I have 3 amazing high-protein recipes to share with you this week along with an update on my 4 week maintenance cycle. Enjoy!!
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RECIPES
Feta Egg Taco Inspiration – https://t.ly/hDzXF
Chicken Pad Thai – https://t.ly/sA3Gc
CheatDayDesign Brownies – https://t.ly/bxLsE
Strawberry Protein Fluff
(Makes 4 servings)
24oz Non-Fat Cottage Cheese
0.3oz Sugar-free Strawberry Jello
1lb Strawberries
4oz Fat-Free Cool Whip
1oz Chopped Pistachios
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This is the grocery haul for this week I’m fully addicted to these Crystal Light why won’t you focus look it’s early if you came here expecting to see somebody that had their ish together I’m sorry to disappoint you that’s not me oh I did a/4 cup girl we living
Dangerously # we go problems look how pretty it is Good morning welcome to my channel if you’re new here my name is Mindy and I have lost almost 120 lbs on wovi mjar GL tight compound and now I’m back on we GOI again and it is Sunday and it is freaking cold in Central Texas I
Don’t mind telling you I just dropped my husband off at work he asked to go go to leic today and so I am on my way to the HB I need to go get groceries for the week and I’m going to do a little bit of food prep today
Not a lot I’m going to do most of it tomorrow cuz it’s my day off and that’s when I’m going to spend most of my time with you but I figured it’s been a while since I’ve done a little grocery haul with you guys I’m going to warn you
Right now my house is kind of a disaster as it’s tradition so that’s a thing but I’m going to do my best to try and make it somewhat presentable the only reason I’m not doing all of my food prep today is because Nikki is coming
Over for me to do her nails so I don’t really have time to do all the food prep before she gets here and I don’t know how long it’s going to take and I also need to do my nails but I’m doing different something different I chopped
Off the the they were getting way too long I was ready for them to be short again I need to try and do as much of my nails as I can today but I’m switching on myself from a acrylic to Builder gel because the acrylic on myself is just
Taking way too long and I losing patience I know that I will get better with it if I stick with it and I’ll get faster but I’m just not I’m not at that place right now and I’ve been watching videos of people doing builder in a bottle and it just looks so
Easy if you’ve been around for some of my nail Journey you know I see things all the time that I’m like oh that looks so easy I can totally do that and then I try it and it’s not easy at all but I’m going to try uh I do have my cosmetology
License but I specialized in hair color when I was doing hair even though I know how to do nails it was never something that I did a lot excuse me even though it was not something I ever did a lot like for other people like getting paid for
And I do an okay job on myself but I also take five ever to do it cuz I’m right hand dominant so when I have to use my left hand it just takes a real long time and even using my right hand on myself like the angle’s not
Quite right and you know you know if you do your own Nails you know you know there’s always a trouble hand anyway I’m going to go get some groceries we’re going to see what we can see I already have my meal plan on my grocery list made and everything if you are somebody
That struggles with making your own meal plans and like you’re just kind of like clueless or you have a really really hard time with finding recipes that sound delicious or whatever if you are a buy me a coffee member for me I do have
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Balanced recipes so feel free to check those out as well and yeah hopefully that gives you a little bit of inspiration and some help in working on your meal planning for the weeks because meal planning for me is essential if I don’t know what I’m eating for the week that’s when I get
Into trouble let’s go into the HB and get some groceries $56 48 good job I even bought a couple extra things I would just like to start off by saying thank you for motivating me to clean my stove cuz it was really gross and I needed somewhere to put my
Groceries cuz every other inch of camera space is take it in my kitchen okay let me show you my grocery haul I am very carefully cropping this shot okay so this was mul for my however much it was 56 something or what whatever I said it
Was when I was at HB and I’ll just walk you through it I don’t have a lot of meat because I’m mostly using my freezer stores but they did have split boneless skinless chicken breast on sale for $1.99 a pound so I picked some of that
Up uh I also grabbed oh we’re going to have to be careful not to get into my light aren’t we let’s try that I did pick up some Canadian bacon for my feta breakfast taco thing that’s gone viral that I’m putting my own spin on this week I also needed some brown sugar
