So today was The Color Run and let me tell you if you want to do a 5k this is it. It is a fun and relaxed run, they do not have time chips, or clocks or even distance markers. You just run, giggle, chat, get doused in fluffy colored powder and have fun. The run is very slow paced and most of the participants were walking. It was nice and laid back…with a bit of crazy.
Archive for July, 2012
Sorry I didn’t have a post for yesterday, it was a crazy day that also included me eating something before I checked allergy information. Needless to say I was seriously sick for most of yesterday and my faithful companion was a hot water bottle trying to ease my wheat belly.
Today I woke up somewhat recovered (not very well rested thanks to Fircracker) and ready to eat some good food. For breakfast I had 2 eggs with some sauteed tomatoes, 2 slices bacon and OJ. Okay a mug of chocolate tea while cooking, it is so yummy and hot beverages sooth my wheat belly as well. While I was cooking and eating breakfast I also decided to make bone broth since hubby brought me a fat bag of shanks and knuckles from the butcher yesterday. So I put them in a huge pot with carrots, onions, celery, water, and salt pepper. I keep it simple.
I let it cook all day from about 8 this morning until 4 at a simmer. After that I turned it off to cool.
Okay I am running out of titles and am not very creative today. Another crazy day here at the 46. Swimming lessons this morning followed by a hair cut. Didn’t seem like much but I feel like I haven’t been home all day.
I started today with some leftover sauteed veggies from our garden, leftover roast chicken and an egg. It wasn’t enough, I should have eaten more especially since I had a busy day planned. After breakfast I worked until it was time to get the kids to swim. I didn’t get a picture of breakfast because I was hungry and my camera battery is dead and my cord has run away. My phone is losing juice ultra fast so essentially I am extremely battery challenged at the moment.
Today is one of those bad days that happen when you don’t plan. I never even thought about lunch so of course I relied on the old bunless burger at the pool topped with onion and pickle, no chips this time. It was small and not close to filling. My kids protested leaving the pool so I got home later than planned and had just enough time to shower and get ready for my hair appointment. I didn’t realize I was hungry but as I sat waiting for my stylist I bottomed out. I was sick and shakey and seriously considered telling the lady next to me, I was fine if I happened to pass out. Whoa…I have not been like that in a long time. I managed to make it through my haircut without causing a scene and left to go get some shorts for the color run. After running that errand and stopping by Teavana I headed home and about collapsed from hunger.
Side note…While at Teavana I was perusing the tea pots when I glanced behind the counter at the teas and of course my raging hormones focused on the the perfect pms tea…Slimful Chocolate Decadence. It is a blend of chocolate, coconut, and tea which smells like a brownie with coconut…Okay let’s all wipe the drool from our faces. I got 2 ounces of it and ordered and iced chocolate tea to go. It was amazing and I didn’t miss the sugar it is so rich. So if you are looking for a relatively calorie free chocolate fix…here you go. You are welcome.
So for dinner the wonderful hubby grilled some chicken legs and eggplant while I steamed some broccoli and topped with melted ghee and lemon pepper and worked. Dinner was really good and the legs were grilled to perfection. I was starving and ate like I had never had food before. Sorry totally lost out on the picture again. After dinner since the hubbs is off tomorrow he wanted to do something special for the kids. They decided on making cookies and watching a movie. I promptly put on the kettle for some chocolate tea…
While the man of the house ran out to buy cookies I played with my new kettlebell. Did I mention I got a kettlebell today? I have wanted one for a while and have been scoping them out. I almost bought one one day but they were out of the 10 lb which is what I wanted to start with. My good friend Fit Chick uses them with great results and so today was the day for me since it is a weight training day. I bow to my sweet Fit Girl for rocking 100 kettlebell swings…I was tired after 15. Running I am, strong I am not. I played around with different exercises I found on Pinterest (all while in my kitchen mind you) and found that I am going to fast be a kettle bell junkie, yes I am. I am sure Fit Girl and I will end up in a support group for the kettlebell obsessed very soon.
No, this is not what happens when you eat beans then go see a movie…Fartleks is a training method that blends continuous training with interval training. I read about these often and try to figure out fun ways to add them to my run to improve my time. Enter Movie Fartleks, or Rocking Fartleks…still working on a title.
So here is the idea…you add songs to your playlist from a movie, I am going to use Hunger Games as an example, then when you go out for your run put your playlist on shuffle. When a song from said movie comes up run like you are a character in the movie. In Hunger Games run like you are Katniss being chased by careers. It is a fun a playful way to do speed drills without thinking about it.
Do research on your soundtracks, use Jog FM to look at pace times and BPM. Have fun. Another great idea is Twilight, great songs on their soundtracks. Add some intense ones (vampire baseball anyone) and then run like you are being chased by the Vultari. The possibilities are endless. I am going to make up and post more charts like below for ideas. Try to stick to action films which tend to have faster songs and well crazier characters to run from.
