Day 98: A Good Feeling!

One of the best feelings is to put on a pair of pants that last year was so tight that your belly hung over to now have them so loose they fall off! That's exactly what happened to me today. I've had this pair of crop Lacoste pants for over 3 years and never wore them. They fit when I purchased them but it was the wrong season to wear them, and by the time it was the right season, I had gained too much weight to wear them. I put them in the back of my closet thinking that I would eventually be able to fit in them, but each year passed and I only gained more weight, causing the pant to be pushed back even further in the closet. Thanks to Crossfit, eating a Paleo diet and doing an Advocare weight loss challenge, I've lost enough weight that the pants are now too big, and that's a good feeling! My starting weight in January was 168.9, my weight today is 142.3. That's a total weight loss of 26.6 pounds. I'm happy with that! I'm not finished yet, but now that I can actually see the results, I'm very happy! I'm going to continue eating Paleo, doing Crossfit and taking supplements from Advocare. I'm not doing a nutrition challenge at this time, but it doesn't mean I won't in the future. It was a great jump start to loosing weight.

Food for the day: barbecue chicken in a Paleo coconut wrap and some plantain chips. A Larabar for snack and then dinner was baked ham, pineapple, honey and cilantro baked sweet potatoes and a salad. For dessert we had melted chocolate chips with fresh strawberries and bananas. I did have some coffee today with honey and cream and then a Carmel Macchiato coffee from QT.

I had a busy Saturday, working on anesthesia records, then grocery shopping. Tomorrow is going to be a beautiful Easter Day focusing on Praising God, so may your day be as blessed as I know mine is going to be, so until then, goodnight and God Bless!

Day 97: Running Again, Are You Kidding Me!

Crossfit workout this morning was more running! My poor legs! Our warm up was brutal too. Sit ups for 20 seconds then resting 20 seconds then back extensions for 20 seconds. This was repeated at least 7 times. I lost count! After that we did death by pull ups. That's where every minute you add a pull up so in the end the goal is 15 pull ups in 15 minutes. In my dreams maybe! After the warm up it was 10 ring dips then 200 meter run, five times for time. I can't remember my exact time but I think it was 10:49. With all this running, I'm actually getting a little better! I'm taking the next 2 days off
and will be back on Monday, ready to run if that's what they want us to do!

Food for the day was light again. I had a banana and Spark drink on the way to Crossfit, then a jalapeño cheese sausage and green tea from Quiktrip. The sausage wasn't Paleo because of the cheese, but it's the closest thing to Paleo there. I was so busy again at work today that I had no time for lunch. For dinner I made a salad with lots of veggies, grilled chicken and bacon. Very tasty!

Well, it's time to rest up for the busy weekend. May you have a Blessed Easter weekend! Until tomorrow, goodnight and God Bless!

Day 96: I Had To Give In!

I'm following a Paleo diet with very few cheats and trying to exercise regularly, but I still developed a flare up of my colitis. Stress is the major factor of this flare up! I absolutely love my job, and everyone I work with, but the last 4 months of uncertainty about getting the contract, making sure we got everyone credentialed and ready to start work, going to computerized records, and the list goes on and on, caused major havoc on my colon! I tried not to give in to take any medicine, but I finally had too! I'm so upset about this because I've been Prednisone free for a little over a year and that's the longest I've been steroid free since I was diagnosed over 10 years ago. However the last few days, the urgency and other grotesque symptoms were starting to keep me from everyday life activities, so I had to get on Prednisone. I'm not looking forward to the side effects of this medicine but, I'm so ready to have a normal stool, and like I've said before in a post about colitis, until you loose the ability to pass gas you don't realize how much you loved a good fart! I'm not sure about everyone with colitis but I know that when I'm in a flare up there is no way on earth to pass gas without sharting in my pants. I'm very sensitive to this subject. I don't like people making fun of others if the shart in their pants, because I know what it's like and it's very, very embarrassing!

Along with taking prednisone, I'm hungry all the time, I'm very cranky, I don't sleep very well, my heart races and skips beats, I get hot flashes, heartburn, I gain weight, I'm very sensitive to all the virus bugs going around and for some reason MARSA seems to find its way to attack me, but on the bright side the colitis clears up!

I do want to take this time to apologize to everyone at Crossfit, work, home, reading this blog, etc., for any bad behavior I may show in these next few weeks! I plead Prednisone Rage, a real side effect of taking this drug! I'm definitely not looking forward to the weight gain, (i worked really hard to loose these 25 pounds over the last Three months) so I'm really going to have to watch what I eat, at least this time I'm eating a healthier diet with a few cheats instead of an unhealthy diet with a lot of cheats!

