It is Friday! Woot Woot! Who all is excited for the WEEKEND?! I am I am! Eric and I have another busy weekend ahead of us but we are spending it together which is the best part!

Lets talk about some favorites.

Favorite Pictures. Professional photos from my CrossFit competition last weekend. Aren’t they awesome? The pictures are definitely the best part after WOD!

Favorite Meal. My two favorite things right now in one meal. Brownie Quest Bar and Kill Cliff Recovery Drink. I can’t get enough of both of them.

Favorite Coffee Drink: Skinny Caramel Macchiatos are getting me through work. They definitely aren’t on my meal plan but this week was extremely stressful because of the Primary Election and I needed an extra boost!

Favorite Gift: Eric got me this cute 13.1 sticker for my car. I’m currently training for my half and can’t wait to put it on my car!

{DJC Pro}
Favorite Family Picture: I can’t get enough of this family photo. I love it. Check out the rest of our engagement pictures here.

Now to the winner of my Quest Bar Giveaway!
Kamila Gornia. Email me with your shipping information dbrow814 at gmail dot com!

Questions: What was one fun thing that happened to you this week? What do you have planned this weekend?

Do you need an awesome workout to jump start your holiday weekend? Well you are in luck! Tribesports released this one which will definitely get your heart pumping!

This workout I think will make your muscles feeling fatigued and then switch it up a little to really push it! If you don’t know what a workout is that is listed here you can go to Tribesports website where they have a description for everything!

I love the idea of this workout and definitely will be doing it this weekend! Will you join me?

Disclaimer: Revolt gave me the opportunity to try their workout/meal plan for free. All opinions are my own.

This week marks 4 weeks of meal prepping for the Revolt program I am on. Can you believe it? I’m half way done. Honestly, I have been really enjoying it, especially the food {past the detox week, of course!} I love trying new ways to make meals and making everything on Sunday is always better! It saves so much time in my day. I’m even considering staying with the diet even after my 6 weeks. {crazy I know!} You can see the meals I made on todays WIAW.

Here is my shopping list for the week:
3 Cups Old Fashioned Oats
24 Egg Whites
Designer Whey Protein Powder
Frozen Fruit
24 oz Chicken
6 Sweet Potatoes
Salt
Pepper
18 Cups Salad
18 oz Steak
6 Cups Mushrooms
3 Cups Collard Greens
3 Cups Granny Smith Apples
3 Bananas
Chobani
Fudgesicles

I did switch things up a bit then what was planned.

Breakfast: There was no prepping here. I’m supposed to eat 1/2 cup oatmeal and 4 egg whites but that is just way too much food for me. So every other day I have been going back and forth.

Smoothie: No prepping here either. I make it when I eat it.

Lunch: I put the chicken in the crockpot for 8 hours on low. The sweet potatoes I peeled, cut and then put in the oven at 425 degrees for 25 minutes flipping halfway.

Afternoon Snack: I’m supposed to make a smoothie but I don’t have a blender bottle to put it in to bring it to work. Instead I ate an apple and a banana.

Dinner: I cooked the steak with herbs on it in a frying pan. I also put the mushrooms in a frying pan with coconut oil to cook.

I put them all in containers, half of them went into the freezer and that was that. Another successful week of meal prepping! This week I felt like there was less to prep and it only took my mom and I 30 minutes!

Questions: Did you prep any food this week? Do you put foods in the freezer that were made to use for a later date?

First things first: Don’t forget about my Quest Bar giveaway. You have 2 more days to enter!

This marks 4 weeks of doing this meal/workout plan called Revolt and I am really enjoying it. I substitute when I want to and if I need to eat a little more, I do.

Lets get right to it:

Breakfast:
I am supposed to be eating 1/2 cup of oatmeal and 4 egg whites but that is just way too much for me before a workout. Instead I have been eating one or the other. For the oatmeal I have been putting some splenda and cinnamon on top or putting chocolate nunaturals {which is awesome btw} . The egg whites I top with some salsa.

After Workout Snack:
This week has been a hot/muggy week so I have been making smoothies after CrossFit. I put Designer Whey White Chocolate protein, almond milk and frozen fruit in it. Delicious.