Cuz I was running out and I needed it for some recipes but you know restock and then also these law band Dorito carb counter tortillas are by far the best low carb tortilla I found this is a new size it’s the snack size so it’s like between their street Taco size
So this is the street Taco size which you can see is a little bit smaller and these ones are only 30 calories per tortilla these ones are 40 calories per tortilla but they are quite a bit bigger and I thought they would be good for my breakfast tacos this week I needed some
More peanut butter I love these on salads and I’m going to be doing a lasagna Skillet um with a side salad and I’m going to be putting this on my salad and I needed some tomatoes for my salad I’m also going to be making a macro friendly food chicken Pad Thai recipe
This week that I needed roasted peanuts for some limes I these were not on the grocery list but they are my absolute favorite Apple come on Focus right here come on friend okay well it’s not going to focus anyway these are cosmic crisp apples I like them better than honey crisps and
They were on sale for 97 cents a pound there’s also an avocado hiding in here the feta egg tacos that I found she did like an avocado smash on the bottom and to make it a little bit more calorie friendly I’m going to turn it into like an avocado dressing with some Greek
Yogurt to up the protein content and I’m going to add the honey and and the chili flakes and spiciness into that so stay tuned for that we’re going to meal prip that in a bit I’m looking forward to it I think it’s going to be tasty I got
Some pumpkin for some high protein brownies I’m going to make this week tomato sauce and tomato paste for the lasagna Skillet cucumber for my salads green onion for the pad tie and just green onion I’m fully addicted to these Crystal Light why won’t you focus focus focus Daniel Son
Nope not going to happen Okay uh these strawberry lemonade crystalite I like to combine them with the blue raspberry flavor but they don’t carry that at my hvv so I have to get it at Walmart mozzarella cheese for the lasagna Skillet also cottage cheese for the lasagna skillet for my feta breakfast
Tacos I accidentally left my Dijon at Nikki’s house and just have never remember to pick it back up again so I needed some more Barilla pasta was on sale this week at HB and I forgot to used the coupon so that would have been a dollar cheaper for those two but you
Know what whatever uh and then I also picked up these pad tie rice noodles but I had to buy those on Amazon because they were out of stock oo pretty they were out of stock sorry squirrel uh they were out of stock at my HB so this is the grocery haul for this
Week good morning if you can’t tell oh nope sorry I forgot to clip on my mic good morning if you can’t can’t tell by my oh so stylish just slept in hair and wet boob because I had a stain on myself I just woke up it’s the next day
Because Saturday or Sunday ended up being unexpectedly long it took longer to do Nikki’s Nails than I planned and then I did my own Nails probably can’t see those cuz it’s focusing on my face ooh anyway I had way too much fun doing them because me I tried out a new product
Which was builder in a bottle and I’ve been doing acrylic for the last several months and uh I needed to drop them off they’ve been way too long for way too long and I just needed them to be short and so yeah I had way too much fun with
That last night by the time I was done it was like 8:30 or something like that and I was not about about to start doing food prep at that time so thankfully I’m off today so I have plenty of time to get things done but it also means cuz
One of the things I was supposed to prep yesterday was the sauce for this morning’s breakfast this morning breakfast is kind of inspired by that Viral feta egg Trend business not usually a viral recipe kind of gal but this one looked really good to me obviously I’m going to put my own spin
On it the recipe that I was inspired by I found on Instagram cuz I don’t do Tik Tok basically it was just like a tortilla and she smashed some avocado on it and she cooked in a pan some feta with some fried eggs and a runny yolk
Which you know that’s my jam and then she put hot honey on top of it I ran that recipe through my calorie tracker I used macros first and it didn’t have enough protein for me but it was very high calorie because of the amount of
Avocado so what I’m going to do is I’m going to put my own spin on it by making my own sauce to put on it instead of just straight up avocado I’m going to do an avocado spicy honey creamy situation and I had originally planned on using
