I hate to admit this, but I injured myself again. This is getting old. If you are tired of reading this, I am tired of writing this!! 2014 has not been what I anticipated, but you know what? So what!! Sure I have felt defeated this year from all this bullshit, but what has it done? Brought me back to basics.

For those that are desiring to know, I fell out of a snatch poorly and dropped some weight on my lower back. I am bruised but I {thank goodness!!!!!} did not hurt my spine. I joke that the barbell bounce off my ample ass. But seriously, I am lucky. And it allowed my chiropractor to see me again, how lucky is he? Thus, for the past two weeks I have been only able to do upper body movements, and today I will start with a few lower body ones, if they feel ok, at a lower weight and reps. Slow and steady.

All of this has me looking at 2015 with a new focus. It isn’t “let’s see all the benchmarks I can hit!” cause that was a recipe for disaster for 2014. Instead I plan on lowering my weight, working on form and technique. I am also going to work on stretching more so that I have supple {aka NOT tight} muscles.

In the food eating world—I am glad I reset myself with a Whole30, but I didn’t do it for 30 days. I needed the mental kick in the ass and from there simply introduced a few specific foods back. I have been mainly sugar-free for three weeks and I had one slip last Thursday and I felt so physically ill the next day I vowed “never again!!”. Since then I have been continuing eating lots of meat, veggies, a few starches {aka potatoes}, some fruit and chai tea. Cause chai. I have even decided I dislike the amount of sugar in a Lara Bar, even if it’s all real ingredients, it is small and doesn’t leave me satiated.

Lastly, this weekend my husband and I are off to Cancun to see my cousin get married! I can’t wait to be at a 5 star resort and spending quality time with all the family that is going to be there. I plan on swimming like a fish, reading at least 2 books and soaking up a ton of sun.