Today was a Non-Paleo cheat day and no exercise! I did work in the yard and broke as big a sweat as I do at Crossfit. Breakfast was a Paleo omelette and coffee and lunch was a hamburger on a coconut wrap and some Paleo chocolate chip cookies, but dinner consisted of nachos! Nachos and homemade salsa was a nice little cheat! I've said this before and I'll say it again, sometimes you just have to have a little something not Paleo, but I will not make it gluten products! This is one thing that I am going to try to never have again! Tomorrow is going to be a power cooking day for my family, so I'm going to look at my Paleo cookbooks to try some new recipes, so I'm signing out now! Until tomorrow, goodnight and God Bless!
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Friday, April 27, 2012
Day 118: Paleo + Crossfit + Advocare = Happy Me!
A year ago at this time I weighed about 170 pounds and I wasn't happy with myself. My daughter was getting married August 6th and I knew I didn't want to look as fat as I was. I started eating a Paleo diet occasionally (off more than on) and did loose a little weight by the wedding date, but in the pictures I still looked FAT! I still wasn't happy! Enter Crossfit! I started going to Crossfit as often as I could at my son and daughter-in-laws gym. I live in Glenpool and the gym is in Owasso, a 45 minute drive and a little out of the way. Needless to say I didn't get to go a lot, but I did try to do a Crossfit workout at home. Enter Paleo diet (on more than off)! I decided that my New Years Resolution was going to be to eat a Paleo diet more on than off and go totally gluten free. Enter the Advocare Nutrition Challenge! January 2, Primus Crossfit in Owasso did a nutrition challenge using Advocare 24 day weight loss challenge. I decided that this would be good to try and give my Paleo diet a jump start. Here are the results:
Date Jan 2. Feb 8. April 27
Wt. 153.5. 150. 143
Ht. 5'6 1/2"
% body fat. 40.5% 33%. 32%
R arm. 13". 13". 11.75"
Shoulders. 43". 43". 43"
Chest. 42.5. 40". 40"
Waist. 35". 34". 32.5"
Hips. 41". 40". 38"
R thigh. 25". 23". 21.5"
R calf. 15". 14". 13.75"
Pant size. 12. 10. 6 :)
My job now takes me to Owasso 2-3 times a week so I've been going to Crossfit those days, I still use some Advocare products, especially the Spark energy drink and I try to eat mostly a Paleo diet and I do NOT eat any wheat or gluten food items! I plan on keeping this lifestyle from now on. If you would like to learn more about Crossfit go to: http://www.crossfitprimus.com/
and check it out. If you want to learn more about Advocare products , just let me know as my daughter and daughter-in-law both are Advocare consultants, and if you want to know more about a Paleo lifestyle, I encourage you to read "The Paleo Solution" by Robb Wolf or "The Paleo Answer" by Loren Cordain. If you want encouragement in any of these areas, just message me as it is great to have a support group and I will gladly help out in any way I possibly can! I hope that if you aren't already following a healthy lifestyle that you will starting today! Until tomorrow goodnight and God Bless!
Date Jan 2. Feb 8. April 27
Wt. 153.5. 150. 143
Ht. 5'6 1/2"
% body fat. 40.5% 33%. 32%
R arm. 13". 13". 11.75"
Shoulders. 43". 43". 43"
Chest. 42.5. 40". 40"
Waist. 35". 34". 32.5"
Hips. 41". 40". 38"
R thigh. 25". 23". 21.5"
R calf. 15". 14". 13.75"
Pant size. 12. 10. 6 :)
My job now takes me to Owasso 2-3 times a week so I've been going to Crossfit those days, I still use some Advocare products, especially the Spark energy drink and I try to eat mostly a Paleo diet and I do NOT eat any wheat or gluten food items! I plan on keeping this lifestyle from now on. If you would like to learn more about Crossfit go to: http://www.crossfitprimus.com/
and check it out. If you want to learn more about Advocare products , just let me know as my daughter and daughter-in-law both are Advocare consultants, and if you want to know more about a Paleo lifestyle, I encourage you to read "The Paleo Solution" by Robb Wolf or "The Paleo Answer" by Loren Cordain. If you want encouragement in any of these areas, just message me as it is great to have a support group and I will gladly help out in any way I possibly can! I hope that if you aren't already following a healthy lifestyle that you will starting today! Until tomorrow goodnight and God Bless!
