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paleo recipes

I'm not in on the challenge, but here are a few Paleo staples from my kitchen:

awesome breakfast

I am writing this post really just to gloat.  I was VERY pleased with my breakfast this morning: 2 eggs + salsa, 1 strip bacon, and a whole avocado.  Mmmmm.

sinister-looking home gym

This is the newest addition to the home gym: a rope!!  We bought it at the hardware store to do rope pull ups.  If you look closely, you can see the Concept 2 rower behind the weight rack on the carpet.  Not pictured: barbell, weight, PVC pipes for warm-up and form work, 2 weight benches, another pull-up bar (buy-in to kitchen with pull-ups).

salmon to go

I've had a busy few days, so I'm playing a little catch-up now.  Eating fish challenge: this will be easy!  On Friday I work a night shift at the hospital as a student nurse, so I packed a salad in Tupperware along with one of those vacuum-packs of wild Alaska salmon.  Simple, delicious, a little more $$ than tuna but a nice change.

pregame

Every CrossFit workout is a competition: against the clock, against your own personal best.  Not always, but sometimes, it's also a competition against gym-mates, and it pushes me to have either someone to chase or someone at my heels.  I think that's why Crossfit pulled me in last Spring, and why it remains so engaging and intense eight months later.

hungry

The past couple days I've come home from school with a crazy, ravenous appetite. I go from snack to snack totally unsatisfied. Maybe it's part stress-eating, maybe hormonal, or maybe also that I need more of something in my diet.

Turkey-Pumpkin Chili

I am a cheapskate, and I heat my house in winter by making chili.  This is what I'm cooking right now:

Ingredients:

2 Tbsp. olive oil

1 or 1.5 lbs turkey, ground

small onion, diced

clove or two of garlic, diced

half/whole bell pepper, diced

big can of diced tomatoes

can of pumpkin (pie filling aisle of supermarket)

i'm ba-ack!

Hey SW.  I just signed up for the New Year's challenge, so I'm back after a bit of a hiatus.  Last year at this time, I was sitting around feeling crappy after laparascopic surgery, on doctor's orders not to exercise.  Right now, I'm about as fit as I've ever been, the year has been a healthy and victorious one (started nursing school!

to build a sweatlodge

This post is dedicated to msh, bikram-less in the Maine wilds. I haven't posted in ages, but don't worry, I am working out and working out hard.  Here are some totally legit, tried-and-true instructions for building a sweat lodge.  Seriously, I did this at camp in the nineties.

Need: hacksaw/hatchet, shovel, twine, match or flint, blankets or tarps, container of water

moving

Saturday: I won't count moving with a friend as a workout, though there was mucho lifting and upstairs-carrying involved. Instead, will just log the food of the day.

morning
coffee + milk
rice krispies + milk

noon
half chicken cutlet

afternoon
coffee + milk
tuna sandwich from panera bread

evening
half a chicken breast
1/2 pepper, sauteed in oil
1 cup spinach, sauteed in oil