Monday, April 18, 2011

Goals - my undoing?

Le Sigh. It seems to happen every time. I can tell myself that I'm going to be strict paleo for the next xxx number of days, or stop doing this or stop eating that. But the minute numbers come into play, in terms of my 'goals'....well, I go a bit mental.

Lately I've been pretty strict during the weekdays, more relaxed on the weekends. And it hasn't caused me much thought or stress. But then today, I made the declaration on twitter that I wanted to lose an inch off each thigh. Well, I want to lose multiple inches off my thighs....and my hips and my waist, etc etc, but I wondered how long it would take to lose an inch off each thigh.

So of course, I started thinking about my diet, about my Crossfit regime and about adding in running. And then I thought about my diet some more. I've been losing a few pounds and a half an inch here and there each week so I figured I was doing good and didn't really need to change much. You know, just a few more strict tweaks here and there.

Then this afternoon hit. The afternoons are the worst for me. I usually get up early and do Crossfit in the a.m. I hate WODing with food in my stomach so I usually work out without breakfast, and then my post WOD shake or meal is my first meal of the day. Of course, I'm starving when I'm done with Crossfit but usually my chicken & veggies or my Progenex is enough to keep me full until lunch time. But sometimes it seems no matter what I eat for Meal 1 and Meal 2....the afternoons are met with famish hunger, as if I hadn't eatten at all.

Normally, I try to do 3 on, 1 off in terms of Crossfit and running but today was Day 4 on for me and I pushed pretty hard this morning. So of course, after making these new goals today....dropping inches here, dropping pounds there....with the desire of doing it in the next week or two....when the afternoon famine hunger hit, I started to panic. Of course, I've been eating when hungry and not depriving myself. I've tried protein, I've tried healthy fats. Nothing is keeping me full today.

Enter - distress! Panic! Oh no, how do I plan to lose inches when I can't stop eating?????

I think really the question I need to ask myself is, how do I plan to lose inches when I can't stop stressing????

Friday, April 15, 2011

WODs Gone Crazy in 2 Weeks!!!

Happy Friday!! Not only does today rock because it's Friday and I'm alive and healthy, but because it's also the official 2 week countdown to WODs Gone Crazy!!




What is WODs Gone Crazy? At the end of 2010, I was running my mouth on twitter as I always do, and I said something to my buddy Travis Schefcik (@uncmnwellness) about visiting him one day soon in SoCal to throw down some WODs together. From there, people started chiming in that they wanted to as well, and a big tweet up was born!

Thanks to Jarret Streiner (@jarret23), we started organizing who was going to attend and what dates would work best for everyone, since the group consists of people from coast to coast, north to south. He started this awesome blog and got the ball rolling! (Link to awesome blog)

The official plan!

Thursday 4/28 PM WOD at Crossfit East County with Mr. FuncThat himself! (@FuncThat)

Friday 4/29 is a triple whammy day! We are starting the morning off at Crossfit Counter Culture at 8am.....possibily the last Games Sectionals WOD, maybe? And of course, since this is the headquarters of the awesome brand Life As RX, I'm sure there will be a lot of post WOD shoppin goin on!

Our 2nd WOD of the day will be thrown down at the awesome facilities of Crossfit Invictus. Many thanks to both of these places for graciously hosting us!

For our last WOD of the day, we have been toying around with the idea of a ladies vs guys beach WOD.....should be interesting!

Between the nine of us, I'm sure lots of video and photos will be captured during this wild weekend. Stay tuned for blog posts and tweets before, during and after the craziness that will be WODs Gone Crazy.



Not only have we secured kick ass venues to show off our Crossfit skills, but we've also picked up some sponsors along the way! Many thanks to Progenex, Fashletics and RxJumpRopes for their support in making this Coast to Coast Crossfit TweetUp an experience any Crossfitter would enjoy.

Also a huge thanks to Life As RX for designing special shirts just for this trip.