Day 105: Made My Day!

After trying on several pairs of jeans from my closet I realized I didn't have any that fit me, not because I had gained weight, but in fact I've lost enough weight the I don't have ANY pants in my closet that fit me! It's kind of exciting! What's a girl to do? Shopping! You guessed it, I went jeans shopping. I haven't had to get new pants in a long time, and I had forgotten how painfully expensive it can be! Its hard to find the style you like or doesn't look too young on you or shows your crack when you sit down! I finally found the perfect fit and I have actually lost 3 pant sizes since I started eating Paleo and doing Crossfit. Yea for me! Now that I'm seeing major results, I can truly say, it's all been worth it!

Food today, early lunch at Smash Burger consisting of a burger no bun and sweet potato fries and water. Dinner I made some butternut squash soup. It was delicious! I made a homemade chicken broth and added the squash to this broth and added chunks of chicken. Very tasty!

Well, we are expecting bad storms tonight so I'm going to get in bed and get some sleep before the storms hit! I'm praying for safety for everyone if these storms should hit! Until tomorrow, goodnight and God Bless!

Day 104: Heart Burn

I've now been taking 40 mg of Prednisone for 9 days for a Colitis flare up. I've not had very much relief yet of the symptoms, and now I'm experiencing the horrible side effects of the medicine, heart burn being the worst. I can drink water and get heart burn. Other side effects are my heart skips beats, short tempered, sleeplessness, need I go on? I'm ready for this to be over! Having heartburn makes it hard to exercise. For instance today at Crossfit we were to do bear crawls but bending over make the heartburn become reflux so that's a no no for me. My workout consisted of 25 wall balls using an 8 lb ball, 25 walking lunges and then a 200 meter run, 3 times doing it for time. Of course this wasn't the actual workout, it was scaled down for me!

Food today: breakfast, coconut wrap with almond butter and banana with a cup of coffee. Lunch tuna salad, and dinner was Enchaladas make with corn tortillas, and of course chocolate for dessert. I figure if I'm going to have heart burn just drinking water, why not give myself a real reason to have heartburn!

Well, we are expect bad storms tonight and tomorrow so I better try to get some rest while it's still quite. Until tomorrow goodnight and God Bless!

Day 103: Totally Bombing Paleo Diet!

I've not been doing Paleo as I should and I can tell the effects! Not good! I have been busy and not putting eating properly in the right priority, and I'm feeling it now. I still haven't had gluten but the other junk I've been eating can be considered just as bad! I've had Ranch Salad dressings, tortilla and potato chips, and milk chocolate even pure sugar in the form of Peeps! I'm not happy with myself! I'm seriously going to try harder to overcome the temptations! I blame the Prednisone!

Food today: breakfast was a Larabar and a cup of coffee with honey and cream, lunch: salad with grilled chicken, fresh fruit and Ranch dressing, snack a bag of potato garden herb chips and a few pieces of chocolate. Dinner sweet potato fries with honey, cabbage, onion, mushroom and ham stir fried together and for snack, you guessed it more chocolate. Like I said, I'm not happy with myself! Of course there was no exercising today! I will do better tomorrow, plus I'll be at Crossfit in the morning, so until then, goodnight and God Bless!

Day 102: Driving In The Rain

I hate to drive in the rain! I find it very stressful! Today that's exactly what I had to do, drive in the rain most of the day. It's like every time I got in the car, it started to rain. I left my house at 5:15 this morning and the minute I got in my car, it started to pour down rain. It rained on me over half the way to Owasso. When I got to Crossfit it looked rainy but never did UNTIL you guessed it, got in the car to go to the first hospital run I had to make. It rained just long enough for me to get to St Johns Owasso, then stopped while I was in the hospital and started sprinkling on me while I walked to my car. It sprinkled on me to Bailey. After Bailey I actually made it most of the way to Claremore before it started sprinkling. I stayed there for over an hour and you guessed it, when I was going to my car it was pouring down rain and rained most of the way into Tulsa! Luckly I was able to do my business at Southcrest and all the way back to Hillcrest without rain! Still Stressful!

