Foooood and new followers!

Well hello there, what a super surprise. I'm obviously a new blogger (or is this just a blogger thing?) because I'm crazy excited to have more followers. All thanks to the fabulous Holly pimping out her sponsors for the month. I'm not mad about it! I'm gonna go ahead and guess most of you new folks are here for the giveaway, and I hope you see something you like and stay! If you don't well, ya know, it is a Target giftcard on the line. I'd do the same, so no judgement here my friends! 

So let's see, what's important stuff for you folks to know. I'm 22 and gained a bunch of weight in college. 50 pounds to be somewhat exact. I graduated and started looking for jobs and discovered that, holy shit, being fat is not fun. So I changed. A light went off in my noggin, if you will. I promised myself that if I could commit and lose 30 pounds myself than I could have a gym membership. So I ran for 3 months (Forrest Gump style of course...but not really) and lost 30 pounds. Since then I've lost about 30 more and I'm going from there. I lift heavy, run when I feel it in my bones, and I'm a big fan of body pump.

For all the nitty fritty details you can check out my weight loss story to the right. Yes, under my picture, riiiight over there. Besides that, I ran my first half marathon this year (I clearly had lost my mind. That ish was hard..but worth it!) and I just got my first full time job. Just livin the life one day at a time in good ole Northern VA (the Northern bit is necessary; anyone from VA understands).

So! I'm still goin strong on the Advocare cleanse. I'm not gonna lie, it was hard today. One of my coworkers is El Salvadorian and she made pupusas for the office. They looked and smelled delicious. A lot more delicious than my freakin ground turkey meatballs, sweet potatoe, and broccoli. Major side eye. But I made it suffered through lunch. Know what also made keeping to my food hard? THIS. It was Administrative Professional Appreciation Day, so my boss gave everyone in the admin department an edible arrangement. I DIE. Ya girl was not saying no to this beauty, so I ate a few of the chocolate covered pineapple pieces, logged them in MyFitnessPal, (add me! skinnycrystal73 is my username) because I'd only be cheating myself if I didn't, and kept that shit in my calorie range.

That brings us to what you eat on the cleanse. You're pretty much eating super clean food. No processed food, no dairy (I'm eating hard boiled eggs but that's the only dairy), no coffee (I'm literally DYING), and lots of vegetables and fruit. I'm keeping my fruit to 1-2 servings and the rest veggies since I tend to like fruit with more sugar. Shocker. So I prepared my food for the week on Sunday, because I'm the laziest healthy person in America. I made turkey meatballs, sweet potato, and broccoli for lunches, and brown rice, chicken boobies, a hard boiled egg, and roasted vegetables (squash, zucchini, onion, green pepper, mushroom) for dinner.

Baked the chicken at 350 for about 20 minutes. I use the thin sliced ones because they take less time. Again, the laziness is real.

I keep it fancy, obviously. But not. I seasoned them with minced garlic, some southwest seasoning from Costco (like BJ's or Sam's Club), italian seasonings, and curry. I try to keep it low sodium, but I refuse to use Mrs. Dash because that ish is not tasty to me. I also drown my food in sriracha most days, not cholula. I think I'm the only person in the world who is not the biggest fan of the stuff. I really tried! I just need it spicier. More heat, please and thanks.

Anyways, the turkey meatballs recipe, as promised. I got it from my girl Jess who I found on Instagram. She is the greatest. You should go follow her @fitjb. Now.

You need:

-18 oz. ground turkey
-2 eggs
-1 cup grated carrot (be careful here! nearly chopped off my finger using a hand grater and baby carrots..)
-1/2 medium bell pepper
-2 tbsp. oatmeal
-1/2 tsp. salt and 1/2 tsp. pepper
-1 clove garlic, minced
-1 medium onion, chopped

Do this:

-Set oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit
-Chop/Grate all that crap up.
-Mix all that crap up, not too much or they'll be tough!
-Portion into small meatballs, I used a tablespoon measuring thing.
-Bake 15-20 minutes. Mine took closer to 20, but it depends!
-EAT.

This has been really long, but whatever, it's fine. You got a recipe out of it! They're protein packed and low cal so I don't think you can go wrong my friends. Enjoy!

And here's a cute picture of Tiger giving me kisses when I got home from work, just because. Sometimes I think she actually does love me. Most days she just uses me for the treats.

Anyways, I'm always looking for new recipes, tell me some of your favs!

-Crystal