- ½ of a HUGE steak
- 1 orangeLunch
This, plus a chicken breast…
I totally forgot that I actually needed groceries yesterday in my hangover state and realized I had no organic romaine lettuce to use for my salad, so I decided to use just veggies I had, plus some fresh herbs. I used:- organic cherry tomatoes
- part of an organic cucumber
- some red onion
- fresh chives
- fresh dill
- sea salt and fresh ground pepperI only had small Tupperware this morning so I used one for my chicken and one for my “salad”. Snack
- protein shake, vanilla.
Dinner
- white wine and garlic musselsSo I have NEVER cooked mussels before. I’ve actually only ever ate 1 mussel before tonight. I had downloaded an app on my iPad of hundreds of paleo recipes, and one that stood out to me that I wanted to try was the White Wine and Garlic Muscles. I’ve had this in my head for about a week now and there just wasn’t a good night for me to cook them, until tonight! I stopped at Loblaws on my way home, picked up all the ingredients including 2 lbs of fresh mussels. That was a bit of a weird experience. The man who was working at the seafood counter told me not to close the top of the bag he put the muscles in or else it would cut off their air supplies. Interesting. I had no idea that the mussels I see every day in the grocery store are actually alive. Somewhat creepy, but I just accepted it and walked around with a bag of mussels like they were my pet. Literally. I’m sure the people in the elevator of my building thought I was crazy. They were speaking in some form of Chinese however, so if they were actually talking about me, I had no idea.So I came home, cleaned the whole kitchen so I could work my magic in a clean and clear space and got to work. I rinsed off the mussels, got the sauce ready, cooked the muscles until they opened, and TAA DAA…. This is what they looked like:
Once the muscles were all open and cooked, I added 1/3 of a cup of fresh herbs, I used purple basil and chives, and added butter (not so paleo… but I swear that’s the only thing, besides the wine. Damn… why is this recipe in a paleo app?!) and oh my goodness, it was like heaven in a shell. They were so unbelievable, I can’t believe I haven’t taken advantage to how cheap mussels are until now. 2 lbs were $5. The recipe calls for 4lbs, but I had never made them before and didn’t want to waste a ton if I didn’t like them. When I made them, I learned quickly that 4lbs wouldn’t even fit in my big pot, so 2lbs for us it is!Onto the workout aspect of my day. All along I knew I wanted to do another crossfit workout, and I downloaded an app that gives me most of the crossfit workouts so I can do some of them myself. Originally I had planned to do Angie. Angie is this:- 100 pull-ups
- 100 push-ups
- 100 sit-ups
- 100 squatsSo I had sent my friend Jason (the male crossfitter) a text and he recommended that I do Annie because we just did squats on Saturday, and Annie would be good to mix it up! I took his advice, and this is the workout:
50 reps, 40 reps, 30 reps, 20 reps, 10 reps
- double unders
- sit-upsI found myself a skipping rope, and went into the training room at my gym so I was all alone with Lenny Kravitz playing on the stereo. I remember doing double unders as a kid, it’s where you’re skipping and you whip the skipping rope under your feet twice in one jump, and let’s just say, I’m not as good at jumping rope as I was in the 6th grade. I got to doing 4 double unders in a row before stopping (the rope would hit my feet, or whip my arms, anything) one time in the entire workout. I definitely got better as the workout went on, but I still felt pathetic. The good news (sort of) is that 1. I had never done this workout before so it's an instant personal record, and 2. I did it in 21m47s! I have no idea what "good" is in terms of this workout, but yay me anyways!
Here’s proof that I whipped my arm a ton of times (aka did not complete a double under)…. It wasn’t fun, and some of these marks are still on my arm:
Please only look at my arm and not my disgusting chin shot
The first time I tried skipping, I had my weight on my right leg, the leg that has been hurting me for a while. It was so shocking that I made a conscious effort to put most of my weight on my left leg for the rest of the workout, but I could tell that my right leg was going work as well. Every time I went to do my sit-ups my shin would throb. It was actually enough for me to seek the advice of my friend, Dr. Takes. He’s the chiro/physio and works right in the club that I work at. I got him to look at my shin later today and I have posterior shin splints in one leg. It’s so painful, I can’t run and I can’t jump, which should come in nice and handy during beach volleyball tomorrow. Just kidding, I’ll probably be in a ton of pain. I guess that the muscles that are attached to the part of my bone that hurts have a really large insertion point, and part of it has come off the bone which is causing my pain. So he’s using ultra sound and ART (active reflex therapy) to help heal it. Such a pain in the @$$.On a positive note, I received my tax return today, and had enough to pay off my entire credit card! That was one of my new years resolutions if you've been following me for that long. I was so excited that I decided to reward myself with putting something else BACK onto my credit card. It's not bad, I promise. I ordered these Lululemon Wunder Under Crops:
Anyways folks, I hope you’re enjoying my blog. Please leave a comment for anything you like reading, anything you’d like to see more of, or even less of. I appreciate all of your feedback and will definitely take it to heart when writing for you!
I’m going to go enjoy my white wine (a bonus to look forward to when cooking with white wine – where will the rest go once you’re done using the ½ cup the recipe calls for? J), and hang out with C while we watch Dexter on Netflix. Have an amazing night!
Stay sweet.
xoxo
