Three days into October and I've done some sort of exercise each day. Just need to keep it up for the remainder of the month.
Today was all about KETTLEBELLS. Woohoo! I'm amazed at all the different exercises a person can do with those.
I ended up doing a workout similar to yesterday's skill set.
Round 1:
10 lateral kb (kettlebell) swings per arm,10 kb snatches per arm,10 kb power cleans per arm,1 minute kb native squat,10 kb sit ups
Round 2:
10 lateral kb swings per arm,10 overhead kb swings,1 minute kb native squat,10 kb sit ups
Round 3:
10 lateral kb swings per arm,10 kb swings,10 kb goblet squats,10 kb sit ups
Round 4:
10 lateral kb (kettlebell) swings per arm,10 kb overhead swings,1 minute kb native squat,10 kb sit ups
I was able to get through everything in about 18 minutes. I was very out of breath, but still felt good.
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Thursday, October 3, 2013
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Moving for 31 days
Today I took my dog on a 3.5 mile hike. It was so pretty today. The sun would peek out from the clouds every once in a while. It poured rain a few times, but for the most part it was lovely.
View from the top of the ridge.
Since I'm eating Paleo for the entirety of October, I thought I'd give myself another challenge....to get some exercise in every single day. I will crossfit M, W, and F......the rest of the week can be anything from a hike, a walk, whatever.....just as long as I get in some exercise every single day.
You know what else I'm going to do different this October?? I'm not going to buy one single piece of Halloween candy. None. For me that's a huge deal. I'd always buy several bags of various mini candy bars and many times I'd eat most of the candy and have to buy more before the 31st. This year the cycle of binge eating candy stops.
I leave for Boise on the 31st and I really want to be as fit and I can be before my 5K run with my sister. It's the final countdown! Do you have any goals for October?
View from the top of the ridge.
Since I'm eating Paleo for the entirety of October, I thought I'd give myself another challenge....to get some exercise in every single day. I will crossfit M, W, and F......the rest of the week can be anything from a hike, a walk, whatever.....just as long as I get in some exercise every single day.
You know what else I'm going to do different this October?? I'm not going to buy one single piece of Halloween candy. None. For me that's a huge deal. I'd always buy several bags of various mini candy bars and many times I'd eat most of the candy and have to buy more before the 31st. This year the cycle of binge eating candy stops.
I leave for Boise on the 31st and I really want to be as fit and I can be before my 5K run with my sister. It's the final countdown! Do you have any goals for October?
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Denial
I called my sister the other day and was telling her how I had a crying meltdown at CrossFit. She told me to go online and watch old seasons of The Biggest Loser. She said that it might be helpful for me to see other people struggling with changing their lives and watch them cry and have break downs of their own. I started watching Season 6 last night. My sis was right, it was helpful. It's so easy to lose perspective. I go to CrossFit and I see 20 people who for the most part are in great shape. Sure, the workouts are tough for them, but this world is something they know and are used to.
I've never been athletic. I started gaining weight at 8 years old. I wanted to be in dance classes when I was young, but my family was fairly poor and couldn't afford for us kids to be in sports. When I was in 5th grade they told me I could join soft ball. I didn't want to. I wasn't huge, but I was chunky and had no idea what I was doing. I felt guilty to turn it down, so I joined. I remember standing up to bat and refusing to swing the bat at the ball because if I hit the ball, I'd have to run around the bases. I hated running. Plus I could feel my extra flesh bounce when I ran and it made me extremely self conscious. I swung the bat one time during the entire soft ball season and I vowed never EVER to do sports again.
My mother was overweight while I was growing up. I remember she would politely bow out of any sort of physical activity if she could. She would never go swimming with us and going on hikes was far and few between. I hated that she was fat. I hated that because of her insecurity she was holding the rest of us back......but the truth was I hated myself and I projected that onto my mother.
Over the last 11 years of having 3 kids the weight really started to pack on. I knew I wasn't a small girl, but I didn't really think I was as big as I was. I made sure I wasn't in pictures and if I had to be in one, I tried to hide behind other people or objects so people couldn't see all my ugliness.
Last summer my sister rented a jet ski and wanted my husband and I and our 3 kids to join her in riding it for a few hours. She insisted on taking a picture of me and my husband on it. I tried to hold my head at a forgiving angle and tried my best to look as slim as possible. I wasn't very successful.
