 happy Monday it is currently 453 a.m. I actually just pulled into the parking lot of boot camp I get asked a lot do we work out outside yes year round we work out outside it is 34 degrees so it's going to be a little bit of a cold workout so I usually bundle up thicker leggings a sweatshirt a workout top I've got a few layers on I've got gloves so I'm usually fine once we get moving and my body warms up I'm usually sweaty by the end of my workout but yes we are outside year round Monday Wednesday Friday or total body days so those are the days that I come so that I can focus on lifting heavier weights and really focus on muscle building and strength training in the gym the rest of the week so it actually works out really good for me gets in my cardio for the day and one thing I love about it even though it's early and I have to get up at 4 a.m. is that my workout is done by 6 a.m. and I have the whole day to do other things and that just gets my workout out of the way because I know myself I'm not going to work out at night because I go to bed early to get up early so this just actually is perfect for me the workouts are different every time so if you can find a boot camp in your area or some type of group training or group exercise I recommend it it's a great way for community it's a great way to build community and meet friends and of course have accountability to get your workout in so I am going to grab my weights grab my mat everybody should be here in the next couple of minutes I did make my protein coffee this morning I drank about half of it I'll finish that when I get home and get ready for the day I have some good recipes for you guys today we're going to make those halo top cookies that I shared in my grocery home we're going to see if they're any good because that could be a huge sweet treat cookie a game changer I'm going to be cleaning out my closet I need to do another donation run because I have quite a few clothes that are too big we just have a really exciting day today so I'll see you guys at breakfast it is time for breakfast I am so incredibly hungry I actually just finished getting ready for the day and I saw this recipe on Instagram on a reel and I screenshotted it because I thought because I was really excited to try this this is an air fryer oatmeal pancake oatmeal cookie for breakfast so let me show you what you'll need for the recipe you're going to need a small banana about a third of a cup of banana mine's frozen because I keep these in the freezer for smoothie so I'm going to defrost this a little bit in the microwave cinnamon is optional I love cinnamon so I'm adding cinnamon you're going to need about a tablespoon of milk a tablespoon of unsweetened applesauce or oil whatever you prefer I'm going to go with unsweetened applesauce rolled oats baking powder and then chips of your choice I have the lilies salted caramel chips you could do chocolate chips white chocolate chips whatever you would like so I have the recipe pulled up here on my phone it's actually from hay underscore r n e you in the at symbol I'll put her information here on the screen for you where I got this recipe if you want to follow her over on Instagram but basically we're going to mix everything together flatten it out in a cookie shape and throw it in the air fryer so I have my banana I'm going to add half of a cup of rolled oats a teaspoon of baking powder and a tablespoon each of unsweetened applesauce and milk and then I'm going to add cinnamon I love cinnamon so I'm going to put about a teaspoon of cinnamon I'm going to throw in 20 of the lilies salted caramel chips we're going to mix that together kind of smashing up the banana that's going to be a big portion of the liquid to form this into the cookie so I sprayed the bottom of my air fryer with some nonstick cooking spray I'm going to put in my oatmeal mixture and then I'm just going to pat it down into a pancake or cookie shape in the bottom of my air fryer now you can make this in the oven as well so here is what it looks like you're putting it into your warmed up air fryer or your oven at 350 degrees for about six minutes if you're cooking this in the oven you're going to want to cook it for about 10 to 11 minutes while my breakfast cookie is in the air fryer I'm going to mix up my motivate amino this is my post workout recovery I absolutely love this I have the flavor pineapple mango this is so great after a workout even if it's not an intense workout it's still important to supplement with some bcaas and some supplements to really help with soreness fatigue muscle fatigue it also helps your muscles grow lean muscle or whether you're trying to build muscle or not it's important to supplement after any type of workout always take my motivate bcaa my motivate amino after every workout I like to mix it up with my little handheld frother I bought this on amazon I will link it down below for you you know how much I love the motivate supplement speaking of motivate I do have a brand new flavor of the burn that we're going to try a little bit later this morning and then I want to talk to you guys a little bit about the non-stem version of the burn because I've been getting a lot of questions on that but this I highly recommend post workout it is sugar-free it is zero points on w w it tastes amazing and it's really going to help with your recovery after a workout all right there it is doesn't that look so incredibly