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Day in the Life: Mel’s Meals [#12]

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Mel's Meals

Here is another Day in the Life: Mel’ Meals post. I document everything I eat for the day (and non-water beverages). If you have questions about how I prepared something or where I bought something then let me know.

I have decided to decrease my calorie intake slightly and do less cardio (more details at the end). I only cut out 150 calories and kept my macro percentages the same, but it always takes me a couple days to get in the habit of how much food to pack for each meal. Here is everything I had on Monday.

4:30am – Pre-workout

Mel's Meals

The typical start to my morning…. 1 liter of water, half plain and the other half mixed with 1 scoop MusclePharm Assualt (fruit punch). 1 BCAA capsule pre-workout, one post-workout. [Read more…]

Brown Rice with Grilled Vegetables

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Brown Rice with Grilled Vegetables

We spent the first two years of our marriage without a grill. Donny is a chef, LOVES cooking barbeque, and yet we never had a real grill.

We had one Pampered Chef grill pan for a while and then a year-and-a-half in to our marriage we received the double grill pan for Christmas. Still no real grill. [Read more…]

Day in the Life: Mel’s Meal [#11]

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Mel's Meals

Time for Day in the Life: Mel’s Meals where I show you everything I ate and drank throughout the day. I do not show you how much water I drink per day, but if you are interested then let me know. I average between 4-5 liters per day, occasionally 6. Yep, lots of water and LOTS of bathroom breaks! Here is everything I ate on Monday. [Read more…]

Greek Cucumber & Tomato Salad

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Greek Cucumber & Tomato Salad - a quick, healthy salad that can be made in minutes! Add chickpeas, chicken, or salmon for added protein to this clean eating dish.

Donny & I started out with just one dog, Doug. It took us 2 1/2 years of marriage before we were ready to get another dog. We finally did that and adopted Kevin six weeks ago or so! Well we are in love with both dogs so much that we decided to take another dog in for a few weeks!

Well, sort of. [Read more…]

Anything & Everything Friday – April 1st

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Friday

I cannot believe it is Friday already! Happy April Fool’s Day! Any pranks pulled on you yet? Have you pranked anyone today?!?! Well, good luck. Donny was gone all week which can sometimes make the week go by slow. Not the case. Not the case at all. I was really busy at work and it wasn’t even beginning-of-the-month stuff. It was just plain busy. Good busy, not stressful busy.

Time for Anything & Everything Friday! I have several links for you including one to help you master the Whole Foods salad bar like a champ and still have money afterwards. I also have a list of some cities for a weekend getaway and I have some questions for you about this blog, Eat. Lift. Play. Repeat. Let’s get to it, shall we?!?! [Read more…]

4-Ingredient No Bake Peanut Butter Cookies

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No Bake Peanut Butter Cookie

It is ridiculous how easy it is to make these 4-Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies. First of all, you only have to round up four ingredients! After that, it only takes a couple minutes to get them whipped up! The hardest part is letting them harden in the refrigerator without trying to sneak a few bites!!!

Last week we had a crazy spring blizzard in Colorado. Remember that?!?! Well in the radio world we do not get snow days. However, the weather was getting crazy and visibility was getting really bad, so the Boss-Man let us go home at about 12:30pm! It was not easy trying to find my way home with several areas that were complete white-outs! Did you end up having to drive in that weather?! [Read more…]

Day in the Life: Mel’s Meals [#10]

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Day in the Life: Mel’s Meals posts are to show you what I eat throughout the day. I try to mix things up when I am doing meal prep but tend to gravitate towards the same foods. I like protein and I like mixing up my vegetables. I have oatmeal in different forms each week, but have it almost every day. Sometimes I get crazy and try new combos or techniques. In this case, poaching my own egg! Let’s get to it. Here is everything I ate on Monday. [Read more…]

Asian Chopped Salad

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Asian Chopped Salad

Before we get to the Asian Chopped Salad, let’s talk about Easter. Was the Easter Bunny good to you?!?!? He was good to me! I got a little basket full of goodies including some cute socks that look like tennis shoes (awesome), some beef jerky, and Reese’s PB Egg. Most importantly however, the Easter Bunny gave me the ingredients for a Moscow mule! Hahaha yes, last year I received a six pack of beer and this year a shooter of vodka, one can of ginger beer, and a lime! The Easter Bunny really does know me! [Read more…]