Here are the workouts to go along with your DIET PLAN! Hope you are ALL doing well!!!! Thank you for such a great response!!!
Thursday
15 mins as many rounds as possible
15 situps
30 mountain climbers
30 flutter kicks
Friday
5 rounds of
20 body squats
10 push ups
400 m run
Saturday
7 mins as many reps as possible of BURPEES!
Have FUN!!!
xoxo
B&B
Thank you to ALL who are doing the diet! We are so excited to have you a part of our team and community! Here is DAY 1's workout!
Jumping Lunges (20,18,16,14,12,10,8,6,4,2) and Burpees! (10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1) You are alternating each technique and going down in number by 2 lunges and 1 burped each round. Time yourself and record your best time! I got 7 Mins 45 Secs! I was SO tired! haha and my legs are already killing me!
20 Jumping Lunges
10 Burpees
19 Jumping Lunges
9 Burpees
18 Jumping Lunges
8 Burpees
and continue on.
If jumping lunges are too intense for you just begin to do REGULAR lunges. There is a video on MY INSTAGRAM @BrigitteDoesHair if you have any questions about the movements!
Have FUN!!!
xoxo
B&B
WOW These are crazy! Just a recap! I had my baby March 23rd. I started my diet March 30th I did a RawLivingFoods.Org Diet plan for Post Baby. I followed the meals exactly and had a cheat meal when aloud. I started out at 142 lbs Post Baby and I dropped down to 122!!! I lost 20 lbs in 6 WEEKS!!! I can promise you I did not lose my weigh this quickly with my first! So now for the following 30 days! I will be toning and gaining some muscle because now I can work out full on! WOO HOO!!! I hope this helped inspire some moms out there! It was hard but I am SO happy I did it! And thank you for supporting me on this journey!!! Stay tuned for the following 30 days for our toning plan and we will EVEN BE SELLING A BOOK AT THE END! YAY!
BEFORE
AFTER!!!
XoXo
B&B
So my best friend and I went to California and tried some yummy restaurants and here were a few! It was such a fun and easy trip! My hubs stayed home with the kids while I did all the business stuff and it was totally worth it! I am excited for our future trips!
We ate at SQIRL in LA for breakfast when we arrived! It was seriously so good and such fresh food! Very inspiring!
You can still eat healthy on TRIPS! It's true! We just looked on Urban Spoon for yummy local places and we found some great choices! This is a cibotta bread with scramble eggs, bacon, and arugula ! DELICIOUS!
In Santa Monica at the mall!!! Trying The Curious Palate! Once again fresh yummy flavors!
OUR VIEW!
BLUE TACO! Right next to Santa Monica Pier! DELICIOUS AS WELL!! We were so impressed with everything that we tried! I got shrimp, chicken, steak tacos all on different tortillas! I loved the presentation! You eat with your eyes!
My friend got Chicken, Pork, and Short Ribs! All very good too! I really enjoyed the steak taco the best though!
Hope you enjoy! and Hope you are having a wonderful day!
B&B
WOO HOO! 5 down 1 more to go (Less then one now!) I am so excited! I have already lost almost 30 LBS in 5 WEEKS! It feels really nice to just lose the weight now instead of later! With my first baby I did NOT lose my weight nearly as fast! I was at 145 lbs for the LONGEST time (At least until he was about 6 months) And then I buckled down and lost the remaining weight! I'll show you pics soon! But for this transformation Week 1 I was 152 LBS and my weight for week 5 was 124.5 LBS ! And even scale weight doesn't matter a lot of the time! You can actually lose weight and gain muscle which makes you believe you didn't lose weight when really, muscle just weighs more! SO! Scale weight isn't everything! Because this next week I will probably not lose very much scale weight because I am working out now so it will be more body fat turning into muscle! Even better!
I had a few questions about this Banana Bread Recipe I made the other day! Here it is!
So the other Paleo Banana Breads I made weren't very moist so I typed in super moist Paleo bread and created my own recipe from one off of TealandLime.com
Ingredients:
2 cup Almond Flour
1/2 Tbsp cinnamon
1/4 Cup Raw Honey
1/2 Cup Water
1 tsp Almond Extract
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
2 Ripe Bananas
If you want cocoa bread add 1/2 cup Cocoa and I also added Enjoy Life Chocolate chips! (They are soy free! still super yummy!)