delicious I am going to just pop it out with my spatula put it here on my little love plate and she recommended just a little bit of sugar-free maple syrup she said it can be on the dry side mine feels really moist like it was a little bit hard to get out of the air fryer but I am going to put about a tablespoon of sugar-free syrup this looks so good I can't wait to try it all right let's see if tiktok did us dirty or if this is as good as it claims it's delicious oh my goodness it's actually really really good the air fryer put a little bit of that crisp on the oats you would also get that through an oven as well the banana adds a nice sweetness the the chips add a little bit more sweetness the cinnamon gives it a tiny bit of a savory flavor so I definitely would recommend the cinnamon this is 100 more of a sweet breakfast than a savory breakfast but it's really really good you could add so many different things to this you could throw nuts in here chia seed flax seeds you could make it savory by adding in maybe some green onions or onion or vegetables there's a lot of things that you can do just kind of with the oatmeal base 10 out of 10 it's really good why are you under my desk Palmer Palmer would you like to oh hi yes hi oh yeah you're really cute you are the cutest you little fudgy bulldog yes you are yes you are you're pretty cute too squirt I'm going to make a morning snack and I'm going to do some cottage cheese my breakfast was a little bit more carb heavy post workout which is fantastic to kind of replenish those carbs have the rest of my protein coffee so I got in some protein as well so my snack is going to be a little bit more protein heavy so I'm going to do three quarters of a cup of good culture I have another container here because this one is almost gone and then we'll do 50 grams of blueberries that's going to give us a healthy carb and some fiber so I'm going to use my uba home bowl I've been sharing a lot with you guys about uba home I love them when we sit down to eat our morning snack I'll share with you some of my favorite products from the brand but what I love about this bowl is it has your measurements all the way from a quarter of a cup up to one and a half cups so you don't even have to measure it out you can just use the pre-measured portion controlled bowl so I want three quarters of a cup of cottage cheese so I'm just going to add that into my bowl up to the three quarter cup mark it makes it so easy especially if you're somewhere where you don't have a food scale like at work or out and about you can take these pre-portion bowls and measure it out directly into the bowl so there is three quarters cup of cottage cheese and 50 grams of blueberries but while I have my morning snack I want to share with you guys a little bit more about uba home I've been sharing it a lot in my what I eat today because I use their products all the time a lot of you have picked them up and you're loving them so like I mentioned this is the pre-portioned bowl I own three or four of these because when they get dirty I kind of panic because it's really easy to measure out things like cottage cheese fruit vegetables I mean anything that you would need to measure up to about a cup and a half these bowls come in really really handy another product that I love from them are their pre-portioned containers these actually have lids and again all of your measurements inside there's a red a yellow and a green so you could use the red for protein the yellow for fruit the green for vegetables or really however you want to use the products but this actually goes up to one and a half cups as well and then has the lid so it's a great way to pre-portion out your meals and snacks and take them with you again if you work outside the home if you're traveling they just come in really really handy and I really like that they are color coded they're really nice ceramic high quality material they are dishwasher safe and really just big game changers for portion control Troy and I are actually going to an all-day Jeep club event this Saturday and I am going to be taking both of these with me along with my silverware we'll talk about that next so that I can have healthy meals and snacks when we're out and about because we're probably going to be out in the middle of nowhere and I want to make sure that I have the foods that I need to eat to follow my plan with me so that leads me into the silverware I'm actually going to use the spoon today to eat my cottage cheese but you can see that these are small silverware so it really helps with how much you're eating per bite this is something I struggle with I'm a fast eater I just always shovel food in my face I would be done with my meal before Troy even finished half of his and these have really helped me slow down my eating they come in this nice silicone sleeve so you can take them with you again this will absolutely be coming with me on my little Jeep adventure with Troy on Saturday I'll do my best to get some footage and share it with you guys it'll be the first one that I've went to and the second little group event that Troy's went to similar to my boot camp it's been really good for him to go to these Jeep events with other people who have jeeps that way he's meeting people in the community and then having fun driving around and off-roading his Jeep as well and then the other item from uba home that you guys see constantly is my pre-portion