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Day 117: Pepper Plants
One of the doctors I work with purchased me with some hot pepper plants, Bhut Jolokia (chile/pepper plant) and Habanero Chocolate (chile/pepper plant), and I can't wait for them to bloom and give me lots of peppers! It was so very sweet of him and I am so thankful he blessed me with these. He actually ordered me 12 plants, but there is no way I could ever eat that many peppers, so I'm giving a few of them to my sister who works with me and a friend of mine. Thank you Dr. Pierre!
Food and exercise today: No crossfit but going tomorrow morning! Breakfast, banana and a few Paleo chocolate chip cookies, lunch pecans and dried cherries, dinner grilled steak, baked spicy sweet potato wedges and salad.
Since I'm going to Crossfit early tomorrow, I've got to get in bed early, so until tomorrow, goodnight and God Bless!
Food and exercise today: No crossfit but going tomorrow morning! Breakfast, banana and a few Paleo chocolate chip cookies, lunch pecans and dried cherries, dinner grilled steak, baked spicy sweet potato wedges and salad.
Since I'm going to Crossfit early tomorrow, I've got to get in bed early, so until tomorrow, goodnight and God Bless!
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Day 116: All Around Tough Day
Crossfit was more than brutal today! We started with 100 double unders or 300 singles jump rope, 15 burpee's, 10 thrusters, then 5 muscle ups or 15 ring pulls and 15 box dips (not really sure what they are called). Each of these are to be done five times then finish up with 100 double unders or 300 singles. There is a 30 minute time limit. Needless to say I took the entire 30 minutes and didn't complete the task. I did push ups not burpee's and I didn't have any weight on the bar for my thrusters and I still couldn't finish. It was tough! Afterwards I went to the car to get my clothes for work. I was so tired and wasn't paying attention to what I was doing and I locked my keys in the car. This is the first time I have EVER locked my keys in the car and I had to be in Owasso, 45 minutes away from my house in normal traffic and it was rush hour so it took my husband a lot longer to come to my rescue with the keys. Getting to work very late, plus I was starving all day long so what did I do? You guessed it, I ate constantly all day long! Maybe it was the stress!
After getting my car unlocked, I ate grapes on the way to the hospital I go to, then more grapes on the way to the second hospital, then a Larabar on the way back to Owasso then still hungry and close to lunch time I was passing by my favorite fast food place, Baja Jacks, so I stopped off and had a grilled fish taco and some tortilla chips with salsa. When I finally got the office someone had brought in candy and it was like a little kid took over my body and couldn't resist the sugar attack! When I got home I was still hungry, so I made an omelette with sweet potatoes, onions, bell pepper, kale, left over chicken, tomatoes and eggs. After eating a huge portion I ate 3 Paleo chocolate chip cookies! Now I'm stuffed and miserable! The only good thing I can say is at least the omelette was
Paleo!
Hopefully tomorrow I will do better!
Since I'm feeling miserable I'm going to go take a shower and get in some loose fitting close to give my tummy room, so until tomorrow, goodnight and God Bless!
After getting my car unlocked, I ate grapes on the way to the hospital I go to, then more grapes on the way to the second hospital, then a Larabar on the way back to Owasso then still hungry and close to lunch time I was passing by my favorite fast food place, Baja Jacks, so I stopped off and had a grilled fish taco and some tortilla chips with salsa. When I finally got the office someone had brought in candy and it was like a little kid took over my body and couldn't resist the sugar attack! When I got home I was still hungry, so I made an omelette with sweet potatoes, onions, bell pepper, kale, left over chicken, tomatoes and eggs. After eating a huge portion I ate 3 Paleo chocolate chip cookies! Now I'm stuffed and miserable! The only good thing I can say is at least the omelette was
Paleo!
Hopefully tomorrow I will do better!
Since I'm feeling miserable I'm going to go take a shower and get in some loose fitting close to give my tummy room, so until tomorrow, goodnight and God Bless!
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Day 115: Chocolate Chip Cookies
I think that Paleo chocolate chip cookies are so much better than regular chocolate chip cookies, at least my recipe is!
