Healthy Fitness Challenge: Week 5, Day 5
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.
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