Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Workout

CrossFit

Warm up with high knees, butt kicks, 20 push ups, 20 sit ups

Strict Press
3-3-3-3
45, 65, 70 (f), 70 (1), 70 (2)

WOD
4 rounds untimed
10 ring dips- red band
max plank hold

max plank was 3:12

Food Log
Breakfast- scrambled egg with salsa, 2 sausage links, grapes
Snack- banana
Lunch- salad with chicken and bacon and ranch
Snack- PBJ Lara Bar, grapes
Dinner- Mel's Chicken, steamed veggies

Monday, January 2, 2012

Workout

Running

Ran 8 miles!  Last 2 miles were hard and my knee cap wasn't happy.  Left IT band was not either.  Ugh...I need to run more.

Food Log Day 1 of 30 sugar and gluten free
Breakfast- 2 curried meatballs and sweet potatoes
Lunch- bacon, tomato, chicken salad with ranch
After workout- pumpkin, vanilla protein powder smoothie
Dinner- Salisbury Steak, mashed sweet potatoes, green beans

Food Log

I'm back to logging my food again.

April 21
Snack- banana
Lunch- butternut squash lasagna- this was super yummy (I like it way more than the lasagna I made with zucchini!)
Snack- sweet potato with bacon and cheese
Dinner-

April 20
Breakfast 1- glass of 2% chocolate milk

Breakfast 2- stew (stew meat, carrots, potatoes
Lunch- My Fit Foods- medium chargrilled crazy chicken (didn't eat all the potatoes and green beans)
Snack- carrot cake with no icing (leveled a cake)
Dinner- butternut squash lasagna and green beans
Snack- glass of 2% chocolate milk

Perfect Primal Pizza Crust- YUMMY!

The other night I happened to be looking through some recipes on Mark's Daily Apple when I found a video describing the perfect primal pizza crust. I had tried making a grain free pizza crust using almond meal, but it didn't turn out very good, so I was excited to try this recipe. The crust is made of eggplant, grated parmesan cheese, and an egg. Here is the link to the recipe. Scroll down past the video to see the recipe.

Sweet Potato Muffins

After Nick tried the sweet potato pancakes last week, he mentioned that they would make a good muffin. So I found a pumpkin cranberry muffin recipe and substituted pureed sweet potato for the pumpkin and pecans for the cranberries. I also added a little cinnamon. They turned out pretty good, but next time I’ll add a little more cinnamon.

I’m so glad I’ve found some other things to eat for breakfast. I’m not a huge egg lover, but it’s such an easy paleo breakfast and I’m all about making it easy in the morning. My old standby was oatmeal, but that’s not going to work when eating paleo.

I'm proud of myself for trying something new! I'm such a recipe follower, but this time I changed it up a teeny tiny bit and it worked!

Paleo "Ice Cream"

One of my co workers had a birthday this past week which meant cake would be brought to celebrate. I didn't want to sit there with nothing while my friends ate cakes, so I decided I would give the Paleo "Ice Cream" from the CrossFit Katy Nutrition blog a try. I chopped up my bananas, through them in the freezer for a couple of hours, then chopped them up into teeny tiny bits in my Cuisinart. At first it looked like mini Dipping Dots, but the longer I let it chop, the creamier it became. Soon it looked like ice cream!

It still tastes like a banana, but in a totally different package. I made more today, but this time added some frozen strawberries. I can't wait to try it out!

Paleo Chili Cheese Dogs

I love hot dogs, especially grilled hot dogs. I love them even more with mustard, chili, and cheese, but hot dogs are out because of the bun and I’m not one to eat a hot dog without a bun. Fortunately for me I found the perfect recipe while I was checking out a blog I found called Health-Bent. The recipe uses sweet potato skins as the “buns” for hot dogs. I was skeptical at first, but after reading the recipe I saw that it had you making your own spicy chili to go over the dog. I knew then that I had to try it! The combination of spicy and sweet sounded really good! These hot dogs are obviously more work than regular chili cheese dogs with buns and canned chili, but it was worth it. I put three on my plate, but ended up only eating 2 ½. I can’t wait to have them again and now I also have a side for dinner tonight with the sweet potato that I scooped out of the skins! Yea!

Fat Guacamole Devils

Fat Guacamole Devils are hard boiled eggs filled with guacamole and mashed egg yolk. Kind of like deviled eggs, but filled with a guacamole/yolk mixture. The recipe can be found at Mark's Daily Apple.

I cheated a little bit and used premade guacamole I bought at the store. The Wholly Guacamole 100 calorie pack guacamoles are awesome, by the way. I used two hard boiled eggs. I mashed up the egg yolks from the 2 eggs and combined them with 1 pack from the 100 calorie Wholly Guacamole packs.

I tried the yolk/guacamole mix and it was good. I can't wait to have them for snack tomorrow!