Greek yogurt because I do like Greek yogurt in like plain Greek yogurt in Savory applications not as big of a fan in sweet applications and I know this is kind of a Savory sweet cross over but I was like why would I use Greek yogurt when I have my best friend cottage
Cheese for another recipe that I’m going to be making tonight and I won’t need all of it so I figured since we’re going to have cheese already in the tacos in the form of feta that this could only make it better fetta cuz feta look it’s early if you came here
Expecting to see somebody that had their is together I’m sorry to disappoint you that’s not me my kitchen is a mess obviously this was after me tidying up a little bit but I need to eat so uh yeah I have my pan preheating Which I thought I had cleaned but apparently I
Didn’t whatever I’m going to be using these law banderita carb counter tortillas if you have not tried these they are absolutely the best low carb tortilla wrap whatever like they’re super soft and they taste just like a regular flower tortilla I would love to do a corn tortilla for this I feel like
The texture would be better but also corn tortillas are smaller than this so and the macros aren’t as good so I’m going to I’m going to stick with this and we’re going to see how this goes I need to look at my phone because I can’t remember how much cheese I’m supposed to
Use please hold also I made an executive decision well no I’m going to taste it first like I said guys this this is a this is an experiment I have no idea how this is going to come out hopefully it’s not gross if it is don’t try it okay so I
Have my avocado hot honey dressing except for I’m using cottage cheese and stuffff HB low fat low that cottage cheese here we go half a cup 90 calories at it good so we made that into six servings five okay so that’s 96 calories per serving for this dressing I don’t necessarily know that
I’m going to need a whole half cup of cottage cheese that sounds like a lot but we’ll see we’ll see when I get it in there we’ll start with 1/4 cup and then we’ll go from there after all that I forgot to check oh I did a/4 cup
Girl we liveing dangerously okay so the other trick with anytime you do an OV easy egg it’s better if you use room temperature eggs now unless you’re somebody that has farm fresh eggs that have never been refrigerated obviously your eggs are going to be well at least
I hope you’re refrigerating your eggs if you’re buying refrigerated eggs cuz that’s important so a little trick I put too much water in this you can take your eggs out of the fridge and put them in some hot water and let them just soak in there for a little while and it’ll bring
Your eggs to room temperature Tada um but it’ll make them cook a little bit more evenly so that you’re not in a situation where you’re having to overcook your yolks to get your whites cooked I’m going to make this sauce I’m going to make this sauce and I’m going to weigh everything
Because I’m lazy and I don’t want to get uh measuring cups dirty let’s start with this aquad do we’re going to hope that this aquad do looks like it was raised by Two Loving parents but if it’s not we’re going to love it anyway it’s not too bad look pretty good the
The part by the by the that part the stem it’s a little it’s a little wonky but it’s fine also tip to get the pit out do that and then when you’re taking this off and putting it in the trash come from the back of the knife don’t
Pull it off from the front and you can just shove it off into the trash that way you don’t hurt your hand dump this avocado in here this is my last week of Maintenance so I’m not like super worked up about making sure that I have all of
These macros like perfect cuz I have yet to hit my calories on this maintenance cycle oh no I have yet to hit my calories on a single week just hasn’t happened so # weo problems so I am preheating My Pan to get it nice and caramelized on
The bo B I’m going to start with a/4 cup of cottage cheese instead of a half a cup and we’re going to see how it goes and I am going to blend this so if you’re somebody who doesn’t like the texture of cottage cheese and you haven’t tried Blended cottage cheese
Give it a shot cuz man is it delicious 110 G is half a cup that means 55 G is hold on math is hard I need a tablespoon of honey which is 21 gram come on all right the rest is just seasonings that I’m not going to measure we’re
Going to measure them with our heart so little Cayenne for some spice some spice is nice oh no please tell me you didn’t clear no I wanted to know how much the whole thing weighed so that I could measure out how much to put on each serving but
You know what I’m the only one eating it so I’m just going to eyeball it and it’s going to be fine it’s not going to bother my OCD at all I’m going to add in some red pepper flakes just a couple pinches cuz they use hot honey and I
Don’t have honey so and then some garlic powder which we always measure with our heart and I don’t know if it’s going to need salt yet because cottage cheese is quite salty if you don’t have an immersion blender they’re not necessary but they Mak little projects like this
