Eating clean

that's my goal this week.
to eat as "clean" as possible.
I am still working on getting back on track.
I have "excuses".
no money to buy more "healthy food"
no time to prepare healthy meals
no time to get to the gym
blah blah blah

so last night..
I chopped veggies and bagged them so I can grab a bag and go
I made salsa to go with my veggies, or eggs, or whatever I love homemade salsa! mmm
this means no fattening dip! :)

I spooned out tablespoon portions of almond butter to go with veggies
I hard boiled eggs for the week, so much easier to grab and go when they are already in a bowl ready to go.

I visited the farmers market last week and got tons of tomatoes, green beans, squash and zucchini. mmmm
I love to just cut a tomato and eat it.

I have been looking for recipes for the zucchini and squash.. but so far have only used them in my egg cups. I put an egg, some grated squash and zucchini and some green pepper in muffin tins and baked them for a bit. they popped out so yummy!! I also have those for breakfast so I don't have to worry about grabbing junk.

I think I am off to a great start. I only hope I can stick with it again. lol
I have gained at least five pounds since falling off the "no grain/carb" train. I feel like shit! seriously. shit.

I have learned my body does not like grains, or carbs, or whatever is in bread, pasta etc.. it may have to do with my many "excuses" for not previously exercising or eating right.. like Ankylosing spondylitis.. or Fibromyalgia, or Irritable bowl disease. or migraines.. or pinched nerves in my neck and back (which by the way are now causing leg issues) yay.
anyways...

no more excuses.
I have found what actually works for me. And makes me feel good inside. and out.
I am going to remember the bloating and icky feeling every time I want a "treat" that isn't so good for me.

I am going to get back to the gym. get my WOD on !


My father in law has been in and out of the hospital the last couple months. he is a sick guy.
he is a disabled veteran. has M.S. COPD, and now seizures. sometime last week or so.. he broke five ribs. he is just such a positive guy. the nurses in the icu love him. seriously, one asked if she could take him home and care for him. lol.
 but all his health issues have finally made my hubs start thinking about his health. whew! finally! I have been begging him to stop smoking for years.. and now. he is!! ok. cutting waaaaay back and using an electronic cigg.. but yay!!!! I'll take it :)

anyone want to see a bunch of teenage girls?

drill teams from all over came to perform at a major league soccer game Saturday. they practiced for about 10 hours. Super long day for everyone

 they said they had over 700 girls there!

 our team is the teeny one in the far back left lol

 my teenager! she had so much fun!!

have a great week!

Here I go again

after a week of crappy eating.
ok.
not sooo crappy.
better than I've ate in the past
worse than I've ate recently
I am going back on the low carb, vegetarian, paleo thing I've been working on.

I thought I needed more carbs for my half marathon.
I was wrong.
kinda
I felt like poo
but I lived.

so
I proved myself wrong

I've got the gassy, uncomfortable, bloated feeling to prove it.

my teenager has been told to eat healthy for her drill team.
she has a list of foods she can and can't eat
most of which are the same foods I have been eating, or not eating.
except meat.
I can't do that part.

we've decided, as a family, no more junk in the house.
mostly I would buy "junk" for the hubs. cuz that's all he would eat.
yeah. I'm an enabler. but it's just easier to please him than hear the whining.
he's spoiled. I'm not his mom.

but
he finally told me it was ok to NOT BUY IT!
woohoo!!

I can finally bring home the healthy, nutritious foods my family needs and I will feel good about them eating!

I know I'll get some criticism for this. but you don't live in my house. don't judge lol

we will still get a "cheat day"
where we can go crazy, to a miminum lol
but I am so excited the whole family is on board!
FINALLY!!

my next hurdle will be getting my 11 year old to eat salad :)

on a roll

of nothing!
going nowhere!

I actually gained a pound or two.. I'm not telling which..

I fell off the paleo (as it was) wagon.
a few times.
I had pie
hell it was free!
and soooo good

I had two crepes for breakfast yesterday. they had strawberries.. n whipped cream. then I felt sick.

I had a pumpkin choco chip cookie. not so good.
not worth it.

I had some of my mama in law's nummy guacamole (with some chips)
I had corn on the cob and watermelon for dinner. I just wasn't into it.