Crossfit for the day was: warm up dead lifts five sets of five lifts. I did 65 pounds. The workout was 5 burpee's, 10 knees to elbows and 20 double unders. Of course everything was scaled down for me. I did knees to elbows laying on the ground and I did 60 single jumps. We were to see how many reps you can do in 15 minutes. I did 7 reps plus 5 burpee's!

Food: spark energy drink, cup of coffee, banana, pork rinds, hamburger patty and sweet potato fries, a few pieces of dark chocolate and for dinner left over Paleo pizza and a few chips and salsa. Junk food again! I'm still lacking the self control. I've got lots of work to do tonight so it's time to say goodby, so until tomorrow, goodnight and God Bless!

Day 101: Prednisone Hunger

The Prednisone hunger has set in and I want to eat everything in sight! I totally over ate for dinner tonight. I made fish taco's, homemade salsa, and ate my weight in the chips with salsa. I totally sinned in the sugar area today too. Someone brought some peeps to work and I ate 4! Ugh! Why? It's like I have no self control when it comes to resisting food right now! I've got to get control!
The rest of the day I ate a Larabar for breakfast and for lunch I had a grilled pork chop, grilled veggies, asparagus, tossed salad and some fresh fruit. I had a few pieces of chocolate today too! Now I feel like a blimp!

I've got to go to Crossfit tomorrow without delay, and watch what I eat! Now is the time I need to stand firm and not give into temptation! Until tomorrow, goodnight and God Bless!

Day 100: 100 Days With No Gluten!

This is truly a milestone! 100 days with no gluten, I'm amazed I've actually gone that many days! Now if I could only go that many without sugar! I've cut way, way back on the sugar, but I do break down occasionally and have something with sugar in it. Also I've only had one sip of pop in these last 100 days too, and it wasn't so tempting that I just had to drink more than a sip. In fact it was too sweet, I didn't like it!

Crossfit today was BRUTAL! The workout was called "Angie". It was 100 pull ups, 100 push ups, 100 sit ups and 100 squats. I hurt! I have a sore on my tailbone from all the sit ups! Ouch!

Food for the day was ham for breakfast, salad with chicken, boiled eggs, veggies and some fresh fruit for lunch, and for dinner I made Paleo pizza and salad. This pizza was very good!

Going to take the day off from exercising tomorrow, but will probably go on a walk. I've been trying to get in bed early, and I've got a lot to do before bed, so until tomorrow, goodnight and God Bless!

Day 99: Happy Easter!

Today was a very relaxing Easter Day at the Garner house! Georgia went to her boyfriends, Barbie and Ken stayed in Stillwater because they are coming in next weekend, Sean had to work, and Courtney was going to be alone all day, so she came and spent the day with me and George. It was very nice! We just had a quiet day! She studied for a test she is taking tomorrow, I did laundry and worked on anesthesia records and George listened to the radio with his headphones on. Then later on after studying and work was done we had a nice visit and a quick dinner before Courtney had to leave. I enjoyed spending the day with my favorite daughter-in-law! So far I must say, God has truly blessed our family with each addition of a family member, and I'm proud to now call them my children too. Now instead of having 3 children I have 5, and one of these days, I'll add another son in the mix when Georgia gets married!

Today was a rest day from Crossfit not only because it was Sunday, but this is the most special Sunday of the year! Easter Sunday! He is risen!

I made Paleo cinnamon rolls for breakfast and were they ever good! After church, we had ham sandwiches on lettuce wraps, with all the trimmings. Bell peppers, onions, tomatoes, avocado, pickles, deviled eggs, and chips. I did cheat with gluten free mixed potato chips. For an afternoon snack I had to eat one more cinnamon roll. For
dinner I made bacon wrapped asparagus and a salad. I love bacon! I'm so full, I think I could pop!

Well, it's back to the Crossfit workout early in the morning before going to work, so I've got to get everything gathered up, so until tomorrow, goodnight and God Bless!