Really nice cuz I don’t have to take out my food processor or my big ass blender and the only thing I have to clean is this it’s nice and blend it up I want it to be really thick so that it’ll stay on the torella see if I can
Show you the texture of that she thick with three se’s and I think it’s fine with just the 1/4 cup of cottage cheese I don’t think it needs more but I do think it needs some salt though okay we’re going to call it Mindy’s OCD is going crazy but you know
Whatever fingers really are the best tools anyway just more salt or some salt wasn’t sure if it would need me quite a bit of sodium in hot cheese so I didn’t want to add salt in the beginning and then have it be way too salty yeah I think that’s going to be
Tasty it could also use more spice so I think I’m going to add a little more Cayenne before I start seasoning this I’m going to get my eggs going first I’m going to start by using some non-stick spray real quick and we’re going to do 1/4 cup of feta
Which is 28 G sprinkle it in the pan here some big pieces and some of the powdery stuff and it’s all already starting to sizzle a little and this is reduced fat feta you can definitely go full fat there’s really not that big of a difference in the calorie count and
Now I’m going to crack my eggs in there I kind of want to pull you closer Tony Danza there we go it’s twins you got a double Yer that one’s going to be real good perfect turn the heat up on that a little bit sprinkle some of O some of the red pepper
On the eggs themselves I think that’ll be delicious yum we’re going to cover that and let it get good and cooked we want the whites to be set and the yolks to be runny okay all right so that’s it for the feta we’re going to put her
Away and then the rest of the week my sauce is already made so literally all I have to do is just the egg part and throw it on to all right I’m going to put a little bit of salt in here just a sprinky sprink probably like eigh of a teaspoon
Maybe less and a tiny bit more Cayenne you could also put like some chalula on here but that will be good one more salt perfect while I’m waiting for that to finish cooking I’m going to wipe off my board cuz it’s gross back here oh sh didn’t pay
Attention to what I did oops I forgot I forgot I forgot I forgot to up the protein I included in my macros a couple slices of Canadian bacon I definitely want caramelized a little bit I’m going to take two little discs of Canadian and bacon I’m going to cut them in
Half not me trying to hide my shave one two I can feel those eggs getting overcooked by the second a good dollup of that avocado business and shmear it on there shmear what’s that from anybody know bird cage was the best movie ever cut that in half we’re going to
Put one egg on one one oh no and the other egg on the other it stopped recording and I don’t know how long ago it did but I I got the eggs on there and then I got my little Canadian Bacons in the pan just getting them a little
Crisped up yep yep yep yep yep uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh nothing like a little Sesame Street reference for your morning I would do this step before the eggs but I forgot just so it’s pretty oh that was hot and not in a Paris Hilton way we did it we made the
Food look how pretty it is yep those egg yolks are totally cooked it’s all right it’s fine let’s go give these a taste I’m really sad about those yolks being overcooked but you know what it’s okay it’s a learning experience and we’re going to see what this tastes like yep that’s
Delicious and sauce is slightly sweet really creamy super delicious yum make that really easy to throw together mhm good okay bye I’ll see you guys later shot day shot shot shot shot sh shot I know I’ve done a billion of these shot videos so if you’ve been around for
A long time I’m sorry this is repetition we always start with sanitizing the injection area I do my arms because honestly it’s the least painful and that’s when I lost the most weight but mostly it’s said it’s the least painful and it’s the easiest to film I don’t
Know that I necessarily believe that there’s a correlation between how much weight you lose and where you inject I think there’s been enough anecdotal evidence that it can have an effect on your side effects for sure for example I used to have allergic reactions to the preservatives when I injected in my legs
My legs were also by far the most painful place to inject do with that what you will so I I do not inject on my legs anymore I’ve also injected on my stomach I’ve heard people say that you get worse side effects when you inject in your stomach that wasn’t really my
