Breakfast:
egg and cheese on a thin bun

Lunch:
Superfood smoothie:
-banana
-frozen peaches
-fresh strawberries
-hemp seeds
-hemp protein powder
-Chocolate Bliss mix
-coconut milk powder
-carob powder
-spring water
-stevia

Snack:
a small piece of low carb, low sugar coconut pound cake
a handful of cashews
Herbal Magic Green Elixir – a super-potent drink I made using a Green Food Feast powder and Merlin’s Herbal Magic Roots Elixir
(later) 3 very small peanut butter cookies

Dinner: (ate at Evos)
Mediterranean Summer Salad
(dessert) a mini ice cream sandwich

Exercise:
45-minute weight workout, ab clenches every 15 minutes at my desk

Notes:
After only 2 days of doing ab clenches at my desk, I’ve noticed a big difference. I feel really solid through my core. I also did as Mark suggests and instead of doing a lot of crunches during my workout, I just made sure to tighten my core muscles during every weight exercise I did. When I did that, I could really feel that my back/spine was being supported by my core muscles.

A lot of times, when I finish a weight workout, my back will be hurting me…but I think I’ve realized that it was because I wasn’t supporting it by tightening my core muscles. Yesterday I actually noticed how good my back felt after my workout, which was definitely an unexpected benefit!

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