Dylan Dreyer, the co-host of 3rd Hour and NBC News meteorologist, navigates the demands of a busy life as a working mom of three by prioritizing both nutritious meals and consistent workouts. In an interview with EatingWell, Dylan shared insights into her family's eating habits and how she maintains a healthy lifestyle amidst a hectic schedule. While specific details of her individual workout regimen are not extensively detailed, available information points to a focus on overall strength and core fitness.
Early Morning Fuel
Understanding the importance of starting the day right, Dylan relies on a simple yet effective morning routine. Her husband, Brian Fichera, prepares coffee in advance, ensuring a quick and easy start to her day. She prefers Farberware percolator coffee pot with milk and sugar, due to the fact that it makes the “hottest, strongest coffee.” Alongside her coffee, she often opts for Belvita breakfast biscuits, with the cranberry orange flavor being her favorite.
Family-Friendly Dinners
Balancing deliciousness and nutrition is a key aspect of Dylan's approach to family dinners. She avoids strict deprivation, allowing for treats like pretzels, Tostitos, and Cheetos in moderation. For healthy dinners, she focuses on lean proteins and plenty of vegetables. A go-to recipe involves sautéing carrots, onions, and zucchini, then adding meatloaf mix, ground chicken, or ground turkey, topped with tomato sauce. This provides a hearty and nutritious meal that appeals to her children.
Vegetable Innovation
Dylan actively seeks creative ways to make vegetables appealing to her kids. Roasted broccoli has become a favorite side dish, seasoned with olive oil and mushroom powder for a salty, umami flavor. Her husband, not typically a vegetable enthusiast, enjoys this roasted broccoli "like popcorn."
Comfort Food with a Healthy Twist
As the weather cools down, Dylan embraces comfort food with her famous chicken potpie. To accommodate her son Calvin's celiac disease diagnosis in 2023, she now uses gluten-free products. The potpie is packed with vegetables, making it a hearty and healthy option for the whole family.
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Immune-Boosting Smoothies
To ensure her children consume enough fruits and vegetables, especially when they are feeling unwell, Dylan prepares orange-mango smoothies. These smoothies contain oranges, frozen bananas, and frozen mango, blended with unsweetened vanilla almond milk. The result is a creamsicle-flavored smoothie rich in vitamin C.
Core Strength and Overall Fitness
Dylan Dreyer has been known to work out with celebrity trainer Ben Bruno. A 10-week fitness program focusing on overall strength and core muscles, emphasizes a combination of weights, bodyweight exercises, Pilates, and yoga.
The program is structured around two strength workouts and one fitness class per week, either online or in studio. Each two-week block focuses on different aspects of strength and mobility.
Weeks 1 & 2: Focus on building basic fundamental strength, with mobility exercises to improve flexibility. Strength exercises include kettlebell swings, alternating reverse lunges, and plank shoulder taps.
Weeks 3 & 4: Increase intensity with exercises like plank to downward dog, superman holds, and plank to alternating spiderman lunge. Strength exercises include glute bridges, bicep curls, and goblet squats.
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Weeks 5 & 6: Introduce overhead work and continue to build plank strength. Strength exercises include bent-over alternating dumbbell rows, dumbbell bench press, and underhand grip lat pulldowns.
Weeks 7 & 8: Build on core stability and strengthen postural back muscles with exercises like pushup into side plank, single-leg dumbbell deadlift, and alternating reverse lunges to shoulder press.
Weeks 9 & 10: The final stretch focuses on pushing limits and maximizing gains with challenging exercises.
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