Lunch:
Chicken and Sweet Potato Fries. I also put some salsa on top of my chicken. {call me obsessed with salsa lately!}

Afternoon Snack:
Quest Bar, Banana, Apple, Chobani. I have been keeping it to that fun stuff.

Dinner:
Steak and mushrooms on top of a salad. Yum. When I heat up the mushrooms I get some sauce that comes out of them and I use that as my dressing. So delicious.

Dessert:
Chobani Bite or Fudgesicle or sometimes both.

Questions: What do you usually eat for dessert? What toppings do you put on your oatmeal?

Disclaimer: Revolt has supplied me a free 6 week trial for my weekly blog posts.

I started doing my Revolt posts in my Sweaty Sunday ones but it was just getting way too long! You can see Week 1 and Week 2 by click on them.

Last week I completed week 3. Lets break down the review by workouts, food and measurements.

Workouts:
I still hate doing the cardio ones more than once. I’m a one workout girl then get rid of it for awhile before doing it again. I have to do the cardio one 3 times a week. The arm workout is the best. It always has me sore afterwards and the next day. I love it! The lower body one is okay. This week I finally figured out where the workout videos were on the website and I love working out to them. After watching one set, I kind of do it by myself but keep it on until the next one. I also love pausing it to complete extra sets! The hardest workout this week was the side to side push-ups! Those are hard especially when you are doing 15 reps.

Food:
The breakfast was by far my favorite meal of the day. The pancakes were delicious, even when frozen. I just heated them up in the microwave and put pancake syrup on top! I did switch up some meals though. Instead of a smoothie after my workout I ate a quest bar. {by the way don’t forget about my giveaway going on right now!} Lunch was okay. I’m not sure I made it right. My afternoon snack of ricotta cheese and strawberries was just okay. I don’t know if I like the texture of ricotta cheese or the milky taste of it. Dinner was good and for dessert I had a chobani most of the time instead of the mug cake I was supposed to have. {I hate coming home and having to cook something up at 11pm} You can see pictures of what I ate here on my WIAW post and how I made all of my meals in 1 day here. I always do so good Monday- Thursday eating right but when it comes to the weekend I will eat some of the meals but not others.

Measurements:
I lost some weight this week. I felt really good! I felt strong and healthy. I think once the weekend comes and I get off track, I definitely gain some of the lbs back but my goal weight is 105, I just want some more muscle % and less fat %.

Things I learned from week 3: It is hard to eat the same food 6 days a week. It works. Doing the workout with smaller weights is sometimes better than trying to do them with heavier ones. Watching workout videos is so much easier than googling how to do them.

I can’t believe I’m half way done with the Revolt plan. 3 more weeks to go!

On Saturday I competed in my first CrossFit Competition. If you are a reader or a facebook follower you would already know this but if not, I did!

The competition was for Armed Forces Day and the WOD was named after a fallen local soldier, US Army Staff Sergeant Sean Flannery from Wyomissing, PA, who was killed on 11/22/10 in Kandahar, Afghanistan.

Every time I walk, run or workout for a cause that is close to me, it always makes it easier to do. I couldn’t believe the atmosphere at the competition. The support, the cheering, the energy, the hard work and determination, it was addictive!

I competed in the scaled division. {There were three competitive, athletic and scaled} My WOD was:

I was really close to doing the athletic one which was 11 kipping pull-ups and 21 front squats at 45lbs but I didn’t think I could do more than a couple rounds of 11 kipping pull-ups.

Instead I tried to do as many jumping pull-ups as I could before moving to a blue band for some and then back to jumping pull-ups.

The squats were with 25lb plates. Squats come easy to me.

There was no winner in the scaled version so I wanted to push myself as much as I could. I definitely did that. You can check out the video below.

I ended up completing 6 1/2 rounds.

I am so happy the owner of my box talked me into doing this competition. It helped a lot doing my first competition at my own box but I’m definitely interested now in competing elsewhere. I fell in love with CrossFit a little bit more {I didn’t think that was possible} after this day. It was so amazing to see everyone compete in different levels, kick some major butt and cheer everyone on!

