Food Prep Sundays

This week starts Week 1 of the LiveFit Trainer for Brad and I, as well as our friends Kate and Ryan. This training program is 12 weeks long and is highly successful. Our goals are to lose body fat, tone up, and challenge ourselves. Kate and Ryan are doing the program with us to get "in the best shape of their lives!" This program was created by my fitness hero, Jamie Eason. Love. Her.

I have been wanting to start it for a while, but I had a little convincing to do first. Now there are 4 of us to help each other through the program. Since Brad and I have been weight training and practicing clean eating for years, we are helping train Kate and Ryan as well as give tips and advice for the nutritional part of the program! We love training, weight lifting, and nutrition so we are pretty excited about this!

Food Prep Sundays - this is a MUST! On this program, we will be eating 6 meals a day. Since we will be eating so much all day, food prep is very necessary.
-An example of my daily menu:

• breakfast - 5 egg whites and 1 piece of Ezekiel toast
• mid-morning - 4 (homemade) protein bars 
• lunch - 6 oz. of chicken and 3/4 cup of brown rice
• mid-afternoon - 2 turkey muffins and spinach salad
• dinner - 6 oz. chicken and unlimited veggies
• before bed - 5 egg whites

Brad eats about the same, but a lot more (he eats 8 oz. of meat, more eggs, etc.). There is a little bit of variation in our daily meals, but the basics are high protein, whole-grain carbs, and no sugar or "fake" foods...i.e. clean eating! So far, so good. I'll let you know how the first week goes!

Here's what food prep for 7 days looks like!

Brad's breakfast eggs / greek yogurt and berries / protein powder for shakes

food scale / grilled chicken / carrot protein bars

14 lunches!

the fridge is packed!