Wednesday
Feb292012
Testimonial: Kymberly’s Story
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 at 8:00AM I don't normally post links to testimonials but I found this girl's compelling.
CFTally: Nutrition Program
Nutrition is the key foundation of fitness. Without proper nutrition you will blunt the effects of CrossFit, and with it you will accelerate your response to CrossFit.
Proper nutrition is eating what you need to sustain your life. It includes the macro-nutrients; carbohydrates, fats and proteins, and micro-nutrients like vitamins and minerals.
Reasons why we don't eat as we should (Not all inclusive)
- If you are eating with family and friends then you probably feel peer pressure.
- If you have issues with your weight then you probably have bad eating habits.
- If you are hungry (and we all get hungry) then you are open to suggestion. Advertising works!
If you eat too much it's called gluttony and too little is called starvation. Anybody you know starving?
CFTally: Proper Nutrition
Knowing what is proper nutrition for you is about self-discovery on one hand and understanding human nutrition on the other. That is we are all the same in most ways but in some ways quite different.
While we are all on slightly different paths we are all headed to the same end goal: eating what we need to support our body in the proper quantity while emphasizing the highest quality we can manage.
Ideally, you would eat intuitively both for quantity and quality.
Most people find this exceedingly difficult. Our goal is to get you on the road to achieving this goal, but we recognized that many will never achieve it. That's fine as it is an idealist goal, but striving for it is useful as it gives focus and sharpens our sense of responsibility.
Getting from where you are to where you want to go!
- Zone Diet with food you already eat:
- Using the zone diet means you will get the quantity of food correct.
- Eating foods you already eat makes it more likely you will comply.
- Zone Diet with Paleo Foods
- The Paleo diet is a pre-agriculture diet that emphasizes foods which the human body is most adapted.
- You begin replacing the lowest quality foods you have been eating with higher quality paleo foods.
- Paleo Diet
- Once you have lived with the zone proportions for an extended time then you will have a solid (and hopefully intuitive) understanding of the quantity of food you require. With this understanding you can then eat the paleo diet without fear of under or overeating.
- The goal is intuitively eating paleo foods in the proper quantity.
CF Tally: Nutrition Seminar
At CF Tally, we plan your workout and monitor your performance, both of which enable you to improve your fitness.
But we cannot do this for your diet. We intend this seminar to provide you with the information and skills necessary for you to do the same with your diet.
What you will learn?
- An explanation of how to implement the Zone Diet.
- Your Zone block prescription.
- Help planning zone meals and snacks.
- Help constructing a grocery shopping list for your zone meals and snacks.
- An explanation of the Paleo diet.
Seminar Details
- Fee: $15 for members, $20 for non-members. Payable in advance.
- When: Sunday, February 5th at 1:00 PM
- Email to sign-up. Space is limited.
Nutrition Challenge!
For this challenge we've decided to set up a way for you to compete since we know you all respond to competition! Here's how it will work:
There will be two teams, one paleo and one following the zone diet. Each team will have have a facebook group to post pictures, chat and motivate each other, but wait! We will also give points out for various activities. These points will be your "compliance" measure and be the determining factor on which team wins bragging rights.
Entries in Personal Experience (5)
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 at 8:00AM Monday
Nov012010
Southern...Pentecostal...Funeral...FOOD.
Monday, November 1, 2010 at 10:36PM So, I can’t possibly explain everything that I ate from Tuesday-Sunday last week, so I will leave you with three words: Southern. Pentecostal. Funeral. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE fried chicken, macaroni and cheese, and corn casserole. It’s called comfort food. We all have our own version of it. The important thing is that we don’t feel the need to comfort ourselves 365 days a year :-).
Luckily, I realize exactly how food affects me. If I eat terribly, it’s like a landslide…I continue to do it and ultimately I end up pretty unhappy. I have no energy, which means that I work out less and of course, since I’m working out less, I have even less energy (pretty straightforward really). This, in turn, makes it much more difficult to concentrate on the bazillion things that I, as a graduate student, must read and write on a daily basis. Then I’m even more stressed because I inevitably decide to take a nap instead of being productive…and then I have to eat on the go because I’m rushed. Ahhh…the repetitive vicious cycle.
