Rough week

Ok so I have been lacking in posts this week and a half, but it's been a rough one. I can't remember what exactly I've eaten in the last week, but I know it wasn't terrible. I was only able to workout a few times, but I did pretty well when I did. So since I can't recall all of the details I'm just going to start fresh this week.

Nick and I have decided to give up most sweets for lent. This includes candy, ice cream, and pastries. I have done well so far, even though McDonalds just came back with the shamrock shake and I really like those, I have been able to resist my temptations. I even turned down getting ice cream with our friends the other day!

On Saturday we worked out at Crossfit and did the crossfit games workout 12.1! If you want to know more about the games you can check out this Link. The 12.1 workout was to compleate as many reps as possible in 7 minutes of Burpees ( touching an object 6 in. out of max reach in the jump each time) I was expecting to get maybe 40 or 50 reps at the most, but I ended up getting 70 reps which is a pretty respectable score for someone like me. Here are the other scores for all the people that actually signed up for the games in our North Central region ( mostly legit athletes)!

I found out last week that my endometriosis is back, which is pretty bad news. If you don't know me personally you can read my old blog to kind of catch up with my past struggle with endometriosis. You may be wondering why I'm bringing that up in my diet/exercise blog, but it actually really affects that stuff. I get a lot of abdominal pain as a symptom and that makes it really difficult to want to exercise. My pain also increases sometimes when I lift heavy things tense up the muscles in my stomach a lot which is like every part of exercising. It affects my diet also because I get a little sick to my stomach when my pain gets bad, and I also don't always have the energy to make a healthy meal or go to the gym. Well that's enough of my pity party, I'm going to be looking into a few different treatment options and I'm hoping that if I continue eating better and working out it will actually help with the endometriosis and it's symptoms.

2/13-2/15

This week has ben a little better on the food side of things, although I have had a few bad meals also.

Monday was a busy day and my meals consisted of coffee and toast for breakfast, and leftover spaghetti for lunch. Monday night was a little hectic and both Nick and I ended up not getting any dinner.

Tuesday at about 1 pm I realized that I had not eaten anything in over 24 hours! ( I know thats terrible to do when you are trying to lose weight) And then I committed the ultimate dieting sin...I ate at Mcdonalds! I was out running errands trying to get stuff ready for our family valentines dinner that night and I realized I hadn't eaten anything so I just got the fastest easiest thing I could find, I know, I know, not good! Tuesday night I made Nick, Charlie and I a huge Valentines feast. We had salad, crackers and goat cheese, shrimp cocktail, deer steak, and vegetable stir-fry, and then some chocolate covered strawberries for dessert! It was a mostly healthy and VERY yummy dinner.

Wednesday I had coffee and toast for breakfast. For lunch I had 2 hotdogs with no bun, and a few leftovers from the night before. For dinner I made some pulled chicken that we put on some fresh baked asiago cheese and garlic bread, and some steamed cauliflower and broccoli. It was a very tasty and mostly healthy dinner. Then Nick had to go and spoil it by having ice cream later, so I felt the need to have some also. I need to work on my self control!!!

I actually haven't been able to work out at all this week. On monday night Nick and I were busy at a meeting until about 10pm, tuesday night was valentines day, and wednesday we had band practice. Hopefully I get a change in the last few days this week to make it to crossfit to work out.

I will also try to get my weigh in and pictures up asap for this week

2/8-2/12

I did so so the rest of this past week, my meals consisted of quite a bit of quick and easy but maybe not so good for me like...
Grilled cheese, spaghetti, gondola, a brownie or 2, hot wings, and pizza.
I really need to start trying to plan my meals earlier so I can make healthier stuff. We are always just so busy it makes it hard to cook anything when I don't get home until 7:30. But if I start planning ahead and make things ahead of time I think it would really help.

I worked out on Saturday, it was a team workout that consisted of...
4, 3 min rounds of
1 person did - 2 laps around the gym farmers carry with 2 35lb dumb bells
while the other person did - 30 pushups
Switch above tasks each round
Then as many OHS as possible with remaining time in each round

It didn't sound to hard going into it, but it kicked my BUTT! My teammate and I did 45 lb over head squats and for once my thumbs didn't go numb ( normally they go numb when I do OHS) They way it was scored was how ever many OHS you got by the end. We got 120 OHS, so that means I did about 60 of them at 45 lbs, plus 4 laps of farmers carry, and 60 pushups! Like I said, it kicked my butt!

