THIS SNOW IS KILLING ME!!!
Enough with the snow. My daughter's school was cancelled twice this week. Worse, CrossFit classes were cancelled this morning! Hate that. Of course, I got to do my own home WOD of shoveling before bringing the kids over to Grammy's so I could telecommute to work for my half day. That worked up a sweat!
Pleased that the scale showed another 2.5 lb loss though - this is some serious water weight I'm shedding! That's 4.5 pounds in 2 days - over 1/2 a gallon of water! My appetite is definitely waning - I didn't feel as hungry for snacks and stuff today. Forgot to have a post-WOD shake though.
CrossFit opened at 4pm, so I did the 5pm WOD after telecommuting for a few hours. That was my first evening workout since I started there. Didn't really notice a difference in energy though. Pretty easy class today: 10 minute rowing warm-up, then the Wendler deload phase of strict presses (very light weight), and then a 10 minute EMOM of power cleans then 2 jerks, but only at 65% max 1RM. So, not a terribly challenging day, but still glad I went, of course!
Food: 1575 calories 10% carbs (42g)/ 34% (127g) protein/ 56% fat
- Breakfast:
- 3 links Jones Natural Sausage (yes, negligible about of sugar - but only 1 carb for all 3!)
- 2 eggs scrambled with a cup of stir fry veggies & spinach sauteed in coconut oil and a little Frank's Buffalo sauce on top (ugh, that had a little Conola oil - just full of little cheats today)
- Lunch:
- pulled pork with Cajun seasoning
- sugar snap peas (frozen)
- Dinner:
- Snacks:
Exercise:
- shoveling snow (only a couple inches - Brian had already done the majority)
- CrossFit WOD - mostly strength after 10 minute row warm-up
Sleep:
- Good 8 hours last night! Tried to read It Starts With Food for a while after doing my stretches, but too sleepy. And got to sleep in due to the snow day. Aaaah...
Pleased this morning since 2 of the 8 pounds of bloat were gone. Hope the rest goes that easily... But I could already see that my midsection looked less bloated And I felt so much better today too - my stomach barely grumbled at all. I can't believe how sensitive I am to gluten now.
After my salad today, I couldn't get the taste of onion out of my mouth. So, I ate my orange and pepperoni almost immediately after lunch instead of saving it for a snack. When that still didn't get the flavor out, I found a couple old sugar-free Life Savers in my drawer and sucked on those. But at least I wasn't really hungry throughout the afternoon like I have been lately - I think all the extra sugar in my diet was leading to cravings.
Food: 1980 calories 17% carbs (79g)/ 28% (116g) protein/ 55% fat
- Breakfast:
- Lunch:
- big salad with chicken & avocado & homemade dressing (with red peppers)
- Dinner:
- Snacks:
- post-WOD protein shake (last of vanilla egg-based mixed with last of chocolate soy shake and 1/2 c rice milk)
- mandarin orange
- some nitrate-free pepperoni (contained sugar, but we were out of deli meat...)
- 2 sugar-free life savers
- baby carrots while making dinner
Exercise:
- Partner WOD "Tailpipe"- took turns rowing 250m while the other partner held 2 kettle bells in the clean position (I held 35#ers). After doing 3 rounds of that, we got to rest for 3 minutes, and then alternated 30 seconds of burpees. Whew. Apparently, we were also supposed to do alternating sets of kettle bell swings too, but the coach forgot. Oops!
Sleep:
- Only 6 hours or so. Didn't get to sleep until 10 or so, and my son woke me up just after 4 because he wet the bed. Ugh. Was having trouble sleeping anyway because I had to pee, myself...damn bloat!