plate I actually just ordered another one so I have four now and I love these they have three designated sections for your food I talk a lot about protein protein protein actually in my how to make it through the holidays video I talked about how I set up my plate eating my protein first vegetables carbs I'll link that video in case you missed it some really good valuable information and these plates lend to that perfectly what I like to do is put my protein in this big section here because that's really what I focus on vegetables and carbohydrates if you don't like your food touching this is another great tool for you but I really like this because it helps me focus on eating my protein first then my vegetables then my carbs and portioning out my meals I just really really love uba home it's really been a game changer for me in slowing down my eating with the silverware being able to easily measure out food you don't even have to have a food scale we measure at home take it with you to the office it's just such a fantastic company their products are so high quality and so affordable so I will make sure that I link uba home down below for you with the discount highly highly recommend at least picking up a few of the pieces they really are game changers for weight loss all righty it is time for lunch I made this the other day and it was so stinking good I've been craving it ever since so we're going to make it for lunch today and that's using the lavash flatbread I love this because there's a ton of protein in it there's omega threes which are a great source of healthy fat I just do one half of the lavash flatbread it is 100 calories for the whole one so it's only 50 calories and I'll show you the size of it when we put it together and then I'm going to do a slice of pepper jack cheese this is one of my favorite cheeses I just use full fat regular cheese and then one serving of the turkey out of this little pack from hillshire farm one teaspoon of carry gold butter which is by my stove and I make kind of a grilled wrap and then I'm going to have some berries I have blackberries and raspberries this is a fun hack if you store your berries in a mason jar they last forever one of the best ways to store berries and then I cut up a bunch of veggies to prep for the week I have celery carrots radishes cucumber so I'm going to have some fresh veggies so half of a piece of the joseph's lavash bread I mean this is really really good size so I just take half of that and then I'm going to put one serving of the oven roasted turkey breast I like to layer that on about half of the piece of the lavash bread and then my slice of pepper jack cheese and then just fold over the bread and then here's kind of what you have and then I lightly butter both sides before putting it into the pan just that tiny bit of real butter adds so much flavor and it gets it nice and crispy and here's my lunch one of the most beautiful colorful plates such a healthy lunch I'm telling you try this little melted cheese crispy wrap thing it is so so good I crave it I absolutely crave it and Troy's been really loving it too and then I have some blueberry blackberries and raspberries cucumbers radishes carrots all on my uba home plate it is seriously so nice to have all my food in its own designated spot I always focus on my protein first then veggies then carbs and the uba home plate just really helps me portion out my food correctly which is essential for weight loss so this is going to be my lunch for today and I couldn't be more excited are you being crazy get him willa get Palmer get him yeah get him he's taunting you with his baby so I have a coaching call in about 30 minutes and I'm going to mix up my motivate burn so I wanted to talk to you guys a little bit about burn so you know that I use the motivate burn with stimulants so basically that means that this burn has about 300 milligrams of caffeine per serving that's what helps with focus energy burn fat burn helps keep you full between meals but it does have caffeine and I know that a lot of you are sensitive to caffeine and have reached out and asked me if motivate has a caffeine free option and they do that is the no stim burn now this one only comes in one flavor my amy lemonade but it is so good and it's all the burn benefits without the caffeine so if you're sensitive to caffeine I would highly recommend the no stim if you like that little bit of a caffeine boost the regular burn is great there are several flavors of the regular burn this one is new to me this is cotton candy I'm so excited to try this I actually just filled up my cup with water we're going to pop in a scoop of this and it's going to give me that little bit of a pick me up for the call and for the closet clean out because as soon as my calls over we're moving into my closet to clean it out so I'm going to mix myself up the regular motivate burn but don't forget that they do have the no stim that doesn't have caffeine in it the flavor of this one is really good it's a true lemonade flavor I really like it and like I said you're going to get the same benefits with the no stim is you do with the stem all the energy the focus the fat burn so I'm very excited to try out the cotton candy I have heard really really good things about it so I'm going to put a scoop in my water grab my little handheld frother mix that up and we'll test it out I will link motivate down below for you guys with 