Ab's are Made in the Kitchen!!!!

It's a sad week in my fitness world! I can not do any impact related workouts on my foot for 4-6 weeks. The pain in my foot is still very high, even almost one week after the half marathon! SOOOO I will be working on my six pack and reducing my workouts to yoga and strength training until further notice.

Don't judge me on my form, I am horrible at Yoga but I'll be getting better now!

Taking this week off has really opened my eyes as to how much I take advantage of my workouts, I let myself slack off on my eating since I was still burning a ton of calories especially during training these last few months. This week I really had to be strict on my eating since I was not burning any calories with workouts, and man is this eating clean HARD!!!!!

 

Staying on track is hard for me if I don't have a plan! So about a year ago (when I was strict with eating) I made a menu for my kitchen. For about 2.00 with some chalk paint. I started using it again and it has helped tremendously! All my recipes are low calorie and I love it my menu why did I stop? now my husband comes home and just looks at the menu instead of asking me whats for dinner eevvverrrryyyy single day!!! It also helps lower the grocery bill, and keeps me from falling behind which leads to taking the family out to dinner because I didn't have anything planned.

I have Saturday and Sunday on there as closed because we usually have a night out on the weekends. Amazingly I have lost 1lb this week just by being very strict on my eating. I am trying to follow Chris Powell's Carb Cycling eating plan which has seemed to be working?!

SOOOOOO hopefully when my 4-6 weeks of resting my foot is up I'll be back out running and be brewing some sweet abs under my kangaroo pouch I carried my kids in!

Many people think that the ab workouts is what gets you abs but, you have to remove all the fat around the abs first and the only way to do that is by eating the right stuff! and staying away from the wrong stuff!

 

How to Find Your 6 Pack Abs Under That Flabby Belly

The trick to reducing fat around your middle is to:

• Reduce your caloric intake and eat foods that are proven “fat burners” such as lean protein, salads and vegetables.
• Reduce your carbohydrate intake, especially in the evening hours when your body is slowing down.
• Adopt a low fat diet for your lifestyle to burn the unwanted fat and eventually reach the show-off abs you desire.

There is a difference between strengthening/toning your abs and reducing the fat around your middle. Strengthening/toning abdominal muscles can be achieved by exercising, but removing the fat must take place from the inside out. It won’t do you any good to try spot reduction exercises if you don’t get rid of the fat first.

Now there is no excuses for me there is still ways to get my workouts in! I refuse to be thrown off the wagon! Happy Friday! Hope y'all have a FITtastic Weekend!!! XOXO

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