After my workout I ate these awesome Paleo Chocolate Chip cookies and had this awesome drink that I am now in love with! I’m not usually a fan of carbonated stuff but this stuff is AWESOME! I highly recommend it.

I’m ready to get stronger… support others more… and become an even bigger awesome CrossFitter!

Don’t forget about my Quest Bar Giveaway going on now!

Questions: Did you ever compete in a CrossFit competition? Do you think doing walks/runs for causes close to you make them easier to do?

I had a Marvelous weekend! So Marvelous I wish it wouldn’t have ended!

Let’s talk about some of the most Marvelous things that happened!

Marvelous is… My first CrossFit Competition. I’m going to wait to tell you about that for a post coming to you soon.

Marvelous is… I got bit by the CrossFit bug. Ever since I competed in the competition I’ve been all about it. I went to Reebok on Sunday

and bought Nanos, Running shoes {bogo ½ off} and this hot new CrossFit outfit. Don’t you just love it!

Marvelous is… Smoothies. On Sunday, Eric had an open house at his new job and they have these yummy smoothies! I got a strawberry banana one. So delicious.

Marvelous is… Pizza and Wine. I can’t have a weekend without pizza. I’m addicted! This is an every weekend must! Plus, I love bacon on my pizza!

Marvelous is… Baked Oatmeal. I don’t know the last time I had baked oatmeal but I was super excited when we went out for breakfast on Sunday and I ordered this big plate of blueberry goodness!

Marvelous is… Hunter pretending to work out. Now that I started Revolt he has seen me working out with these bad boys. Before I took this picture he was actually resting his head on the orange ones. It was so adorable!

Let’s hope this week goes by fast and another weekend is here! (:

Questions: Tell me something marvelous that happened to you this weekend? Tell me something marvelous that you ate this weekend.

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I will pick a winner on Friday.

This is what my plan looked like and turned out to be.
Monday: Revolt Week 3 Cardio & 9 AM CrossFit & 2 Miles
Tuesday: Revolt Week 3 Sculpt & 9 AM CrossFit & 2 Miles
Wednesday: 3 Miles & 9 AM CrossFit
Thursday: Revolt Week 3 Cardio & 9 AM CrossFit & 2 Miles
Friday: Revolt Week 3 Upper Body & 2 Miles & 9 AM CrossFit
Saturday: Revolt Week 3 Cardio & CrossFit Competition & 2 Miles
Sunday: Soccer Game

Now lets go through my days!

Monday: Revolt Week 3 Cardio was fun. I realized that I can watch the Revolt workout videos which I learned I was doing some of the exercises different then she wanted me too. If I didn’t know the workout I would just look it up on YouTube and do it that way. The Cardio workout is the same format as Week 1 and Week 2 just different workouts.

On Monday I made a goal for myself to run 2 miles a day this week. When I used to have a gym membership I would always run for 20 minutes as a warm-up. I don’t really know when that went away but I need to do it again. I feel so much better.

CrossFit: The skill was a 1 Rep Max Overhead Squat from the rack. I had a 15lb PR. woot woot. That is what happens when you take it from the bar instead of have to clean it first. Also, I didn’t concentrate on the weight I just kept piling and piling it on!

For the WOD we got to pick 1 of 2 workouts which was a lot of fun. I picked the one above and guess what?… get ready for this… I did all of the pull-ups as kipping pull-ups. Yes, you read that right, I am moving up in the world.

Tuesday: Revolt Week 3 Legs. My legs were sore from Monday so when I saw Tuesday was all legs I knew it was going to be fun. I watched the video again and it really helped. I love the ab workout on leg days!

I then ran 2 miles. I have been running my miles without music. I feel like I run a lot faster without it because I kind of just want to get it over with. This week has been some of the best splits I’ve had in awhile!

CrossFit: The skill was Each Minute on the Minute {EMOM} for 6 Minutes 2 Deadlifts at 75%. I did 100lbs, which was probably like 77% but whatevs.

