MELONBERRY F I T

Hello! This is here mostly for my benefit, but maybe you'll enjoy some of what I post too! I'll be reblogging other healthy lifestyle things along with posting my own recipes, food and exercise logs, and showing some of my progress! I post a lot of smoothie and meal pictures! Learn more about my adventure in the links below!

[melonberryfit]

Caffeinated Protein Shakes. Yes.

Well, its spring, which means I actually WANT to drink shakes again! In the fall and winter I just want coffee and hot food all the time and I will just look at cold drinks and go “Nu uh, not in this weather. It’s -40 degrees outside.”

But I discovered something delicious yesterday! I have a problem in the morning still wanting coffee (for the caffeine) but ALSO wanting a shake instead of my “warm winter meal” of a fried egg and toast (I know, it sounds horrible doesn’t it? But it’s just quick and easy.). I don’t want to be going to the bathroom every 15 minutes at work, so that’s kind of out of the question. I know a lot of people make coffee shakes, but ehhhhh. That means brewing coffee, cooling it, and then making my shake. And I haven’t found an instant coffee that doesn’t make me gag (and my coffee-shop-owning mother would beat me if she found instant coffee in my cupboards...). Then I was thinking about those little Crystal Light Energy packets (well, I get the generic brand ones) and said to myself “Just do it. Just put your protein powder in with the drink packet. Do it.” I did and IT IS SURPRISINGLY TASTY! I was worried I would hate the feel of the protein powder without almond milk and some pudding powder (my typical shake) but the very slight grittiness doesn’t bother me at all!

So my shake volume actually doubles (one of those packets is for 16oz of water, and when I make shakes with almond milk it’s only 8oz) AND I save those 50 calories from the almond milk and pudding. That just means I can add more tasty flax and chia seeds. PLUS 120mg of caffeine!!!

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Holy shit balls

[runninginyellow]

THESE HURT LIKE HELL

GO DO THEM

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These are also called bottom-to-bottom squats. They hurt so good! Try doing them in a tabata circuit. No weight, just body weight.

[coalesce-warrior]

Jillians a bad bitch

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[charlottewinslow]

needed this *.*

[melonberryfit]

Lunch today! Trying to get back on track again. I know Vitamin Water is pretty much a lie, but it's the cheapest stevia-sweetened drink around here. Rise tastes like Tang and I love it, especially since I can't have actual Tang anymore (since its partially sweetened with sucralose). Usually I'm pretty good at having a healthy work lunch . Typically it's yogurt or fruit or a protein shake. It's the time between lunch and sleep where I have serious problems overeating.

[shespurgingwords]

Does anyone else drink synergy kombucha?

If so, do you have a way to get it down easier? I drink it for the health benefits, but it literally takes me all day to get through one bottle.

I tried making my own and it had an even stronger vinegar taste :x

[melonberryfit]

Try the chia ones. They're not as strong. The Guava Goddess one is also very sweet. If you wanna stick to to the "normal" ones, try diluting it with a fruit juice. Add more cranberry to the cosmic cranberry, or apple juice to the gingerade. Also pay attention to the dates on the top. The closer it is to that date, the more vinegary and strong it will be.

[isthisfitness]

Best fitness motivation blog is Here

[melonberryfit]

Aaaah I've never had this one before and it's SO GOOD OH GOODNESS.

I've pretty much always stuck to Gingerberry and Original because I had a bad experience with the strawberry one... but we were out of both my normal ones at work so I was like "I like pink, let's try this one."

Good decision, brain. Good decision.

[melonberryfit]

First 7oz of juice from my new manual crank juicer! What a workout! Of course I fed it hard stuff first thing... Beets, and cucumbers with the skin on. Used some spinach to "clean" it out in the end. Haha.

[melonberryfit]

I downloaded the "MapMyRide" app for my phone yesterday and it said I burn 100 calories just on my 2 mile ride to work. For some reason that doesn't seem right? I averaged 11mph.

I guess the bicycling.com calculator gave me a generous 145 calories burned for that same amount of time and speed.

It's just crazy because it doesn't feel like exercise maybe? I mean, I don't even count it as part of my daily exercise even though I do that twice a day, five days a week.

Maybe on one of my next days off I'll do a longer bike ride and see how that turns out.