That said, I decided that on Monday (today), no matter how I was feeling, I had to break the cycle and get happy again. So…the day started off poorly (lack of food and my return to work), but it ended on a hopeful note.
For breakfast:
Espresso and almond milk (nothing to eat, yikes!)
For lunch:
Three scrambled eggs, a little sprinkle of feta cheese. One plum. 3 handfuls of sea salt and pepper cashews (this addiction is DANGEROUS). More espresso, almond milk.
For dinner:
YUMMY TACO SALAD!!! (Hamburger meat, lettuce, olives, tomato, feta, and salsa for dressing!) (Here, I should mention that I have the help of two of my amazing friends that live in front of me, so my dinners are usually prepared for me and we eat together most weeknights…it makes Paleo a lot easier when you have people who prepare with and for you!)
The one on the right is mine (without all of the cheese) but the one on the left just shows the variation that is possible and it's still relatively healthy. There is lettuce under there, but the meat is a NECESSITY for energy!!
Lots of water/PowerZero throughout the day. Okay…and as a reward…four pieces of candy corn. I’m pretty much over it…I didn’t feel the need to eat more. AND…I was able to ease back into working out today at CFT!!
tagged Paleo Diet, Personal Experience
Paleo Diet, Personal Experience Monday
Oct252010
P.S.
Monday, October 25, 2010 at 11:59PM 
I did Paleo consistently from March-July and then started going on vacations and not having a set schedule, so, while I've tried to make most of my meals Paleo, it hasn't exactly happened that way. That said, once you do Paleo (or just clean up your diet in general), you realize your potential quality of life, energy, and athletic performance are so much higher when you fuel your body with the right food. So, the purpose of me blogging is to hopefully get back to that point!
And...just because I have a sweet tooth, the first recipe I'd like to share comes from a website called chocolatecoveredkatie.com. They're called fudge babies and they are the first thing I made when I felt myself getting weak and really just wanted something sweet! Even if you don't like dates (I'm not a huge fan), these are delish!
tagged Paleo Diet, Personal Experience
Paleo Diet, Personal Experience Monday
Oct252010
Fooooooood :-)
Monday, October 25, 2010 at 11:47PM 
Here's what I had today:
Breakfast:
One boiled egg, 3 espresso shots with a few splashes of almond milk
Lunch (Not exactly ideal, but I was in the library!):
Two boiled eggs (no yolk) A few handfuls of a cranberry,almond,sunflower seed trail mix
Dinner:
The Ale House for a birthday dinner!Three chips/dip, Big salad with steak, crumbled bleu cheese, walnuts, grapes, and gorgonzola vinaigrette. One Miller Lite (WHAT, it was a birthday dinner! ;-) )
TONS of water all day long!
It wasn't really a GREAT day as far as eating goes...I normally try to eat more for lunch because by the time I get to dinner, I'm starving (and I was!) and then I want to eat everything in sight. It was just one of those days, but hey, at least I didn't have any candy corn!!!!!
tagged Paleo Diet, Personal Experience
Paleo Diet, Personal Experience Monday
Oct252010
Skipper Goes Paleo
Monday, October 25, 2010 at 2:50PM What I have learned... As some of you may already know…I made a decision to try the Paleo diet a week ago. So far, it hasn’t been as hard as I thought it would be.
One thing I have learned though is that it is so important to plan out your meals. When you are on a busy schedule, it is very easy to slip back into the same old routine of eating bad, by grabbing something quick and fast to eat for breakfast or lunch.
So after the first couple of days I made a list of what I planned on eating for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. After a little bit of research, I found out that I could have a lot of the foods I enjoyed…
So I thought I would share some of the recipes that I plan on trying soon. I will let you know how it goes….
Here are three I'll be trying:
Roast Grilled Chicken Mediterranean
By the way...for those of you that don’t know me…I am a meat and potatoes kind of girl. I like it basic, but hearty. So if you’re looking for recipes with lots of ingredients (10 or more), you’re reading the wrong blog.
tagged Paleo Diet, Personal Experience
Paleo Diet, Personal Experience 