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Healthy Fitness Challenge: Week 5, Day 5

Every weekday, join "The Mo'Nique Show" on a 12-week workout program with Hollywood trainer Jeanette Jenkins.

Inspiration/Motivation Tip: Self Confidence looks beautiful on everyone!

Workout: Yoga or Pilates to lengthen and tone your muscles, open your joints and release tension and stress from your body.

Exercise of The Day: Side Angle Pose to a Wrap- This Yoga pose will strengthen, lengthen and tone the legs, core, chest and shoulders.

Exercise Tip: The exercise that you really don’t want to do is usually the exercise that your body needs the most.

Meal Plan

Breakfast: Multi Grain Waffle w Mixed Berries/Bananas/ Turkey Sausage

Snack: Freshly Squeezed Green Juice- 2 handfuls spinach, 1 apple, ½ lemon, ½ thumbsize of ginger, ice & water

Lunch: Turkey Sandwich on Whole Wheat

Snack: Tuna w Whole Wheat Crackers & Tomatoes

Snack: Grapes & Walnuts

Dinner: Poached Tilapia w Sauteed Asparagus/ Black Beans & Corn Salad

Dessert: Dark Chocolate covered Strawberries

Nutrition Tip: Complex carbohydrates are your thinking foods that feed your brain and give you sustained energy for the day. You should have these foods at breakfast, lunch, morning and afternoon snack. Decrease or eliminate complex carbohydrates in your evening meal if your goal is to lose weight and burn fat. Complex carbohydrates are your high calorie starchyfoods like rice, pasta, flour and bread.

Follow Jeanette on Twitter @JeanetteJenkins to ask your fitness and nutrition questions and for daily fitness/nutrition tips and motivation!

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