Experience but you know I haven’t really had a hard time with side effects in general so the wovi pen is quite a bit different than the moonaro pen it does not have a lock on it yeah it doesn’t have a lock on it uh so it has a cap just like the mojarro
Pen does but the needle is like down in there with the mojarro pen the second click is the needle coming out of your skin so you’re immediately done with the wovie pen there’s two clicks but you need to hold it in place until the little yellow window in here stops
Moving as you start injecting you’ll notice there’s a little yellow plunger that’s coming down you need to keep it in place until that stops moving the instructions used to say that you needed to count to 10 but now they just say you can stop once the little yellow plunger
Stops moving so we’re just going to put it in place and we’re going to push little stingy today ow usually I don’t feel it at all uh today is stingy very stingy actually sometimes I think the needles aren’t as sharp as others this time I bled a
Little so yeah don’t know what that’s all about I do also think that how much fat you have in the area affects how painful it is cuz like my arms are getting quite a bit thin like I’ve still got bat wings for days and I don’t know
That those will ever go away but when I inject it into my stomach like I rarely felt anything cuz that’s all Pudge all the time there’s just something to be said for that and the place where I just injected there’s not a ton of fat there
Like it’s on top of my arm and this is getting more muscular anyway that’s all there is to it this goes into a Sharps container if you don’t have one I always have a link down in the description for a free Sharps container Eli Lily no longer gives free Sharps Containers but
You can get one from Nova Nordisk you need to dispose of this in a Sharps container if you don’t want to get a Sharps container you can just use any hard-sided container laundry detergent containers work really good because they have that thing that screws off so you
Can shove them in there once it’s full you duct tape over the lid right Sharps on the side and you can just throw it in your dumpster my nose is running off my face and uh I’m going to go about my day I need a shower because sanitation I’ll be back to cook
With you a little bit later I’m not going to be making lunches this week I’m just eating leftovers cuz I have plenty of them in my fridge from last week so I’ll be making dinner and in addition to that I’m going to need to prep a little
Bit of stuff for tomorrow’s dinner to make my life easier cuz I work a late day tomorrow and then I’m also going to make a dessert for later cuz I like sweet things and if I don’t plan if I fail to plan I plan to fail so I have a
Healthy dessert waiting in the wings so that when I want to put it in my face I have it and I’m not tempted to go get a pine of ice cream I’ll see you later okay I don’t have a lot of time before I have to go
Pick up my husband from work he’s coming back from Leck he had to drive yesterday and I apologize in advance for the dishwasher running but I’m going to use the time that I have to do a little bit of prep for tomorrow’s dinner I’m going
To be making some chicken Pad Thai it is definitely not an authentic recipe but it is a macro friendly food recipe and it’s a free one that she has on her Instagram so I will link it down in the description below but I figured since tomorrow I’m working until like 5:30 to
Give myself a little bit better of a chance and to lessen the likelihood of me being like I’m too tired to cook I don’t want to make dinner I’m going to throw together the sauce really quick so that I have that part done all I have to
Do is just throw stuff in a pan and cook it little things like that that you can do to make your life easier again this is something I was going to do yesterday but we already talked about how that turned out yeah so yeah I’m just going
To throw together some sauce for my pad tie for tomorrow and uh yeah that’s that’s about it that’s what I’m going to do and then I’m going to go pick up my husband and he’s probably going to want lunch and I am still so full from those tacos they
Were almost too filling I almost I mean I don’t feel sick but like like my stomach is very full and it’s been at least an hour since I ate them probably a little bit more so I’m probably not going to be ready for lunch until late I
May not even eat dinner tonight I ain’t even going to lie to you we’re going to do our best let’s make some sauce so this sauce is going to be really easy to throw together I just need 1/4 cup of brown sugar I’m going to lightly pack it
2 tbsp of rice vinegar I do a lot of Asian cooking so this is stuff that I always have on hand two tbspoon of low sodium soy sauce this is a Korean soy sauce and then 2 tablespoons of fish sauce this stuff is real stinky but it