1. Pre-heat Oven to 350 Degrees and Line pan with parchment paper.
2. Mix together dry ingredients and then add wet ingredients!
3. Pour into pan!
4. Bake 45-50 minutes and let cool and ENJOY!
Breakfast ideas! Eggs and Roast
Lunch: Chicken and broccoli
Dinner: Corn Tortilla and chicken cilantro and onion
Hope you ENJOY!
B&B
For Week 5 I did a lot of the same foods! and kept with them consistently! I have to say we left out of town this weekend and that was hard because leaving town I associate eating crap with a lot! So I had to really think it through before and so I made Banana bread to snack on and brought other easy snacks that were healthy!
For this post I am just giving you ideas of what to eat because I literally ate almost the same thing every day -we have just been so busy! At the bottom is how I make Sweet Potato Chips (MY go to SNACK!) ! It is the easiest thing ever! Hope You ENJOY! I will post after pics on Wednesday! STAY TUNED! And I will also be changing my diet that day! For the LAST WEEK!!! YAY!!!
MY BOYS!!!
I'm obsessed with sweet potato chips right now! They are the perfect go to snack on this diet!
ALL I do is Literally slice my sweet potato thinly
Set the Oven to 400 Degrees
A little Salt and Pepper and a Little olive oil
and 10 minutes on each side or until crispy!
ENJOY!
B&B
Party on! I have been SO busy! I apologize for not putting pics up sooner! So I have my before and after for Week 3-4 I lost 2 lbs! and It is a minimal difference but it still a difference! And this diet is not too shabby! I am enjoying it now! Ben and I actually eat the same food now haha!
Day 2! Breakfast Lunch and Dinner!
Bfast: Eggs and Bacon Bites!
Lunch: Chicken Thigh and Sweet Potato Fries!
Dinner: Had a BBQ! SO delicious! Shrimp and Ribeye with some grilled Peppers and Onion!
DAY 3!
Breakfast: Large Sausage and Eggs!
Lunch! Iceberg Lettuce Salad and Beef Roast!
Dinner: Beef Roast Tacos on Corn Tortillas and Iceberg Lettuce and Homemade Salsa! (I love tacos if you can't tell!)
DAY 4!
Bfast: Smoothie! Banana, Raw Living Foods Chocolate Protein, Cashew Butter, Strawberries, Blueberries, Unsweetened Almond Milk, and Spinach!
Lunch: Steak, Eggs, Red Potato and Sriracha!
Dinner: We did a Stir fry idea with peppers, onions, and jalepenos served over grilled chicken!
DAY 5!
Breakfast: Eggs and Asparagus!
Lunch: Dried Veggies and Grilled Chicken with Paleo BBQ sauce!
Dinner: Breakfast for Dinner! Eggs and Sausage! A good ol' classic!
MY AFTER PICS! After week 3! I lost 2 more pounds! So I am now 128 lbs! Woot Woot! doing pretty good! And Loving the food now!
He saw me posing facing the wall so he thought he would try it! (Haha)
Those little love handles are the last to go.. dang it! But I feel great and I mean I just had a baby 4.5 weeks ago! So not too shabby!
Hope you enjoy! And Happy Eating!
xoxo
B&B
Getting into week 4 now! That means 2 more weeks! I really do feel better on this diet! I really want this to be how we eat on a regular basis! It is so clean and makes my tummy feel so good! I LOVE IT!
Week 3 Day 7!
Breakfast: Farm Fresh Eggs, Onions and Red Peppers
Lunch: Stuffed Chicken Breast with Asparagus and wrapped in bacon! (WOW SO GOOD) With Wild Rice
Snack: Strawberries and apples with Cashew Butter! (If I need a snack during the day which I do a lot! I try to stick to simple things like fruits or nuts but try not to have too many!- it's SO hard!)
Dinner: (We got strawberries for SUPER cheap! haha!) So this is a Ice berg Lettuce Salad with Strawberries, rotisserie chicken, a little handful of walnuts, and Raspberry Vinaigrette
WEEK 4!!! 2 more WEEKS! I'll have my after pics up SOON!
Breakfast: This is my go to! Eggs and Sausage!
Lunch: CHICKEN WINGS! SOOOO GOOD!!! Just Salt, Pepper, and Garlic Powder
Dinner: Breakfast for dinner! Corn Tortillas, Eggs, Bacon, Red Potato with a little Sriracha Sauce!
Enjoy!
xoxo
B&B
This is basically a habit now! I WANT to eat this food and now crave it! I really don't think much about crap food anymore and if I do I just think I'll be able to eat it on our cheat meal! So it isn't this haunting food item in my mind! YAY! Here is Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner for TODAY!
