Day 14, Soccer Sunday and poor planning!

One major thing I've noticed with doing Paleo and/or Whole 30 is that I now wake myself up in the morning. Yes, my alarm goes off but I find that I'm actually awake when I roll out of bed. This is huge! If you know me, you know I'm not a morning person. I'm usually the person that doesn't want to talk to anyone for a good hour after I wake up :) But things are CHANGING!!!

With my new found morning "awakeness" I'm finding I'm way more productive. After the kids and I were up, I made them breakfast, made the little guy a new pair of moccs, actually got ready (like did my hair and MAKEUP!!! Holy Man!) and made it to church on time. This never happens! I usually love sleeping in on the weekends, but I don't feel like I need to now. PS my whole entire body is still sore from Crossfit, but I definitely want to go back! Who am I!?!?

Quick recap of what I ate

What I ate, Day 14

Breakfast: Fruit and veg smoothie and some turkey

Lunch: Scrambled eggs with diced chicken and apple sausage and a handful of macadamia nuts.
I even had part of beer after soccer (I was kidless and with adults....shoot me)

Dinner: The doomed didn't have a plan after soccer and we were out of eggs and produce so no quick ideas came to mind....teriyaki it was at 7:30 :/ (Beef, chicken, rice and a small salad....and holy crap did I sleep awful and feel awful....DANGIT!)

Exercise: None

So of course after eating takeout I felt like ish....and then I was disappointed in myself that I didn't rally and find something to eat at home. But lesson learned. And honestly after being at soccer and picking the kids up at 7 I really didn't feel like cooking. That's the biggest downfall with going Paleo or Whole 30; cooking is huge! Note to self, have leftovers in the fridge or something in the crockpot if you're going to be away from home most of the day.

But all in all it was a great day. Got to go watch my man kick ass playing soccer (even if they lost) I don't care...still love watching him and his buddies play. Well more him....but you get the idea. 

PS look at my little mini....I just love him :)

Day 13 and a beautiful fall day

Today was a gorgeous fall day, this past week has been beautiful. I just love the northwest and I love the beauty that fall brings.

Today we spent part of the day saying goodbye to Jason's step Grandpa and it made me super reflective. Memorial services always tend to make me ponder life. On our way home Jas and I were talking about how much we didn't know about Carl. He was an amazing man before we went to the service, but then hearing about all of the other things he did during his life and friends and family telling stories about him had me in awe. He had a beautiful life and an amazing family and I'm truly blessed to be part of it.

Back to the ol' food catch up. I ate a later bigger breakfast just so I was tempted my too many things at lunch after the memorial service. Remember the sweet potato fries from last night? They make a delicious breakfast scramble :)

What I ate, Day 13
Breakfast: Smoothie (spinach, mango, strawberries and carrots) and chicken and apple sausge egg scramble with sweet potatoes.
Lunch: Spinach salad, turkey and ham, meatballs (not whole 30)
Dinner: Rosemary chicken breast, olives and salad.

Exercise: None

Starting to notice my face clearing up (still dealing with the affects of having a baby!), my wedding ring is spinning on my finger (always a good sign) and my energy level is up. But I still feel like I want a nap in the afternoon, which I definitely got today :)

Day 11 & 12 and Oh Em Gee I'm trying Crossfit!

Just a quick little recap on what I ate

What I ate, Day 11

Breakfast: Fruit smoothie, hard boiled egg
Lunch: Turkey, nuts and an orange
Dinner: Banana pancakes, avo, sausage and fried eggs

Exercise: None 

Noticed I'm sleeping way better, falling right to sleep and waking up actually refreshed. This is huge since I tend to be an insomniac.

What I ate, Day 12

Breakfast: Fruit and nut bowl

Lunch: Asparagus wrapped in ham, blueberries and olives

Dinner: Angus burger on butter lettuce with avo and sweet potato fries. (Tip: save left over fries even if it's a few, it makes a great addition to breakfast scrambles)

Exercise: First Crossfit class 8:37

My cousin invited me to her Crossfit gym's Girl's Night Out.....first thought...um no! But I've been wanting to see what Crossfit is all about. I follow enough Paleo blogs to see that it's the choice exercise for most of my fave bloggers. I'm not going to lie the whole idea of Crossfit intimidates me, but my hubs nudged me. And I actually did it! And I might even say I liked it! I actually want to go back and try it again! We did a bunch of different exercises Kettle ball swing, burpees, jump rope, 200m jog with weighted ball, situps, squat ball (pretty sure that's not the name). Basically the workout kicked my butt. I was dripping sweat. After the warm up the actual workout took less then 10 minutes, and I felt beat. But I liked it! I left feeling kind of like a bad ass. I mean I definitely need to learn the exercises better and did more of a walk/jog and a modified burpee but I still felt like I accomplished something. I stepped out of my comfort zone and went for it.

And just because my legs now hurt from all the squats, this ones for you ;)

Day 10 and some truth

Let's be real about doing a whole 30, any time you re-vamp what you're eating you have to have time. Time to plan, prepare and cook. And time to clean. Yesterday on Day 10 I just wasn't feeling the cooking and planning part. Call me crazy, but I was tired. Tired because the baby is cutting molars and up crazy hours of the night, and tired because the oldest woke up 3 times in the night because of an ear ache. So ya I was tired.....some may even call it exhausted. So I slipped, and honestly I don't feel bad about it because it gave me some serious insight.

