Hello y'all again. Sorry if you were waiting on my upcoming blogs. I have been busy. Now, I can finally sit down and make Day 17 & 18 in one blog. I almost thought I was on Day 19! I better keep up with my blogs on time! I'll try my best.
There will be several pictures but who doesn't like to look at pictures, right?!
Day 17 was great. I had bursting energy throughout the day. Week 3 has really turned around for me just like I predicted. I actually feel slimmer than 3 weeks ago. Not out of the woods yet. I think I will extend my 30 day Challenge to another 30 days. Summer is coming quickly, of course, I wanna get back into my bikinis that I wore last year. You can make the impossible possible!
Now, this picture right below is a reminder of what we can eat in the paleo diet and what we should not eat in the paleo diet. See below.
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Actually, there are more than that. I guess it is all they can fit in this picture but you get an idea. But I am surprised that bananas and pineapples are not in this paleo diet? Ive had read paleo articles or cookbooks, they included pineapples and bananas too. So, do your research. I would say bananas and pineapples are okay if eat in moderate.
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Now, remember, I told you that I drink almost more than a gallon of water a day... this is how I feel! See below.
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Hell yea!
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Breakfast: scrambled eggs and leftover pork ribs. Latte, of course, what else?!
Eric did crossfit at noon and I didn't. I decided to do 4:30 pm. Anyway, while he was at crossfit, I prepped lunch. New Mexico Chili Pepper Chicken Wings! And sautéed kale, asparagus, and sweet potatoes. Perfect recovery food for Eric's post workout.
Recipe:
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New Mexico Chili Pepper powder, found in the bulk area at your local food store. If you cannot find these, you can use regular chili powder from bulk area. Not in the bottle, please! They contain MSG and GMO, usually. Bad bad bad!
Now, you will need to place chicken wings in a large mixing bowl. Add about 3 TBS of New Mexico Chili Pepper or regular Chili powder, 2 TBS of Sea Salt, and 1 TBS of black pepper. Coat chicken wings well with these seasoning.
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Line foil paper in the baking sheet pan, and put cookie rack over it. Place seasoned chicken wings on the cookie rack evenly with fat skin up. Bake at 375 degrees for 1 hour. You will need to turn chickens over with 30 minutes left of baking. At end of 1 hour, turn on broil high and turn chickens over again with fat skin up. Broil for 5-7 minutes until crispy.
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Meanwhile,
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While the wings were baking in the oven, I went ahead and started sautéing veggies for side dish. Kale, asparagus, and leftover baked sweet potato, diced. About 1/4 of a medium baked sweet potatoes. 1 tsp of coconut oil or EVOO in skillet, after it's heated, add in veggies and sautee for about 5-8 minutes, I like them firm not soggy. Remove the skillet from the heat and sprinkle some crushed red pepper. Have some guts!
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Viola!!!! See how beautiful my New Mexico Chili Pepper Chicken Wings turned out!?
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According to my husband, this is the BEST chicken wings he has ever ate. Again, there's something about chicken and me. He cannot fathom how delicious my chickens taste every time. I bet you the next chicken dish I make, he will say that again. Hahaha. Just you wait and see.
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I didn't eat anything else since lunch. I wasn't hungry for a snack or anything. Also, I knew I'd feel nauseated if I did eat something between lunch and 4:30 PM crossfit. So, I kept on drinking water and some green tea.
Crossfit kicked my ass yesterday at 4:30 PM. It was brutally cold yesterday!! At least that's how we, Texans felt. I had to dress warm according to the weather. No kidding! I had to wear long sleeves running shirt and thick yoga pants and long socks. Plus a blue jacket over the top and my half ass red gloves. My chest felt tight when I was breathing hard during WOD. Thus, I slept very very well last night from the hard workout! It was good to see other members there! I haven't seen them for nearly 3 months!
What our WOD looked like yesterday:
We did the mobility first to warm up.
DU's as many as you can in 7 minutes. If you stop or drop the rope, penalty was 5 burpees, I think?
But for my post surgery feet case, I did #12 MB wallballs instead for 7 minutes without penalty since I can't really do burpees quite yet. But the Wallballs have always been brutally challenging for most people. But I, of course, was excited because squats will give you a nice booty!! Hamstrings and guads too!
I did 130 wallballs in 7 minutes! Not bad.
5 rounds of:
10 KB swings
10 pushups
10 box jumps (I did step ups instead)
12 minutes Cap.
I finished it in 7:18
Then afterwards, we had to do another Double Unders as many as you can in 7 minutes and same penalty as above, if you stop or drop the rope, 5 burpees. In my case, I had to do 100 sit-ups in 7 minutes. My ABS was cramping! Hurt so good, right?
Then I went home and had my L-glutamine and BCAA drink in water. And I started dinner. I made squash spaghetti! See recipe below. It's so simple and easy! Cost effective too!
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See, this is great stuff! I always buy this nothing else. Unless I make my own sauce but I didn't. So, I bought 2 jars of that.
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Read the ingredients! See, the fewer ingredients, the better! Right??? They are amazingly so good! Just the right amount! Plus, it doesn't have any garlic in it! A PLUS!! We don't like garlic.
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| Grass-fed ground beef at H-E-B |
Ohh, I forgot to add this earlier, before crossfit, I roasted squash spaghetti in the oven at 350 degrees for 1 hour. Then I took it out and let it rest right before I left for crossfit.
 Roasted squash spaghetti
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When I got home from Crossfit, I started prepping for dinner, starting with squash spaghetti and cooked the grass fed beef in the skillet at the same time.
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| Cut the squash into half and scoop out the seeds with the fork. Now don't forget to check on your beef! After browned, add 2 jars of spaghetti sauce and 2 TBS of fresh chopped Italian flat parsley into your skilled. Cover and cook for 10 minutes. |
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| After that's seeded, you use your fork to scrap the rest of the squash spaghetti out into a serving bowl. |
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| Now the sauce is ready! It perfumed the entire house! |
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| That was my dinner. I ate nothing else afterwards. |
Day 18:
Rest Day. Not much cooking. Mostly leftovers.
Breakfast: scrambled eggs and left over chicken wings, of course. And Latte.
Now, we haven't had any desserts since Sunday so we deserved some today an hour after lunch.
Lunch: leftover pot roast with collards and homemade bone marrow broth that I defrosted. I made batches of bone marrow broth in the freezer.
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| I threw everything in the pot (see ingredients above). Cover and cooked for maybe 10 minutes. Meanwhile, I painted my toenails until lunch was ready! |
Now, we haven't had any desserts since Sunday so we deserved some today an hour after lunch.
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| Homemade coconut butter and soft almond butter with half of a large green apple, I couldn't eat a whole apple! And half a banana, sprinkled with cinnamon. Drank some green tea and latte the following. |
Now, it is time for me to go and pick up the kids from school.
I think we'll have leftover squash spaghetti for dinner again tonight or breakinner (breakfast for dinner).
Have a great evening, y'all. Stay warm too.
I dread the cold weather, go away, please!!
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