Bfast: Sausage and Farm Fresh Scrambled Eggs!
Lunch: I made this into a Chicken Salad! Spinach, Free Range Chicken Sautéed in lemon juice and Raspberry Vinaigrette
Dinner: Beef Roast, Peppers, Cabbage, and homemade salsa! I just mixed it all together and ate it like a salad! It was yummy!
CRAVING DESSERT! So I looked up a PALEO STRAWBERRY, BANANA CHEESECAKE.. It satisfied the need of cheesecake pretty well! I made up my own recipe too... it's SUPER EASY!
This is the CRUST! : Just 1 1/2 cups of Coconut Flour , 6 Tablespoons Coconut Oil and 3 Tablespoons Raw Honey!
THE FILLING! : 1 1/2 cups Sunflower seed Butter, 6 Tblsp Coconut Oil, 1 tsp fresh Lemon Juice, 1 tsp Vanilla extract, 1/4 cup of Raw Honey, 1 banana, 2 cups of strawberries BLEND IN BLENDER!
POUR filling into crust pan and put in freezer for 1-2 hours and then SERVE! It tasted great to us! Hope you enjoy!
xoxo
B&B
Day 3! Lets get this going! Here is Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner!
Bfast: Over Easy Farm Fresh Eggs and Beef Roast (Cooked in a crock pot night before! You will see this throughout the next three days!)
Lunch: Brown Rice and Pot Roast (Same from breakfast! :) )
Dinner: Grilled Plantains, Asparagus, and Salmon!
DAY 4!
Breakfast: Nitrate Free Bacon, Farm Fresh Eggs, Red Potato Hash!
Lunch: Brown Rice with Roast (Same as yesterday!) Added an Iceberg Lettuce and vinegerette
Dinner: SO YUMMY! So homemade guacamole, homemade salsa, corn tortilla chips (Corn tortillas cut into 4's ;) ) and Roast!
DAY 5! Monday!
Breakfast: Scrambled Farm Fresh Eggs, Nitrate Free Bacon, Roast, Red Potato Hash
Lunch: Crispy, Iron Skillet Cooked Chicken Thigh and homemade sweet potato fries!
MY Pizza!
Benny's Pizza!
Dinner: CHEAT NIGHT! We decided to not go so crazy this time because we never feel good afterwards haha! So this is gluten free crust and fresh tomato sauce, a little cheese and pepperonis with jalepenos! We also had a little ice cream and cheesecake! Make sure when you are cheating that you only buy what you will eat that night and don't have anything left over in your house to continue to tempt you!
Hope you ENJOY!
B&B
It's seriously so nice now because I feel so good and I don't feel like I am on a diet anymore! I recommend this change to anyone! I literally feel like a new woman! Here's what I ate yesterday and today! AND MY BEFORE AND AFTER PICS FOR LAST WEEK! I'm getting closer to my goal so the pounds won't be shedding off as quickly as before but I am STILL happy with the results! It is amazing what food can do! That is why I love our business! We still feed people enough food we just give them exactly what they need to get the results that they want!
Bfast! Eggs and chorizo!
Lunch: Corn tortillas, wild rice. steak skirt, green peppers, and homemade salsa!
Dinner: Free Range Chicken and dried veggies
Bfast: Sirloin steak and Red poatoes
Lunch: Salmon, Brown rice, asparagus
Dinner: Brown Rice , Steamed Broccoli, Ribeye Steak
Before and After 1 Week! I am now 130 lbs! when I was 134 lbs the week before! You can see it in my mid section and back really well!
Enjoy!
B&B
This is almost a habit! I think it's 21 days and you create a habit! Look at that! Almost there! Hopefully I keep the habit of eating clean:)
Breakfast: Overeasy Eggs and Spaghetti Squash Greatness! (Tomato paste and Sausage added)
Lunch: Ribeye Steak with Red Potatoes fried in coconut oil!
Dinner: Lettuce wrap BLT (without the T and chicken added instead!)
Dessert! These Cookies are ridiculous! Healthy for you with just a couple of ingredients! Ambitiouskitchen.com
1 Cup Almond Butter
1/3 Cup Honey
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp sea salt
1/4 cup dark chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix all ingredients together and create round balls on pan and cook 10 minutes! SERIOUSLY SO GOOD!
Thanks Jenny Mott for the recipe find!
ENJOY!
B&B
Day 5 and 6 FOODS! It's actually not too bad now that I am in the swing of things! I enjoy eating these foods and I feel really great! And I have saved so much money because I have not been eating out at all! (I used to go somewhere at least twice to four times a week!)
