2 Sweet Post Workout Meals

So I think I'm a little excited for my beach vacay this weekend (even though I checked the weather last night and it's going to be COLD! grr.) and I completely spaced on the fact that yesterday was Tuesday. Since I don't have a WIAW to share, I thought I would share a couple of my new favorite post workout snacks and meals! 

The first one is super simple, well they both are. 

Directions

1. Place 1/4 cup blueberries in the microwave for 25 seconds

2. Add 1 small scoop of Kal Stevia

3. Spread non fat Greek Yogurt on a rice cake and then add your blueberry "syrup" on top. 

That's it! I usually have one or two of these along with a protein shake immediately after my workout. And, if you're a cinnamon lover like me, you can add that on top too! 

This second one is the one I've been most recently obsessed with and actually just finished eating it a minute ago. It may sound a little strange, but trust me it's awesome. 

Ingredients

- 4-5oz Yams, cubed and cooked

- 4-5 egg whites

- 1T vegan carob chips (or dark chocolate chips would work too) 

Directions

1. Spray pan with non stick spray and allow to heat. 

2. Once pan is hot add your yams and egg whites and cook like a pancake. About a minute before you're ready to flip, add 1/2 T carob chips on top. 

3. Flip the mixture and then add the rest of the carob chips. Cook until egg whites are cooked through. 

4.Top with Cinnamon and Stevia! This would also be good topped with a little sugar free syrup, but I try to limit that because it's unfortunately sweetened with sucralose. 

Both of these are great because they have protein and fast acting carbs which will help carry the protein to the muscles quickly after your workout! 

VLOG: The trick to staying on track!

How are you doing with #Cleaneatsnocheats!? Here's my little update! Also, I'm often asked how I resist temptation and stay on track with clean eating-- so in this video I share my little trick!

PS- Sorry this is so dark!! I didn't realize how much of a glare there was until I was done. Boo. 

MY #WhatsBeautiful Challenges and PRIZES!

So you all know I'm all about challenging myself and setting and reaching goals and this Fitfluential sponsored Under Armour What's Beautiful campaign did an amazing job of coming up with fun challenges to do. There are about 40 of them and I'm determined to complete each one, even though a lot of them will force me out of my comfort zone... and I'm thinking that maybe, there just might be a few of you out there that want to do it with me?

You can check out all the challenges here and I was thinking I would pick a few and set a goal to achieve those few within a weeks time. Then, pick a few new ones for the next week. Sound good?

Now here's the fun part. In addition to all the great prizes you'll be eligible for just by signing up and completing the challenges through Under Armour, I'm going to up the ante a little bit.

When you complete each challenge, you need to upload the photo to Instagram and tag me (@littlebblog) as well as use the hashtags #IWILL, #Whatsbeautiful, and #Littlebchallenge. (I know, that's a lot). Then of course you'll also upload the picture under the challenge on the What's Beautiful site. Once we have made it through all of them (or as many as we can) I'm going to search the hashtags and choose some of my own winners!

One person will receive a piece of UA swag (TBD) and three more of you will receive a tank top from Firedaughter Clothing!

So, shall we get started? Here are the challenges for this week, I'll do a recap post every Friday and post the new challenges then!

For challenge 1 it's obviously a video, so you can just comment below letting me know you did it and it's uploaded to your What's Beautiful profile and I'll be sure to count those in the entries. 

Also, on this page each of the challenge names are a link so that you can see all the other photos and videos that have been uploaded for that challenge, in case you need a little inspiration! 

I'm so excited for these, let me know if you're in! (PS you don't have to do them all to qualify for the prizes!)

What I Ate Wednesday

I was perusing Instagram last night and noticed that the #CleanEatsNoCheats hashtag has over 275 photos! How exciting and inspiring! I loooove looking through them all every day and seeing everyones progress and clean eats, it's truly motivational. If you haven't joined yet or haven't been uploading photo's I highly encourage it! 

I've been sticking to clean eats this week and actually slightly tapering calories UP since doing my 24 hour burn on Monday (more on that in another post). I've also been incorporating in some older recipes in to our dinners this week and it's been so fun! Sometimes I feel like I get stuck in a rut and all it takes is a quick glance through my own recipe page for a little inspiration :)

(No recipe... maybe next week?)

A note on this: I read a blog that said if you put frozen veggies in with the chicken they wont get mushy. Well, this blog was wrong. MUSH. Oh, well. 

I hadn't made this pizza in FOREVER and when I was done making it last night, I remembered why. It's kind of a longer process in comparison to the turkey crust pizza and they honestly don't taste that different. I made one side chicken/pepperoni/onion/mushroom and the other was homemade pesto/chicken/onion/mozzarella. It was worth it, but only because I didn't have to do the dishes ;) 

Mother's Day & 1 Week Check In!

Hope you all had a fabulous weekend! I had a great relaxing weekend and was able to catch up on wedding stuff and made a (small) dent in my NASM book. B and I thought about going out for sushi on Friday night, but we both admitted that there would be a huge temptation to order our favorite saki and we're both committed to the #CleanEatsNoCheats challenged, so we grilled up some bison burgers instead :) 

Yesterday we had so much fun with our families- The girls got pedicures while the guys golfed and then we all met up for lunch afterwards. I went with a chicken fajita salad no dressing and just used the salsa as dressing, and a water on the side! 

I want to hear about your weekends and how you were able to stick to the challenge! Only about 12 days left until Memorial Day Weekend!