20% off such a good deal you know how much I love their products they're my all-time favorite another thing you guys ask me about side note is when do I take the burn generally midday as they pick me up now if I have two coffees in a day which is pretty common I'll use the no stim just because I don't need that much caffeine or if I want something before bed I'll pick the no stim but generally I use this as that little bit of mid-morning afternoon pick me up so both of these excellent options let me grab my handheld frother and let's mix up cotton candy it's literally the perfect cotton candy color look at that cotton candy pink all right let me mix her up really good I saw my ice in there from my amino my motivated amino earlier today so let's give it a first impression taste test cotton candy burn that's good it's kind of sweet kind of vanilla-y kind of fruity I don't know if I get cotton candy I don't know I mean cotton candy just has like a sugary sweet taste and that's really what this tastes like so yeah I guess it is true cotton candy I really like it and this is definitely going to power me through my afternoon okay we're in my closet we're gonna start this closet clean out I'm gonna flip you around kind of show you how things are laid out in my closet we're gonna go through everything make a big pile there is a women's shelter in green valley which is just about seven minutes from my house I always bring my clothing donations there so whatever I get rid of will be going to the women's shelter we're gonna try things on I know that there are several sweatshirts that I've had before I lost any weight and I've been hanging on to them sometimes I wear them to boot camp but I have so many clothes that it's not necessary to have sweatshirts that are 10 sizes too big so let's get into this closet clean out I have my motivate burn to keep me going so this shelf here are all of my workout tank tops and all of my skirts all my workout pants are on this bottom shelf the very bottom shelf is pants jeans and then for clothes I have all of my regular like shirts and things here really you too really all my shoes and then over here are all my sweatshirts jackets and then of course all of Troy's clothes I'm going to go ahead and start on the shelves I know that there's a few things that I can get rid of got rid of a few things I got rid of some shorts some workout tanks a couple of skirts the lighting in here is horrible we have teeny teeny little windows so let me go through like this part of my closet and that part of my closet and then I'll show you what I'm getting rid of we are going to try on some sweatshirts and you'll see exactly why we need to do this closet clean out okay so here's one sweatshirt I mean this is like a 3 XL and I am a medium now this is actually a beauty influencer that I watch I ordered her merch you can see it's like a dress on me I mean it's absolutely huge so this one's gotta go so here's this really old Victoria secret sweatshirt I have had this for about 10 years I think it is yeah it's a size extra large it is way too big for me it's time that it goes like I said I've literally had it forever also my Leavenworth sweatshirt I have so many before and after pictures in this I will pop some up here on the screen for you guys there's a gray one in the dryer that I'm going to get rid of too but I have a massive massive pile of donation all right two massive full garbage bags going to the local women's shelter I feel really good about this I was able to really kind of whittle down my clothes a little bit I actually have room now for new clothes that come in I did end up putting all of my shorts in one of these little cubbies because I had some shoes that I got rid of and I really just kind of whittled it down to the things that I wear all the time and if I haven't worn it during the winter season in Arizona which is short I'm probably not gonna wear it so I am feeling so much better and much more organized afternoon snack time so I'm gonna show you one of the little hacks that I like to do to get a little bit of extra protein I do need a little extra protein in my afternoon snack because my breakfast was so carb heavy so I'm going to do one of the oikos triple zero yogurts this has 15 grams of protein and then I like to mix in a tablespoon of the PB2 so that's going to give me another three grams of protein so that'll make this 18 grams instead of 15 grams and then I'm going to have two of these snackmates for kids these little pizza meat sticks these are really good by the way so I'm going to have two of those as well that'll give me some more protein so again I just mix one tablespoon in to my yogurt and this one's really good because it tastes kind of like peanut butter and jelly and again you're just getting in that little extra bit of protein for dinner tonight I'm making pasta we are doing creamy beef and elbows I'm really excited for this it's kind of a beef stroganoff meats hamburger helper kind of vibe so let me show you what's in the recipe first you're going to need some whole milk beef broth pasta of your choice as always I'm using fiber gourmet this is our go-to pasta however I am trying a new one stay tuned for it in the future in the future video but I love fiber gourmet 110 calories half the calories half the points of regular pasta 24 grams of fiber seven grams of protein really delicious taste just like regular pasta just much better