Favorite Meal of the Week

Hello Fit Friends!
It's Patty here and first let me start off my saying this: If you have not yet seen Les Miserables yet, you need to log off the computer, get in a car, or whatever your preferred choice of transportation is, and drive to your nearest theater. Oh! And see the movie of course! I cried..... like a baby. Eddie Redmayne + beautiful, luscious, old language + a wonderful storyline = GO WATCH IT NOW. Also, I'm super stoked to watch The Great Gatsby.

Okay, now that I've got that out of the way let's get to the point of the post. This week I've been loving chicken, sweet potatoes, and cucumbers... not blended together, I don't recommend doing that but if you do, tell me how it goes. Okay, anyways enough silliness, if you want to get in on this deliciousness, read on!

Ingredients:
A few pieces of chicken (breast, leg, or thigh)
Whatever you choose to prepare and cook your chicken
5 Sweet potatoes
2 mini cucumbers (I buy mine from Costco)
1 small lemon
Cumin
Cinnamon

Okay so let's start with the chicken. You can cook your chicken however you would like but I recommend grilling it, healthy and simple. Once you've done that just top it off with a few sprinkles of cumin and squeeze half of a small lemon onto the chicken! Easy as that!

For the sweet potatoes, I recommend baking a few at a time and also maybe baking them at least 2 hours before you plan to eat them because they do take a while to bake. First, preheat your oven to 325-350 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with foil and lay out your sweet potatoes. Cut 5 "sweet potatoe- sized" pieces of foil and wrap them around your sweet potatoes. Lie them back down onto your baking sheet and pop them into the oven for about an hour. Take them out when the time is up and sprinkle as much, or as little, cinnamon and your healthy heart desires. I LOVE cinnamon and it's really great for your metabolism!

Okay, now for the easiest part of this recipe, the cucumbers! All you're going to do is wash your mini cucumbers, cut off the ends, and slice them, wah-laa! If you like plain cucumbers then you're done, but I like to jazz mine up a bit and squeeze half of a lemon over top and sprinkle some cumin onto those bad boys! Scroll to the end for picture of what your plate should look like when you're done!

Well, there you go, you're done and you've got a yummy, healthy dinner! I hope you all had a great friday and hope you try out the recipe :)
<3 Patty

Breakfast for dinner? Don't knock it 'til you try it!

Before practice tonight I wanted to give myself a healthy dinner, but I was in the mood for some breakfast! SO I decided, why not do breakfast for dinner?!
I started with Egg beaters Southwestern Style. (Which is SUPER good and I highly recommend.) I did 3 servings (each serving is 3 tablespoons) and made myself an omelet with 1 cup of sliced zucchini. I sprayed the pan with Pam and fried it up till the egg was a golden color.

I then had some Oatmeal! Oatmeal is one of those super foods that provides great energy and has great complex carbs. I buy pre-packed Oatmeal that contains no added sugars. I then added 1 tablespoon of PB2 (delicious and low fat way to have peanut butter. Peanut Butter clocks in at 200 calories per tablespoon and PB2 is only 45 for 2 tablespoons! Magic right there!!) Add in a teaspoon of cinnamon and you got yourself a yummy peanut butter Oatmeal (:

This dinner supplied me with great energy for practice and kept me going the whole night! I had water with crystal light energy to go with it.

That's it for tonight! I have a fantastic little recipe to surprise y'all with tomorrow(:

<3 Lacey

(PB2 and Egg Beaters pictured!)

Hey! I'm Lacey...

Hello fellow fitness freaks,
I would like to briefly introduce myself. My name is Lacey Dunn, and I am a 17 year old college freshman as of this Spring. I'm a cheerleader, cat lover, and fitness freak who loves to eat healthy and try new recipes! Patty and I's goals are to share our love for fitness and food! We of course aren't trained professionals, but I pretend like I am. I focus on eating healthy as an athlete and fueling my body. I have recently taken up weight lifting and am considering doing Crossfit.

My goals are simple: I want to become stronger and more fit for college cheerleading. So you are welcome to watch my journey and join in! Share your favorite healthy recipes and try mine out. Tell me if you dislike/like something, and watch as I attempt to get fit and improve my overall health with my dear friend Patty!

Hey guys!

 Hello people of the Interweb! This is Patty Martinez of "The Fit Twins." I'm from Los Angeles, California and my best friend, or "twin," Lacey Dunn and I decided to start a healthy food/ fitness blog. Here at "The Fit Twins" you may find anything from recipes to workouts to advice to maybe even a few fashion or beauty posts! My main focus in life is to maintain and healthy and fit lifestyle but what fun would that be without some clothese and makeup?! Lacey and I are not certified trainers or nutritionists. Some things that we post may not work out for you, but they just happen to be what work for us. Everybody's different. Man, I wonder if anyone is even out there reading this.... if you are, feel free to comment! We don't bite and we're new at this blogging stuff so constructive criticism and encouragement are welcome, haha. Anyways I hope you stay tuned because you're in for some yummy, healthy posts. :)
       <3 Patty