Adds a flavor that cannot be replicated duplicated whatever like you need it it’s necessary my husband loves this stuff puts it in his rice and his Ramen and everything and then the recipe calls for chili garlic sauce which I don’t have and HB didn’t have so I’m just
Going to add some sriracha and I’ll just add a little bit of extra garlic when I do the stir fry and I could just add some garlic powder to it I think I’m going to why not it’s my kitchen I do what I want we’re just going to stir
This up and I’m going to put a lid on it and stick it in my fridge and that way tomorrow when it comes time to throw this together all I need to do is brown the chicken the onions the garlic and ruin this sauce and it’ll be dinner time
It’ll probably come together in like 15 minutes love that for me into the fridge this goes so I had an entire intro filmed for this recipe I had all kinds of footage filmed for in between this and the other thing and I ended up filming it without any audio because I
Forgot to connect my microphone so here we are I’m making some high protein brownies from cheet design I just greased up a brownie pan and then I’m adding 84 g of chocolate whey protein 25 G of unsweetened cocoa powder I like flat cocoa cuz it gives like a deeper
Like it’s what they use to make Oreos so I really enjoy that 40 G of a granular sugar substitute I got this one from Costco on sale a teaspoon of baking powder half a teaspoon of salt and you’re going to mix those together I sifted them just to make sure
That there weren’t any clumps in the protein powder although whey is usually a little bit better than whey casan but you’re going to mixed together 60 G of canned pumpkin 60 G of a brown sugar substitute I get this one from H any brown sugar substitute is fine but the
Most popular are with ronm monk fruit Blends I think they have the best flavor they don’t they have like the least aftertaste I am not a fan of stevia anything two large eggs 48 G of creamy peanut butter and then uh you’re going to take 28 gram of sugar-free semi-
Chocolate chips and you’re going to melt them down in the microwave he said he left some chunks in his so that’s kind of what I did I didn’t make sure it was completely melted I left a little bit of chunkiness in there for the texture it was way thicker than his for reasons
That I will explain later so I added a few splashes of milk I also remember that I forgot the teaspoon of vanilla so I added that in and yeah you’re just going to mix that all up add the dry ingredients into the wet and you have
Brownies pour them in the pan I think the recipe said to bake it for 30 minutes I did 25 minutes because I could smell the chocolate and when you can smell chocolate in the oven it’s time to take it out honestly I could have pulled it out even sooner yes I’m cutting this
Into four portions because I’m a big girl and I do what I want he had this recipe do nine portions and if you just want like a small snack siiz brownie that’s perfect but I had the macros and the calories to turn this into four desserts so that’s what I did these were
Super tasty tasty very chocy but they were definitely cake they were not a brownie but that again was probably my fault because of reasons I will explain in a minute this was a good one you should definitely give it a shot so I was sitting here putting in the recipe
Details for my brownie in macros first and realized why they probably weren’t right I completely forgot an ingredient even though I reread the recipe a million times because of the way that it loads on a computer screen you’re supposed to add a/ quar cup cup of sugar-free maple syrup nope didn’t add
It that being said it was still plenty tasty without it but that probably is why the texture wasn’t right anyway I will still enjoy eating it it was delicious and very filling my tummy is quite full okay bye so this is what it looks like when you don’t overcook the
Eggs oh my God it’s so good so remember that one time when I told you that I recorded a bunch of footage that didn’t have any audio to it well that’s not done yet this was the last clip Tuesday was a rough day at work I had a very
Frustrating experience with a customer and the last thing I wanted to be doing was to cook dinner but thankfully I had given myself a head start with that sauce the day before so I had fewer excuses is unfortunately I feel like my frustration for the day really came out
In the dinner preparation if you’ve ever had pad Tha or tried to make Pad Thai or any rice noodle dish and the noodles were gummy and gross it’s probably because you boiled them boiling activates the starch and it makes them really gluey so you’re supposed to soak
Them in room temperature water for about 15 to 20 minutes until the noodles wrap easily Around Your Finger without breaking and I did that but I think I made the the water too warm and so they got you’ll see other than the noodle debacle these came together really easy