for you I buy mine off of nettrition they sell all the different shapes that fiber gourmet makes at the lowest price so I will link nettrition down below for you salt and pepper and as always I'll link my gravity fed salt and pepper grinders they're off of amazon tomato sauce garlic powder onion powder light shredded cheese and 96% extra lean ground beef so into my caraway cookware skillet I can't rave about caraway enough I will of course link it down below for you this is their big skillet I love their cookware I am adding my pound of 96% extra lean ground beef we're going to break that up and allow it to start browning once your ground beef starts browning we're going to add salt pepper garlic salt and onion salt I think I said garlic and onion salt and I meant garlic and onion powder not salt then we're going to add in two cups of beef broth a can of tomato sauce our box of fiber gourmet pasta give that a quick stir we just want to make sure that all of our pasta is under the liquid if you find that you need additional liquid to cook your pasta all the way through you can always add in a little bit more beef broth we are going to put the lid on and allow this to come to a boil and cook the pasta so I decided to add a veggie to the pasta so it is cooking along we still have a ways to go but I did grab out a bag of frozen peas out of my freezer and I'm going to throw them in there I thought we might as well add in a veggie I was hoping that I had a non-star sheet frozen vegetable like green beans but I didn't so we're going to go ahead and throw in that bag of frozen peas that way it has a chance to soften and warm the peas through while it cooks the rest of the pasta I'm going to add in half of a cup of whole milk that's what's going to make this nice and creamy and then we're going to add in one cup of light shredded cheese we need two cups total one cup will be mixed into the pasta and the other cup will go on top just allow that cheese to melt and the milk that we added to get warmed through then we're going to add that last cup right on top turn off the heat look at how good this looks it looks absolutely incredible this is a huge skillet of pasta it does make eight servings so I'm going to go ahead and dish up the serving and I'll be back to share points calories and macros and here is my dinner this looks amazing I cannot wait to dig in I'm pretty hungry so again all the information will be here on the screen for you we're going to make cookies I am so excited about this if you watched my grocery haul you know that I found this at Kroger they actually had halo top brownies and halo top cookie mix this is peanut butter chocolate chip it is 60 calories for the mix alone and then if you make it the way that it suggests which is three tablespoons of butter three tablespoons of margarine each cookie is 80 calories which is not bad at all I'm going to use real butter you can use light butter and that may knock it down a little bit but we're going to make some cookies and that's going to be dessert tonight and we're going to test these out we're going to see if it's worth it and if these are really good I will buy the brownie mix and we'll test that out and hopefully halo top will bring out more sweet treats all right so we're adding the pack of cookie mix to a bowl oh look at all the chocolate chips I am so excited to try this out you guys then we're adding three tablespoons of water three tablespoons of melted cooled butter do allow it to cool for a couple of minutes stir that all together I have my oven preheating to 350 degrees oh my gosh this smells so peanut buttery I'm so excited so the package says it makes 16 cookies so I'm going to use a fairly small cookie scoop and scoop out 16 cookies so I have 15 cookies because my lovely husband ate some of the dough and he said it is amazing he could not tell that this was a halo top or lower calorie lower sugar option so I am even more excited now we're going to pop these into the oven all right you guys halo top peanut butter chocolate chip cookies are out of the oven these look incredible I mean these are good sized cookies and they're only three points the way that I made them like I said you could use light butter maybe that would lower the points a little bit but 80 calories and three points for a full-sized cookie you cannot complain I'm going to let these cool and then we are going to taste test them I couldn't be more excited for this oh my goodness you guys shut the front door this is incredible this literally tastes like a peanut butter chocolate chip cookie I am not getting halo top I'm not getting low sugar oh my god it is so good it is so peanut buttery so chocolatey oh my gosh these are absolutely incredible wow serious mind-blown I can't wait to get the brownie mix and another bag of these cookies for today's what I eat in a day on WW I hope you enjoyed spending the day with me we made cookies we cleaned out the closet I shared with you my favorite supplements from motivate uba home everything is linked down below for you along with nutrition coaching links and discounts to my favorite things and my facebook group we would definitely love to have you over there don't forget to thumbs up the video if you enjoyed it and check out my recipe website for tonight's dinner recipe it was absolutely delicious thank you guys again for watching I hope you have an amazing Wednesday and I'll see you in the next one bye