Fitness Tips

The Best Holiday Fitness Gifts

This season give your loved ones something that will help them crush their fitness goals.

Discover this carefully curated list of my 10 favorite holiday fitness gifts. These amazing products and services are the ones that I have vetted, trust, personally use, and find helpful.

  1. Commit 30 Planner for organizing and scheduling work and life’s to do’s and for creating and tracking goals
  2. Forever Strong by Dr. Gabrielle Lyon for the why’s and how’s to life long health and strength
  3. Carbon Diet Coach App for nutrition tracking and guidance
  4. Coach Mark Carroll for Building the Bikini Body Guides and high quality resistance training programing
  5. Buff Bunny for gym and lifestyle clothing
  6. BC Strength for home fitness equipment
  7. Versa Gripps for when your legs are strong but the limiting factor is your grip
  8. Outwork Nutrition for Pre workout and Build Whey Protein Powder. Use my coupon code “MELANIE10” for 10% off your first order. Use my Outwork Nutrition affiliate link to shop. https://outworknutrition.com/?ref=dkNH36V5xmUfmm
  9. Lakanto for zero calorie sweeteners to make all your healthy treats extra amazing
  10. Fitbit Inspire Watch and Activity Tracker for tracking steps, workouts, and monitoring health metrics like resting heart rate

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Find all the recipes I have personally created and used consistently for years to lose fat, build muscle, and keep off over 140 lbs!

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Fitness Tips

Easy Fit Family Meal: Same Meal Prep 3 Different Meals

Here I share a real world example of how my family of 3 created an easy fit family meal using the same meal prepped foods (chicken, potatoes, hard boiled eggs and salad dressings, along with fresh salad veggies, spices and condiments) and created 3 different meals by making small adjustments to accommodate our own unique goals, taste preferences, and portion needs.

Do you ever feel like because the members of your household do not have the same fitness goals as you that you struggle to stay consistent with your own nutritional goals?

Or that you have to cook an entirely separate meal for yourself which can be time consuming and exhausting? 

It’s okay and completely normal to have different goals, taste preferences, and portion needs as the other members of your household.  You can still eat well without additional time and hassle and reach your fitness goals by making small adjustments.  

These meals are also pictured above.

Meal Option 1:  Roasted chicken and potatoes seasoned with sugar free BBQ sauce, mustard, hot sauce, and spices without added oils.  Big salad with light ranch dressing and a whole hard boiled egg.

Meal Option 2:  Olive oil roasted chicken and potatoes seasoned with regular BBQ sauce and spices and a mayo dipping sauce on the side.  Small salad with vinegar and olive oil dressing and a hard boiled egg yolk.

Meal Option 3: Chicken and cheese quesadilla w/ ketchup.  Sliced veggies and light ranch dressing.  Hard boiled egg white with mustard.  Olive oil roasted potatoes lightly seasoned.

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