Back at the beginning of January, I resolved to do another round of Whole30 to get a little weight loss jump start for the year (I really want to hit the 170s this year). I decided to wait until 2/3/14 to start since I had a lot of social events throughout January - something every weekend (if not a couple things). So, I let myself enjoy the gatherings, indulging in few sugar-laden drinks and tasty snacks at each one (still staying gluten- and dairy free, but plenty of tortilla chips and other less desirable foods). I've also been a lot more lenient about the amount of sugar that's been creeping into my diet (bbq sauce, ketchup, etc). But I figured that it's only one more month - enjoy - can't have too bad an effect on me, even if my weight loss stops... And I upgraded my CrossFit membership to unlimited, so I've been doing 5 WODs/week now - that should keep things in check, right?
But then I started getting a little less vigilant about watching out for gluten too. A few weeks ago, I forgot to ask how a restaurant prepared their buffalo wings when I ordered, and was served some buffalo wings that definitely looked like they were battered. And I ate them anyway because I was hungry and in too much of a rush to order something else. And my stomach has not been the same ever since - all rumbly and gassy, like the olden days (is that really how I felt ALL THE TIME???). And in the last week, I had some sweet potato fries from a couple restaurants, and although it wasn't obvious to the naked eye, I think they must have been slightly battered as well because I stomach has really been going crazy lately. SO MUCH GAS. And I can see that my stomach is all bloated. NOT GOOD.
Well, 2/3/14 has finally arrived, and I have to say that I'm very grateful that it's here!!! I'm ready to get back to being strict and feeling better again. I figured I should hop on the scale to get a baseline, and HOLY CRAP!!!! I was back up to 199!!! I vowed NEVER to leave ONEderland, and that is WAY too close for comfort! Over the last month, 8 pounds have crept back on from when I hit my new low of 191, which is CRAZY. I'm confident that majority of it is just bloat from the gluten exposure, and hope that will come off very quickly again once my body starts to heal itself again. But there may be a little regained fat to lose too. However, I think I have made some strength gains this month too (not 8 pounds though!).
I also started a little support group on Facebook for a bunch of my CrossFit Relentless peeps who also want to buckle down. I'm looking forward to getting some good recipes and support through that!
This morning, I just felt like fasting, but decided that I really should saute up all the turkey sausage that I prepped last night. So I finally did that around 10:45. So I did end up having a ~15 hour fast after a nice Paleo dinner that Brian cooked last night. Stomach feels better already.
I finally went to see a specialist about my right knee since it's been bothering me since 1/7 and wasn't getting better. He said it's very tight around my patella, so everything around it needs to be loosened up a bit, which translates to more PT (just like when I had an issue with my left knee last year). So, I went to my PT eval session, and the therapist confirmed that my patella wasn't tracking correctly due to the tightness, so she taped me up to try to make the patella track better. Now I really feel like an actual athlete! I was prescribed 2 sessions/week, but she kept remarking how strong my legs are and that it's not a strength issue, it's a stretching issue. So we agreed on 1 session/week and a daily ritual of 3 sets/leg of 3 stretches (quad, hammy, and calf), and lots of foam rolling down my IT bands from my hips down to the knees. Ooof, that hurts.
This time around, I've decided to track my sleep too each night too. I really need to focus on getting more sleep. I'm also going to track my food in MyFitnessPal so I can see the carb/protein/fat ratios to ensure they're where they should be. My daily goals are:
- less than 80 grams of carbs (closer to 50)
- ~190 grams of protein
- ratio of 15% carbs/ 60% fat / 25% protein
Food: 1300 calories 12% carbs (30g)/ 35% (87g) protein/ 53% fat
- Breakfast:
- Lunch:
- a couple slices of leftover roast
- Dinner:
- big salad with chicken & avocado & homemade dressing (with red peppers)
- Snacks:
- mandarin orange
- some pulled pork (no bbq sauce)
Exercise:
- Rest day. Hammies are sore from lots of good mornings on Saturday. And left knee is still bugging me - finally getting a PT eval done today. Although the anti-inflammatories I've been taking for the last 10 days have made a HUGE difference. Looking forward to getting back to squatting in WODs though!
Sleep:
- Got a solid 8 hours until the phone rang at 5:45 to announce that school was cancelled due to snow. Snoozed a little bit after the call though.
