I cheated on Paleo!

I have been CRAVING PIRATE BOOTY! It HAS to be that time of the month because I feel like a mad woman who needs her FIX and I will stop at nothing until I've been satiated! It's bananas!


Not only have I been craving Weston's snack food, but we ordered gluten free Thai Chicken pizza last night (yum!) and then I chose not to go to TLAC (train like a competitor) this morning. I feel a bit hypocritical at the moment... hah! Since so many people have been turning towards me for exercising tips and Paleo diet advice, that when/if I cheat... I feel like I'm letting them down!


I must say though, that I had a painful flare up in my right knee yesterday, and after hobbling along for the better part of the day... I decided that I would give my body a rest and skip TLAC. I also woke up feeling a bit under the weather this morning. I knew that pushing myself to go to TLAC and training hard would only exacerbate my cold coming on... sometimes we know our bodies best and it's imperative that we listen.


Since feeling like a failure and cheating on my Paleo friends (along with skipping TLAC), I've been kinda gloomy. It's nice to have family and friends (along with a conscious) to keep us in check and to hold ourselves accountable. However, we will make mistakes and there are times when doing the "right" thing is well...not the right thing. Like choosing NOT to go to TLAC this morning was probably the right thing to do for my body, but the wrong thing for my training. My lack of commitment to my trainer and the program was compromised. 


But this morning, when I pulled up the blinds in the living room and saw those 3 gorgeous Cherry Trees blooming delightfully, I couldn't help but smile and be happy. I plopped myself down on the couch, nursed Weston and just gazed out the window. It was simply serine. Sometimes the simple things in life are so easy to overlook and take for granted.


Appreciate today, and look forward to tomorrow...it's another day to prove to ourselves and to others what we are truly capable of. 


Spring is finally on the horizon... our cherry trees out front are blooming and we're in the beginning stages of re-designing our landscape. I love (most all) things domestic! It can be so overwhelming, but doing little sections at a time make it bearable.

Weston figured out how to climb up onto the window-seal... he fell and hit his chin, and pushed one of his little baby teeth forward. We moved the chairs into the office.

Nothing like Spring with a little touch of SNOW!

I picked a few blossoms off of our Cherry Tree in the front yard. They are my favorite!

Just love his blue eyes & long lashes. He's always looking out the window: watching people, cars, dogs walk by...

Grizzle found a new place to perch...

Big Kisses

All week long, Weston has been generously handing out kisses. His are the big, open-mouth, lean in, slobbery kind. 

I love them!

Weston went in for the kill here... BIG KISS FOR MOM <3 

Sister Friends!

This whole Day Light Savings thing has actually been a blessing... Weston started going to bed around 8pm, then 7:45pm and then each night it would creep up about 10-15 minutes. And before I knew it, he was tired and ready for sleep by 7:30pm. Since he was going to bed earlier, he'd be WIDE EYED and BUSHY TAILED by 6am. No thank you. I liked our original sleep sched: bed time for Weston at 8:30pm, wake up at 7:15-7:30am. But like I said, thanks to day light savings, it's like things are back to normal! Weston just fell asleep at 8:20pm, which would've been 7:20pm before day light savings, and now he wakes up around 7am again, versus that daunting hour of 6am. Eeek.


So now that my little guy is sound asleep, hopefully dreaming of boobies and milk, or as of late, his new favorite thing, aside from nursing, is his sippy cup full of coconut/almond milk and some protein powder. It's heaven sent. It's seriously a milestone for us! Weston never liked his sippy cups. He NEVER drank from a bottle as a baby...and now that he likes to carry his sippy cup and drink an entire bottle of milk from it throughout the day is unbelievably surreal. I just love it... he's making headway. Slowly but surely.


Today, my sister Rach and I had a play date with our old friend April. She isn't OLD, but we've known each other since we were little kids. We all grew up in Bellingham together, singing primary songs and having regular family play dates.. two big Mormon families with a lot of kids and lot of fun. She blogs a lot too, and just recently completed the 30 day Paleo challenge! Check out her Healthy Adventures blog here.


Here's the recap of our day via photographs! Enjoy:

Rachel, April & me... cheese!!

Weston, Kingston & Kai (Kendall was sleepin')

Weston was rolling around behind Kendall and thought it was so fun...he was cracking up.

Look at Kenny's sad face!
Too Cute.. cousin Weston accidentally swipped Kendall on the side of the face with his foot.

