Weekend

I would say that I've had a good weekend! Friday nights WOD wasnt great BUT my pull ups are getting better. I just hate the wall balls because they hit me in my face, I just don't have the rhythm yet I guess. My squats were really rough because my hip flexors were so so tight!! So all and all, not the best night but LOVED my pull ups. Saturday morning I went to my friends house and we spun for and hour and a half (a half hour more then I planned, but it was good.) the last half hour was a bear but that's just because my butt was in pain. Saturday's meals were, a protein shake for breakfast, and bar (non paleo) right after my spin and on my way home I got Subway, also not paleo but again, I didn't have anything prepared at home for lunch and I was STARVING. Dinner was tuna fish on Lettuce, I'm running out of food and have to go food shopping next pay day!!! I also made a VERY yummy strawberry smoothy, strawberry's and water blended together, with a bit of honey. I don't think I ate enough Saturday, I also got a 2 hour nap :-) ahhh naps!!



Today Maggie (one of my dogs) and I went to the group run with my teammates and friends and we ran 8 miles, 3 more then I intended but I felt good so did another round of 4 miles, totals 8. And AGAIN didn't have anything prepared at home so I got Subway. I had 3 scrambled eggs with veggies for breakfast. So I understand that Subway is not paleo but when all else fails, it works. At last I didn't go to BK or McDonald's or some crap like that. I also feel that when I'm doing things like my weekend sports I need more carbs.



I'm also trying to not stress about things like nutrition or stress out TO much about food choices because stress can cause weight gain and /or not being able to loss body fat. So I'm doing my best and eating right, mostly paleo. I'm have to prepare for this weeks lunch's soon, right now I'll just stick with chillin' for the moment :-)



How was your weekend?

I don't get it..........

I don't understand why someone who has fibromyalgia and other issues that I have over come and now can do triathlon, can run 26.2 miles and who barely stays still because it seems that I'm addicted to training (by my standards) and love to move now, I barely cheat and I can't loss anymore than one % of body fat and lose a little bit of lean muscle, WHAT! I'm stronger but I lost lean muscle mass, how does that work exactly? I've started drinking protein shakes, I eat nuts, almond butter (sometimes), chicken like it's going out of style, I've cut down my fruit intake because that's to much sugar, I have tons of veggies and I'm still at 155 lbs (down 5 lbs from start) and only lost 1 % off body fat and lost lean muscle (a little bit). As Ally would say on the biggest Loser, "Kerry, I'm sorry to tell you that, you are NOT the Biggest Loser....". I'm doing everything that everyone else is doing plus some. Well you know that I'm not going to give up (I never do), or stop eating Paleo but tonight I am very disappointed and comparing myself to others. I'm always the low man on the to-tum pole, ugh!!!




*Rant over.*

Much needed recovery week...

Monday i forced myself to take the day off from everything but work. No gym! This week is recovery week on my triathlon/marathon schedule and this time I'm going to recover, usually I just keep plugging away by doing crossfit, running and whatever else comes along. Not this time, it's to close to my marathon to get injured, so I'm in recovery week, I took Monday off, today I ran for 50 minutes which felt great, I'm still sore but the run went well once I got into the grove, that took a while but once I got there I didn't want to stop. Wed I'll be at crossfit, Thursday I'll take off, Friday I'll be at crossfit, Saturday isnt planned yet and Sunday I'm going to take Maggie to my group run, I might bring Lilly too. My diet has been ok, Shelby wrote back and said to add more protien.  On Sunday I did my 15 mile run and didn't eat ver well, meaning I didn't eat enough during the day but had my cheat meal and it was SOOOO yummy.  Monday I was sore as hell and today I'm sore but in better sperates.

I'm going to bed to get plenty of rest this week.  Goodnight.

Busy, busy, busy.

