I'm still really sick and still super tired. =( I've now proceeded to get my husband sick as well as my son. This is all quite frustrating! We're supposed to leave to go camping on Wednesday for a two night getaway. I'm not sure if it'll workout now or not.
Obviously crossfit is out of the question for today and we'll be gone Wednesday -Friday. *sigh* I think I'd rather be killing myself in the gym that sitting on the couch coughing, sneezing, can't breathe out of my nose or hear out of my right ear.
I'm not eating horrible, but I'm also not eating great. I've been having small amounts of ice cream to help soothe my incredibly sore throat. We've been having lots of meat on the grill, salmon, chicken, steaks, etc and then side salads for dinners. I don't have the energy to be cooking much more than that.
Anyhoo, I hope you all have a wonderful 4th. I doubt I'll blog again until next Monday. I fully plan on feeling better and kick butt in the gym.
Showing posts with label sick. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sick. Show all posts
Monday, July 1, 2013
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
I want my mommy!
My husband woke me up at 5am as he was leaving for work to let me know our daughter had a temp of 103. Seriously? I'm starting to wonder if she is licking the handles of grocery carts and door knobs, because I swear she's been getting sick nonstop for the past few months!! Guess it's another day of crossfit at home.
After I got my boys off to school, I took my daughter and ran to Walmart to get some fever meds and decided to see if they carried kettle bells. They did!! I bought a 15 lb bell and when I got home I went online and found a few at home crossfit type workouts to do at home.
Todays warm up consisted of 3 rounds of:
25 jumping jacks
10 push ups
10 squats
My WOD was 5 rounds of :
10 right hand kettle bell snatches
10 left hand kettle bell snatches
10 right hand kettle bell swings
10 left hand kettle bell swings
10 sit ups
It took me about 14 minutes to finish. I was sweating bullets by the 4th round. It's a gorgeous day here, maybe after the older kids get home from school I can take a quick 1 or 2 mile walk while they keep an eye on their sister and do their homework.
What I'm eating today:
Breakfast~ham and egg scramble
post workout snack~coconut milk protein shake
Lunch~large salad with pork tenderloin and homemade dressing
Dinner~homemade paleo spaghetti meat sauce over spaghetti squash and a side salad
evening snack~1 square of dark chocolate and a cup of tea
I'm totally digging the Endangered Species chocolate at the moment.
After I got my boys off to school, I took my daughter and ran to Walmart to get some fever meds and decided to see if they carried kettle bells. They did!! I bought a 15 lb bell and when I got home I went online and found a few at home crossfit type workouts to do at home.
Todays warm up consisted of 3 rounds of:
25 jumping jacks
10 push ups
10 squats
My WOD was 5 rounds of :
10 right hand kettle bell snatches
10 left hand kettle bell snatches
10 right hand kettle bell swings
10 left hand kettle bell swings
10 sit ups
It took me about 14 minutes to finish. I was sweating bullets by the 4th round. It's a gorgeous day here, maybe after the older kids get home from school I can take a quick 1 or 2 mile walk while they keep an eye on their sister and do their homework.
What I'm eating today:
Breakfast~ham and egg scramble
post workout snack~coconut milk protein shake
Lunch~large salad with pork tenderloin and homemade dressing
Dinner~homemade paleo spaghetti meat sauce over spaghetti squash and a side salad
evening snack~1 square of dark chocolate and a cup of tea
I'm totally digging the Endangered Species chocolate at the moment.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
CrossFit and the flu..........
I had to cancel my workout on Monday. I was up most of the night with the flu and spent most of the day in bed. I got a call Monday afternoon that my grandmother had died. She'd been battling dementia for almost 10 years and it was heartbreaking to see her memory fade. The last time I saw her was Christmas and she didn't know who I was. It was then I knew that I had already lost my Nana.
Fast forward to today and I still don't feel quite back to normal. I'm still a bit nauseous, but chose to go to CrossFit anyway. I'm determined to make this a normal part of my life. I don't want sickness, death, whatever, to get in the way. I have to change my life, I have to stick to my goals, I have to keep my eyes on the prize and not waver when life throws barriers in my way.
