My CrossFit journey in a teeny tiny nutshell

First and foremost, before I start telling my journey of eating well and exercising, I give all credit to God.  Eating well and exercising is a significant part of my life, but it will never measure up to worshiping God. My foundation of life is centered around trying to best to make it into the kingdom as well as shining my light so others might choose to follow Him as well.  Eating well and exercising has optimized my life by helping me feel good.  Eating well and exercising has helped my energy levels and moods, which has helped me have more energy to serve God.  

 

In a nutshell, I started to love exercising after my son was born almost 8 years ago when I wanted to lose weight.    I lost the weight with diet and exercise on traditional weight lifting and cardio machines.  Until 2 years ago, naturally, motivation was hard to achieve because doing the same thing over and over again without any real instruction.  After my daughter was born, I was introduced to CrossFit. I started doing CF at home, but finally after many attempts from my husband, I ventured out and did my first CF workout with

some fellow Crossfitters and friends. Continuing to improve physically and mentally, there was no looking back.  CF has helped my confidence tremendously. I have pushed myself to do things I never thought I would do like lift, run, jump, climb.sometimes all in the same WOD(workout of the day).  Pushing myself physically takes a significant amount of willpower mentally.  Pushing myself to the limit has helped me push myself in life and has helped me to be more confident in being who I am.  I got to CrossFit Cashmere now and  I am loving it!

Transitions

Sometimes I feel like there are many opsticles that try to stand in my way.  I struggle with my son who loves only a few items..spaghetti noodles, rice, raviolis, meatloaf.. Transitioning my life into eating Paleo only makes me want to feed my family Paleo because of the many benefits of the lifestyle. My son is seven years old and has been eating "kid food" for way too many times in his life. In the past, sometimes I found myself fixing him something different that he likes, even if it is different from what I am having.  All in all, sometimes feeding your kids easy and convenient foods is not what is best in the long run. We get busy with our lives and get so used to serving what is convenient rather than what is truly healthy, natural and whole foods. I am over that. I want my family to my healthy, even if it means practicing some tough love. Pleasing everybody is hard, but I try and fix things everybody will like.

Thinking back to when I started Paleo, my tastes were much different.  I enjoyed lattes with nonfat milk and tons of sugar free syrup.  Now I love black coffee. I loved foods that were filled with wrong the carbs such as bread and pasta.  Now I love how my body tells me that it doesn't like them by feeling sluggish and bloated. The more I learn about Paleo and the benefits, the more I want to do it and the more I feel the benefits of it. My favorite is my energy and how my blood sugar stays constant to where I don't crave sweets and unhealthy carbs.  What I am really trying to get at is that I remember how used to feel starting Paleo and it was hard, but it's worth it. I am willing to practice the tough love on my son and teach him the right things to eat, even if it is hard in the beginning.  I have not been buying anything non paleo and I have heard many times, "there is no food in the house."  There are plenty of Paleo meals and snack items. My 2 year old daughter is the easiest by far(she eats whatever I make), my husband and son are definetly the most difficult, but I will not cave. I know what certain foods do to the body and I know the habits of my son being hungry an hour later because he ate nothing but carbs or my husband binging on one meal at the end of the day will not affect me.  I am moving with baby steps and let my children have some "cheats" but my focus now is not to buy anything that isn't Paleo and to make meals my family will like.  I am going to have my son start choosing the meals from my cookbooks.  It has been quite the struggle and I am not about to lose my patience and get discouraged.  No. Way.