Just a little bit of oil in the pan add in some diced chicken add some salt and pepper you’re just going to let that brown in the pan until it gets some good color in it and stir it around and then you’re going to remove the chicken from
The pan and add in what’s supposed to be sliced onion but raise your hand if your husband hates vegetables and you have to hide them so I did diced onion instead you’re going to add a little bit more oil to the pan add the onion till it’s caramelized if you’ve never beat eggs
With chopsticks it gives a texture that’s really hard to describe but you’re going to finish that and then add in a quote unquote tablespoon of garlic that was probably more like a/4 cup but you know what you measure garlic with your heart add the eggs to the pan
Scramble them up until they’re almost set and then you’re going to remove this from the pan as well so that it doesn’t overcook add it to the chicken and then we’re going to pour in the sauce we made yesterday and I added more water because enter the gloopy noodles I was trying to
Pull these apart they were all stuck together it was a mess I added the water because I was hoping that maybe if I boiled them a little bit that they would come apart and cook a little bit better it sort of helped but not really you’re going to add the chicken and the
Rest of the stir fry ingredients in mix it around top it with some chopped peanuts and then I served it with some chopped cilantro and green onion on top and yeah that was It well I’m not at all happy about the noodle situation but we’re going to give it a shot and see how bad I screwed it up I’ve literally never had rice noodles do that to me before but W the noodles are try there hard and gross but that’s my fault or the noodle
Fault the sauce itself is delicious it is a much smaller portion than what hers normally are so if you’re somebody that struggles to eat her portion sizes sometimes cuz they are quite generous usually then this might be a good one for you to try delicious flavor make sure you cook the noodles
Right happy Friday my friends I know this video has been a little all over the place with the whole snafu of the missing audio footage and thank you guys for bearing with me through that I had hoped to share another recipe with you but having to fix all of that left me
With no time so anyway I did want to update you guys on something that I had recorded that got lost the feta eggs were delicious but the feta started getting a little Rich so I had accounted for an a full serving of feta which was 1/4 cup
Or 28 G or an ounce however you want to look at it it started getting like super filling I mean I know I told you on that first day that like I was still full hours later but it almost got like to where it was feeling a little Rich so if
You’re one of those people who on gp1s tends to rich foods don’t agree with you then you may want to reduce the amount of feta in that recipe when I made it yesterday I did use less feta and I liked it a little bit better so sometimes more is not
More so with that feta egg recipe the taco recipe I really did enjoy that and I ended up making a recipe card for my buy me a coffee page if you are a buy me a coffee member those are free to you always if you’re not a member and you
Don’t want to commit to a monthly support amount but you want to support me in other ways those recipe cards are $2 there’s an 8 1/2 by 11 and then there’s a 4×6 and they’re they’re printable or you can just keep them as a PDF there’s a link down in the
Description if you’re interested in checking those out this was the fourth week of my current maintenance cycle if you’re new around here first of all welcome but last year I started taking breaks from being in a caloric deficit because with the amount of weight that I
Need to lose about 200 lb if I were to remain in a caloric deficit that entire time in all likelihood I would start to experience stalls I would also experience um metabolic adaptation or the slowing down of my metabolism in order to try and reach homeostasis and so I started inserting
Periods of like an increased caloric intake which isn’t the easiest thing to do on a glp but you know it it g definitely gave me like a mental break and I noticed that it made a difference when I went back to the deficit in terms of how my
Body responded to that as well I also think it’s helped me to not have to go so low with my calories in addition to increasing my activity uh mostly just increasing steps and things like that when I started this m maintenance cycle I did make some goals and I wanted to
Remind you guys of what those were my first one was to get back to strength training three times a week and getting back up to 7,500 steps a day if you guys recall at the end of my last cut in fact the very last week of my last cut I
