Week 3.. Continued

Well normally at this time I am discussing my progress of the previous week and looking forward to the fit week ahead. This time I need to take a little detour and complain about a super stressful week of work. I knew that becoming a Division Manager over 213 clerical staff would not be easy, but this week took the cake on pushing  me to my limits!  On a positive note.. I have been there for almost 6 months and this is the first time I disliked the position!  Thanks to my wonderful boss (Mo) for keeping me sane!!  My week of fun included -  walk outs and door slams in the middle of my meeting, accused of discrimination and lack of understanding, and rounding off the week with a team ganging up and refusing to sign mandatory paperwork.. good times!

So far in these 3 weeks, I haven't had a huge impulse to cheat on my diet but half way through this week I just needed some relief. So thank you to my friends (CW, Ed, April and the munchkins) and Don Jose for providing me with two wonderful margaritas and a very nice dinner.  It was much needed to get me over hump day...

 

Now onto my fitness plans...I really feel that it is not feasible or pleasant to be a drill sergeant, patrolling your life, eating habits and exercise 24/7.  We all have our stressful moments in life where we just need to let loose and enjoy ourselves. So that being said I had a pretty undisciplined week, but was still able to exercise 5 days and eat fairly well. I chose to NOT weigh myself because I didn't need anything else to add to my frustrations. : )

 

Next week is my final week of the 4 week plan and then I will move on to maintaining a "healthy as possible" lifestyle and periodically provide you updates.  I'm very satisfied with what I'm doing and encourage you all to just try and focus on eating healthy and exercising each day. It doesn't have to be an everyday thing but the more you do it, the better you will look and feel. And with that, here with my favorite fitness meals of the week...

 

Lunch or dinner - Weight watchers low-fat turkey taco soup (450 calories).  This is my fav to throw into the crockpot and slow cook all day and also enjoy left over.  One of my Bunco girlfriends provided me the recipe (http://www.food.com/recipe/weight-watchers-low-fat-taco-soup-157732)

 

 

Lunch - any salad with grilled chicken.  Here is the new Chix-Fil-a grilled chicken salad and it is super yummy (approx. 280 calories)