It's Friday!!

Friday and leg day!  Two great combo's!  Finally the gym was open after a power outage.  I got there at 5am and did a light run of about 2 miles.  Then it was over to the weights.

Here is my breakdown:

20 minute run
3 sets of single leg gluten bridges
5 sets deadlifts
4 sets of curtsy squats
5 sets of weighted hip thrusts
3 sets of calf raises
3 set of stability ball roll outs
3 set of stability ball bridges

If I had more time I would have done 10 more minutes of cardio.  So I came home and showered and made breakfast, which included some Bubbies Sauerkraut.  Bacon, chicken, brussels all cooked in coconut oil.  I also made a cinnamon orange coconut milk latte.  I haven't had a chai all week and I think that is what I will get tomorrow morning after the farmers market in Royal Oak.

I have to say that I have been feeling really good after breakfast but I know I need to drastically increase my vegetable consumption.  This morning after I got to work I wasn't feeling well at all.  It definitely felt like a flare.  I was super sleepy and just feeling run down.  Could have been the fermented sauerkraut or possible the almond butter or cassava pancakes from the night before.  So needless to say that work today was a major struggle, but I made it!

I got home for lunch a little later than what I would have liked but it was enough time to throw this salad together.  

Mixed field greens with olives, green beans, grilled cauliflower, canadian bacon and the last of the avocado crema.  Looks boring but was really good and filling.  I was able to get back to work and have some tea and finish out my day.

D comes home in the morning so I wanted to make sure I had his staples.  I ran to the store after work  to pick everything up.  I arrived home to 3 hungry furry creatures.  Nostrand kitty meowed like crazy, while the dogs danced around as I prepared their dinner.  I think the dogs liked my homemade coconut milk yogurt.  So good, but I rushed the process and it didn't firm up like it should have.  Lesson learned!

I grabbed the leftover pancakes from the refrigerator and Peanut Butter & Co's Pumpkin Spice PB.  I figured if I get a headache tonight it would be the pancakes, even though they are AIP compliant and I know the peanut butter isn't but I'm pretty sure it was the almond butter.  I also ate a couple bites of chicken that I didn't picture.

I also received my supplements today.  I'm getting excited for Monday and the beginning of more healing!  

It's quite a bit, but really not too bad.  The odd thing will be the shake 3 times per day.  I've never been a huge fan, I always feel hungry right after.  I need to chew my food for it to count.  Of course I can just incorporate that with my normal meals or have it as a snack which I try not to do as much.  Some of these are once a day and some two times.

I emailed my doc and he wants me to wait and start these until after our Skype appointment Monday morning.  He wants to go over everything including the eating plan.  So I guess I have an extra day to prepare!

Tomorrow I will get up early and it the market.  By the time I get home D should be home.  We have a house showing (never mentioned that we are selling our house!).  Will head to the gym later followed by dinner out.  Sunday is run day and prepping for the week.

Happy Friday!

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I'm not counting this as day 1 until after my appointment.

My Sunday never ended.... Wha...?? I mean I didn't sleep, ok well technically after last night's post I fell asleep on the couch.  BIG MISTAKE!  I woke up before 10 with the Oscar's still on and ate a carob coconut buttercup I made (it's AIP!).  I tried to go to bed but after 30 minutes of laying there I decided to get up.  At 2:30 I started to watch Cake Boss, I love anything cake or cupcake decorating that was followed by DC Cupcakes.  Naturally I got hungry!  I made some banana bread, again AIP approved from Eat Heal Thrive, last week and I under-baked it.  I have no issues with this.  I cut it up and wrapped each piece and placed it n the freezer.  Zapped in the microwave and YUM.

The gym doesn't open till 5am, so I will be going as soon as it opens.  Probably not the best to go on no sleep, but I'm stubborn and I do what I'm scheduled to do, no matter how I feel.  Today is cardio and chest legs.  Lifting makes me happy for sure.  3 minutes till the gym opens, I feel a little hungry.  I mean really a small piece of banana bread doesn't always cut it.

I went to the gym and it was busy of course.  But not crazy like in the evening or on the weekend, which I can't stand!  I got my workout in.

This was my second exercise - leg press.  I started out with 40 lb. dumbbell squats, followed by leg press.  I only did 90 lbs. since I haven't slept.  After that was back extensions, walking lunges with 25 lbs. in each hand and calf raises.

This is the last of my ABS Protein Pancake mix (SO GOOD!), not AIP, nor is the almond butter.  MMMmmm.... just a tasty breakfast!

I had my first appointment at lunch with my functional medicine doctor via Skype from the comfort of my dining room.  Very cool that this can be done!  So many issues I have, it's pretty depressing!  A few interesting sensitivities that I have with food: eggs, dairy, salmon, banana, broccoli and a few others.  Those were my staples!  Not so much the salmon but everything else.  I'm still surprised that strawberries and walnuts weren't on the list since I have a similar reaction t them like the bananas.  See that breakfast picture... those banana's won't be happening.  This make me sad but now I know why I have the tongue sensitivity.  I am happy that a treatment plan is coming and I will have my autoimmune diseases under control and can feel "normal".

Now I am home again from work, starving and eating dinner which is super tasty!  I snack on a bar and liverwurst at lunch, no not together.  Like an hour apart, that's just gross!

My "dessert" was 2 homemade carob coconut butter cups.  Just super easy to make since all you have to do is melt coconut oil and stir in carob for the shell and melt the coconut butter till you can pour it. Layer, freeze and done!

Now to hope I sleep tonight, which I think I will.  So happy for it too!  Till tomorrow and maybe something fun for dinner....calzone? hhhmmmmmm........