The Many Faces of Eggs

Eggs are still making my skin crawl. This had BETTER change. I eat a lot of eggs and I can't be grossed out by them indefinitely. This morning I thought that maybe hard boiled eggs would do the trick. They were MUCH easier to get down and may be my go-to egg until I feel 100%, again.

The question now becomes whether or not I am back to Crossfit in the morning. My energy level is still at about 65% but I'm not sure if it is that inactivity begets fatique or what. We'll see how I feel at 5:15 a.m.

Hungry for Nuffin

Day 8 of this bug and still no appetite. I walked through the Farmer's Market and NOTHING caught my eye. Not a bread. Not a cookie. Not a cheese. Not a meat. Not a veggie. Not a fruit. Nothing. Yesterday I had Wendy's for lunch. Do you know that is the ONLY thing I have eaten that tasted good to me all week? Igggh. I refuse to live off fast food so I'm ignoring that it tasted good and moving back into the land of clean eating. I am hungry. Legitimately hungry. Nothing appeals to me. So, what do I eat? Healthy food. If nothing appeals to you, you might as well keep it healthy, right? At least that way your body is using the food to heal you. Breakfast today was 24 raw almonds and 1/2 a bottle of kefir. I bought it for the probiotics before I realized the antibiotic would be killing all bacteria..thereby completely eliminating the probiotic. Still, I had it in the house and thought it might be soothing. Not so much. Lunch was some beef brisket from Whole Foods, 1/2 of an organic red bell pepper, 1 banana and about 10 barbeque potato chips. I have some grassfed beef thawing for a hamburger for dinner. That actually does sound ok to me. We'll see how my stomach reacts. A couple of weeks ago I gained 8 pounds for no reason. I've lost those 8 plus 5 more. Who knows where I'll land. My hope is to make my goal of leaving the 200s before my 38th birthday. We'll see. I do miss Crossfit but the fact that I'm beyond exhausted from walking through the grocery store tells me that I'm not ready to head back quite yet. I hate missing it. I better not be losing muscle. Perhaps this time off will be what my back needs to completely heal. Perhaps this is the bug that solves all things!

A Bug Tried to Kill Me

I kid you not. A flu, respiratory, I don't know WHAT THAT WAS, has had me down and OUT for over five days. While eating clean should have been a priority to get well, the thought of clean food made me want to hurl. So, I have spent the last five days eating bland carbs and butter. No lie. And I lost three pounds - sick pounds...pounds you always seem to find again. No matter. Despite still wanting to hurl these beautiful eggs, I am back on clean eating. Never give up. Winston Churchhill had it right - never, never, never give up!

You know what tastes the BEST on this plate? The red pepper. DELICIOUS. Not sure why. The eggs. Ugh. The raspberries. mmm..ok. Doable. I will eat it because I want to recover. Ugh.

Day 5 of semi-clean eating

Ok, the last two days have not been 100%...yesterday was 90%...today is going to come in about 50% but tomorow will be back at 100%.

Breakfast
3 eggs cooked in coconut oil
1/2 cup arugula
4-5 pieces of pineapple

Lunch (Seasons 52)
3 pieces of flatbread with artichoke, beets, goat cheese, etc.
3 tiny fish tacos - fish, guac, pico de gallo, salsa, chipolte mayo in little corn tortillas
1.5 tiny desserts - some chocolate pb thing and a bite of key lime and a bite of carrot cake

Dinner (out again)
Hoping for a salad and some good protein/veg - we'll see
thankfully, I'm not feeling great so no alcohol tonight - don't like to drink when I feel like I'm getting sick - compromises my immune system too much.

Day 4 of Clean Eating

What happened to Day 4, people?! I got my Crossfit workout in and I had the following to eat yesterday:

Breakfast
Protein shake - almond milk, whey protein powder, spinach, berries, and coconut oil.

Snack
1 beef jerkey stick

Lunch
2 cups spinach
1 cup arugula
6 ounces turkey
orange and yellow pepper
Drew's Dressing

Snack
Banana and 24 almonds

Dinner
2 Chicken Apple Sausages
1/2 cup of onion/red pepper sauteed in coconut oil
1/2 cup of mashed potatoes
8 Cadbury mini eggs - I'm about to get my period and couldn't take it - they made my heart race..

Sleepy time.

Day 3: Clean Eating

Yummy. Yummy.

Let's talk about a few quick ways to increase the YUM in your food without ruining your health. Eggs. They are seriously the most versatile food. They can be a base for a pizza, added to a burger, or tossed in a salad. They can be omelets, scrambled, fried, hard-boiled, poached, baked, soft-boiled and they taste different each of these ways. It is easy to get in a food rut and then hate healthy eating. SHAKE IT UP, PEOPLE!

One thing I do on Saturday or Sunday is sautee a bunch of veggies at once in some coconut oil. Cut up a bunch of onion and red/yellow/orange/green pepper and sautee it up. Store it in a glass container (don't get me started with plastic containers) and throw a little in the pan before you cook up your eggs in the morning. The big prep is DONE. I add in a little spinach and then put the eggs in and VOILA - what you see above. Season for your taste - I like salt, pepper, and garlic powder.....but anything would work. If you haven't had eggs in coconut oil, you are missing out!

I have to eat a really large breakfast or I am starving the rest of the day - especially on the days I Crossfit. I didn't Crossfit today and I only have two eggs there but that was enough - I wasn't super hungry and I know I'm going to have a good bit of protein for lunch.

So, here is today's plan:

Breakfast - see above

Lunch - last day of this one - used all my spinach and chicken
Rotisserie chicken
Spinach
Celery
1 slice of cheese
Brianna's dressing

Snack
Handfull of Pistachios

Dinner
This one is tricky. I didn't prepare anything and I have to help a friend out and will be out and about during my usual dinner hour. Will let you know where I end up.

Day 2

Breakfast

Breakfast is Served!!!! Yum, yum. Right there you will find 2 eggs cooked in coconut oil, organic celery, 1/2 a sweet potato diced and cooked with coconut oil and s/p and 2 turkey maple sausages. YUMMM!!! Coffee with coconut creamer

Lunch

4-6 ounces of rot. chicken

2 cups of spinach

1/2 avocado

celery

Brianna's dressing

small banana

Snack

24 raw almonds

Dinner

Chipolte salad

Greens

sauteed veggies

Chicken

Guacamole

Salsa

Workout

Crossfit

Warm up

WOD:

25 ring pulls

25 push ups

25 abmat sit ups

25 squats

400 M Run

4x for time - took me 38:13

Today, I did 3 real push ups for the first time!!!