Sweet Potato Pancakes

I've finally found a pancake recipe that I actually like! The Sweet Potato Pancakes from Health-Bent are great! Click on the link and just take a look at the picture!

I topped mine with a honey cream cheese topping that made them even yummier! The recipe says icing, but I like to call it a topping and I cut it in half, so I wouldn't have as much. :) Yes, this stays within my goals! :)

Parsnip Fries

Tonight we had hamburgers and with hamburgers I have to have french fries. I remembered a friend making parsnip fries, so I decided to give it a try. I've only had parsnips once, so I wasn't sure how they would taste, but they turned out super yummy.

I used the website I found here. One recipe I read said to remove the core, but another recipe I read said it wasn't that big of a deal, so I left the core since I was short on time (and I don't know how to remove it).

I liked the smaller pieces better and the ones that were a little more done (almost burnt). The core was a little too woody tasting to me, so next time I'll try to core them some how!

October 4, 2010

Workout:

At Lifetime

Warm up on bike, 2 rounds of 10 air squats, 10 push ups on toes, 10 sit ups

Bench Press X 3
warm up with 45- 10
55, 65, 70 (7)

Back Squat X 3
warm up with 45-7
60, 70, 80 (4)
45-6

WOD
25-21-15-9
Plate Sit ups- 25 lbs.
Push ups on knees
Plate squats
Russian twists with plate

Time- 16:16

Food Log:
Breakfast- egg muffin (1 egg, sausage, bell peppers), 3 slices of bacon, glass of almond milk with sugar free nesquik

Snack- carrots, grapes

Lunch- Starkist Tuna, Green Giant broccoli and carrots

Snack- My Fit Foods Choice Trail Mix

Post Workout Snack- strawberry banana protein smoothie

Dinner- Primal zucchini lasagna (YUM!) and green beans

Yummy Recipe

The other night I made a super duper yummy meal. It was a combination of two recipes I found here (CrossFit Katy Nutrition Blog) and here (Mark's Daily Apple).

I loved the sound of the Paleo Chicken Enchiladas, but I was too thrilled with it going on top of cauliflower rice because I don't have a chopper thingy and I wasn't about to spend my time chopping up cauliflower in to rice sized pieces. I also loved the sound of the Poblano Chicken with Verde Sauce, but I really wanted to combine the two instead of making the Verde Sauce.

I love to get chile rellenos when we eat out at a mexican food restaurant, so I was excited to try and make them for myself.

I made the sauce for the Paleo Enchiladas, then started on the chicken. Instead of boiling the chicken and then shredding it, I just used canned chicken. Then I roasted the poblano peppers until they were black and then pealed the black skin off. I cut open the tops and put a little monterey jack cheese down, then the chicken enchilada mixture, then a little more cheese. I covered them with some sauce and baked them for about 25 minutes.

They were super duper yummy. One of the best meals I've made in a long time, but I'm a huge poblano pepper fan, so that may have something to do with it.

When Nick saw what we were eating, he immediately asked if I would be offended if he didn't eat one. I said no, but then I started thinking about it and yes, I was offeneded! This took me a long time to make! He heard the word pepper and immediatly thought of a bell pepper, which he doesn't like. I finally convinced him that this wasn't going to tasted anything like that, so he gave in and tried one. He actually said it was good!

Unfortunately they were too spicy for the girls, so I had to make something different for them, but that just meant I had leftovers to take to school!

May 16, 2010

Food Log:
Breakfast- glass of almond milk with sugar free Nesquik
Lunch- 1/2 tuna sandwich on a bagel, bagel chips
Snack- kale chips and grapes
Dinner- 2 bacon wrapped grilled hamburgers, grilled corn
Snack- glass of almond milk with sugar free Nesquik

Kate loved those kale chips! She ate a ton at dinner. Maddie and Nick, well, they weren't so excited about them.

Enough with the grains! I feel better with no grains, no sugar.

No workout today- shopping, cleaning, softball practice

May 11, 2010

Food Log:
Breakfast 1- glass of almond milk with sugar free Nesquik
Breakfast 2- scrambled egg with bell peppers in olive oil, 3 pieces of bacon
Lunch- Moroccan steak kabobs with red and green bell pepper and onions
Snack- carrots, broccoli, grapes
Post Workout Snack- smoothie with protein powder, almond milk, banana, sugar free nesquik
Dinner- "Bread" sticks with marinara sauce, mozzarella cheese, and bell peppers

Workout:
Crossfit-
Warm up with high knees, butt kicks, lunges

Workout-
1000 meter row
100 push ups- on knees
100 sit ups
100 air squats
1000 meter row

Time- 28:??

I am so out of shape! I used to be good a rowing. Today...not so much! It was tough, especially that last 1000 meters!