I missed two days of working out.
I ate crap.

I feel like shitballs.

I need to start Paleo again.

*** My version of Paleo.***
Sugar style.
no meat.
some dairy (fat free cuz that makes me feel better and get some protein while I'm at it)

I'm learning what my body likes and definately what it doesn't. Give me a break. I'm still working it out.


I hope everyone had a great 4th yesterday.
it was kinda boring for us. for one, I felt icky. and we had a fireworks ban pretty much everywhere.
so. hubs bbq'd some burgers for him n the kidlings.
it's kinda nice when he cooks. (very rarely happens)  even if he does burn everything :)


for now. today. I am going to keep nursing my aching belly. with veggies. and some fruit. I made a watermelon/strawberry smoothie for b-fast. it was ok. kinda blah too.
maybe it's just too hot.

me n my hubby waiting to watch the park fireworks

 my silly kidlings

 my n my teenager

 I'm off to work.
have a great day!


*updated to show where I'm coming from for the anonymous person who keeps trying to belittle me*
I copied and pasted from  Thank you Matt for the info!!
no meat athelete

"Does that mean you can’t be a Paleo-vegetarian?  I don’t think so.  Welcome to my next diet experiment

Paleo diet basics

Briefly, here the basic tenets of a standard Paleo diet for endurance athletes (as outlined in The Paleo Diet for Athletes):

• The breakdown: Roughly, 35% fat, 40% carbohydrate, 25% protein.
• Staple foods: Wild and free-range meats, vegetables, fruits, nuts, nut-like seeds, some tubers, such as sweet potatoes
• Not allowed (here’s the tricky part): All grains, including wheat, rice, barley, oats, rye, and corn; grain-like seeds, including quinoa, amaranth, and buckwheat; all legumes, including beans, chickpeas, lentils, peas, and soy; starchy tubers such as potatoes; dairy, alcohol, most sugars except in fruit

(See a complete list of Paleo foods here.)
I’m not going to go into the detailed reasons for what’s allowed and what isn’t.  The basic explanation: Pre-agricultural man (and woman) ate a lot of the staple foods, and had very limited or no access to the disallowed foods.
So, simply ignoring the meat issue for now, we see that if you were to follow the Paleo diet as a vegetarian or vegan, you’d be eating a lot of lots of fruits and vegetables, sweet potatoes, oils like olive, coconut, and canola, nuts, and nut-like seeds.  And pretty much any sugar you’d eat would come from fruits.
A bit bland, perhaps, but doable.
Hopefully, you’re already eating a lot of these foods.  And—bonus!—most Paleo diets allow you to eat as much as you feel like eating.  If cavemen had appointed kings, that’s what you’d be eating like.

But…do you see the problem?

If you don’t see why the Paleo diet is tough for vegetarians, either (a) you’re skimming this post while you eat a quinoa salad with tofu and black beans, or (b) your version of a vegetarian/vegan diet is severely lacking in protein.
First, note that grains are out.  Tough, since they’re a big part of most vegetarians’ diets, especially runners’.  But that’s not the worst part.
The hardest thing about this is that every major vegan protein source is off limits in a strict Paleo diet.  Anything soy, every kind of bean except string beans, and quinoa are all Paleo no-no’s.

Your Paleo options as a vegetarian

It appears impossible to strictly follow the Paleo diet as a vegetarian.  And to be honest, it probably is.  Since we don’t eat meat, and the diet is based on eating meat—it should account for up to 55% of one’s calories, according to The Paleo Diet for Athletes—anything we do as vegetarians is going to be a bastardization.
But then again, aren’t all modern Paleo diets pretty poor substitutes for the real thing?  The fruits, vegetables, and tubers we find in modern grocery stores, even farmers markets, probably do not resemble the fibrous ones Paleolithic humans were eating.  And while a dedicated Paleo-dieter might be able to eat truly wild meats a high percentage of the time, it’s likely that the vast majority of modern Paleos either can’t access or can’t afford such authenticity, and must resort to the factory-farmed meat they find at the grocery store.
My point:  Any modern Paleo diet is merely an approximation to the real thing.  So as vegetarians, we can (and must) approximate too.

