Day 16

Breakfast - Making up for the breakfast I skipped yesterday I made sauteed spinach topped with smoked salmon, poached eggs, and hollandaise sauce. My first batch of sauce curdled, so I attempted a new method. I put all the ingredients (egg yolk, lemon juice, mustard) in a blender and slowly added ghee (clarified butter). Came out perfectly.


Lunch - Leftover mussels and sweet potato fries

Dinner - Beef stew with carrots and kale. Side of baked sweet potatoes



Snacks - Naked juice, blueberries, pistachios

WOD
Rest/recovery

Day 15

Breakfast - Skipped breakfast today. Big NO NO! I headed to the gym on an empty stomach and really felt like I was sucking wind. Never doing that again!

Lunch - Leftover stuffed acorn squash

Dinner - Mussels (broth made of sausage, tomatoes, chicken stock, shallots, and garlic) with oven baked sweet potato fries




Snacks - Almonds, blueberries, pistachios, Naked Juice

WOD
Foundations Session 4
Topics: Snatch (three pulls, burgener warm-up, snatch balance, snatch high pull, snatch deadlift, power snatch, hang snatch, hang squat snatch)/ Towing (damper settings, drive, recovery, catch)
Workout : 5:00 AMRAP - 200m Row/ 10 pvc snatches

My results: 2 full rounds


(Check out the intensity! Hahaha. Even though it's just a stinkin pvc pipe, my legs were burning. My trainer, Shane, had me squat in this position for-ev-er!)
Picture via Colorado Springs Crossfit FB page

Day 14

Breakfast - bacon, spinach, tomato, and onion scramble with salsa


Lunch - Stuffed acorn squash (loved it so much the first time, I had to make it again)

(Acorn squash baking before stuffing)

Dinner - Brick Chicken marinaded with garlic, thyme, lemon, and ghee. Side of zucchini, squash, and tomatoes

(Marinading)


(Didn't have any bricks so I weighted it down with another pan, a can of soup, and mortar and pestle)


(Finished in the oven)

Snack - Pistachios, grapes, apple, Naked juice

WOD
Rest/Recovery

Day 13

Breakfast - Fried eggs with homemade sausage

Lunch- No one said this would be easy! I was running errands with the family did not not plan on being out of the house during lunch, so I had to make a quick stop to the grocery store to get some eats. I came out with salad fixings: some romaine lettuce, smoked salmon, cherry tomatoes, pearl onions, and a lemon and olive oil to dress the whole thing. I had a hard boiled egg packed in my snack bag (at least I had the foresight to do that) that I added to the mix.

Snacks - Pistachios (my addiction right now), Naked juice, grapes, almonds

Dinner - Kalua pork with cabbage


WOD
Rest/Recovery

Day 12

I decided to upgrade my iPhone pictures and put my dSLR to use. Makes my food look a lot more appetizing.

Breakfast - Spinach, mushroom scramble with smoked salmon

Lunch - Seared scallop and arugula salad with roasted red peppers dressed with lemon and olive oil


Snack - Left over turkey meatloaf, pistachios, almonds, apples, Naked juice, nori

Dinner - Baked salmon with asparagus



WOD

Foundations Session 3
Focus : Foam Rolling. Stretching. Core Tortures/ Deadlift/ Sumo Deadlift High Pull/ Medicine Ball Clean. Muscle up Skills (false grip, transition, active shoulder)
Workout: 5:00 AMRAP - 4 Muscle up Transitions/ 6 Medicine Ball Cleans/ 8 Sumo Deadlift High Pulls/ 10 Deadlifts

My total- 1 Full Round +4 Muscle up Transitions + 6 Medicine Ball Cleans + 8 Sumo Deadlift High Pulls

Day 11

Breakfast - Scrambled egg with spinach, mushrooms, and smoked salmon

Lunch - Left over chicken tacos

Dinner - Individual turkey meatloaf wrapped in bacon. Side of roasted sweet potato and brussel sprouts



WOD
Rest/Recovery and boy did my body need it. I couldn't sit without cringing. It hurts so good!

