Primal Breakfast
This has been one of those years where life throws curveballs left and right, but somehow I’ve managed to get back on course each time. Whether it’s surgery with a painful month wait and then another painful month of recovery, or a month-long battle with the flu [probably thanks to all the antibiotics I was on before and after surgery], or family issues causing extra stress, 2013 has been a bitch. But it’s also been great. I’ve learned a lot about myself – like: I still have a knee-jerk need for comfort food when I’m in pain… Not working out for 4+ months makes me feel old and horrible… I really can rebound from just about anything.
I’m happy to report that I have my dad gung-ho on the Primal diet and he’s lost close to 40lbs in the last 3 months. I feel like every time I see him, he’s smaller. He’s inspired ME to get back at it 100%, and I have. For me, the scale doesn’t move so easily, but my clothes are not only fitting better but some bottoms are getting loose, which hasn’t happened in a while. I’m back to a regular exercise routine that I really enjoy and am getting stronger each week. I’m done with ‘chronic cardio’ and tough resistance workouts every other day. Here’s my current routine that is really working for me:
- I walk 3 miles at lunch with a coworker 5 days a week
- I ‘lift heavy things’ [LHT] twice a week – usually Sundays and then Wednesdays or Thursdays depending on my schedule
- I go on an extended 2 hour hike once or twice a week
- I do sprints on one of those hikes each week
I wear a Jawbone UP band [which I will post about separately because it’s worth it – I LOVE it!] that tracks my activity and sleep, and today it told me I’m in the top 10% of UP band users for activity level – and yet I don’t feel like I’m killing myself like I used to. I have more energy and feel stronger now than when I was doing ‘Turbo Fire’ or ‘Insanity’ cardio and lifting heavy 3x/wk.
Exercise[The]Demons 