Clean Eating in Week 3 & Interval Workouts

Food:

This week has been great! I've been staying on top of meal prep & I'm putting in good workouts at the gym! I've enjoyed so many of the recipes this week.  Here's some quiche and oatmeal breakfast:

And some white fish plus veggie dishes:

The red stuff in that second fish picture is homemade Sun-dried Tomato Pesto.  I LOVE sun-dried tomatoes! The pesto is super flavorful and, unlike most stuff that comes in a jar, I know exactly what went into it.  The hubby approves and went back for more and we still have plenty left over:

Workouts:

I love lifting weights but I know that cardio exercises are beneficial too so I've brought interval training back into my workouts this week!  At first I was intimidated to get back to interval training.  When I think of HIIT I usually imagine myself looking totally crazy & flinging sweat at people from the elliptical while something like this goes down:

Warm up for 5 minutes.

Speed Burst	Easy-Pace Recovery
4 minutes	4 minutes
3 minutes	3 minutes
2 minutes	2 minutes
1 minute	1 minute

Blast off!
Speed Burst	Easy-Pace Recovery
30 seconds	1 minute
30 seconds	1 minute
30 seconds	1 minute
30 seconds	1 minute

Cool down for 4 minutes.

That particular HIIT workout is straight from May 9th of the beautiful Bella Falconi's website: http://vitaflexlifestyle.blog.com/category/cardio/  This is an effective workout, but...

I know there are other ways to get a good interval workout & the hubby is not comfortable with going full-speed (or any speed?) on an elliptical so I've been looking for new interval workouts to change things up. Here is another completely different interval workout that I like & that is almost guaranteed to leave you feeling sore the next day:

For each exercise, do 30 seconds of activity going all-out followed by one minute of rest (walking):

Split Jump Squat
High Knees
Jump Squat
Jump Rope
Squat Jacks

If you go through each of these activities twice you'll have a nice 15 minute sweat session.  Try it and let me know how you feel the next day.