Day 10

Breakfast - Hard boiled egg in leftover adobo sauce and cauliflower rice


Lunch - Leftover adobo with cauliflower rice and roasted broccoli

Dinner - Pork chops with roasted sweet potatoes and broccoli


Snacks - Pistachios, Naked juice, apple,

WOD
Foundation Session 2
Topics: POSE Running. Air Squat/ Front Squat/ Overhead Squat/ Press/ Push Press/ Push Jerk. Kettlebell skills (swing, snatch, clean, press), GHD (Glut ham developer) & hip/back extensions
Workout: 5:00 AMRAP 20 Front Squats/ 20 Push Jerks

My total - 1 RD + 17 FS

Pic of the Colorado Springs Crossfit Gym (CSCF)

Day 9

Breakfast - Fried eggs and chicken sweet potato hash


Lunch - Chicken tacos with guacamole


Dinner - Chicken adobo made with coconut aminos. Served with cauliflower rice and roasted broccoli


WOD
I signed up for the foundation classes at Colorado Springs Crossfit. It's a series of 6 classes that introduces you to each of the exercises done in crossfit and at the end of the foundation courses, there's a test on various moves. By passing the final exam, I can then attend the regular group classes

Foundations Session 1
Topics - Gym tour. Double unders. Crossfit warm up : Overhead squats/Samson stretch/ Kippining Pull-ups/ Dips/ Sit-ups/ Back Extensions

Work Out:
5 min AMRAP (as many reps as possible)
5 Pullups
10 Dips
15 Overhead squats

My total - 2 reps + 5 pu +10 dips + 3 ohs

Day 8

Breakfast - Spinach, mushroom scramble with homemade sausage


Lunch - Chicken breast with a side of sweet potato hash and peas


Dinner - Salmon and asparagus



Snacks - Naked Green Machine, blueberries, hard boiled egg,

WOD
First time officially doing a crossfit workout at the Colorado Springs Crossfit gym.

Warm up
Double unders 2 min
Arc Rock
Squats
Pull ups
Dips

Intro Work out
3 sets
250 meter row
5 pushups
10squats


Picture via Colorado Springs Crossfit FB page

My time 8:10

Day 7

Breakfast - Spinach, onion, mushroom scramble with smoked salmon


Here are the supplements I take every morning. Fish oil and chondroitin glucosamine


Batch of boiled eggs for the next couple days


Lunch - Left over garlic tilapia with broccolini

Dinner - Second half of stuffed acorn squash

Snacks - Blueberries, pistachios, apple

WOD
Rest/Recovery

Day 6

Had a lot of things going on today that required me to be out of the house, so I planned ahead and packed my lunch, dinner, and plenty of healthy snacks.

Breakfast - Homemade sausage and fried eggs

My over sized lunch bag that lugged around with me everywhere


Lunch - Bacon, spinach salad with onions, cherry tomatoes, boiled eggs, and mustard vinaigrette

Dinner - Stuffed acorn squash (stuffing - sausage, onions, celery, mushrooms, and apple)


Snacks - Blueberries, pistachios, apple, and grapes

Really proud of myself for not cheating on this challenge. At the business meeting I attended, they bought pizza for the group's lunch and had homemade brownies for dessert. I also went to my god-daughter's first birthday party where they had the most amazing spread of Filipino food. I stuck with my packed meals and didn't give in.

WOD
10 Jumping pullups with a slow release to utilize negative resistance

Day 5

Breakfast - Homemade sausage with fried eggs and leftover sweet potato






Lunch - Leftover steak and sweet potato

Dinner - Garlic tilapia with a side of broccolini with garlic, lemon and coconut aminos


Snacks - Apple, blueberries, kale chips, grapes


I just found out tonight that I can have nuts! I must have read the manual wrong b/c I assumed that all nuts were off limits. I had a very small handful of roasted pistachios tonight just because I could. I'm a happy girl knowing I have another snack option :)

Day 4

Things are going great. I've always loved cooking and having a reason
to try new recipes is always a good time. The hardest part of the
challenge is that my hubby and 2 little girls are not on the bandwagon
and I find that I have to make 2 different meals.

Breakfast - 2 eggs over hard with left over meat, peas and carrots from yesterday's lunch

Lunch -Hard boiled eggs with smoked salmon, onions, capers and yellow cherry tomatoes


Snacks - Nori, grapes, apple, kale chips

My mother-in-law was in town for a visit and on her last night here,
my husband wanted to take her out to dinner. I had a little bit of an
anxiety attack... Where are we going to go? What will I order? Am I
going to be that girl?! It turns out that it wasn't as bad as I had
made it out to be. We went to Texas Road House. I ordered a steak and
asked them to use only salt and peeper to season it and not to add any
oil/butter before and after they grilled it. Also had a baked sweet potato
side with no butter added. Watching everyone else eat the bread was
torture, but I powered through.