On sunday Charlie did not cooperate while we were at CFP so I didn't get to workout :(

Hopefully I can eat a little better next week!

2/7/12

I ate terrible yesterday! Shame on me :( My meals included...

Coffee + creamer for breakfast
Taco soup ( actually pretty healthy) and a brownie for lunch
Another brownie and coffee for a afternoon snack
Pizza for dinner

I did work out yesterday, yay for me :) My work out was...

For a time, 21-15-9 reps of
Deadlifts @ 105 lbs
Handstand Pushups ( on a bench-press bench)

My time was 6:48 which is really pretty good! I was wiped after the workout, which is normal for a crossfit workout. But after I got home I felt like I should have done more. Maybe next time after a shorter workout like that I could do some rowing or something as a little extra.

The taco soup that I mentioned above in my meals, was really good, fairly healthy, and VERY easy. Here is the recipe...

Ingredients

• 1 onion, chopped
• 1 (16 ounce) can chili beans
• 1 (15 ounce) can black beans
• 1 (15 ounce) can whole kernel corn, drained
• 1 (8 ounce) can tomato sauce
• 1 (12 fluid ounce) can or bottle beer
• 2 (10 ounce) cans diced tomatoes with green chilies, undrained
• 1 (1.25 ounce) package taco seasoning
• 3 whole skinless, boneless chicken breasts
• shredded Cheddar cheese (optional)
• sour cream (optional)
• crushed tortilla chips (optional)

Directions

1. Place the onion, chili beans, black beans, corn, tomato sauce, beer, and diced tomatoes in a slow cooker. Add taco seasoning, and stir to blend. Lay chicken breasts on top of the mixture, pressing down slightly until just covered by the other ingredients. Set slow cooker for low heat, cover, and cook for 5 hours.
2. Remove chicken breasts from the soup, and allow to cool long enough to be handled. Stir the shredded chicken back into the soup, and continue cooking for 2 hours. Serve topped with shredded Cheddar cheese, a dollop of sour cream, and crushed tortilla chips, if desired.

let's do this

Ok so here is the deal, I am a stay at home mom of a 10 month old little boy named Charlie. If you want to know more information about me you can check out my other blogs. This blog is all about shedding this stupid baby weight that is still hanging on too many months later. My goal is to get my weight down to 150 pounds, and just get a little more trim looking. Every week I'm going to keep track of what I eat and how much I work out, and then at the end of the week I will post photos of myself for comparison. I'm also going to use this as my workout log, and a place to post healthy recipes that I find and like.

My workout of choice is Crossfit, if you don't know anything about it go here to discover the awesomeness. My diet of choice is going to be sort of a hit and miss, just trying to eat healthier. If I had the income, time, and energy to eat Whole9, I might consider it. But I LOVE food, especially food that is bad for me, so right now my goal for my diet is to just eat less of the bad stuff and more of the good stuff. My theory is that if I keep track of all this in my blog then I will be able to see the difference that more working out and eating better makes and it will keep me motivated to keep improving my health and my body. I'm not ashamed of the way I look right now ( although some people would probably say I should be), I got to this point through the process of bringing another life into this world, which is awesome. But I would like to be proud of my body and they way I look and feel. So here is goes...

When I was pregnant with Charlie I gained 50 pounds, which put me up to 210 pounds. I know, thats WAY more than they tell you is healthy to gain. I just couldn't help myself, it was the first time in my life I had an excuse to eat anything I wanted. Incase you don't know me, or if you do and you just don't remember how crazy huge I got when I was pregnant, here are a few pictures of me at 41.5 weeks ( yes I said 41.5 weeks, ended up 2 weeks past my due date)

 As you can see my stomach was ridiculously large and misshapen, and the stretch marks were ( and still are) out of control! So now that you have witnessed that frightening sight I give you the aftermath...

2/7/12 ~ 168.5 lbs 

Check back soon for workout and diet updates, my musings on life and health, and some heathy ( or at least healthier ) recipes.