Vegetarian Paleo Diet Option #1: Eat lots of eggs
Vegetarian Paleo Diet Option #2: Allow hemp seed and grain-like seeds
Vegetarian Paleo Diet Option #3: Allow soaked or sprouted beans and legumes "




So. there you have it. I am doing what I am doing and I am just fine.
oh. and last time I checked.. no one can own a diet. sorry

Bleckkk

this weekend was a bust.

Pizza (one piece) aaaand salad to make it even out

ice cream cone

popcorn (twice) at the movies... once during Abraham Lincoln vampire hunter (eh.. it was ok) and once during Magic Mike.. again.. eh. it was ok.
ok..
Channing Tatum is my favorite. He is soooo pretty!
and such an amazing dancer. yum!
the movie was blah except for the half naked mens.. mmmmm

uh hem

where was I?

oh yeah..
food.

I did have a wrap at the movie theatre.. lots of lettuce, tomatoes and some onion in there.. but there was also a tortilla.. not too horrible, no?


I didn't do so good this weekend sticking to Paleo. or crossfit.
just no time..

that's where the planning comes in.
I need more time to plan, plot, and prepare. yep.

can someone do that for me?

but this week is back on track.
got all stocked up on paleo friendly foods
going to cut n chop up to be ready to grab


here we go.

what I was doing this weekend

I made some Paleo chocolates :)

yup. they're skulls.

I used cocoa, coconut oil, coconut and vanilla.. easy and yummy!

I got my greenman tatt finished. doesn't he look awesome?

it's on the inside of my upper arm..

Friday.. I decided to try a crossfit workout.

wheweeey!

it rocked,  but I am a sore mama still!

I did three sets of each exercise.. I didn't count, I just did as many as I could each time..maybe that was my mistake..

I did box jumps (you squat then jump up on a "box" which I used something the gym had, squats with dumbbells, some wall balls (you throw a medicine ball over your head at the wall then squat when you catch it) some dead lifts, tons of crunches, sit ups with medicine ball throws, bicycle crunches..

whew! I made it through all that.. then managed to run four miles.. I thought I was going to fall off the treadmill lol

so.. I soaked my legs in super hot water with epsom salt.. helped a lil.. not much.. so I rode the bike for 40 minutes to try to loosen up my aching muscles.. then ellipticalled a lil..

still sooooo sore! you should see me trying to get in and out of my car! ha!

but I am not going to give up. nope. I will just work upper body until I can stand to move my lower body voluntarily lol

oh yeah! I forgot.. I made some "snack mix"

coconut, almonds, flax seeds, squash seeds, cocoa and coconut oil. mmmm

not a gain!

squeee!!
for once.. I didn't lose and then gain the next week..

I stayed pretty much the same.. maybe a fourth of a pound down...

but NOT a gain!!

woot woot!

I wasn't expecting much this week since I've been so super busy with dance recitals and such.. I have't exercised as much as usual. like twice lol

but I am happy with staying pretty much the same.

so happy!

I've stocked up on more "paleo" friendly foods so this week will be great!

I've also found a "friend" locally that is doing the same thing..
she rocks!

she's a coworkers wife and soo awesome! Were friends on facebook! tee-hee

she loves Crossfit.. so I think I am going to start that..
I might go to the local crossfit gym for a few visits to get the hang of it..

DOWN

SIX pounds!
woohoo!!

seriously..
six pounds people!
down!!

I am  now at my lowest weight.. 154

eeee!!!

Paleo the vegetarian way works!

yup


so...
here's to a new week and hopefully another loss!!

I totally won't expect such a big one.. but a loss would be great!

I feel amazing.

hardly any i.b.s. issues.. which I have had for years..

no bloating..

oh yeah!

I'm off for a long weekend. We've got a company party tomorrow at our local amusement park.. then the Zoo with the fam Saturday for Father's day.. and it's the Elephants b-day :)
then Sunday.. Bike shopping and spoiling the hubs

have a great weekend everyone!

paleo fun

I think I found a better way to share my data yay!
here's yesterdays info...