My delicious breakfast with my NEW KICKS! :) Eggs, Steak and Sweet potatoes
This twice baked sweet potato is amazing!!! This was plenty for lunch because it is loaded with goodness!
Recipe:
Cook Potato in oven at 400 for 30-35 mins to soften the core. Then Cut in half and scoop out the insides. Mash the insides with coconut oil, salt and pepper (Just a little add ins until smooth)
Cook Chicken, Onions, and Bacon all separate and then add into mash. Place Mash potatoes back in skin and add green onions on top! WALA!
Dinner: Quinoa, wild rice and rotisserie chicken cooked in chicken stock! SO GOOD!
DAY 6! MONDAY!
Breakfast Tacos!: Corn Tortillas, eggs and bacon!
Lunch: Iceberg Lettuce Salad, With chicken thigh meat, strawberries and walnuts. olive oil and raspberry Vinaigrette added on top with walnuts!
Dinner! My little buddy eating healthy with me! He is such a good eater:)
Dinner: Shredded roast, curly fry sweet potatoes, and fruit! (Strawberries and pineapple)
Enjoy!
B&B
Day 3!
Breakfast: Scrambled eggs, Bacon, Raspberries!
Lunch: Corn Tortillas, Shredded Beef, Iceberg Lettuce and Hot Sauce
Dinner: My sweet Husband made a candlelit dinner! Ribeye steak, red potato mashed, and Shrimp!
DESSERT: BROWNIES!!!
Sweet Potato Brownies Recipe
1 medium Sweet Potato (Cooked until softened- remove all skin)
3 eggs
1/4 cup coconut oil
1/2 cup Raw Honey
3 Tbsp Coconut Floud
3 Tbsp unsweetened Cocoa Powder
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp cinnamon
little salt
Preheat Oven 350- Blend all ingredients together and cook for 30-35 mins.
Frosting:
1/4cup unsweetened Almond Milk
1/4 cup Cocoa Powder (Unsweetened)
1/4 Cup Coconut Sugar
Spread on Brownies when cooled
ENJOY!
B&B
DAY 4!!!
Breakfast! Over Easy Egg, Sausage Links, Onion and regular Sausage
Lunch: Hamburger Meat and Peppers
DINNER! CHEAT MEAL BABY!!!! I need to let you know something! I actually feel really sick after cheat meals! This is food I would eat here and there and now when I eat it I don't feel very good afterwards. AND THE CRAZIEST THING! I get a Dr. Pepper every cheat meal as well because I have not been having any! WOOT WOOT! And I DON'T LIKE THE TASTE anymore! It tastes kind of gross! What is HAPPENING TO ME??? Haha Hope you all are having a great day!
xoxo
B&B
Breakfast! Made this AMAZING Protein Banana Bread! I'll have to remember this one! It was so good!
Lunch: Breakfast for lunch! Some good ol' Sausage and Eggs!
Delicious may i SAY! Dinner! Chicken legs, sweet potato fries (Obsessed) onions and asparagus!
Little Post Pregnancy Workout.. Nothing crazy just something to get me moving and my muscles active again!
15 min amrap
10 push ups ( strict as long as possible then to knees once you hit failure)
20 yard walking lunge ( back knee touches the ground)
1 min flutter kicks
20 yard walking lunges
Happy Eating! And Working Out!
B&B
After a WEEK I have lost 8 LBS TOTAL!!! (134 lbs NOW) Look at the difference!!! I feel great and I can see the results! I am getting SO excited! My baby is only 2 weeks and I can't wait to see what 5 more weeks will do! I am still producing enough milk and eating very clean! It's crazy how good you feel when you eat good food! We highly suggest you take before and after pics once a week so that you can see your results and it inspires you to keep going!
OUR BABY GIRL IS 2 WEEKS OLD NOW!!! :)
Bfast! Over Medium Eggs, Steak, Sweet Potatoes Sautéed in Olive Oil
Lunch! Chicken Wings! Iceberg Lettuce salad vinaigrette dressing!
Dinner: A sweet friend brought over dinner and it was Grilled Chicken, Russet Potatoes, and Fruit! Absolutely delish!
Happy Healthy Eating!
B&B
Last night we had a cheat meal and I thought it was going to taste so yummy.. but it really didn't taste that good! It was wild! And I really didn't eat very much at all! I was excited to start back up today and for future cheats I don't even think I'll cheat that much.. maybe just one thing at a time. But it was fun to see the difference that I feel with other food then what I have been eating!