I've never been athletic. I started gaining weight at 8 years old. I wanted to be in dance classes when I was young, but my family was fairly poor and couldn't afford for us kids to be in sports. When I was in 5th grade they told me I could join soft ball. I didn't want to. I wasn't huge, but I was chunky and had no idea what I was doing. I felt guilty to turn it down, so I joined. I remember standing up to bat and refusing to swing the bat at the ball because if I hit the ball, I'd have to run around the bases. I hated running. Plus I could feel my extra flesh bounce when I ran and it made me extremely self conscious. I swung the bat one time during the entire soft ball season and I vowed never EVER to do sports again.
My mother was overweight while I was growing up. I remember she would politely bow out of any sort of physical activity if she could. She would never go swimming with us and going on hikes was far and few between. I hated that she was fat. I hated that because of her insecurity she was holding the rest of us back......but the truth was I hated myself and I projected that onto my mother.
Over the last 11 years of having 3 kids the weight really started to pack on. I knew I wasn't a small girl, but I didn't really think I was as big as I was. I made sure I wasn't in pictures and if I had to be in one, I tried to hide behind other people or objects so people couldn't see all my ugliness.
Last summer my sister rented a jet ski and wanted my husband and I and our 3 kids to join her in riding it for a few hours. She insisted on taking a picture of me and my husband on it. I tried to hold my head at a forgiving angle and tried my best to look as slim as possible. I wasn't very successful.
I was mortified when she posted this on facebook and I immediately deleted it. Who was that person!?! No way could that be me! I didn't feel that fat on the inside. Then I looked at my handsome husband and felt an overwhelming sense of sadness. My sweet Benjamin has never said one word about my weight problems. Never. As I looked at him I felt like I didn't deserve him. He loved to be active. Being outside gives him so much joy and I try my hardest never to go outside. The last few years he stopped asking me if I wanted to go on a hike or go to the beach because he knew I'd say no. Instead he'd just announce that he was going to take the kids on a hike and he'd be back later. I'd be relieved.
It's really only been the last 6 months or so where I've really been open about where I am in my life. The truth is I hated it. I want to love it. I love my husband and children dearly but my weight ruins everything! I don't like meeting new people, I don't like it being hot outside because I refuse to wear shorts or sleeveless shirts to stay cool. Eating, cooking became my only sources of joy. Four months ago I chose to give up flour and sugar and it was incredibly tough. After sticking to it for a couple of months, CrossFit came into my life and for the first time in a very very long time......I feel hope. Joy has started replacing the sadness. I want to be a better wife to my deserving husband and a better mother to my three loving children. I want to be a person that is full of happiness and life. I don't want to just get by day to day, I want to THRIVE!
I only get to live this life once and I'm tired of wasting time. This journey I'm on is so incredibly hard. It's also quite scary for me. I can't imagine life without being heavy. I'm thrilled to see what I will look like as a fit adult woman. I'm ready to change my life, one step at a time. The mountain I have to climb is so big right now that it's quite daunting. One day at a time, one meal at a time, one workout at a time. This girl refuses to be in denial for even one more day.
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
The flu from hell....................
I know in my last post I mentioned getting out for a night to celebrate my 11th wedding anniversary....well.....it looks like it's going to be cancelled. Apparently the flu we all had last weekend came back with a vengeance. We haven't been this sick in years. Why did it have to ruin Easter, my anniversary, and wreck havoc on my CrossFit workouts? I know it's out of my hands but it really ticks me off. STUPID FLIPPIN' FLU!
On another note, I'm really starting to enjoy finding and eating new paleo foods. Yesterday I grilled up some turkey burgers and put them on a bed of organic spinach leaves and topped them with slivers of red onion, dill pickle, bacon and avocado slices. I also baked up some homemade sweet potato fries. Mmmmm it was so good! Even the kids liked it.
Despite not feeling very well, the workout was great. We learned about dumbbell squat cleans. Wow, what looks like a fairly simple movement (and it is) is also a great workout. We did several of these and then learned all about pull-ups. Only a couple people in my group can do a regular pull-up, so we learned all sorts of modified ones. After doing several of these we did 5 rounds of dumbbell squat cleans and pull-ups. 12-8-6-4-2
After our workout was complete we talked more about nutrition and how several elements need to be in check for us to succeed as athletes. EXERCISE~NUTRITION~SLEEP~STRESS
If any of those are out of whack, then we fail to get where we need to be. My biggest issue will be the sleep part. I've been an insomniac since I was in grade school. It takes me a good hour to fall asleep on a good night and on a bad night it'll take several hours or I might never fall asleep. It doesn't matter how much I exercise, sleep doesn't come easy for me. Once I'm asleep I'm fine, it's just getting there that's the problem. I've tried EVERYTHING to fix this problem and nothing seems to work that well. We'll see how the sleep thing goes after a few months of CrossFit. I feel like I have the nutrition down. I like it, it's easy, I feel good eating it, I don't feel deprived.......hopefully it stays that way.