DATE	MEAL	FOOD	Calories	Fat	Carbohydrates	Protein	Calcium, Ca
6/11/2012	breakfast	Cottage Cheese, Nonfat, 0.75 cup (not packed)	120	1	8	23	3
6/11/2012	breakfast	Fruit Cocktail, 0.25 cup	34	0	9	0	0
6/11/2012	lunch	Subway Veggie Delite Salad, 1 serving	60	1	11	3	6
6/11/2012	lunch	Cheese Head Mozzarella Stick, 1 serving	80	6	0	7	0
6/11/2012	lunch	Subway Fat Free Ranch Dressing, 1 serving	60	0	14	0	0
6/11/2012	dinner	Morning Star meal stater soy crumble 2/3C Serving, 1 serving	80	3	5	10	2
6/11/2012	dinner	Cherry Tomatoes, Fresh, 1 Tomato, 1 serving	3	0	1	0	0
6/11/2012	dinner	Kraft Fat Free Ranch Salad Dressing, 2 tbsp	50	0	11	0	0
6/11/2012	dinner	Avocados, California (Haas), 0.25 cup, pureed	96	9	5	1	1
6/11/2012	dinner	Romaine Lettuce (salad), 2 inner leaf	3	0	0	0	1
6/11/2012	snack	Cheese Head Mozzarella Stick, 1 serving	80	6	0	7	0
6/11/2012	snack	Grapes, 0.5 cup, seedless	31	0	8	0	1
			697		26	72	51      14

not too bad.. I think I need more calories and protein.. I'm working on it

survived

I survived day one!
although..
I did cheat when I got home..
my teenager made coooookies..
so I HAD to have one!

but I still made good dinner choices and came in under my cal goal...a little over on the carbs.. but I'm a newbie!

Thursday, June 7, 2012
Breakfast
	Calories	Fat	Carbohydrates	Protein	Potassium, K	Calcium, Ca	Sodium, Na	Magnesium, Mg
Egg, fresh, 2 large	140	10	0	12	140	4	140	0
Broccoli, fresh, 0.25 cup, chopped	6	0	1	1	72	1	6	1
Banana, fresh, 1 medium (7" to 7-7/8" long)	109	1	28	1	467	1	1	9
	255	11	29	14	679	6	147	10
Lunch
	Calories	Fat	Carbohydrates	Protein	Potassium, K	Calcium, Ca	Sodium, Na	Magnesium, Mg
Iceberg Lettuce (salad), 1 cup, shredded or chopped	8	0	2	0	78	1	6	1
Hard Boiled Egg, 1 large	70	5	1	6	63	3	62	1
Maple Grove Farms Fat Free Balsalmic Vinagrette, 1 tbsp	5	0	1	0	0	0	45	0
	83	5	3	7	141	3	113	2
Dinner
	Calories	Fat	Carbohydrates	Protein	Potassium, K	Calcium, Ca	Sodium, Na	Magnesium, Mg
Barilla Maranara Sauce, 0.15 cup	21	0	4	1	0	0	138	0
Flat Bread(Mediterranean)1 flat bread, 0.25 serving	65	2	9	2	0	3	95	0
Mozzarella Cheese, part skim milk, 0.5 oz	36	2	0	3	12	9	66	1
	122	5	13	6	12	12	299	1
Snack
	Calories	Fat	Carbohydrates	Protein	Potassium, K	Calcium, Ca	Sodium, Na	Magnesium, Mg
Subway Sugar Cookie, 1 serving	220	12	28	2	0	0	140	0
strawberry banana smoothie frullati, 14 oz	195	3	41	1	0	0	154	0
Grapes, 1 cup	96	0	25	1	265	14	3	1
Strawberries, fresh, 0.5 cup, halves	23	0	5	0	126	1	1	2
	533	15	99	4	391	15	297	3
total	993	37	145	32	1,222	36	856	16
goal	1200 - 1550	27 - 60	80 - 100	60 - 136	4500 - 6000	120 - 200	0 - 2300	105 - 175

I did wake up without the "hangover" this morning. I have the groggy, sleep aid induced feeling like I slept two hours in fifty years feeling, every morning! not today.. well... certainly not as bad as usual. And the more I think about it.. I wasn't bloated yesterday.. I am almost always bloated and "full" feeling.. ugh! hmm.. I think I may have discovered what I needed!!