Take one stick of very soft butter, add 1/2 cup honey and 1 tsp vanilla cream this all together until well blended. Then add 2 1/2 cups almond flour and 1/2 tsp baking soda mix well then add 1 cup chocolate chips stir then drop by tablespoons onto a baking sheet and cook about 10 minutes. These are scrumptious! The only problem is even though they are Paleo, they are still
fattening and it's hard to eat just one or even two, you want to eat more like four or five. I did just show self control and only ate three! I compromised! :)
Today I walked about two miles for exercise and for food I had paleo flat bread with bananas and pecans and a little maple syrup for breakfast. Lunch was a chicken breast on a coconut wrap and some chips (potato not Paleo) and for dinner we ate hamburgers on leaf lettuce and plantain chips. I also had some grapes throughout the day and of course the 3 chocolate chip cookies! It is back to Crossfit tomorrow so the morning comes sooner then I want. Time to start getting ready for bed, so until tomorrow, goodnight and God Bless!
Take one stick of very soft butter, add 1/2 cup honey and 1 tsp vanilla cream this all together until well blended. Then add 2 1/2 cups almond flour and 1/2 tsp baking soda mix well then add 1 cup chocolate chips stir then drop by tablespoons onto a baking sheet and cook about 10 minutes. These are scrumptious! The only problem is even though they are Paleo, they are still
fattening and it's hard to eat just one or even two, you want to eat more like four or five. I did just show self control and only ate three! I compromised! :)
Today I walked about two miles for exercise and for food I had paleo flat bread with bananas and pecans and a little maple syrup for breakfast. Lunch was a chicken breast on a coconut wrap and some chips (potato not Paleo) and for dinner we ate hamburgers on leaf lettuce and plantain chips. I also had some grapes throughout the day and of course the 3 chocolate chip cookies! It is back to Crossfit tomorrow so the morning comes sooner then I want. Time to start getting ready for bed, so until tomorrow, goodnight and God Bless!
Monday, April 23, 2012
Day 114: Pinning On Pintrest
If you follow me on Pintrest, I have created a board with only Paleo recipes. I pinned about 50 recipes tonight and can't wait to try some of them. I found recipes for biscuits, gravies, sauces, you name it I found it and I'm not stopping yet! It's amazing what all you can find on Pintrest and also, how many people follow a Paleo diet. It's crazy how many people eat a Paleo diet, and it's crazy that I just heard about Paleo diet this past year! I wish I would have learned about this diet years ago, because no telling how many years I've taken off my life by all the junk I've put into my body all these years and made myself so unhealthy. Who knows maybe I would never have developed Ulcerative Colitis. They don't know what causes it, so maybe my unhealthy eating was partly to blame!
Food today:
Breakfast: sausage patty and paleo flat bread
Lunch: nitrate free salami on a curry Paleo wrap, sweet potato chips and grapes
Snack: apple
Dinner: grilled buffalo chicken and salad
Snack: 1/2 banana with melted almond butter and chocolate chips
No exercise today and probably none tomorrow but I will be back to Crossfit on Wednesday.
Going to go check out more recipes on Pintrest, so until tomorrow, goodnight and God Bless!
Food today:
Breakfast: sausage patty and paleo flat bread
Lunch: nitrate free salami on a curry Paleo wrap, sweet potato chips and grapes
Snack: apple
Dinner: grilled buffalo chicken and salad
Snack: 1/2 banana with melted almond butter and chocolate chips
No exercise today and probably none tomorrow but I will be back to Crossfit on Wednesday.
Going to go check out more recipes on Pintrest, so until tomorrow, goodnight and God Bless!
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Day 113: Easy To Eat Paleo When You're At Home!
Today was a day that we were home for every meal and it is so much easier to eat a Paleo diet when you aren't away from home. For breakfast we had Paleo French Toast Flat Bread, sausage and coffee. For lunch we had grilled chicken in coconut wraps and sweet potato fries. Then for dinner I made Paleo Chicken Marsala substituting almond flour for regular flour. This recipe is a keeper!
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/emeril-lagasse/chicken-marsala-recipe/index.html#
I enjoyed this day and wish that it weren't almost over! I have felt so relaxed today not in a rush to do anything and if I didn't accomplish a project I didn't get stressed. I think this is going to be my new outlook, not to get stressed over the little things because it won't matter in a week! Well, it will matter tomorrow if I don't have the call schedule done, so I better get busy, so until tomorrow, goodnight and God Bless!
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/emeril-lagasse/chicken-marsala-recipe/index.html#
I enjoyed this day and wish that it weren't almost over! I have felt so relaxed today not in a rush to do anything and if I didn't accomplish a project I didn't get stressed. I think this is going to be my new outlook, not to get stressed over the little things because it won't matter in a week! Well, it will matter tomorrow if I don't have the call schedule done, so I better get busy, so until tomorrow, goodnight and God Bless!
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