Today’s WOD was 15-10-5 for time, of: 85# Thrusters, Dips (used Rings w/ blue band), and Split Jumps. I finished in 13:33, wearing a 20# vest. After that Irene and I did feet-anchored sit ups tossing a 10# medicine ball back and forth. When I got home Ch’ixi wanted to run so I took her for a quick 2 mile run, and averaged 9 for the first mile, and 8:52 for the second mile! FELT FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!
I quit posting my meals here because I started using an iphone/online application called Fat Secret. It can be found at www.fatsecret.com. If you sign up, find me by using my email (lkoller@charter.net), or my user name which is CrossFitMom. It is the coolest iphone app because it can use a barcode scanner to pull up nutrition information, and it has so many meals at tons of restaurants! It makes tracking my nutrition SUPER easy and I love it!!!
The Ketogenic plan is going GREAT. I was getting worried because ever since that re-feed/carb-load day Saturday I haven’t seen any traces of Ketones on the Ketostix. However, I have been keeping my carbs under 20 grams a day, and I feel like I did when I was in Ketosis before (dry mouth quickly during wods, energetic almost like caffiene high, and thirsty). So, I’m pretty sure I’m in Ketosis and everything I have read says it is very normal for active people or people who are well hydrated to NOT show any Ketone traces on the Ketostix. Apparently it just means my urine is very diluted or that my body is actually using and burning up all the Ketones its creating.
Either way, I feel fantastic. My cravings for junk food (sugar) are gone. When I did have cravings during PMS week they were managable and I haven’t had them since. I feel satisfied during the day instead of feeling hungry and antsy about eating! My workouts are great, my strength is increasing, my cardio is improving. My energy levels are even throughout the day – so no more mid-day crashes where I feel like I need a nap instantly and immediately.
My weight went up a couple of pounds during PMS week, but its coming back off. I was playing with % of macronutrients and had increased fat and decreased protein down to about 25%. I upped protein again, and the weight seems to be starting to come back down. I don’t think I was getting enough protein for my activity level. I am keeping my carb intake around 5%, but shooting for less than 20 grams a day. I include all diet sodas as 1 carb even though they say zero. Nutrition labels are allowed to say zero even if there is “0.999″ grams, so I figure its a safer bet to just count 1 anyway.
I’m looking forward to when I know my foods well enough that I can just “know” what to eat and not eat without counting so strictly. But, for now I don’t mind it, especially since I have that new iphone application. I’m no longer thinking of ketogenic in terms of “how long”. I’m looking at is as “forever”. At some point, probably later this month, I want to play with carb-up/re-feed days, but I didn’t enjoy that Saturday so I will at least go two weeks before trying it again. Next time I won’t be taking in as many carbs and will probably only do it for half of a day instead of a full day. At the end of October I also plan to start playing with increasing my carbs a few grams at a time to start finding my maintenance threshhold. I figure that for as long as I was abusing my body with all that sugar, it can’t hurt to give it a nice long break to readjust and get it back on track.
Especially as long as I keep feeling great. Its a work in progress. I’M a work in progress. The more I learn, the better I become. It is empowering to feel like you have some control over your health….knowing what makes you unhealthy or not, knowing what affects your insulin (and therefore your metabolism) or not, knowing you can let yourself put on some pounds because you know you can take them right off, knowing you can carve out an awesome body by the way you exercise it…..knowledge really IS power!
STRONG IS THE NEW SKINNY ladies!!!!