I had to modify just about everything we did today. I had to keep reminding myself that I'm not there to impress anyone, I'm there to just keep getting better. Our warm up wasn't too horrible, but the skill set had my stomach rolling. We got a quick 3 or 4 min break between our skill set and our WOD, so I got a quick sip of water, used the restroom and told myself that no matter what I was not going to get sick.
Our WOD today was what they called Ten Plus Two. We had ten minutes to do as many rounds as possible. 8 push ups ( I did girly push ups), 10 toes to bar (I did 20 second planks), and 6 left & 6 right kettle bell snatches. Once the ten minutes were up we did double unders for 2 minutes. I just did regular single unders. We were supposed to keep track of our rounds and write our scores on the white board. I know I got over 4 rounds done but lost track when the pain started to set in. I forgot to count my single unders. I was just trying to not die and not puke on the floor. SIGH...............one of these days I'll get my crap together. ;)
After the WOD we did some deep stretches which felt great and then I headed home. I've noticed it takes me a good hour to completely cool down after these workouts. I still feel super sick to my stomach and food in general just sounds disgusting. I'm hoping by Friday I'm back to normal and can kick some WOD ass. hehe
What I ate today:
Breakfast~ 1/2 egg, 1 slice of bacon
post workout~1/3 protein shake
If I can stomach it, I'll have a salad with chicken and avocado for lunch and spaghetti (w spaghetti squash) for dinner.
Fast forward to today and I still don't feel quite back to normal. I'm still a bit nauseous, but chose to go to CrossFit anyway. I'm determined to make this a normal part of my life. I don't want sickness, death, whatever, to get in the way. I have to change my life, I have to stick to my goals, I have to keep my eyes on the prize and not waver when life throws barriers in my way.
I had to modify just about everything we did today. I had to keep reminding myself that I'm not there to impress anyone, I'm there to just keep getting better. Our warm up wasn't too horrible, but the skill set had my stomach rolling. We got a quick 3 or 4 min break between our skill set and our WOD, so I got a quick sip of water, used the restroom and told myself that no matter what I was not going to get sick.
Our WOD today was what they called Ten Plus Two. We had ten minutes to do as many rounds as possible. 8 push ups ( I did girly push ups), 10 toes to bar (I did 20 second planks), and 6 left & 6 right kettle bell snatches. Once the ten minutes were up we did double unders for 2 minutes. I just did regular single unders. We were supposed to keep track of our rounds and write our scores on the white board. I know I got over 4 rounds done but lost track when the pain started to set in. I forgot to count my single unders. I was just trying to not die and not puke on the floor. SIGH...............one of these days I'll get my crap together. ;)
After the WOD we did some deep stretches which felt great and then I headed home. I've noticed it takes me a good hour to completely cool down after these workouts. I still feel super sick to my stomach and food in general just sounds disgusting. I'm hoping by Friday I'm back to normal and can kick some WOD ass. hehe
What I ate today:
Breakfast~ 1/2 egg, 1 slice of bacon
post workout~1/3 protein shake
If I can stomach it, I'll have a salad with chicken and avocado for lunch and spaghetti (w spaghetti squash) for dinner.
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Caught in a pickle.....
I'm not quite sure what to do. I was supposed to go to CrossFit at 9:30 this morning but I was up all night with my daughter who was throwing up. She's staying home from school today, and I'll be doing laundry and cleaning up the after math. I rescheduled my workout for tomorrow and then I guess I'll be working out the following day as well. What an exhausting night! Hopefully my daughter will take a long nap this afternoon, so I can maybe catch up on some much needed sleep. I must say that I didn't want to make a paleo breakfast this morning, I wanted to have some sort of sweetened breakfast pastry or two or three and a sweetened latte. Oh man that sounded so good!! I'm starting to see that stress is defnitely a trigger for poor eating. Instead I stayed the course and made some turkey sausages and eggs. I'm hoping that tomorrow is a much better day and that I can send my daughter to school. *yawn* Time to go work on the laundry and cleaning the carpet. sigh....................
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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