[melonberryfit]

Does anyone have a favorite protein powder that does NOT have sucralose/Splenda in it? I'm allergic and it seems like every powder I pick up as it in there as a sweetener.

I've found one whey protein powder that I like that doesn't, but it's crazy expensive ($25 for 12 oz of powder) and only comes in vanilla. I'm okay with adding cocoa and stuff to make flavors, but I'd like to see other options I guess.

[melonberryfit]

Finally got myself a Blender Bottle! I'm so happy I found a pink one!

I might start posting my shake recipes soon. My first test one was "french toast" flavored for breakfast shakes, but it still needs a teeny tiny bit of tweaking. It was still tasty though!

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Just because I have a ''Fit tumblr'' does not mean that I always do everything right . It doesn't mean that I eat just healthy food all the time. I mess up,I binge, sometimes I skip workouts, sometimes I don't even want to hear about exercise.. but this is perfectly fine, because I always choose to keep going.

[melonberryfit]

Found half a cantaloupe in my fridge! Lunch is black tea, melon with mint, and honey almond chia pudding.

[melonberryfit]

I think if I didn't have such a physical job I'd be way more motivated to go home and exercise or go to the gym. Chris has a gym membership that lets me go with him, so really I can go whenever I want (since he's always up for it.) And I really really like Planet Fitness so it's not like it makes me feel weird or anything.

But after eight hours of lifting heavy trays, 30 pound boxes of donuts/bagles, 50 pound bags of flour, dragging mixing bowls that you could fit five toddlers in, hundreds of squats from filling shelves, and almost literally running around the bakery... I get home and I'm so exhausted.

Plus I bike to and from work and right now it's far from a leisurely ride. Because of road construction for the last two months, there are zero sidewalks on the 2.5 mile ride to work so I have to be on the road and keep up with everyone else.

When I look at it, I feel like I'm so physical, but it's "normal" so I'm not losing any weight from it and can't count it towards any daily exercise. But it wears me out like any other exercise would!!!

[melonberryfit]

I've felt so unbelievably gross lately.

We haven't been able to afford a new Soda Stream refill cartridge thing for the last couple months, so I've been getting these stupid 1.5 liter Dr Peppers at work because they're only 99 cents and I crave FIZZ. It's disgusting that a normal sized bottle of soda is more expensive than this monster I can barely grip.

It's making my belly feel so icky.

I look pregnant. All. The. Time. I assure you though, I am not. The amount of cramping and bleeding I go through every month, and the multiple negative tests before I had my IUD put in says I'm not.

All of my fat is RIGHT THERE.

It's baffling how I can see my ribs in the mirror without sucking anything in... and yet I have this massive lump of squish hanging off my front side.

I don't have "muffin top" I have "everything looks perfect 3/4s of the way around and then you get to the front and it overflows".

I've started holding my hands or bags or whatever in front of my tummy to hide it. It's... embarrassing. And it's seriously not the fact that I'm "fat" that's embarrassing, it's literally the fact that I look pregnant and I'm not.

When we have our Soda Stream, 80% of my soda intake is plain carbonated water or plain carbonated water with lemon slice or something like that. The other 20% is a mix of carbonated water with a sugar free flavor packet thing (like crystal light) or an energy drink. Now 100% of that has been replaced with Dr Pepper, my former guilty pleasure.

I don't even LIKE it anymore. I stand in the drinks aisle at work and I'm like "This doesn't even taste good to me, but I can't afford coconut water or plain sparkling water or even bottled tea. But I am craving the fizz..." And of course these sizes don't come in diet unless I want Mt. Dew... which... ew. No thanks.

I'm so frustrated with myself. I 100% honestly love my body so much but lately I've been noticing this belly thing so much and it's frequently bringing me to tears.

It's disgusting that I can't even afford to eat healthy. I LIKE food. I LIKE feeling full. I can't survive on water and oatmeal and brown rice though. It's SUMMER and fruits are STILL so expensive.

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[melonberryfit]

Hot damned I'm feeling pretty cute today. Went to the doctor about my hand. They still don't really know what's wrong. She said something about built up scar tissue and fluids in my wrists and then she gave me a weird hand massage kinda thing and there was SO MUCH CRACKLING. It was kinda gross! All she could do was tell me to take Aleve twice a day for a couple weeks to see if it helps with inflammation. I still have to keep wearing these cumbersome and ugly wrist braces though. Grrrrr.