Yesterday was a sleep in day. It was magical. I slept until 8, even though I was having dreams of running. Actually sprinting, while hopping over frogs, in order to make it to a bar on time. So weird. The frogs were huge though. And they were sleeping. I didn’t wake any of them. I’m thoughtful.
You know how dogs will run in their sleep while lying on their side? I wonder if I was doing that. I hope so, that would be cool looking. My legs are just so stupid sore from pistols the other day, that now I can barely walk, let alone do 150 wall balls….AGAIN. Ugh, damn you 13.3. I’d really like to NOT do that workout again. The last thing I want to do is try to rip my shoulder out while doing muscle ups. But I’d also rather not see myself do way worse than last year. That just sucks. Poop. Wah. Ok, I’m done whining.
Sh*t, I need to find a gym in Austin to do 13.4. Ah geez.
So let’s finish talking about what I inhaled yesterday. It started off with an amazing scramble of diced pork, italian sausage, eggs, brussels sprouts, peppers, and who knows what else. It was awesome. And I didn’t even have to make it. Thursday started off on a high note.
Then I cooked, worked on my website, and actually did my hair. I then was so pumped when I opened my front door to a package from Steve’s Original AND ModCloth. I recently bought a freaking awesome summer dress on there and have been looking out my window every single day in hopes of it showing up. Welp, IT DID AND OMGILOVEITSOMUCH. That website is so ridiculously addicting. Now it just needs to get nice in CO so I can sport this dress somewhere. Anywhere. Probably to an ice cream shop. I want ice cream.
Then I coached the noon class at my gym.
Then I headed down to my favorite bake shop, the Sugar Bake Shop, where they had blueberry paleo muffins staring at me. Did I want one? Hell yes. Did I eat one? Hell no. Life is kind of boring without sugar. So instead, I ate my steak, brussels sprouts, and cabbage for lunch, while sipping on an almond milk latte, pretending it was one of the extra caramel, triple macchiato, double whipped cream surprise drink. I don’t know what anything I just said actually meant. But it sounds good.
Then I coached 3 classes through 13.3. That’s a lot of wall balls. That’s a lot of squatting. Lots a lot of sore bums and legs. What a beautiful thing. Gettin’ jacked legs for summer. Then, after I watched literally thousands of wall balls, I did some myself. Last year I got 253 reps (I think..it might have been 252), this year I got 246 reps, which I was surprisingly not disappointed with. I didn’t fail with any of my muscle ups, but I had to make sure I rested a bunch in between so I wouldn’t fail on the dip. So yay, I did muscle ups without tearing my shoulder even more. Wonderful, just wonderful.
Then I went home and ate a whole sweet potato. An entire one. I cut the sweet potato into steak fries and baked them with bacon fat and salt. Probably too much bacon fat, but daaaaaamn it was worth it. Then I ate it along with another beautiful steak, wrapped with some bacon, and some halved brussels sprouts cooked in butter. I just really loved fat and carbs with that meal. It was AWESOME.
AND THEN, I finished the night off with one of my 21DSD Green Apple and Coconut Butter Treats. More fat and carbs. I love my life right now, not worrying about workouts and eating delicious food. Does it get any better? Oh yeah, when I’m eating chocolate, that’s when it’s even better.
Starting a sugar detox today! Hoping to make it 8 weeks… I do so love dark chocolate too… thanks for the green apple coconut treats, definitely planning to try those! Can we see the dress you bought?
I love this post!
Aren’t brussell sprouts so convenient?!
We are going gluten free (mostly grain free), sugar free (except for raw honey and good maple syrup on occasion), and I recently discovered I have a new sensitivity to EGGS…Nooo!!
Anyway. I love this blog post, your personality is so vibrant and I can tell you have a super sense of humor. Makes it fun to read. 😀
Have a great day!
Juli –
Please please please share your cabbage and brussel sprouts “recipe” OMGGG I am not a veggie fan but those look as good as can possibly be! =)
I love love love your recipes and humor. don’t ya love that?! quiet but devoted reader. However I have to say… you don’t really eat alot. It seems it’s 3 square meals but really in small tupperwares. I eat so much…especially huge on plate (i mean honkin’ plate full) of roasted veggies and some lean protein. How do you stay so strong, fit and yet energized with what appears to be small meals. Not a snarky comment…honestly I was just curious and intrigued at how small your meals are (not tiny) just less than what i expected with someone at your fitness level.
Hey Ani!! I don’t really know. I used to eat Zone so I learned about my portion sizes a bit more and that really changed how much I ate. I just now know how much will make me full. And when I say full, I don’t mean the ‘omgimsofull’ but the ‘cool, i’m satisfied.’ When I stick to satisfied, I don’t eat quite as much. Even when I was competing in CF, I ate the same amount and felt the same in everything I did
I hate blogs, yet I have set here reading several of your “rants” for an entire morning. You are incredibly funny and somehow the ego that I feel drives most people to blog is doesn’t exist in your conversations……..
Okay, now……
I HATE YOU FOR MAKING ME REALIZE THAT EATING PROPERLY DOSENT HAVE TO BE BORING.
It was so much easier when I just baked a chicken breast, threw a slice of cheese on it and a spoonful of salsa, it was boring, but it was simple.
Now here I am making grocery lists and reading page after page of recipes excited to find new ways to make things I didn’t think I would be eating any more.
To sum up, THANK YOU
From,
A onetime football player who decided yoga and a relationship with his abs felt so much better than having biceps the size of a small childs head.
i like you mike. you’re funny. did you only play football once and then hated it? like me? we’re like twins
lol, no I loved it, it was how I stayed focused and motivated towards fitness for many years. A very different kind of fitness than I choose now.
There just comes a point where you realize how much work it is to maintain a 260lb body that doesn’t have jiggly bits.
Really, really digging your site, I look forward to all the new recipes, you should see the size of the shopping list I have for the grocery store tomorrow…:)
I love seeing the girls hang with the boys! You look so strong! Awesome job!