A new beginning

The night before the first work day of the year, I for sure slept like crap. I couldn’t fall asleep because I’ve had too much on my mind recently and once I fell asleep, I was up every hour. Needless to say, that made for a really long day at work. I know this week is going to be a struggle between adjusting to getting up at 5 am again and my body adjusting to the paleo lifestyle…aka not eating loads of sugar from cookies and candy. But my body really needs it, the last month and a half I’ve felt super sluggish and just bloated and my emotions have been all over the place. I definitely notice the difference in how emotional I am when I eat like crap, and that’s no bueno for anyone around me. I remember how good I felt when I was doing the BBC III and how my confidence was getting better and I’m ready to feel that way again. It’s going to take some major dedication and hopefully I’ll have the support I need, but I see a great year ahead of me. It helps when you're taking this journey with others, I know there's a few of you out there and hopefully we can help each other push past that wall that has stopped us before!

I’m starting this weighing in at 167 this morning. That’s 4 lbs I’ve gained since the BBC III ended, and really in the month of December with all the cookies. And I only have myself to blame, I had no self control. During the BBC III, I had troubles getting over that 163 bump, so I hope I can break that this time around. I don’t have an ideal number I want to weigh, it’s just hard to determine with CrossFit and all the muscle I’m gaining. But I would like to shoot for the low 150s/high 140s in the next couple months. Really I just want to be at that point where I’m comfortable with myself and still making progress at the Fort. In the next couple of days I’m hoping to come up with some realistic goals to accomplish at the Fort this year and maybe a number.

Food for the day:

Breakfast: 3 scrambled eggs, 3 oz rib roast and 2 Clementines

Lunch: 14 oz paleo chili

Dinner: 6 oz chicken 5 oz cauliflower and 1.5 cups mixed greens with olive oil and vinaigrette

Water allllll day

Strength Work:

Press: training max – 35kg

5 – 15kg (40% of training max)

5 – 18kg (50% of training max)

5 – 22kg (60% of training max)

This was really light because it's deload week which was nice since my press has been awful. And I've had to decrease my training max in the last round, hopefully when we start the next set next Monday I'll be able to get the numbers! It was also great to lift with Tommy Mo today, I haven't seen him in almost a good 2 months. He's a great inspiration to have around during WODs, so it was nice to have him back!

WOD

3 rounds of: 10 toes to bar 15 pull ups 20 kb swings (24/16)

I scaled to option A) 8/12/16, since it's deload week and when I asked Jennie an approximate time, she said 7-9 min, I felt like I could do A in that amount of time. I also used 2 purple bands for the pull ups. I'm still really frustrated with my pull ups, ever since I got the one I can't get the rhythm down and get my kip going. So I've been focusing on my dead-hang pull up at home and at the Fort with the band. One of my main goals for this year is to get that pull up and a good rhythm to my kip so I can bust through those WODs, I'll get there some day. Anyway, I took today's WOD pretty easy given it's deload week and ended up with a time of 7:31. I felt good afterward and I could have probably gone with the Rx'd reps, but I'll save that for the rest of the week. I'm going back to 5 days a week by returning to Team Saturday and I can't wait! It was also great to see some faces tonight I haven't seen in awhile!! Missed you guys!