Food Prep!

Since I've been going to the gym more often and wanting to get serious about eating healthier and just living healthier I thought it would be a fun idea to prepare some meals for either lunch or dinner for this up coming week! So this morning I went to the store and bought all the things I needed to make some healthier options for this week.

Around 10 I made my way to Walmart where I picked up a box of pasta, a 2 pack of chicken breast, frozen corn, and frozen broccoli. Out of all of this I was able to prepare 6 meals (one a day). Now I know you're thinking one meal?! How can you survive off one meal?! Well I'll just watch what I eat for the other meals and it will all workout.

Heres a semi finished product of everything prepared 

The pasta on the bottom row is waiting for shredded chicken and the one in the middle on the top row, I added another piece of chicken. 

With all this being said I'm able to eat cleaner and add a little color to my diet!

-H.

Workout Routine

I have a friend who recently just became a personal trainer, and were were talking about how I wanted to tone up a bit and live a healthier lifestyle... Well since he was certified and is looking for a job, he wrote me up a workout that I've been trying for the past couple days.

Its two different workouts that are to be performed on alternating days for three days a week. For the days that that the workout is not being done, you can choose between cardio exercises or abdominal/core exercises.  If you being on Monday with workout A, then Wednesday will be workout B, and then on Friday it will be workout A again. Repeat the workout for 3 set of 12 starting out light then challenging yourself with heavier weights as you get use to the workout.

Workout A consists of 3 sets of 12 of

• sumo squat
• pushup
• machine row
• dumbbell curl
• bench dips *hyperextension
• ab exercise of choice

Workout B consists of 3 sets of 12 of

• dumbbell lunge
• stiff leg deadlift
• dumbbell press
• lat pulldown
• tricep kickback
• hammer curl
• glute bridge
• ab exercise of choice 

Here is the equipment I used for the bulk of the workout...

• the two pairs of dumbbells are 6 lbs. and 8 lbs.
• body bar was 8 lbs. 
• bench
• floor mat

After I finished the workout, I decided to do a little more core work so I used the bosu ball 

I did some alternating exercises on the bosu ball,  but all focusing on core. 

-H.

My Favorite Things!

If any of y'all follow me on twitter you know I love putting together outfits and figuring out what looks good and experimenting with patterns and colors!

Well I was thinking of a post to put up and then I got the idea of why not show y'all aome of my favorite clothes/shoes?? I think it'll be fun! So lets get started...

1. My VV 1/4 Zip Jersey Pullover 

2. All my hats

3. All my Southern Shirt Company shirts

(Had to pull in the sleeves on some to show the logo)

4. All my VV shirts

5. My blanket scarf

6. My maroon vans

7. My vests of course

8. My boots

9. My anchor embelished pullover

-H.

Hats!

Well since I can remember I was in a baseball cap, I wear one almost every day to class to keep my head a little bit warmer. The hats I have here at school with me at my Red Classic Logo Vineyard Vines hat, my "Dead fish" hat from Vineyard Vines, the Tartan wool Vineyard Vines hat, and my Lime Green Polo hat with navy embroidering. 

I usually don't wear the Lime Green hat because the fit is kind of strange to me to I usually wear it on the beach. The "Dead Fish" hat is the one I wear the most. I have a lot of clothing pieces that are navy, so the "Dead Fish" hat goes with just about everything. This is one way i weor the "Dead Fish" hat to class on Friday... 

Now for the Classic Red Logo hat and the Tartan tool hat, since they both have red and navy in them (red hat with navy whale) I wear both with just about everything. One way i wore the red hat was with my navy 1/4 zip Vineyard Vines Jersey Pullover with the blanket scarf I purchased from Target!

 

This outfit is my favorite outfit because its just so comfy and casual and perfect for a long day of classes. 

Now for the Tartan Wool hat, its such a fun hat to pair thing with. I wore this hat yesterday but unfortunately I was not dressed to well. I woke up with a raging headache and was just feeling the sweatpants... 

-H.