Life Updates & 7 Day Slim Down Recap
I’ve been posting recipes, goals, and reviews like crazy, but it’s been quite awhile since I gave you an actual life update. So before I give you a recap on my last 7 Day Slim Down, I want to cover a few things:
I’m going to South By Southwest (aka SXSW) tomorrow! I apologize in advance for flooding your twitter and instagram feeds in the coming week. I’m extremely excited about all of the speaker sessions I’ll be attending. I can’t wait to learn even more about social media and digital marketing. I’m also excited to visit Austin, TX since I’ve never been there! (If any of you are going, shoot me an e-mail or something, so we can meet up!)
Now, it’s about time I gave Alex a formal introduction to the blog, since I’ve just been randomly referencing him.
There you go. He’s amazing, and has adapted quite well to my random eating habits. That’s right. I wasted no time cooking things like tempeh and nutritional yeast for with him. I’m a lucky girl.
And now onto the 7 day slim down details. This was my second time doing the Tone It Up plan, and I’ll admit I was less strict this time around. Friday night included wine and tacos from Don’t Look Back, which weren’t on the plan, but other than that, I did try to follow the meal plan for the most part. Alex and I made a lot of Tone It Up approved recipes, including chickpea burgers on Saturday night. I ate lots of vegetables, cut out most added sugars, and mostly avoided night time snacking. I got in a few good workouts, and I think my sleeping habits were even back on track!
Basically, I feel great! Since I allowed myself a little more flexibility in the 7 day slim down this time around, it felt much easier. In honor of What I Ate Wednesday, here’s a snapshot of what a day’s eats looked like:
Breakfast: Every morning, I had a protein shake with kale, banana, and stevia, with just enough almond milk to blend it.
Lunch: Typically salads with some kind of protein, either quinoa, or almonds, or a veggie burger. Mid afternoon, I’d have some sort of protein bar. (Check out some of my favorites here.)
Dinner: I tried out a quinoa pizza crust recipe and it came out pretty well! Definitely a crispier crust than I expected, which I liked. Topped with tomato sauce, peppers, onions, and nutritional yeast.
As I said, I didn’t follow the plan exactly, but I tried my best!
I won’t be following the plan while I’m in Austin, but I’m going to make an effort to stick to lots of fruits and vegetables. I have a feeling I’m going to need plenty of energy!
For more 7 Day Slim Down Ideas, check out this post:
Hope you have so much fun at SXSW! Jealous to the max!
Wow that quinoa pizza looks amazing. Where can I find the recipe? I have the Tone It Up nutrition plan, is it in there? Can’t wait to try it!
Enjoy Austin, you look happy!, and are you going to post the quinoa crust recipe or link?!
Have fun! A couple of my coworkers get to go, but not me, boo. You’ll have to share lots of what you learn!
have so much fun!! I’m beyond jealous that you are flying somewhere warm!
I’ve never been to Texas, but that sounds like a great time! When my parents went this past summer they stopped at Elvis’s house on the way back 🙂
That pizza turned out so good!
Y’all are super cute 😀 Okay, I’ve been seeing so many pics of no bull burgers lately but have no clue what they are – please fill me in, what are they? And quinoa pizza crust sound delic, I’d love to try that – we’ve got a gazillion pound bag of quinoa from Costco that I’ve been trying to use up 😛
That’s a lovely picture of you and Alex 🙂
The plan sounds good and I’m sure no healthy eating plan is going to be spoilt by adding bananas – and I think every healthy lifestyle has to have room for a few glasses of wine!
The quinoa pizza crust sounds fab; crispy is the way forward…
I think at our blogger meetup at Northside Social I basically immediately started talking about my love for Austin! I echo previous comments about eating at Torchy’s: they have a taco called the Dirty Sanchez (…) and it is the best thing you will ever taste. Snack Bar also has some pretty live-changing brussels sprouts. Also, your boyfriend is fiiine! And the captions on that photo are precious.
Nice to meet the boyfriend! Such a cute couple 🙂
You will love Austin, beautiful city!!