Hey everyone, long time no post. My life has blown up a bit–I have been taking pictures {on the path to doing my own photography business, wut!} every weekend, learning how to process pictures faster, oh and still trying to prep delicious foods every weekend. Add onto that a semi-promotion at work, where I am in charge of a team of 11 people, crossfit 3-4 times a week and I am pooped every night.

So what has been going on? Pseudo Whole 30 has been going alright, I have had a bit more sugar than I want, but I am already aware and reigning it back in. I am finding the second month hard. It’s hard to find balance, to get my rhythm right. I am tired a lot because I am burning the candle at both ends. When this happens, it’s easy for me not to prep food, eat out of stress and justify eating I normally wouldn’t tolerate. It’s rather amazing to see these thought patterns re-appear. So I have started living one day at a time to cope. I prep easier recipes, like the pesto chicken meatballs in marinara sauce, baked chicken and slow cooker ribs. I have also been teaching my husband how to cook more complicated recipes to help me.

My workouts have been hard, the programming has been amped up. We have been doing more metcons–which is just a fancy way of saying “we are going to make you barf”. Heavier weights, less ability to breathe during the workout and wod’s lasting for 20+ minutes. The thing is? I wanted this. I was finding my workouts to be too easy and so I was thinking of upping the weight in my wod’s to make them more challenging. These more challenging wod’s have sucked but I kind of love them. I like how they push me to continue moving when I want to die, which in turn has jacked my conditioning. It’s wonderful and painful all at the same time 🙂

So what’s next? Oh lawd, my trainer Kat has a plan for me–we were doing handstand kick-ups {or for others handstands} and she got me to kick my legs up to the wall for the first time since I first started in January 2013. And I fell, but I got back up and tried again. Kat has decided I will be able to do wall handstands by the end of the summer, so before every WOD I am to do 3 wall walks. I think it will be cool if I can conquer this fear and start doing handstand anything.

Lastly, as of today I am no longer required to go back to my chiropractor and I am cleared to run and jump!! I am nervous but I also can’t wait to practice double unders and figure out the right way to jump while doing them! I am not so excited to run, that shit can stay where it is. And man, I haven’t run in three months. This is going to be uuuugly. I fear the strides I made with my run time might be gone. I think you should all be prepared for whiny posts about running in advance.

This week I plan to workout three times and if work doesn’t gas me too much, I will do some open gym Saturday morning. Thanks for listening! And if you want to see my pet project go here or like my page on Facebook.