Don’t think that this is only for running, you can Fartlek walking too to help improve your time. Speed drills can work for anything.
Happy Wednesday, look at that, I know what day it is. During the summer I tend to not have a solid idea what day of the week it is or the date for that matter. I love routine and structure but tend to lose it all during summer break. Anywho…
Welp I did exactly what I said I would. Got up and cooked. Nothing elaborate, the kids wanted a simple breakfast so I had time to cook something. I went with sauteed spinach and tomatoes with 2 fried eggs. While that was cooking up I made my first batch of Ghee or clarified buttah. Butter is not Whole30 but ghee is because the milk solids are removed and you just have a sweet buttah flavored oil. It can be used for all kinds of things like frying my eggs. I use bacon grease a lot but ghee will lend a flavor that is more mild when I don’t want the heavy bacon flavor coming through. I also had a nice fat glass of OJ.
I have worked most of today and needed to keep my kids entertained so we zipped around trying to find borax powder and glue to make slime. Make this stuff (even if you don’t have kids it is fun) it kept my kids entertained while I worked a report all afternoon. Geeps even discovered he could transfer air from a balloon to blow a huge bubble into the slime. It was good entertaining and slimy (yet not messy) stuff. You can see the tutorial on making it here.
Okay I need to get over it I had to start over big deal. I am strapped in right? This morning I was really missing my cuppa tea. I like a good tea with cream and a cube of sugar. It is perfect I don’t like it any other way, so I have just given it up. But today it is a bit cloudy and with my monthly bill looming on the horizon it is a perfect cup of comfort. The Whole30 really talks about changing your relationship with food but this is something I will not give up indefinitely, but they also say if there is something you really love…anyway enough about that.
Day 2 of not feeling cooking for breakfast, not sure what my deal is. I think tonight I am going to make some egg “muffins” to have in the fridge to grab, but then again tomorrow I may be all about wanting to cook something. So for breakfast this morning I ate leftover cauli-rice stir fry with Whole30 legal hot sauce. Orange Juice and water. I didn’t get a picture because while I didn’t want to cook I was pretty hungry and I am trying this eat within an hour of waking which would work fine if I woke before my kids but if I get up with them it is hard because as I have mentioned they are ravenous beasts in the morning. So after I finally cooked for them and fed them I was a beast myself.
Tuesdays are busy days for us this summer we have Taekwando in the morning and Gymnastics in the evening. Lunch is usually something while we are out and dinner is left to the hubby. Today I decided my seriously bored and whiney kids needed to have some open gym time after Geeps’ TKD class. For and hour and a half they jumped, they ran, they danced, the flipped.
So after I bungee jumped from the Whole30 wagon this weekend what else do I do but start over. I got through the tough love portion of the book last night and let me just say I was shamed and shamed. In all honesty this really isn’t that hard. It does take planning and will power both of which I can be a champ at/with but it isn’t hard. So waking up sort of refreshed (fircracker climbed into our bed at 5 and I ended up in some odd contortion) I decided to climb back on the wagon and strap in.
For breakfast today I just wasn’t feeling cooking and my kids were ravenous beasts who were completely obsessed with the color change Ariel Firecracker got for not having any potty accidents yesterday. Once they finally unchained me from their command and let me feed myself I had 2 hard boiled eggs with lemon pepper, 4 slices deli turkey and some almond stuffed olives. I also had OJ (not whole30) but I live in an area with the worst fall allergens and Vitamin C really helps me not be miserable. August 1 we start downing the stuff daily and taking a supplement, I also add zinc and Echinacea when school starts to combat the nasty germs brought home by Firecracker & Geeps. I’m starting early 😉
After my son decided to ask his daddy to have a slumber party downstairs I spent the night tossing and turning. I barely slept all night and kept having wicked dreams about Botulism and macadamia nuts. I also keep having this dream that the Hartwigs are checking up on my Whole30 progress…
So I woke up tired and hungry this morning. After getting the kids fed (they are ravenous beasts in the morning) I took the time to make my husband and me a rolled Omelet stuffed with a Philly cheese steak mixture. It was big and delicious. I laid a piece of provolone in his before adding the meat mixture. I was out of onions (crap!) but it was still good. I added some hot sauce when I beat the eggs and then more on top. I think this will be a repeat. While I was cooking I snacked on a fermented pickle and macadamia nuts…I was starving.
The Whole30 is all about 3 meals a day, one snack at most. Their science behind this recommendation is pretty sound and I had just read an article recently about how American children snack too much. Since I am used to 5-6 eating times a day my body is having to adjust. I am not necessarily hungry between Meal 1 and 2 but my mind is. It is kind of bonkers how much my mind is like feed me Seymore and I am not even hungry. So I have been downing water during this time because it is all mental, there is no hunger going on here. Still it is a bit of a transition.
