Alright dudes, I am on vacation this week with my family at Bald Head Island, NC (funny name right?!). I've decided to try out Vacation Mode with Avatar Nutrition. This is a setting you can put it on to let the system know you are on vacation and not tracking accurately. I've never used this feature before, so we'll see what happens! I lost a little weight since last week (time of the month), so the system increased my macros.

I'm super excited for this week and we are having so much fun already! I have a pretty huge family and every day a different person makes dinner (aka unknown macros). Instead of making my own dinner (salad + grilled chicken) as I did in the past on family vacays, I'm going to aim to hit a decent protein intake and calories... but I'm not going to be crazy about it. I'll enjoy drinks and whatever dinner whoever makes every night! So that's my plan for this week -- enjoying my vacation! So without further ado, here's my stats for the week and the changes Avatar made:

Date                     Weight               Protein (g)             Carbs             Fat            Total Cal
6/23/2017            130.8                 129                        162                43             1551 (+49)
6/16/2017*          131.1                 129                        152                42             1502 (+50)
START                   130.0                 128                        145                40             1452

Hi friends! Just wanted to pop in and give you an update that the macro-friendly chain restaurant and fast food lists have been updated! Tons of restaurants have been added -- Cheesecake Factory, Logan's Steakhouse, Cracker Barrel and more!

IIFYM CHAIN RESTAURANT MASTER LIST
IIFYM FAST FOOD MASTER LIST

I'll also be making some "infographic" style posts on my Instagram like this one, so be my friend on IG too! Hope y'all are having a great week so far!

<3,

- C

Dang, I have been slacking on the blogopshere! From here on out, you can expect weekly updates every Wednesday because I have decided to document my FOURTH reverse diet here on the blog! This time, I am doing a little experiment with Avatar Nutrition as my coach! I will be posting all my stats again every week so you can see how Avatar is adjusting my macros based off of my check-ins! Before I dive further into that topic, I am SO EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE...

My Deep Dish Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe has been published in the latest issue of Modern Fitness Magazine! This is seriously a bucket list dream of mine and I'm so stoked!

Speaking of recipes, I have now written 300 macro-friendly recipes that are all up on AvatarNutrition.com. I can't believe it's been a year already that I've been writing for Avatar! Just in case you are new to the world of macros, Avatar is an online nutrition coach that was designed by Dr. Layne Norton, Mark Springer and Katie Coles. Unlike macro calculators, Avatar has a complex algorithm that adjusts your macros weekly based off of your weekly weigh-ins. The site has tripled its users in the past 5 months, so that kinda tells you something -- it freaking works. People are getting insane results, which is so cool to be a part of such an awesome team. I'm excited to give this reverse diet a go as I have always either coached myself or had Layne coach me. You know me, I like to experiment. ;)

So if you can give up two days of starbucks and spare $10/month (instead of the >$200/mo coaches usually cost) I'd definitely recommend checking it out. I'm excited to try it, that's for sure! Next week I'll talk a little more about where I'm at currently in my fitness journey and I just might have some more exciting news around the corner..

Love you guys!

- C