Tomorrow we are going to do the same workout we did day one. We're going to see if we can better our time. I didn't complete it because I was having a moment in the bathroom reliving my dinner, so as long as I can finish tomorrow, I'll be very happy. I can't believe bootcamp is just one workout away from being complete!!! It feels good to force myself out of my comfort zone and do something that really means something. It feels good to tell my kids what I'm doing and why I'm doing it. I want them to learn that to change your life takes a lot of courage and effort, but it will pay off and be more rewarding than they could ever imagine. I want my family to see that just because we were raised to love to eat and not exercise doesn't mean that we can't change that about ourselves.
I'm going to have a cup of tea and maybe a square of dark chocolate while I catch up on some tv episodes before heading to bed.
What I ate today:
Breakfast~green smoothie(1 cup packed organic baby spinach, 5 large frozen strawberries, 1 cup of unsweetened vanilla almond milk, 1/2 scoop vanilla whey protein powder, 1 TBS organic chia seeds, stevia)
Lunch~3 cups organic baby spinach, few slices of red onion, dill pickle, avocado, bacon, 8 oz turkey burger, dijon mustard
pre workout snack~1/4 cup sweet potato, 1 turkey sausage
post workout snack~1/2 cup mashed sweet potato, 2 oz ground turkey
Dinner~leftover steak and a big green salad with homemade dressing
On another note, I'm really starting to enjoy finding and eating new paleo foods. Yesterday I grilled up some turkey burgers and put them on a bed of organic spinach leaves and topped them with slivers of red onion, dill pickle, bacon and avocado slices. I also baked up some homemade sweet potato fries. Mmmmm it was so good! Even the kids liked it.
Despite not feeling very well, the workout was great. We learned about dumbbell squat cleans. Wow, what looks like a fairly simple movement (and it is) is also a great workout. We did several of these and then learned all about pull-ups. Only a couple people in my group can do a regular pull-up, so we learned all sorts of modified ones. After doing several of these we did 5 rounds of dumbbell squat cleans and pull-ups. 12-8-6-4-2
After our workout was complete we talked more about nutrition and how several elements need to be in check for us to succeed as athletes. EXERCISE~NUTRITION~SLEEP~STRESS
If any of those are out of whack, then we fail to get where we need to be. My biggest issue will be the sleep part. I've been an insomniac since I was in grade school. It takes me a good hour to fall asleep on a good night and on a bad night it'll take several hours or I might never fall asleep. It doesn't matter how much I exercise, sleep doesn't come easy for me. Once I'm asleep I'm fine, it's just getting there that's the problem. I've tried EVERYTHING to fix this problem and nothing seems to work that well. We'll see how the sleep thing goes after a few months of CrossFit. I feel like I have the nutrition down. I like it, it's easy, I feel good eating it, I don't feel deprived.......hopefully it stays that way.
Tomorrow we are going to do the same workout we did day one. We're going to see if we can better our time. I didn't complete it because I was having a moment in the bathroom reliving my dinner, so as long as I can finish tomorrow, I'll be very happy. I can't believe bootcamp is just one workout away from being complete!!! It feels good to force myself out of my comfort zone and do something that really means something. It feels good to tell my kids what I'm doing and why I'm doing it. I want them to learn that to change your life takes a lot of courage and effort, but it will pay off and be more rewarding than they could ever imagine. I want my family to see that just because we were raised to love to eat and not exercise doesn't mean that we can't change that about ourselves.
I'm going to have a cup of tea and maybe a square of dark chocolate while I catch up on some tv episodes before heading to bed.
What I ate today:
Breakfast~green smoothie(1 cup packed organic baby spinach, 5 large frozen strawberries, 1 cup of unsweetened vanilla almond milk, 1/2 scoop vanilla whey protein powder, 1 TBS organic chia seeds, stevia)
Lunch~3 cups organic baby spinach, few slices of red onion, dill pickle, avocado, bacon, 8 oz turkey burger, dijon mustard
pre workout snack~1/4 cup sweet potato, 1 turkey sausage
post workout snack~1/2 cup mashed sweet potato, 2 oz ground turkey
Dinner~leftover steak and a big green salad with homemade dressing
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