Stop Snacking on CRAP!

I have been busting my ass at CrossFit, going to class 4 times a week, and adding in a mobility session each week.  I am finally getting used to my extra class each week.  The first few weeks of 4 classes a week my body was achy and tired.  Don’t get me wrong, I’m still sore and tired, but it’s all good!

My main meals have been pretty good lately…especially this week. 100% clean and mostly paleo…and totally delicious.  So, that’s good too.

But…I can’t seem to stop snacking this week.  A giant bag of chocolate covered almonds showed up in the office kitchen and I have eaten WAY too many of them.  I nibbled on cheese bread while making dinner last night and tonight.  I’ve had more than one Nutella wrap when I walk in the door after work.  And I practically ate a whole bag of sweet potato chips while watching Grey’s tonight.

I need to stop snacking…or at least stop snacking on CRAP.  I’m working so hard in the gym, and then ruining all my hard work by eating too much crap.  This has to stop!

Hopefully I find some will-power soon.

Have you got any tips for how to control bad snacking?

Feeling Human Again

So, I think I have finally turned the corner and am feeling like my old self again.

After a very rough night not getting much sleep – I just couldn’t sleep, plus my son was having a bad night too – I stayed home from work, my son stayed home from school, and we both slept for most of the morning.  When I finally woke up, I actually felt better. Thank God…I’m not sure how much more of that I could take.

My lunch was not the healthiest – toasted whole wheat bagel with Nutella – but it sure was good!  And I didn’t feel sick after eating it!  I made up for it at dinner with a Clean Eating Buffalo Chicken Salad – click here for the recipe.  This got me a bit caught up with my Elf For Health challenges, as I ate the rainbow, got in some good fibre with all the veggies, and made the dressing for the salad.  It was delicious and got a thumbs up from my little guy.

I also completed my “share a healthy snack” challenge.  It was supposed to be shared with a co-worker, but since I didn’t go to work today, instead, I convinced hubby to have a healthy snack with me tonight while we watched TV. 

 
Although I’m feeling better, I didn’t push it with a workout tonight.  I think I will jump back on the workout wagon on Friday.  If I can squeeze a workout in tomorrow, I will, but not sure I will have time.  We’ve got a “Holiday Happening” down at my son’s school, so we’ll be out tomorrow night and getting home late.  I’m hoping I’m back in time to go to my hockey game at 9:30, but I’m not holding my breath.

Oh well…I’m not going to stress about that.  I’m just happy I can eat again!

What’s your favourite healthy snack?

My Run and My Snacks…the snacks were more fun!

Today was a “long run” day, with 4.5 miles.  Every second of this run sucked HUGE.  I don’t know what it was, but I never got into a groove and struggled to complete every step, walking way too much.  I was never so happy to be done a run and never so discouraged during a run…ever!  I’m hoping that my rest day tomorrow will shake whatever bad mojo was working on my run today.  I sure hope so, because if I have another run like I did today, I’m not going to be pleased.

So, after shaking off a terrible run, I got on with the rest of my day, which included watching my youngest play hockey, enjoying some time outside on the patio visiting with friends, doing some gardening and just relaxing.

Today also included making some Eat Clean snacks.  I made two snacks from the April/May Clean Eating magazine:  Spicy Kale Chips (pg 62) and Crunchy Garam Masala Chickpeas (pg 66).  Both were very easy to make.

The chickpeas were the easier of the two recipes.  It was basically open 2 cans of chick peas, rinse, spread on a baking sheet, drizzle with olive oil and toss to coat, then bake for 45 minutes at 400 degrees, remove from oven and sprinkle with salt and garam masala spice.  They are delicious hot right out of the oven and at room temperature.  These will be a great snack for me tomorrow at work.

Chick peas are fresh from the oven

All ready to take to work for tomorrow’s snack!

Kale is prepped and ready to go into the oven.

Finished product…they aren’t too bad, but might take some getting used to!

The kale chips were a bit more work.  This was the first time that I have used kale.  I found a YouTube video about how to clean and prep kale since I wasn’t sure what parts of it are good to eat.  Turns out you need to remove the whole centre rib, not just the stalks.  This wasn’t hard, but did take a little bit of time to complete. Once I had my kale cleaned and torn into roughly 2 inch square pieces I was good to go with the official recipe.  Arrange the kale on baking sheets, drizzle with olive oil and toss to coat.  Then sprinkle with cayenne pepper and again toss to coat.  Bake in a 375 degree oven for 10-15 minutes. Allow to cool and enjoy.  The kale chips met with mixed reviews at my house.  The kids did not like them at all, I might learn to like them!

So, week 2 of the training program is complete.  I managed all but one of my runs, started down the eat clean route, and realized that I need to put some serious attention to the mental side of my running.  Somehow I’ve got to make my mind think I like running and it isn’t the worst part of my day.  Any suggestions?  I could use all the help that I can get.