Actually ended up getting Co basically I spent this entire maintenance period sick again like I think I had one week where I was feeling good and I was starting to get back into it and then I immediately got another cold slash massive allergy reaction and like I’ve
Just now towards the end of this week started to feel better we also had a massive freeze in Texas where the temperature did not get above freezing for I think it was like four or 5 days so so obviously walking outside hasn’t been a thing because I didn’t want to
Exacerbate the stuff that was going on in my lungs I had a really bad cough so unfortunately the exercise thing did not really come to fruition which I’m not super happy about and if I’m honest with myself I could have done more inside to try and make
That work a little bit better but I just really enjoy getting out with Helios to do our ambulatory Adventures I can’t say wa okay because he knows that word and it just I I feel better when I do that I don’t I try doing some like indoor step workout things from YouTube
And I just I hate them they they tend to lean more towards like cardio and like hit almost and that’s just not what I’m looking for like I’m just trying to get my steps in I don’t cardio is not necessary for weight loss in fact there’s been plenty of studies that have
Shown it can actually be counterproductive to weight loss um it’s great for your cardiovascular health but I’m not really concerned about that at at this point the last goal that I had for this maintenance period was to successfully maintain my weight loss from my last cut the last maintenance
Period that I did before this cuz I think I’ve really only done one no I’ve done two yeah this was my second one so I did one other one before this I did not do a great job of maintaining my weight loss I probably went a little too
Far on the calories I ate out a few too many times and I was just like yeah whatever it’ll come back off when I go back on my cut this time I wanted to be really mindful of not just using it as an excuse to just do whatever I want
Because the whole point of this maintenance is to teach myself how to maintain my weight loss so that when the time comes and I decide to transition off of week oie I already have the tools that I need in order to maintain that weight loss I’m really excited to report
As far as my weight goes I did a very very good job of maintaining my weight this time super proud of myself because that was a big thing for me and really really it was the most important thing for me in this maintenance cycle to show
Myself or to prove to myself that I could maintain my weight to give you guys some numbers I ended my last cut with a low weight of 249.50 lb finally made it under the 250 mark my average weight for that week was 22.2 my low throughout maintenance and obviously I’m eating more carbohydrates
So I’m not going to be as low as my lowest weight and I’m eating more calories um but my low for maintenance was 21.2 which was less than a 2 lb difference I wanted to stay within a 5 lb difference even better than that my average for this week was 252 so my
Weekly average for my last week of Maintenance was actually 2 lbs lower than my weekly average for the last week of my cut obviously I wasn’t aiming to lose any weight I wanted to stay the same and I feel like I definitely succeeded in doing that I’m super super
Super proud of that progress it would have been even better if I had hit the other goals with getting the exercise and everything but I’m not going to beat myself up over that because the reality is is that I was able to maintain because of the lack of activity if I had
Been doing the kind of activity that I had hoped to do I’m pretty sure I would have lost weight so I think overall I’m just happy with the progress that I made in regards to the maintenance I am super excited to start my next cut next week
I’m going to be aiming for 12 weeks if I’m feeling great at the end of that 12 weeks and I want to keep going then I may extend it to 16 but the goal for now is to just do 12 weeks my hope is to
Lose between 10 and 20 lb I would really love to be closer to that 20 lb mark because I shared with you guys last year one of my goals this year is to get under 200 lb which means losing about 50 lbs this year so I know it’s ambitious
And honestly the number on the scale is just that it’s just a number but it is a way to track my progress and if I don’t make that 10 to 20 lb goal I’m not going to beat myself up I’m just going to do what I can to stay on track with that
Hopefully everything goes well anyway I think that’s it for this video as always if you have any questions please ask them down in the comments if you just want to say hi please feel free to do so and yeah that’s it for this video and I
Will see you guys in the next one bye guys we on a journey looking back on the things that we’ve taken for granted but feels like we’re learning to be better without what’s been holding us back now