The WOD was awful. I hated it. I couldn’t remember what it was from the night before so I didn’t really know what I was going to have to do until I got in there. I cursed at myself a little. I think I do burpees wrong. I tuck my knees in to stand up and I think that makes my legs work a lot harder then they are supposed to. Gotta work on that.

Wednesday: This day was a Revolt rest day which meant I had 30 more minutes to relax/workout. I decided to run 3 miles instead of 2. I found this new route around town that I now like to run for 3 miles so that was nice. I also have been switching up my 2 mile runs to a different route each week. Keeps things interesting.

CrossFit: The skill was bench presses. We were supposed to do 5 rounds of 3 but I did max instead and failed each time. We had double the people we usually have there so we had to heats to get everyone through so I felt like I was rushing.

The WOD didn’t look bad on paper but it was pretty rough. I used 40lbs for my squat cleans and that was enough. I was sore from the day before. {RX was 95, are you kidding me?}

Thursday: I did my Revolt workout which was the same as Monday. Now that I found the Revolt workout videos I like doing them so much more! It is always fun to workout ‘with someone’.

I then kept my 2 mile streak going {or I hope that is what it was because it was pouring down rain so I didn’t wear my watch} I was soak and wet after the run. It was fun though. Sometimes you need to just feel the rain drops hitting your face when you run… you know?

Friday: The revolt workout was arms. It was tough. My triceps and shoulders were killing me! I ran 2 nice and slow miles.

CrossFit: The skill was pistols. I like them. I can pretty much do them if I stand on a 5lb skinny plate. These burn my quads like crazy though and it sometimes bothers my knee and since I had my CrossFit competition the next I didn’t want to do it too many times.

The WOD was fun. Pushups, sit-ups and squats. I was really going to take it easy because pushups and squats probably wouldn’t make me feel good the next day when I’m doing pull ups and squats but oh well. I pushed it and killed it. 11 1/3 +2 rounds in 10 minutes! woot woot!

Saturday: I woke up and completed my Revolt Cardio Workout as fast as possible {I really didn’t want to workout that day!} After that I bummed around a little bit until I finished my 2 miles. I completed my half marathon training for the week! Which feels awesome!

I then went to my first CrossFit competition and completed the Hero WOD Sean! More on that to come!

Sunday: Today I have a soccer game!

Here is my plan for the week:
Monday: Revolt Week 4 Cardio & 9 AM CrossFit & 2 Miles
Tuesday: Revolt Week 4 Sculpt & 9 AM CrossFit & 2 Miles
Wednesday: 3 Miles & 9 AM CrossFit
Thursday: Revolt Week 4 Cardio & 9 AM CrossFit & 2 Miles
Friday: Revolt Week 4 Upper Body & 3 Miles
Saturday: Revolt Week 4 Cardio & 5K River Run
Sunday: Rest Day

This post is getting way to long today so I will update you on my Revolt Progress in another post coming to you soon!

Questions: What was your favorite workout this week? Do you run everyday?

It is Friday. Thank goodness! I have such a packed weekend planned which is fabulous!

It is impossible to find one favorite weekend event so I’ll just list all of them!
Saturday: Sertoma Chicken BBQ {this is the largest BBQ in the world!} & CrossFit Competition
Sunday: Breakfast to celebrate my Dads birthday & Spooky Nook Open House {the largest sports complex in the nation!}

It is definitely going to be an awesome weekend!

Favorite Snack: Quest Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup! So delicious. {PS: Stay tuned for a Quest Bar giveaway soon!}

Favorite New Dish Soap: {AD} I got these two bad boys in my Influenster VoxBox. I love them already. My mom said it is like doing dishes with a water softener {ours is having some major issues}

Favorite Deal: Perfect gift for fathers day or a graduation gift or a birthday gift!

Favorite Workouts: I have been running at least 2 miles each day this week and have been loving it! It isn’t even taking that much time out of my day like I thought it would! I mean it is only 20 minutes. I haven’t been getting a lot of sleep at night so I have more time to workout.

That is all of the favorites I got.

Questions: What do you have planned for this weekend? Do you like packed weekends or lazy weekends?