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March 11, 2025 · Leave a Comment

75 Medium: Week 8 Recap, Meals, Workouts, and Tips

75 Medium· Health

I am currently making way way through my second round of the 75 medium challenge (a fitness challenge somewhere between 75 hard and 75 easy). For me now, week 8 of 75 medium is complete, so it’s time for a recap of what I ate, what workouts I completed, and how things are going. I share all this so that if you are in the same boat, you may get some meal inspiration and some solidarity whether you are participating in 75 easy, 75 medium, or 75 hard (or just trying to start making healthier choices without putting a label on it!).

If you want to read more about my new rules and want your own free printable tracker, you can check it out here:

The 75 Medium Challenge: Updated Rules for 2025 + FREE Tracker

Reading this week for 75 medium:

Finished: Mostly What God Does by Savannah Guthrie

Currently Reading: Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg

Day 50

Breakfast: breakfast burrito with chicken sausage, egg, beans, and avocado + coffee with collagen

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Lunch: protein wrap with chicken, lettuce, tomato, spicy ranch, and cheese

Dinner: Grilled salmon with tater-tot casserole, and asparagus fries

Exercise: gym for strength training (focused on assisted pull-ups, delt pull-downs, bent over-rows, lateral raises, and some other exercises to target the back muscles)

Day 51

Breakfast: breakfast burrito with chicken sausage, egg, beans, and avocado + coffee with collagen

Lunch: popcorn, apple, and string cheese

Dinner: grass-fed steak, roasted Brussels, and roasted sweet potatoes

75 medium week 8 recap and meal ideas

Snack: non-fat plain Greek yogurt, honey, raspberries, dark chocolate, and chia seeds

75 medium week 8 recap and meal ideas

Exercise: active recovery day

Day 52

Breakfast: breakfast burrito with chicken sausage, egg, beans, and avocado + coffee with collagen

Lunch: Peanut butter and jelly and string cheese

I got this jam at Costco and I really like it!

Dinner: chicken Caesar wraps

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Exercise: stationary bike for 40 minutes

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Day 53

Breakfast: breakfast burrito with chicken sausage, egg, beans, and avocado + coffee with collagen

Lunch: peanut butter and jelly sandwich and apple

Dinner: orzo bake– I did this recipe modified a bit! I followed the recipe from the reel below and used homemade bone broth and whole wheat orzo and omitted cream of mushroom soup and added quartered grape tomatoes.

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Exercise: stationary bike for 35 minutes

Day 54

Breakfast: breakfast sandwich with egg whites and cheese plus a latte

Lunch: leftover orzo bake

Dinner: out for my birthday dinner! Had penne a la vodka and a slice of cake

Exercise: gym for strength training

Day 55

Breakfast: grits with cheese, chicken sausage, and egg white

Lunch: Leftover penne

Dinner: hamburger helper gnocchi with grass-fed beef and whole wheat gnocchi (I found mine at Lidl)

Exercise: stationary bike for 35 minutes

Day 56

Breakfast: sugar-free vanilla latte with non-fat milk and a turkey bacon egg white sandwich from Starbucks

Lunch: spinach wrap with chicken, cheese, lettuce, roasted chickpeas, and spicy ranch

75 medium week 8 recap and meal ideas

Dinner: grass-fed beef burgers with homemade sweet potato fries

Exercise: gym for leg day

75 Medium Week 8 Recap

Still feeling confident on how this challenge is going! I feel like my meals are pretty good and relatively balanced (despite it being my birthday on day 54 and indulging on some treats). The one area I feel like I could really improve is cutting down on red meat. We do make an effort to buy organic grass-fed beef whenever we can because its leaner and higher in nutrients, but it’s still higher in cholesterol and fat than turkey or chicken. I also am making more of a switch to add egg whites in my breakfast instead of whole eggs to cut down on saturated fat.

I also need to get back on my kickboxing! My toddler has been taking less than ideal naps and I’ve also had so much to catch up with this blog, that sometimes it feels like I can multitask at least with the stationary bike!

75 medium challenge week 8 recap

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