In the midst of a sleepless night, a grumpers baby and a little lady that wasn't feeling up to par we had family photos. Perfect day right? ;) Somehow we rallied and the kids both made it through pics and the hubs and I didn't fall asleep from a sleepless night. With family pictures we did Sully's first birthday cake smash a bit early (our friend/photog is preggo and due in the next month so it was just easier). Any who, a cake smash means cake right? So I picked little man up a pretty little cake from Chuck's. Red Velvet to be exact. I mean he was going to smash it so he needed to be nice and messy.....right? Wrong (secretly I wanted a piece of that bad boy)

So we do family pics, I tell the hubs I'm not into cooking so we decide on takeout. I mean we were so close to the Thai food place, so why not? Well let me tell ya why that was a bad decision, or rather an eye opening decision. I was all excited for my delicious chicken pad thai. Surprisingly my delicious pad thai, was rather rich and it was A LOT of food and my tummy wasn't a huge fan of all those carbs/oils/sauce/etc. Hmm maybe my eating habits really are changing I pondered. Then I decided to cut into that beautiful Red Velvet cake that my little guy hardly touched. I had been patiently waiting for a bite of it. Not because I've been craving sugar, but because damnit it looked delicious and I wanted some! Welp, a took a bite and man was it delicious but HOLY CRAP was it sweet! And oh man, was it worth it? Probably not but I realize that life is not perfect, eating habits are not perfect, and this whole 30 is not perfect. But I'm ok with that. It's part of learning. It's part of figuring out myself and my body. It's part of figuring out why I feel like I need to eat things when I don't really want to. Make sense? Clear as mud? Ya, I get it. What I got from the whole experience on Day 10 was that if I probably had  full night's sleep I most likely wouldn't have made poor eating decisions because I would have had a plan. But that is life. Sometimes you just have to go with the flow and realize that tomorrow is going to be better. 

So here's to starting new today!

Quick side note on what I did eat

What I ate, Day 10

Breakfast: Smoothie (berries, banana, spinach and ice)

Lunch: Leftovers (wrapped sausage with bacon) and roasted broccoli

Dinner: Thai and cake (BOO ON YOU)

Day 9 and a little pumpkin patch fun

Day 9 was a quick food kind of day. Tuesdays are our busiest day of the week, piano and soccer so easy food is my jam.

What I ate, Day 9

Breakfast: Smoothie and half a chicken breast

Lunch: Salsa eggs, avo and chicken and apple sausage (this is a staple meal at our house)

Dinner: Bacon wrapped beef german sausage, sliced apple and macadamia nuts (I ate super late after soccer, like 10 pm because eating dinner before soccer is a bad idea!)

Exercise: Indoor soccer....oh and we won and my hubs is a boss at goalie

Yesterday we took the kids to the pumpkin patch. Dylan was so excited and it was Sully's first time so he was rather inquisitive. We just took them to the local little patch close to home, but they had a hay bail tunnel, corn maze and billy goats and piggies so the little lady was excited! Here's a few pics from the day :) (ok more than a few, but I couldn't help it!)

Quick catch up Day 7 & 8

Day 7 was a weird food day for me. I should have had a better plan and ate breakfast before I went to a baby shower, but sleep was more tempting.  So I went to the shower hungry and ate of plan, but I watched the amount that I ate and quickly went back on plan when I got home.

What I ate, Day 7

• Brunch (too many delicious, not whole 30 foods)
• Turkey breast, cukes and cashews
• Zucchini noodles, grilled chicken (cooked in coconut oil, rosemary and garlic) and avocado sauce

Definitely going to make the zucchini noodles again. They were really good and it felt like we were eating pasta. And Dylan loves using the spiralizer to make the noodles. You can even eat the noodles and avocado sauce raw. We ate it warm.

Day 8 started with a quick breakfast, errands and a really good Zumba/U-Jam class. I can feel the aftermath of that class today :) 

What I ate, Day 8

• Breakfast: Fruit smoothie and nuts
• Lunch: Cooked chicken breast, blueberries, olives
• Dinner: Rotisserie chicken, strawberries and sauteed butternut squash, sweet potato and onion cooked in kerrygold irish butter. (I steam the tators and squash before I saute)

Exercise: Zumba/U-Jam

Early Morning Zumba

When you hear your baby moving around at 7:30 in the morning on a Saturday, you get a little grumpy. The days of sleeping in is LOOOOOONG gone, and I'm not a fan. But I do have to say I'm glad he woke me up because it got my booty off to Zumba at 8 AM. D and her bedhead even joined me.

I love Zumba and U-Jam. It makes me smile, I always leave a sweaty hot mess, when I'm done I feel like my booty was kicked and who doesn't love to dance! D even joined me in a few songs this morning. Now my workout is done for the day so now I've got the rest of the day for fun stuff. 

What I'm eating today, Day 6

Breakfast: Pre-workout apple and handful of cashews. After workout Meat/veggie/egg scramble 

Lunch: Leftovers and salad

Dinner: Man burger (beef burger, fried egg and sauteed onions) and Sweet Potato rounds

Exercise: Zumba