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What I Ate Wed. + Other Stuff

The weather this week has been AWESOME!! It's nice to have near 80 degree weather after the chilly weekend we just had. It's supposed to be sunny and 80 the rest of the week-PERFECT. :)

Anyways, this week is the last week of my strength training program. I can't believe 6 weeks flew by so fast!Today I maxed out on back squats, and was able to get 205lbs!

I am pretty happy about that weight, since right before I started this program I went for a squat 1RM failed at 195. But my one rep max when I first started CrossFit was 205, so I would've hoped that after almost a year, my squat would have gone up. But that's okay.  My goal is to get 210lbs soon, and I WILL!

So here's what I'm eating today for "What I Ate Wednesday":

Breakfast-The usual: peanut butter chocolate oats + coffee
Pre-workout snack-1/2 cup 2% cottage cheese, 1/2 banana
Post workout-Protein smoothie
Lunch-2 fried eggs/1 white, 1 turkey sausage patty, 2 slices Ezekiel bread with all natural fruit only strawberry preserves, coffee
Snack-2 Jamie Eason pumpkin protein bars
Dinner-homemade vegetable beef soup(stew beef, canned green beans, diced tomatoes, organic low sodium beef broth-cooked in crockpot)
Bedtime snack- 2 tablespoons peanut butter, all natural whey protein shake with almond milk

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