Dinner - Texas Road House rib eye steak and a side of baked sweet potato



I have to do all my workouts from home and I can't seem to find a
routine that I can follow. I tried Body Rock and it seems a little
advanced for me right now. I've been putting random exercises
together, but I'm afraid I'm not getting a good whole body work out. I
am joining the AF and my main goal (for now) is to kick the physical
fitness test's butt. I can max out everything but the run and pushups.

WOD
Found a list of exercises on the Warrior Dash training page. For newbies they suggested picking 2 - 3 and doing 2 sets of 30 sec max effort and 20 rest.

Elevated Pushups - 13
Flutter Kicks - 95
Jump lunges - 38

I also added 5 mins of jump rope at the end

Day 3

Breakfast - Scrambled eggs, bacon and salsa


Lunch - Ground beef with carrots, peas and tomato paste. Served with cauliflower rice


Dinner - Chicken piccata (chicken thighs w lemon, capers, bacon, cooked in ghee, bacon drippings and chicken stock. Side of roasted turnips and brussel sprouts.




WOD
Rest/Recovery

Day 2

Breakfast - More spinach, onion, soft scramble with smoked salmon (can you tell I love this?)

Lunch - Bacon spinach salad with hard boiled eggs, avocados, yellow cherry tomatoes, onions, and bacon mustard vinaigrette.


Even my littlest one loved the salad


Snacks - Kale chips. Apple. Mango. Nori

Dinner - Left over salad. Canned salmon, carrot, avocado hand rolls in nori. I couldn't cook anything tonight since we were having company over and I didn't want to "stink-up" the house :)

WOD

10 Kettle bell swings and 5 pushups every minute for 10 minutes
100 KB swings and 50 pushups (mostly girl style) total

Day 1

Today was the start of my 30 day challenge.

The Whole 30 program removes certain food groups from your diet such as sugar, grains, dairy and legumes. These items can have a negative impact on health and fitness.

I eat “real” food – fresh, natural food like meat, vegetables and fruit. I choose foods that are nutrient dense, with lots of naturally-occurring vitamins and minerals, over foods that have more calories but less nutrition. And food quality is important – I’m careful about where my meat comes from, and buy produce locally and organically as often as possible.

It’s not a low calorie “diet” – I eat as much as I need to maintain strength, energy and a healthy weight. In fact, my diet is probably much higher in fat than you’d imagine. Fat isn’t the enemy – it’s a great energy source when it comes from high quality foods like avocado, coconut and nuts. And I’m not trying to do a “low carb” thing, but since I’m eating vegetables and fruits instead of bread, cereal and pasta, it just happens to work out that way.

Eating like this is good for maintaining a healthy metabolism, and reducing inflammation within the body. It’s been doing great things for my energy levels, body composition and performance in the gym. It also helps to minimize my risk for a whole host of lifestyle diseases and conditions, like diabetes, heart attack and stroke.

To learn more about the Whole 30 click here.


There are a few reasons I decided to take on the the challenge.
1) I want to get strong! To maximize my efforts I plan to focus on both exercising and eating a healthier diet. Gotta be fit from the inside out.

2) It's a challenge! I like to give myself a goal and go for it. Like the 1/2, I've never done anything like this before and I wanted to see of I had the dedication and drive to see it through.

3) It's gonna be fun! OK I know you're thinking I'm a crazy person, but the reality is I love food and love cooking. This challenge gives me a reason to try new recipes. Yummy eats paired with new exercise routines makes for an good time :)

Breakfast- Spinach and onion soft scramble with smoked salmon


Lunch- 2 boiled eggs with more smoked salmon and nori

Dinner- Ribeye steak with aspargus


Snack- Salt and vinegar kale chips


Post workout snack- Boiled egg and nori

I also hit up the grocery store to get some staples



WOD
Body Rock


The actual work out for day 1 looked super intimidating and as I read through the comments, I wasn't the only one feeling this way. Many people suggested the Fierce Friday Workout. It was perfect.

Squat Jumps 20 reps
Skater 15 reps each leg
Reptile 20 reps
Hop side kicks 20 reps

Complete in fastest time
My time was 18.45


Feeling great! Can't wait to see what these next 30 days will do for my health.