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:

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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)

Reading: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo

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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