Yumm... Kendall's spit of drool :)

Trying to give the boys a hug...they're not really interested.

I love this one of Kendall & his Mommy <3 

Kendall's got his drum stick, watch out ya'll!

I told Rach her feet were filthy. She replied, "Hmm, must be from my kitchen floor." I just cracked up. It's like... um, duh! I love her. Sorry Rachel.. I had to post this pic. You're laughing in the background, too. I love it.

I spy Weston sneaking more snacks!

He was kind of terrified of the big blue ball...

Last activity of the day, I went to Karibou Salon in Fairhaven (Bellngham) and got my hair trimmed
THE END.

2nd Body Fat% test

Alrighty! I'm 8 weeks into my Train Like A Competitor program (which is 12 weeks long), and it's really given me a run for my money. 

Sometimes I'm truly unmotivated to go, and it's only 1 day a week! I don't know why, but when I have "time frame" commitments, like for example, if I am scheduled to be somewhere at 10am every Tuesday, even if it's for something really important to me, after about the second or third class... I struggle each time to attend. I feel tied down and I give myself anxiety over the commitment I've given myself. How silly does this sound? Even when Jason and I did our 8 week birthing class together, I would fight with myself about going to it every week. 

It's a bit baffling how and why I fight myself to continue the projects, programs or appointments I've made to better myself. 

Sometimes we really are our own worst enemy!

Ok, so let's get to the nuts and bolts. 

In TLAC, we got to do the 9 point skin caliper test again, to see what kind of progress we've made in the past 2 months. Click  here for a re-cap of the first skinfold test I did 8 weeks ago. 

Did I gain weight this time? Lose weight? Did I gain fat mass or lose fat mass? Did I lose lean body mass, or gain lean body mass? 

Depending on your goals, each of these questions will be different for each of us.

My goals were to:

1) Increase or gain lean body mass. 

2) For my weight to ideally, stay within plus or minus 5 lbs of 117, what I was before I started TLAC. 

I didn't really care if my fat mass decreased much, I was mostly pushing myself to INCREASE the muscle mass...but I definitely didn't want my fat mass to increase. Comprende?

Today 3/11/2012                    Vs.         8 Weeks Ago 1/22/2012

Body Fat: 11.7 %                                   BF: 15 %

Fat Mass: 14.04 lbs                                FM: 17.55 lbs

Lean Body Mass: 105.9 lbs                      LBM: 99.45 lbs

Weight: 120 lbs                                    Weight: 117 lbs

At first, I was a bit perplexed. Wait, what? I gained weight???

But this makes sense; look at my lean body mass: I have 6+ lbs of MORE lean body mass. Hell yeah! 

Lean body mass includes our muscles, bones, blood, organs etc... everything that isn't fat. This is a good number to have high, where as, we want to keep our FM number low. Fat is essential, don't get me wrong. WE HAVE TO HAVE FAT ON OUR BODY TO SURVIVE! But, too much is bad news bears... 

So, overall my body fat % decreased, while my FM decreased by 3 lbs and my LBM increased by 6 lbs, giving me a weight displacement of 3 pounds to account for. So guess what? I gained 3 lbs of weight! I went from 117 lbs to 120 lbs.

But that's ok... like I've been saying all this time: the scale is a very INEFFICIENT way to accurately account for your health. Take measurements of your body, get your BF% taken... go to the gym and sign up to have it taken! It's so simple, and it will help make sense of the numbers you see on the scale.

I'll get pictures up soon and compare my body before TLAC, during TLAC...and then post some pictures at the end of TLAC, as well.

Cheers ya'll.

Have a good night!

Vote Tomorrow!

Here is my life summed up in pictures, of the past few weeks:

Enjoy!

Flowers from my hubby.

Flowers I re-potted after they were left by the previous owners of our house.

My little man reading his flash cards.

Weston can climb up on the chair, onto the table...eek!

Not even sure how I did this, but I thought it was really pretty :)

I <3 baby toes

Weston holding Gma Holden's birthday balloon.

Vote Ron Paul 2012: tomorrow (March 3rd) is the Washington State Republican Caucus...do your homework: America's Troops support Ron Paul

I want this chair. Notice the Owls!?

Candle holder...love it.

Just came in the mail. I'm registered to vote in Skagit County, yay!

Our media room has turned into a jungle gym.

Even the entryway is decked out with toys...

What? Doesn't your living-room look like this?

I love him.