Homework and Workouts

I am a creature of habit and routine.  I started school last week and actually got my fat butt out of bed 4 days last week to get to the gym for a 6:30 WOD. .. and on the day I missed I made it up at the park teaching some friends.

This week I have gotten up both days and now I wake up about 2 min before my alarm goes off.  I don't even think about staying in bed.

I did cheat over the weekend, we had a wedding to go to, and celebrated some extra cash Friday night with eating out, someone brought me delicious cookies, and last night my dinner was a failure because I learned just a few minutes too late that my olive oil was bad ruining my delicious cauliflower Alfredo sauce. . .life happens and that is okay but I had at least 2 paleo meals a day, juiced a bit and I also borrowed a friends food dehydrator and have made some delicious zucchini chips, yum!

 My first hand stand. . .only took me a year to get get over myself and try it for about 30 min.  I'm still not consistent about getting up but I can do it!!! Still practicing

Delicious Homemade Zucchini chips, yummy!

 So even though I am busy busy doing homework and being a mom, working out has gotten easier some how. . .maybe it's because I would much rather being doing a 6:30 WOD than be sitting in a Biology course that early in the morning, or maybe because I don't want to be the OLD FAT chick in all my classes, OLD is fine but FAT not so fine!

Oh yeah

PR

80# overhead squat!!!! Love it!

Back on Track

This summer I thought I would be totally on track, eating paleo, working out, running, swimming, hiking etc.  But two family reunions later and becoming unemployed and just changing my entire life. . .now starting school it was not the fitness summer I was looking forward to so now this week with me and Owen starting school I decided that now is the time.  I have been 100% paleo since monday. . .today is day 5 and I have done 5 crossfit workouts this week. . .made it to the gym 4 times and did a WOD with some friends at the park on my off day.

Today I started my day with:

50 Double Unders
10 Clusters at #45

14:22 was my time

Now I'm eating some delicious breakfast meatloaf recipe from www.paleomg.com and juicing some spinach, kale, pears, oranges, beets and carrots to top it off.

It's been a great week, I feel great, better than I have in months!

I have come a long way but I'm not there yet

Again I am the worlds worst blogger. . .but today I took some time to take a look back to where I was a year ago when I started crossfit and though I am not even close to where I wanted to be a year later, I am still crossfitting and I am still striving to eat paleo, in fact today is day 3 of eating strict paleo no cheats until. . .forever or at least until I hit my next goal of getting past this plateau weight that I've been at for the last 3 months.

I have to admit that even though I am not down to my goal weight and still cannot do a handstand, or pull-up or run a 9:00 min mile that I am proud of myself and I'm giving myself a little pat on the back today for sticking with it and doing what I can. Don't take this as letting myself get away with not achieving my goals but just a little pick me up to help me continue to work towards them.  I never gave up and I'm not going to now!

Here I am in November of 2011

And here I am August of 2013

Not the greatest comparison photos but you can definitely see the 70+ pounds I have lost since then.  Most of it thanks to cross fit and clean eating.  Next family photo will be at my goal weight! 

Today's WOD 8/22/2013

1RM hang power snatch - 65#

As many rounds as possible in 7:00 min of:

12 dumb bell snatches

9 V-ups

I did 5 + 8.

Earlier this week:

1RM front squat - 95#