this transformation i am constantly nauseated. I ran all of my lab work and nothing was really out of range so Brandon and I are working on cutting things out and putting things back to see if we can narrow down exactly what it is thats making me sick!

You gotta look good and feel good right? More to come.... Next up, new 6 week workout regimen and pics to follow. Wish me luck :)

4 Weeks since operation 'Goodbye Thunder Thighs' began...

Ok so its been just over 4 weeks since i started training with Brandon... I feel like i look FANTASTIC..but pictures only show minor changes. Its ok though at least its showing change in the right direction!

So here goes for all of you to see... EEEeeeeeK!

Good-Bye Thunder Thigh's!

So the other day i was in Walmart browsing the book/magazine section and i look down and see my amazing friend Kathleen Tesori on the cover of Muscle and Fitness Hers! So after spending the $5 on the magazine and meeting up with her for sushi and dive bar karaoke she convinces me that I should enter the world of fitness and compete. And here we are...




She set me up with her trainer Brandon Johnson... he created a diet plan and a workout routine to shock my flabby post-pregnancy body back into shape. And I tell you what, IT HURTS! But for the shear entertainment of you... and me... i'll be periodically posting progress pictures (as embarrasing as they are) to hopefully help motivate and enspire others who want to transform their body and their life into something they can feel good about again!




First up... say goodbye to these thunder thighs!