So I have done a WHOLE week and when I started I was 142 lbs. and now I am 135! I have lost 7 lbs in a week! Pretty darn good! About a pound a day! I am excited for the upcoming weeks because it really is worth just eating better! I feel MUCH better and the food is SO GOOD! Thanks @RawLivingFoods ;)
Bfast: Chorizo and Eggs! Seriously so good!
BURGERS FOR LUNCH! Okay so we had burgerFI last night at it was good don't get me wrong but we spent 35$ at a burger joint and I know that I can make the same food for a lot cheaper (And granite I know they are a business and need to make money -totally understand) BUT I could save a lot if I just keep this up! (My Dr. pepper was tiny and it was 3$... Ben's Burger was 14$ HAHA)
Dinner: Nitrate Free Bacon (You can get this at Sprouts), Free Range Chicken, sweet onion with Zucchini cooked in bacon grease! YUM!
Now here is Cheat Meal 101
Having a weekly cheat meal can do a lot of things for you. First and foremost it will help your brain not go nuts haha.
But for the science behind a weekly cheat.
When you have been eating a calorie reduced diet your body will start getting used this amount of energy output. This will decrease the amount of the hormone called leptin. Leptin is one of the major contributors to weight loss in your body. So when you have an extremely high calorie cheat it will help increase the levels of Leptin and thus continue to help you burn fat calories.
Rules to follow when cheating.
Day 5 and 6! Breakfast Lunch and Dinner from yesterday and Breakfast and lunch from today! Tonight I get a cheat meal! Once a week with this diet I am aloud one cheat meal! It is nice to look forward to something that is for sure!
Ultimate Breakfast! Farm Fresh Eggs, Nitrate Free Sausage and Bacon, and Sweet potatoes thinly sliced and cooked in bacon grease! DELISH!
Lunch: Free Range Chicken Sautéed with Onions and Peppers!
Dinner: Grilled Free Range Chicken with Wild Rice
Dessert: Strawberries and Gala Apple with Almond Butter
Day 6: Nitrate free Bacon and Farm Fresh Eggs! I can have this every morning! Never gets old!
Sweet Potato Pancakes:
Seriously SO GOOD!
2 Farm Fresh Eggs
1 Large Sweet Potato cooked
1/4 cup almond butter
1/2 cup Unsweetened almond milk
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
Mix all together with hand mixer and pour on hot pan to cook! Sprayed coconut spray before batter was placed!
Enjoy!
B&B We are off to our cheat meal for dinner and a hot DATE!
Day 4! And I already want to cheat! haha! But I can do this! You can do this too if you are on a diet or doing our diet! You got this! This isn't a diet, its a lifestyle.. that's what I keep telling myself and I keep saying to myself that I just have to get through today... But today's meals were yummy! Here they are! Hope you enjoy! I won't be posting tomorrow so I'll get back to you all on Monday with meals and progress!
xoxo
B&B
Bfast: Scrambled eggs, peppers, onions sautéed in olive oil!
Lunch! I actually was inspired by a company @duronicmedia they had a smoothie idea that i remembered I made similar when I worked at a smoothie shop ( ooh yah baby!) so I thought I would make one of those! It turned out delicious!
Recipe:
4oz. unsweetened almond milk
1 banana
4 strawberries
handful of blueberries
handful spinach/kale
3 tbsp almond butter
1 scoop whey protein
6 ice cubes
and blend! enjoy!!!
Ben said this was my "cheat meal" ... no way jose! I'll show you a cheat meal;)
Dinner: grilled free range chicken, tomatoes, and butternut squash!
Day 3! Lets chat... today I was craving a little more..like sweets big time.. so these Cocoa Avacado Pancakes were just what I needed! Still in the diet and tasted amazing!
Recipe for these sweet gifts!
1/4 cup coconut flour
1/4 cup cacao powder (you can substitute with cocoa powder)
1/4 cup coconut sugar
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp sea salt
1 tbsp coconut oil- soft
3 free range eggs
1/4 cup unsweetened almond milk
1/2 of avocado
-Whisk ALL ingredients together and cook like a regular pancake! I used pure maple syrup for my topping but I was think strawberries or blueberries (Like chocolate covered berries.. thats what I'm talking about ;) ) Hope you ENJOY!
xoxo
B&B
Corn tortillas with carne-asada, purple cabbage and fresh salsa!
Mashed red potatoes (Made with olive oil and water NO MILK!) and BBQ RIBS BABY!
