Oof. 75 Medium Week 8 feels like it shouldn’t count. This has been my roughest week of the 75 Medium Challenge yet and I almost feel like I need to extend this challenge out an extra week to compensate! In case you missed week 1, week 2, week 3 , week 4, week 5, week 6, and week 7 recaps, there are plenty of other meal ideas for 75 medium there. 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 and inspiration or (At the very least) solidarity!– 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:
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7319147596705058091?lang=en-US&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Ftheregularfolks.com%2F75-medium-week-7-recap-meal-ideas-workouts-and-inspo%2F
75 Medium Week 8 Recap
Whew. Remember last week when I said I wasn’t feeling great so I took a couple of days off working out? That had nothing on this. A stomach bug plagued our home this past week and the vomiting/lack of appetite made me pretty much unable to workout even if I wanted to push through. Between taking a couple days off last week and this week, should I just extend out this challenge a week? It really wasn’t like I skipped by choice, right!?
Hopefully this recap helps you feel less alone if crazy circumstances beyond your control keep you from technically meeting this challenge. It just is what is sometimes!
I have been reading The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo and while I’m not fighting through it, it is not really my style. If anyone has any non-fiction recommendations, I am all ears! I haven’t been picking very well!
Because of the nausea/vomiting/lack of appetite this week, food has also been not as perfect, but I am feeling better and hoping to plan some good meals next week!
Day 50/75 (2/14/24)
Exercise: Strength training at gym
Weight: 136 pounds (down 4 pounds from Day 1)
Breakfast: Breakfast burrito (tortilla with egg, spinach, chicken sausage, avocado, and hot sauce) + collagen coffee
Lunch: almond flour crackers and pimiento cheese + apple and PB
Dinner: Chicken sausage and ditalini soup
Day 51/75
Exercise: Cycling on stationary bike for 45 minutes
Breakfast: Breakfast burrito
Lunch: leftover soup
Dinner: BBQ Chicken with baked sweet potato (with butter, small amount of brown sugar, cinnamon, and chopped pecans)
Day 52/75
SICK
Exercise: skipped
Breakfast: Smashed avocado on toast
Lunch: skipped
Dinner: skipped
Day 53/75
SICK
Exercise: skipped
Breakfast: breakfast burrito (eating this this was a mistake lol)
Lunch: skipped
Dinner: Ground turkey burrito bowl (ground turkey, corn, black beans, tomatoes, rice, and chipotle ranch sauce)
Day 54/75
Exercise: Cycling for 45 minutes
Breakfast: Kodiak cake waffles with blueberries
Lunch: pimento cheese crackers and apple
Dinner: skipped
Day 55/75
Exercise: Strength training at the gym leg day
Breakfast: breakfast burrito
Lunch: almond flour crackers with pimento cheese and apple
Dinner: grilled chicken in a garlic cream sauce with roasted sweet potatoes
Day 56/75
Exercise: Skipped
Breakfast: sweet potato hash
Lunch: crispy chicken poblano salad from Just Salad (romaine, kale, corn, pickled onions, avocado, chicken, and poblano ranch)
Dinner: chicken tacos
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