As I said before sometimes when I leave a workout I feel like I need to go back and do another because my recovery has become really quick. To me this was an indication that I was ready to try two days in a row. My goal is to get up to 5-6 days a week, this may not necessarily be a WOD every day, but that or a run or a home wod, because of scheduling and such. I do want to reach a point of working out, hard, most days. So yesterday was my first 2 days in a row workout. Today...I feel like I did after beginner workouts. Sore, tired, amazing. Man, it is really hard not to walk around with the CrossFit walk sometimes. I went to bed early last night slept 9.5 hours and I am still tired today. I am dosing my protein blocks and omega 3 and trying to stay away from nuts for today.
Today was Firecracker's Thanksgiving Feast at school, this is where they get to bring their favorite food and share with the class. Firecracker settled on goldfish, she didn't seem to really get that she wasn't picking snack for her snack week and kept bouncing between snack foods, finally settling on the goldfish. Geeps took shrimp to his last year, he went all out. So before the feast I grabbed a cheese stick and an apple and some coconut oil, I know I know but it is an easy fat, life has been crazy and I am being ultra lazy. I am a room mom so I was setting up for the party (btw this is why no CrossFit today),and I was looking like some crazy lady trying to get this table cloth on with my sore arms and shoulders. Then every time I would squat down, getting up was a challenge, I really wanted a sign that said I wasn't disabled just sore.
My little pilgrim eating a fry!
So when I got home I was good and hungry and Firecracker was full of all kinds of crap so rather than cook I just grabbed some more chili...I know I know I am pathetic. I told you I am a fiend for the stuff. I just hate that you are getting boring food posts, but worry not, keep reading I am cooking up something fantabulous for dinner! But more on that later, I wanted to say that that I think I have hit the mark on this zone paleo...I am seeing the scale move as well as a few places feel leaner (aka not so much padding) but the biggest thing I have noticed is that I am sated at meals and don't get hungry again until about 10-20 min before the next meal. I am also all about all 5 meals. I feel like I eat smaller meals than before but it is a good amount because I get hungry when I should and I am sated when I should be.
**Rant Warning**
So this afternoon I was chatting with my friend FitChick, now if you haven't checked out her blog do it, you can view it here. Not only is she a friend but she is my fitness and health partner in crime. We compliment each other very well and have some great fitness & nutrition discussions. She is very inspiring to me, she is the main reason I skip simple cheats and show restraint with food and well try when it comes to eating healthy 100% of the time. This woman has the resolve of a bull and more willpower than anyone I have ever met. She has fought hard for a 70+ pound weight loss (so far, she isn't done yet) and she has changed her life. One of my favorite things to do is talk about all of this stuff with her. Her blog is also amazing and inspiring...well on that blog she got an unwelcome comment. In so many words someone got extremely high on their horse and extra judgey of her methods.
See FitChick is on a medically supervised low calorie diet plan that involves shakes and such. She did a lot of research and found this plan and decided to commit to it. This person decided to ride in and go all, well here is my opinion, which involved passively aggressively attacking her life. Sound exaggerated? It isn't, she knows nothing about her but what is posted and she felt it was okay to get on there and let her have it. She veiled it in a post of "concern" and even after FitChick politely replied and defended her choices and current lifestyle this chick still came back to attack her...with "concern". I get it, we are online, our posts are seen by tons of people and we are going to get opinions, I am lucky I don't have the following she does which equates to less drama. This girl on her -I just graduated from college with a degree in your standard exercise science program- had no right to come and attack FitChick and it was stupid wrong. It made me quite mad, don't mess with my peeps! I ask that the 2 of you who read this please go check her site and give her a big ole you rock, because she does. I have seen her go from unhappy and unhealthy to a model for anyone wanting to live a healthy lifestyle and she has never posted peanut butter banana "healthy" cookies on her site.
Okay now onto some Nosh!!!
I have mentioned before I love nom nom paleo she has the best food porn on her site and she is a crazy cooking nut like me. A while back she posted a recipe for a quick and easy chicken and I am addicted to it. It is so good and worth the prep time. I don't get to make Thanksgiving dinner and I am apparently in the mood this year so I have been making a lot of roast chickens. You can find the original of this recipe here.
Roast Chicken and Veg
1 brined organic chicken
Roasting vegetables, I used parsnips, carrots, pearl onion, celery, and mushrooms
butter
Peel and cut up all of your veggies and place them in a roasting pan, dot with butter. Spatchcock your chicken, place over veggies and massage butter into the skin. I sprinkled with Old world seasoning from Penzeys. Place in a 425 degree oven and cook for 45-55 min until done.
I love Trader Joe's, I know I have said it before. The main reason is that it is easy to get the foods I like at a good price, but the close second is that they sell their foods in seasons. Like now they have tons of parsnips! Yay for me, I love these little roots. The only root I love more than parsnips are beets...mmm beets! I love parsnips so much that I cut up 2 whole bags of them for this recipe to make sure I had some leftovers. If you don't have a TJs nearby that sells organic brined chickens you can brine your own, it makes the best roast chicken ever!!
I am really itching to cook some good Thanksgiving eats, I am going to be traveling this year but I am considering making a paleo pumpkin pie-ish and maybe some other goodies to take. Jury is still out however. I really want to make some paleo truffles so look out for those before Christmas for sure.
See FitChick is on a medically supervised low calorie diet plan that involves shakes and such. She did a lot of research and found this plan and decided to commit to it. This person decided to ride in and go all, well here is my opinion, which involved passively aggressively attacking her life. Sound exaggerated? It isn't, she knows nothing about her but what is posted and she felt it was okay to get on there and let her have it. She veiled it in a post of "concern" and even after FitChick politely replied and defended her choices and current lifestyle this chick still came back to attack her...with "concern". I get it, we are online, our posts are seen by tons of people and we are going to get opinions, I am lucky I don't have the following she does which equates to less drama. This girl on her -I just graduated from college with a degree in your standard exercise science program- had no right to come and attack FitChick and it was stupid wrong. It made me quite mad, don't mess with my peeps! I ask that the 2 of you who read this please go check her site and give her a big ole you rock, because she does. I have seen her go from unhappy and unhealthy to a model for anyone wanting to live a healthy lifestyle and she has never posted peanut butter banana "healthy" cookies on her site.
Okay now onto some Nosh!!!
I have mentioned before I love nom nom paleo she has the best food porn on her site and she is a crazy cooking nut like me. A while back she posted a recipe for a quick and easy chicken and I am addicted to it. It is so good and worth the prep time. I don't get to make Thanksgiving dinner and I am apparently in the mood this year so I have been making a lot of roast chickens. You can find the original of this recipe here.
Roast Chicken and Veg
1 brined organic chicken
Roasting vegetables, I used parsnips, carrots, pearl onion, celery, and mushrooms
butter
Peel and cut up all of your veggies and place them in a roasting pan, dot with butter. Spatchcock your chicken, place over veggies and massage butter into the skin. I sprinkled with Old world seasoning from Penzeys. Place in a 425 degree oven and cook for 45-55 min until done.
before the magic
after the magic!!
I am really itching to cook some good Thanksgiving eats, I am going to be traveling this year but I am considering making a paleo pumpkin pie-ish and maybe some other goodies to take. Jury is still out however. I really want to make some paleo truffles so look out for those before Christmas for sure.
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