Over Eating or Under Eating

So WOD today was an AMRAP of 4 lunges 6 jumping jacks and 8 hand release push ups for 8 mins then we did a 400m run 20 squats with the kettle bell (I am drawing a blank on what it was called now :P) 10 burpees and a 200m medicine ball run. I messed up the last run and went further then I had to so my time was longer then it could have been but oh well.

By the end of class I was glad to be done and then I gave Jamie my food journal for the past three days. I had though I had been over eating along with eating a lot of crap that I really didn't need to and shouldn't be. Well I found out with the kids I am actually under eating surprise but I can't lose weight that way either because my body just stores everything because it never knows when it will get fed again, funny that this actually makes sense. So all the nice toned muscles I have been working on for the past month are only going to last so long if I keep eating how I am.

So I am going to work on making sure that I eat when the kids are eating even if it means one of them has to wait for juice or seconds. Either way next week Jamie is going to give me some ideas of what I can do to one make sure I am eating and two start eating better I am not quite ready to go completely Palo yet but I think a few changes here and there to start it and by the end of the year I might have us converted over. Now for the long weekend so no class sunday or monday for me but maybe saturday depending on how I am feeling, 5 classes in one week has been a challenge but I have really enjoyed it.

The Beginning

 

   So I have recently started Cross-Fit I have found it both a challenge and interesting. The WOD are not routine so it is always something new and different so no getting board. Since having Willow I have been going a bit stir crazy in the house with nothing to do for me. I have heard about Cross-Fit for Chris cousins and someone I had done theatre with in Grande Prairie. They all seem to have found a community and wow do they get results.
  I have been going to class 2 or three days a week depending on the kids schedules, since Carstens preschool ended last week I have gone everyday this week. I am really enjoying that it is constantly changing and I am realizing that I can do things I would have thought prior I wouldn't have been able to. I come home after class sore but in a good way and the kids love going to the gym with mom, (except when they don't.)
   I have been really lucky with the fact that I can bring all three kids with me and everyone is really good about them being there. It helps that it has a kids room for the kids to play in. I was told the other day that well I was doing planks Carsten was copying me to the exact movements I was doing. I thought it was really cute to hear I wish I had a picture though. Part of the reason I started Cross-Fit was to get myself healthy and then show my kids that they need to live a healthy active lifestyle. The last reason I started was to get out of my head which is now something I hear every class. "Stop thinking about it and just do it."
   Now I have something that is a very good stress relief and doesn't allow me to think about anything other then the movements I am doing at that time. I have to say that although it is a challenge (every class) I am really loving the fact that I can come in dead last time wise and still know I did my best because I am really not ready to compete with everyone else, not to say I don't want to. I know at this point I need to focus getting my positions right and not competing so hard with the clock that I lose the proper posture.
  So here is to a healthy new lifestyle and getting myself into the shape I want to be. I am going to take measurements as well as weight to see the changes.