Workouts This Week and What I ate Today

It is January 5th. Have you set your goals? are you getting your workouts in? Are you planning your food? You really have no choice when it comes to planning food...it is a must! We have one chance to take care of our bodies and keep them healthy. Perfection is NOT the answer. Who wants to be perfect? NOT me. Try this little test...eat clean, nothing processed just grass- fed meats, vegetables, fruits, water, no sugar and absolutely nothing in a box for 3 days. Record how you feel each day and then comment below. You will feel like a new person..guaranteed! Your body will love you. You will be nicer to your kids, husband, wife or significant other. Trust me.

Sunday, January 3rd's WOD (workout of the day) was a bit crazy. I ran a slow 6 miles then Mark and I went to CrossFit TakeOff to do strength.  Some of my friends were getting ready to do a conditioning WOD, they asked me to do it with them so I did. I love working out with other people. It makes me work harder. I love the push. CrossFit people have a different mentality. They work as hard as they can for that particular day, never complain about it, are super focused about form and when the workout is all over everyone high fives each other. It is so awesome. Anyway, In this workout whatever time you have left over you rest. For example in 0-6 minutes, if it takes you 5 minutes to complete 2 rounds of 30 wall balls and 15 pull-ups you rest 1 full minute until 6-12 minutes starts. Get it? I welcome the rest!

Sunday's WOD...

0-6 minutes
2 rounds of:
30 wall balls
15 pull-ups

6-12 minutes
2 rounds of:
24 wall balls
12 pull-ups

12-18 minutes
2 rounds of:
18 wall balls
9 pull-ups

RX: 20#/14# Ball/10'/9' target

I did RX and a 10' wall ball target. It was hard. I had 1minute-90 seconds left over to rest before starting the next segment. After that I did my 5 min DUS practice and 50 GHD sit ups.

Monday:

I ran 3 miles on the dreadmill. I NEVER run on the treadmill unless I absolutely have to. It is so boring to me. I was already at the Workout Club and didn't have all my warm clothes for running outside so I just sucked it up and ran on the treadmill.

The CrossFit WOD was really good.

Strength:

Front Squats 5-3-1

This picture was taken during a competition. Damn, my form is good! Thanks to all my Coaches over the years.

I got 115# for 5, 135# for 3 and 150# for 1

Conditioning:
I did "Elizabeth" for the first time RX. Click on the highlighted word "Elizabeth" if you want to see the workout. It took me 2x as long as these woman but I don't care I did it RX!

Elizabeth  
21-15-9
squat clean
ring dips
135/95 RX
I did it in 14:58 RX. The ring dips are getting easier! Woo hoo. Finally. All my strength work is paying off.

Tuesday:

1 hour spin class.

I treated myself to a hot power yoga class later in the morning. Fantastic stretch! I should do yoga more. I feel so good after. The problem is that during the class I can't wait for it to be over and I am thinking about what i am going to eat for lunch. ha..ha.

DAILY FOOD LOG 

Here is my food for Monday 1/4/16. This is a typical day for me. On the weekends I allow myself 1 cheat meal each day (Friday and Saturday or Saturday and Sunday...never more than 2 days in a row). What is my cheat meal? Last weekend it was buffalo chicken nachos with 2 blue moons. Conor and I LOVE nachos. Mark, Chloe and I have to eat them fast b/c Conor is such a food hoarder they will be gone in seconds if we don't hurry up. When is he going to stop growing so he's not famished? 18 years old and 6'1..hopefully soon. At times I feel my life is based on feeding him. if I don't he will eat junk. We definitely don't want that or he is a bear to live with.

Breakfast: 
over easy organic eggs, 1/2 of a sweet potato, 2 cups of coffee with light cream in it and stevia.

Mid-Morning Snack: 1 large Banana

Lunch: around 11:00am

Grilled Chicken Caesar Salad. Approximately 5 ounces of chicken. Regular dressing and fresh parmesan cheese! Yum. Lots of water and plain polar seltzer.

2:00 pm
Lg coffee from Dunkin Donuts. It had 2 pumps of pumpkin spice, cream and 2 stevia

Mid-Afternoon Snack: 3:00 pm

1/2 cup Buffalo Chicken Casserole from paleomg.com with fresh tomatoes. It is not the best picture but it tastes delicious! I really wanted to eat it with pita chips but I resisted. Lol

Dinner: 6pm. Ham slices from a recipe I found on paleomg.com. I cooked an entire ham on Sunday. It is called Holiday Spiced Orange Glazed Ham. I have never cooked a Ham before but my kids love Ham and this recipe inspired me for some reason so I tried it. HUGE hit with the kiddos and Mark. I ate a salad with the ham slices (5-6 ounces). The salad had olive oil and balsamic Vinegar mixed in.

7:00 pm..still hungry! Ugh.

After dinner snack:

Strawberries with a small square of paleo chocolate banana fudge from livinghealthywithchocolate.com. I added the pecans on top with a few enjoy life chocolate chips. Bed at 8:00 pm. LOVE my sleep.