Abs In the Kitchen... Tuesday, March 27

The other day when Snickers was out at 5-Star’s restaurant he overheard an argument. It was between 5-Star and all his wait staff. Snickers kept his nose out of it and sat quietly, waiting for it to end but how it ended was nothing like how anyone anticipated it to. It basically ended with 5-Star firing his entire wait staff. Yup, that’s right. And with the restaurant just an hour or so left till closing, 5-Star turned to Snickers and asked him, “Can you work right now?!”

That’s what went down and now Snickers works at his buddy’s restaurant until he can hire a full staff of new waitresses and waiters. For the most part, 5-Star has Snickers busy in the kitchen, learning how to make various dishes and appetizers. The extent of Snickers’ cooking is basically showing up at his mother’s house or opening up a call-food menu. It’s not that he doesn’t know how to cook, it’s just he really doesn’t feel the need to cook. Having said this though, it’s not like I even cook for him either. He usually eats out with his buddies or eats at a restaurant. He’s a two-big-meals-a-day kind of guy where as I’m a six-small-meals-a-day kind of girl. Our eating styles don’t match and of course we both think we’re each right in our ways. I’ll never agree to eating only two meals a day or the massive size of such meals he eats.

I can’t stress enough the importance of eating – to my personal training clients and to my own husband. Eating changes everything!

My own eating has been questioned a lot by me lately.

Every day I try to aim to eat the following:
5-6 servings of Protein
2 servings of Simple carbs
2-4 servings of Starchy carbs
4 servings of Fibrous carbs
<3 servings of Healthy fats

Getting in my protein isn't the problem, it's my veggies that are.

In terms of my physique, where I am, where I think I should be and where I want to aim to be still continues to be three different places and it’s frustrating me a lot recently. So I’ve been mapping out a different plan of attack. Training only accounts for 10% responsibility, genetics is another 10% but eating is a massive 80%. I already eat super clean but I know my problem is getting in my veggies. I’ve been struggling to get my veggies in lately and have resorted to simply blending them and then downing them. Actually, I got pretty lazy the other day and ended up downing raw eggs too. I could have, would have and should have prepared my meals the night before but I didn’t and then I woke up to late, so I threw about 8 eggs into a bag and then threw that bag into my big bag. Downed all eight in a matter of two meals.

I'm convinced the key to my success lies in veggies. I'm downing protein like it's going out of style, fruits aren't a problem, and my starchy carbs are pretty clean -- leaning on oatmeal, sweet potatoes and homemade whole wheat tortillas.

I'm all about the one-dish meals but in terms of veggie snacks, I'll be honest, I'm lost. I definitely have to get more creative with coming up with ways to incorporate more veggies into my clean eating!