On to the food for the day. For breakfast I ate a Larabar and a cup of coffee. After that I was so busy at work I really didn't have time to even think about lunch, so we had an early dinner which consisted of a grass fed hamburger patty covered with chili mustard and onions and some
Plantain chips then for dessert some dark chocolate chips melted on fresh pineapple and banana. Everything was Paleo except for maybe the chocolate, but after the day I had I deserved it!

What's interesting about my experience with Colitis is that foods do not cause my symptoms, and I've also noticed that my symptoms seem to show up not only when under a great deal of stress, but also when I'm having bad allergies! Maybe this is because allergies put stress on your body. That's all I can come up with! Not only am I stressed, but my allergies are acting up like none other! I just know that I would never ever wish colitis on anyone! Well, I'm going to try to get some sleep since 5 am comes sooner than ya want, so until tomorrow, goodnight and God Bless!

Day 95: No More Running, Please!

I went to Crossfit again this morning, giving myself one day of rest between workouts, and what do they have us doing? More running! My legs are still sore from Monday, and they want me to run 1 1/2 miles! I don't think my legs are ever going to be the same! On top of the running we also did dead lifts, so the work out went like this: 15 dead lifts (I did 35pds, not even close to the weight you are suppose to do), then a 800 m run. You do these each 3 times as quickly as you can. My quickly was 22.49 minutes. I hurt all over! I do plan on going to Crossfit this Friday, but I would like to ask them one tiny favor, NO MORE RUNNING! PLEASE!

My Paleo diet was blown after my Crossfit workout. On the way to exercise I ate a Larabar and a Spark drink. After the workout I was STARVING! So I stopped off a Quiktrip and got a jalapeño cheese stuffed sausage, no bun, a bag of salt and
vinegar chips, yes you heard it, a bag of chips, I deserved it after that much running, and a glass of tea. For lunch I had some barbecue pulled pork and coleslaw. Finally for dinner I grilled some of my grass fed beef hamburgers and made some mashed cauliflower and a salad. I was full but now that its time for bed, I'm starting to get hungry, but I'm going to stay strong and not eat anything! I'm going to go get a drink of water then go to bed, so until then, goodnight and God Bless!

Day 94: Saddle Sore!

Ok, so yesterday I said I was back in the saddle with my Crossfit workout, well today I have major saddle soreness! I can barely move, it's hurts to walk, it hurts to sit, it hurts stand, and it hurts to touch any of my muscles in my legs. OUCH! But what do they say about if you fall off a horse? Get back on it! So don't you think if you get saddle soreness you should work it out? Well, that's what I plan on doing tomorrow, I'm going to go to the 6 am class and try to workout!

Food for the day was simple. I had a banana and Spark drink for breakfast. I haven't been hungry in the morning lately and I've always been a person that I can't eat anything when I first get up. I have to be up about an hour before I feel like eating. Now having a cup of coffee is another thing, it's always coffee time! Lunch I had a salad with grilled chicken, a side of guacamole, and fresh fruit. For dinner I made South of the Border Stuffed Acorn Squash, and it was very good! The recipe is in the Paleo Comfort Foods cookbook. I think I'm going to have a little snack of melted chocolate and fruit. I always crave chocolate after eating spicy foods!

Well, since I'm going to get back in the saddle again tomorrow, I've got a lot to do before I can go to bed, so until then, goodnight and God Bless!

Day 93: Back In The Saddle Again

I was at the Crossfit Primus Gym in Owasso this morning bright and early, 6 am, and I could tell I haven't exercised for a month and a half! After the warm up we started with a run, running 200 meters then resting for one minute, than repeating for a total of 6 times making it a total of a mile run. My total was 12.49, keep in mind we rested one minute each time, so I like to think that I ran it in 6.25 minutes! :) after the running we did as many reps as possible in 15 minutes of: 5 thrusters, 10 burpees, and 15 sit ups. I was only able to accomplish 3 reps and thought I was going to die! Tomorrow will be a rest day, because I've got to break back into this slowly!

Food for the day was NOT what it should have been. For breakfast I ate a banana and a Spark drink. When I got to work, it was soooooo busy I barley had time to do anything let alone eat and then I had to run to the dentist. I finally got to eat lunch at 330 this afternoon meeting a lady from the cooperate office at Panera. I still ate Paleo having a Greek salad with grilled chicken. I did splurge and had the feta cheese on the salad, but NO bread! I got home from work at 700 and the hubby was hungry so we ate some left over chicken fajitas with a little avocado and homemade salsa on plantain chips. Tomorrow is going to be another busy and long day, so it's adios for now! Until then goodnight and God Bless!

Day 92: Early To Bed

It's 9:30 and I've got to get in bed for my early morning. It's going to be my first day back to CrossFit in over a month! Pray for me! I heard its a lot of running! More tomorrow, so until then goodnight and God Bless!