My GOODNESS I've been busy!  I have been working out and training non stop since the snow storm and I'm feeling it!  I actually had Thursday off unexpectedly, I did go to the gym but it didn't workout so I didn't WORKOUT/swim instead I went to the food store to replenish my fridge. 
After I went to Max Muscel and spoke to Shelby I wrote down what I ate for 3 day's to email Shebly so she could see if I'm missing anything or doing anything wrong.  She hasnt wrote back yet but I'm interested in what she has to say.  I've added a protein shake in the morning because Dan says that I'm not eating early enough in the morning and I want to get some calories in me to get my motabolisam started again (in so many words).. We'll see if it changes anything. I lost 1 % of body fat but thought that with everything that I do I thought that it would have been higher, but I'm happy with 1%. I want more next time!
So this weekend was....hmmmm....busy, challenging, and a bit hard.  Saturday I went to my nutitionist appointment and then got back to Woodbridge in time for an amazing WOD of which I didn't think that I'd finish and I did an extra 2 sets by accedent so I guess I did better than I thought I would do, in the long run, I guess.  Then I painted for the rest of the day.  Sunday I went to do my 20 mile run, I was an hour late becasue I got lost :-/ getting there.  So when I got to Rock Creet Park I started my oun run, to try and catch up with my friends, which I did, at mile 4.5, it was an out and back course and we had to do it twice, the second time out I had to cut it short because I had to be someplace at 2 so I missed about 5 miles and ended up doing 15 miles. I feel worse now than when I did when I did my 21 mile run for the Marine Corps Marathon, I think it's because of Saturday's WOD because I was sore before I stated running and my legs were not moving well until the last half of my run.  Now I'm just hurting all over.  I did not get home until 8:30 tonight, I'm such a bad doggy mommy sometimes.  It has been brought to my attention that during recovery weeks with my Triathlon teams schedule and Marathon schedule I should back off on my crossfit to, to really recovery on my recovery week and let my body recover. It was also brought to my attention that my Marathon in one month from TODAY. I need to let my body recover and after this weekend, I think MONDAY would be a great day to recover, I'm tired!  This week is recovery week and so I'm going to treat it as such; Monday and Thursday will be my off day's, Tuesday I'll run for a little bit, Wed I'll go to Crossfit and Friday I will too, Saturday I'm going to do my team recovery run and Sunday I take off too.  I need to be ready for my Marathon and tonight I'm so tired and sore!!  I did have a great cheat meal tongiht though!!  Of course it was the only REAL meal today after a half of almond butter sandwhich before my run, sport bean, Clif chomps, a banana, Cytomax and a nice recovery protien drink, YES lots of sugar but I needed it to finish my run, have you ever tried to chew on some almonds during a run, YUCK! 

I gotta go to bed!!!  Goodnight.  Zzzzzzzzzz.......

Progress

Today went good. I ate well and felt OK. I ran for 30 minutes today then went to Max Muscle to get my numbers again.  What I saw was; Body fat is 28.5, Fat Mass is 44 (not real sure what it WAS), Lean Mass 112, and weight is 156. Which equals LOWER NUMBERS than the last time :-D.
For the next 3 day's I'll record what I'm eating to see if I can tweek anything to lower those numbers a little bit faster/better.  I don't really have much to say tonight. I'm happy with those numbers and will be interested in waht I can do to make them better.

Keeping up

I haven't been doing so great about keeping this blog up. Sorry. Things have been going well. This past weekend I did have more 'cheat' items then usual, but I also had one of my hardest runs this winter this Sunday and finally got back on the trainer on Saturday so I thought that it would be ok. Also Saturday night I went out to dinner and did ok, I think the only thing that wasn't paleo was the beer :-) Sunday I went out for dinner too, we went to The Outback that was very yummy but not so much paleo, well dinner was but not the appetizer or dessert. Surprisingly enough, I felt fine. I did take a nap today but kept busy yesterday so yesterday canceled today's nap out :-) Tonight's workout was good, I felt strong and my pull ups and burpies are getting better. I had subway today, because I got hungry on the road and needed something fast, they don't have lettuce wraps ;-). Oh and considering that I fell on the ice during my horrible run on Sunday, right on my bad elbow and it's a nice shade of purple and hurts like hell I also think that I did pretty well on tonight WOD.
Has anyone else ever noticed that when you have a half of a stuff neck you feel kinda funny, a little 'off' or is this just me? I'm also very happy that Valentines day is OVER. I hate that day (this/most year(s)!). Hoping for a better one next year.

I'll try to keep this a daily/bi-daily blog but sometime all the days run in together and I don't feel that anything different has happened that day, but I'll try to keep up :-)

Is spring coming YET?

WOD

5, 5, 3, 3, 1, 1, Push Press 35 lbs, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60,
and 3 rounds of
10 Power Cleans (40 lbs)
10 Burpies
TIME 5:54

More SNOW?!?! Are you kidding?

So, the Super Bowl Sunday evening, ah it was a beautiful thing! Durning the day I did very well because I know that I was going to have a 'cheat meal' during the game. And that I did, I think I had at least one over everything (not really everything), but I don't think that I had a thing that was paleo, execpt for maybe the egg? Did I feel the differance you ask?  Yes! My stomach hurt and was bloated for the rest of the night, but the next day I felt fine.  I did step back on the scale and didn't like what it had to say to me, but I'm thinking that it might have been caused by soduim, I don't know.  Let me just say that being snowed in and not being able to have comfort food sucks!!  I'm a little moody. This little vacation is great I guess but it can make a person lazy. Sure I've been making the workout and shoveling but haven't been running, biking or swimming. I have to get my trainer and bike out of my truck but that is really so borring, it just sucks doing this by yourself and being stuck in your home!! I'd like some ice cream please. Yes, at these times I miss my comfort food!
Yesterday's WOD was:
OHS
5, 5, 3, 3, 1, 1  > I'm getting better at this I guess.  I lifted the womans bar tonight, but still have to get lower.
Then we did a mini "Kelly". I was suppose to do 4 rounds but thought that it was as many as you can is 15 minutes, I was wrong, I did 5 rounds before I realized this :-/
200 meter run (?)
15 box jumps
15 Wall Balls

2-6-10 WOD

I'm glad I got a WOD in today!! 

