Days 8-9 (Recap)

Lots of great stuff going on over here at Chez Disceaux. The only thing we're still struggling with is how to get Boudreaux full. For him a question of fat calories. We've got the protein, the fruits, veggies, and nuts, but absent the grains, I've got to get him so more fat calories to fill his 6'1" frame. Perhaps I'll ask the trainer.

That's right! I said trainer! We have a BRAND!NEW!DEVELOPMENT here! A CrossFit box opened on Monday in our town. We didn't think it would ever happen. We thought if we wanted this to happen we'd have to open our own someday. But no! Someone did! (Thank god. I don't know if either of us is cut out to own and run a business). I was seriously weeks away from buying a kit for the house and converting the office into an office/gym because I'm about to max out here on what I can do with what I have. Turns out, I've already maxed out my home equipment. We joined Thursday and I've done stuff that I haven't done in  a really long time or have never done before (like a handstand! by myself!). And the weight that I was working with was what I lifted when I left Fancy Expensive State a year ago (and haven't lifted that heavy since), so that tells me that a) I was doing something right at home and b) I'm stronger than I thought I was--probably not by much, but it's true. Granted I could have the deluxe kit for my home with what I will pay for mine and Boudreaux's membership this year, but we get unlimited box time and the benefit of a trainer and unlimited classes. Plus, I've never been involved in anything from the ground up. We are "original" members of this box! Woot! (Best part, in the morning, takes us less than 4 minutes to get there, door to door!)

So what does this have to do with the Whole30? I don't know if the tide is turning on the energy thing or if it's excitement about joining a box, but I'm definitely feeling like I've got more energy now than I did at the beginning of the week. I didn't even realize until I looked at the fridge this morning that when we go to class today, this will be day 6 in a row of workouts, and I'm pumped for class today! Generally, at this point in the week I'm tired to the point of tears and exhausted, but I'll recap the last couple of days.

Day 8--I had planned to not workout, remember. I thought I needed the rest. We found out there was a CrossFit box, checked it out, signed the form, joined on-line, showed up for our first class that afternoon. Stoked! So I ended up not resting at all.

Day 9--I was so pumped about the 6 am class that I hardly slept (plus the mutt was driving us nuts because he's furry, and he's miserable right now) and was up at 4 am. We went to class--I fear that I'm going to be the annoying girl at 6 am, but I'm so excited about this right now, I can't contain myself. Anyway, up at four and then a full on day. No nap! And the workout was tough. I can feel every muscle in my upper body right now. I took the dog to get shaved (he slept so much better last night), and then I spent the whole morning cleaning and organizing (we got new storage stuff). Then to avoid that stuff, I cooked for 2.5 hours! Yes, 2.5 voluntary hours in the kitchen! Yesterday was one of those days when I just felt like doing food prep and cooking. I did lay on the couch and I tried to nap, because I had been up since 4, but I seriously couldn't. And while I was doing all that cooking, I so wanted some wine because really, 2.5 hours of working with food and no wine? Seems cruel and unusual. But we had the Games streaming, and I thought to myself, "shit, if I can't give up wine/chocolate/unhealthy stuff for 30 days for the purpose of cleaning up my diet, then I'm never going to be able to make it to the Games to compete." So now it's more about proving to myself that I can do this because my ultimate goal is to make it to the Games.

Anyway, to be honest, I was surprised that I had all of that in me given some crappy sleep and being up at 4. Again, this might be adrenaline because of the excitement over the CrossFit box and looking forward to going there every day, even though, like I said, I am sore as all get out here today, but I'm up and jazzed and ready to go! I will confess and say that I'm glad class is at 9 today and not 6 (although there are several other classes not at 6, but I prefer the early one).

I made a ton of food last night, obviously if I was in the kitchen for 2.5 hours. I made Eggplant Strata and Bora Bora fire meatballs with Sunshine Sauce, all of which can be found in Well Fed. We had some salad, too. Boudreaux got enough to eat, and we even had leftovers, which I'm glad because after 2.5 hours cooking, I want not to have to do that again today because I need to finish up the project I started yesterday, and ultimately want to be done with everything by tomorrow night because I haven't done any of my own work this week, and that needs to start happening.

Today is Day 10. I'm definitely feeling the upswing in the energy. And since I used all my energy during the day because I had energy, I slept like a log last night. If the Red Rocket was active, I didn't feel him (but I think the haircut helped him). And I got a solid 9 hours of sleep last night, woke without the alarm, and that's fabulous.

Also, one thing I've noticed too over the last couple of days--either I'm getting enough protein now or enough fat on my end that I've noticed the sugar cravings have started to subside. Boudreaux made some Paleo ice cream and we had it with fruit and honey, but I wasn't tearing through the kitchen looking for it, like "must have sugar in any form now!" Rather, we had a nice dinner, we were both still hungry enough that we could have eaten dinner again, so we had dessert. And when dessert was done, I wasn't like, "ooooh, I wish there were more! I need more!" And I don't crave it during the day any more either, so that's really really great. It's kind of nice actually not to be a slave to the sugar demon. We'll see if that continues.

Day 1 (Recap)

We made it through Day 1!

In some ways, not that bad. In others, it sort of sucked because we got really good news that Boudreaux got a job, so our first impulse would have been to go out to eat and then crack open a couple of bottles of wine.

Instead, we checked out a sale and then since Boudreaux gave himself a headache with all the excitement of job getting and the like, we did lounge around for the rest of the afternoon. So really, if we can make it past day 1 without saying "hey, we'll just start tomorrow; let's celebrate tonight!" then we might be okay.

Honestly though, I think the hangovers helped because neither of us wanted to even think about a celebratory drink here at all.

Tonight might be more difficult because we're going out with some friends, I think. I have no idea what's going actually, but anyway.

I will say this though, I slept amazing last night. Totally! I think some of it has to do with Boudreaux getting the job, part of it had to do with not drinking a bottle of wine or having a bunch of cooked fruit after dinner, and part had to do with some good balanced eating throughout the day. It was hard though not to weigh myself before bed last night, and the first thing I did this morning was look for the scale, so that's going to be tough.

Boudreaux I know did not sleep so well because he's super excited about his job.

Now I'm off to workout before it gets to be too hot to do so, and then I need to finish up all my grading today so that it's done, and I don't have to think about it anymore. 

Would you like to know what we ate?
Breakfast: Scrambled eggs with sweet pepper and spinach, 3 pieces of bacon, leftover cucumber and tomato salad.
(I was starving still about 30 minutes later because of my run, so I had some of the paleo cobbler I made for the 4th).
Lunch: Leftovers--grilled tri-tip, andouille, giant green salad (1/2 the plate was salad), leftover roasted carrots, leftover bbq hamburgers. Then I was still starving and I finished the paleo cobbler. (all the meat portions were really small--maybe about 1 oz. sausage, 2 oz steak or less, and a 1/4 pd. hamburger)
Dinner: BBQ chicken breast, cocoa roasted cauliflower, giant ass green salad with sliced cucumbers and diced tomatoes.