Apparently deciding to detox your body leads to detoxing your home. I got some sort of weird hair up my you know what and started purging our Master bedroom. It is the worst room in our house next to the office. The main reason for this is I always tend to clean the rest of the house and think psht, mine isn’t important just close the door. I am completely over it. It is mentally draining to even be in my room and I am starting to think it is contributing to my restless nights. Not to mention the air quality can’t be good in there because it is so cluttered mainly with clothing waiting to be put somewhere. Today it is going there.
Because I was all gunho on cleaning it out before our trip to the pool I just ate a mix of stuff for lunch. Macadamias, cucumbers, sea snax, and deli turkey. I also ate it on the fly while surfing the net which is a whole30 no no but today is a busier than usual day for me. Forgive me Hartwigs 😉
The pool is always a thing for me.. There is almost nothing for me to eat and while the cook has been awesome about making me a meat plate I just wish if I could have a veggie plate too. I didn’t really plan on eating while there but ended up with a cheeseburger (no bun) which was served with a pound of chips and a tequila tonic. Both pretty big whole30 no nos. I didn’t eat all of my chips but downed that drink like a money in a desert.
Dinner was my time to recover. After stopping by Target to get training pants and a “prize” for Firecracker’s monumental potty antics we headed home to make Stir fried cauli-rice. I took chicken diced it and cooked it in some oil and Chinese 5 spice, then added chopped veggies and some tamari sauce (tamari is not whole30 because it contains soy but no wheat, both of which I am allergic to. But since the entire city is out of Coconut Aminos it was all I had) I also scrambled and fried up 3 eggs to add more protein and then I added the cauli-rice to the pan and cooked until everything was tender. You can get a great recipe for cauli-rice here. It had more liquid in it than I like so I let it cook until it was gone.
To plate it I added red rooster sauce on top (yes it has sugar but I have already screwed the pooch today…)
It was really good and super filling.
I really didn’t feel like posting this but I won’t have track of what is going on without it, plus I stumbled upon an article which was perfect for today’s post.
So first the nitty gritty.
Wake 6:35 (went back to sleep outta bed 7:30) Wt. 167.8
Breakfast – Blueberry, Banana smoothie made with coconut milk and catie’s vitamin c powder
1 egg fried, 2 german sausages, 5 jalapenos
Lunch – Grilled chicken breast & hamburger topped with red onion, pickles and mustard
Snack – 2 slices bacon, 2 sweet banana peppers.
Deal breaker – 1 inch block extra dark chocolate
Dinner – paleo chili, jalapenos, unsweetened tea
First I want to say that at 6:35 this morning my eyes popped open, like cartoon popped open. What I should have done was get out of bed but I didn’t, I realized the time and justified to myself I needed the hour of sleep until my alarm went off because I was mid detox. I didn’t, I could barely sleep and ended up getting up before my 7:30 alarm. While I thought I had somehow cheated and was over my detox my body tricked me. I felt great this morning up until about an hour after we got home from the pool. Speaking of the pool, I rarely eat at the pool, all Whole30 aside I just don’t risk it for my allergies. They have 2 safe foods for me there, chips and regular coke. Not Whole30. After ordering my kids lunch I asked John the ever so helpful and super great cook if he could whip me up a meat basket, essentially the grilled meats they offer with no seasonings and give me some toppings (sans lettuce). He was excited to oblige me, I think typical pool food gets boring when he would rather be in the main kitchen whipping up his masterpieces. It was quite tasty when I cut it all up and added some mustard (would have loved some paleo mayo)
I did have a deal breaker moment today where I ate a 1 inch square of dark chocolate I keep in my fridge. It is not Whole30 but paleo legal. I only ate one and it was divine, it is an allergen free chocolate so it is essentially cocoa and a slight bit of sugar, and I mean slight bit, it is more bitter than sweet but the cocoa flavor did it for me. 1 was all I needed.
I settled on a paleo chili for dinner because 97 degrees outside or not. I wanted comfort food. I added green peppers & zucchini from our garden to veg it up a bit and of course couldn’t eat it without my husband’s nearly famous dirty muchachos pickled jalapenos. They are unmatched (even in Mexico) so you will see them a lot on my food list.
So now to the Food Grief part of this post (and the explanation for the yummy picture)
I was browsing pinterest when I came across a pin from the Whole9, the creators of the Whole30, about food grief. I found it horribly interesting since I am myself in a detox which after reading this may also be a version of food grief.
The 5 stages are as follows:
- Denial
- Anger
- Bargaining (where I am right now, see comment above about chocolate)
- Crying
- Acceptance & Adjusting
Blueberries, raspberries, bananas with coconut milk
even treat trying to stave off my sugar detox, these sugar demons are evil little….you fill in the blank.