As many round you can do within 20 mimutes:
5 Pull-ups
5 Inclined Push-ups
40 jump rope

Total: 10 rounds

I'd like to point out the the first 8 rounds of pull ups I used the blue and purple assistance bands and the last two rounds I used the green band. Also I think a few times I did the 'swing thing' correctly :-)

Now today I did have my cheat meal, because I didn't have lunch before CFW (I left work at 12) so I was starving by the time I was done with my WOD and didn't have anything ready to eat at home so I went to Boston Market, I'm not getting a date night this weekend either so I thought that I'd take myself out  :-). I got the white chicken, steamed veggies, (ehem) mashed potatos and corn bread (1 small piece).  I think I did ok as a cheat meals goes, I could have done worse. I do tend to feel guilty when I have cheat meals, buts it's only one meal a week and I think I do really well during the week.  OK enough justification, LOL.

Lets take a snow day...

So after I decided to take a snow say, it actually ended up being a mental health day. After a VERY sad day (for reasons not needed to be talked about) but it was a very emotional day. Someone told me the following that I'm about to share with you and I think it is very true.

"Kerry - you're making dramatic changes to yourself right now. You are facing and taking control over what you put in your body and how you move through the world. Is it any wonder your emotions are also coming under scrutiny? Putting old wounds in the past is as much a part of the process as putting old eating habits or poor exercise habits in the past. Feel the pain and rejoice in it just like you now appreciate a good muscle burn."

I believe that the "something" that has been bothering me and other emotions have come to the surface, has do to the change of my diet. Almost just as I realized this the show The Dr's came on and they were talking about what you show be eating at what age and then it ran into talking about eating more fruits, veggies, seeds and fish/meats, sounds familiar I thought to myself. They went on to say that eating to much processed foods and sugar and fat leads to depression (HA! I thought, than why am I so sad and feeling things that I haven't felt in a long time? Things coming to the surface) by 58%, shouldn't I be happy as a clam then no matter what happens? I cannot explain that part. I'm just not crying tears of happiness like I should be. Am I the only one feeling like this?

I am however happy that I can do 10 pull-ups in a row with the green assistance band now. I've been practicing after class, and I'd like to be able to do a un-assistanced pull-up in a few months, maybe by summer. Class was ok too but I have SO much to get better at, BUT on another note I've come SO far. Before I started Crossfit I was working on trying to straighten my right arm, lift the milk carton into the refrigerator (with my right arm), swimming, getting comfortable on my bike, I could not carry heave things, do a push-up, lift a bar over my head, I couldn't even do pass through's correctly all because I shattered my elbow on a training ride in 2007 (2007 was NOT a good year!!!), which caused other problems with my already repaired shoulder. Now I'm doing pass through's, lifting bars over my head, doing push ups (on my toes push ups) and now...doing pull-ups with assistance. I'm a lucky girl in so many other way's! I've had to over come a lot of stuff in life, whats a few more things? Believe me, that is easier said than done, UGH! The story of my freaking life, LOL!

Tonight's dinner: Steak, onions, peppers, mushrooms (I have to work on cooking steak, ick!), and baked brusle sprouts. I also chose to have some red wine, it's good for the heart (HA, coincidence? I'll let you be the judge, LOL). Tonights WOD was good, but with no added weight:

Today: 5 rounds

12 snatch grip deadlifts 35 lbs bar

9 power snatch -  20 lbs bar

6 OHS - PVC 

Food and feelings

Ok so I've had a few bad day's and nights but I think I've got it now (not bad as in cheating), last night I got pissed at not being able to do something, of which I should be used to, but for some reason last night really got to me BUT I had a great dinner!  I made sweet potato fries (saves the freaking day), and baked brusle sprouts and chicken.  YUMMY!!!

Tonight was good I guess.  I went swimming but when I got out to go pee they closed my lane for the water arobics class by the time I got back. I was pissed because I wasnt DONE and really wanted to pay attention to my stroke and let out some steam, but I did get in a 20-30 minutes swim I guess. Tonight I had a shrimp salad, saute some shrimp and through in some avacado in a salad and some basalmic vinagar and apple cider vinagar salad dressing. I just wish a made it bigger. Now what can I eat?

Off to better day's!!!