75 Medium Challenge: Week 3 Recap (Meal Ideas, Workouts, Inspo)

Week 3 of the 75 medium challenge, is officially complete! In case you missed week 1 and week 2 recaps, there are plenty of other meal ideas for 75 medium there as well. If you are also doing the 75 medium challenge (or the 75 Hard or 75 soft challenge), hopefully these posts can give you some healthy meal ideas– I know that’s what I sometimes have the most difficulty with!

And just in case you have zero idea what the 75 medium challenge is, here is a video and a post to fill you in:

Day 15/75 (1/10/24)

Weight: 138 pounds (2 pounds down from Day 1)

Reading: Atomic Habits by James Clear

Breakfast: Oatmeal with granola, chia seeds, strawberries, pecans, and peanut butter

Workout: Gym for strength training– leg day

Snack: Barebells protein bar— the BEST protein bars

Lunch: Salad wrap– low carb wrap with lettuce, rotisserie chicken, tomatoes, queso fresco, black beans, and chipotle ranch

Dinner: 1 pot chicken and rice with broccoli and cheddar

Day 16/75

Exercise: Stationary bike for 45 minutes

Breakfast: Greek yogurt with granola, blueberries, and chia seeds

Lunch: leftover chicken, rice, and broccoli

Dinner: Corn chowder (used a Salt & Lavender recipe but omitted bacon and added some rotisserie chicken at the end)

Day 17/75

Breakfast: breakfast burrito– low carb wrap, turkey sausage, egg, spinach, avocado, salsa

Exercise: Gym for strength training– arm day

Lunch: Leftover corn chowder

Dinner: Ground turkey burritos with cauliflower rice– included toppings like corn, black beans, salsa, tomatoes, lettuce, avocado, and queso fresco

Day 18/75

Exercise: active recovery day– was painting our bathroom a good part of the day, which is definitely an active chore!

Breakfast: Breakfast burrito (per usual)

Lunch: Turkey sandwich with cheese, lettuce, tomato, & honey mustard on multigrain bread

Dinner: Chickpea pitas– used whole grain pitas and topped with roasted chickpeas, rotisserie chicken, roasted cauliflower, roasted red pepper and topped with a yogurt dressing

Day 19/75

Exercise: Stationary bike for 45 minutes

Breakfast: Kodiak cakes waffles with blueberries

Lunch: Turkey sandwich with cheese, lettuce, tomato, & honey mustard on multigrain bread

Dinner: Whole grain pasta with grilled chicken, spinach, in a homemade Alfredo sauce (bit of butter, garlic, cream, and parm cheese)

Day 20/75

Breakfast: Kodiak instant oatmeal— this is a great breakfast in a pinch because it has 12grams of protein!

Lunch: Pure Protein protein bar and half of a peanut butter and jelly on sprouted bread

Dinner: Turkey chili

Day 21/75

Breakfast: breakfast burrito per usual– although I started using these low-carb tortillas and really like them!

Lunch: French onion dip (made with Greek Yogurt) with pretzels and strawberries

Dinner: Crock-pot BBQ chicken with roasted sweet potatoes– just added chicken thighs into a crock-pot with a splash of chicken broth and seasoned with salt, paprika, garlic powder, onion powder, chili powder, ground mustard, and liquid smoke and cooked on low for 6 hours. Then shredded with 2 forks and added some BBQ sauce!

The 75 medium challenge continues to get easier with time. The hardest part is sometimes coordinating my gym workouts since I stay-at-home and therefore I rely on my husband to be at least working remote so he can watch the baby monitor for my son’s nap while I go workout. It is tough some days because I can only get so much done during Theo’s nap and it feels like a workout is about all I can get done! In retrospect, this is what has prevented me from working out during his nap in the past, because I would rather rest, read, clean something up, blog, or literally anything else. But I’m trying to put my health as a priority and now I’m just telling myself that working out during his nap is just something that we do, no questions asked.

By the way, I am continuing to read Atomic Habits by James Clear as my 10 pages of non-fiction book every day and it has been a perfect choice of book to read during the 75 medium challenge. Its so applicable to holding yourself accountable during the challenge! So if you need a non-fiction book idea, I recommend it!

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