Every Day Jaimie

Journaling daily about my life as a mom, lawyer, wife, sometimes runner, lover of weight lifting/crossfit, and Hoosier.

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1.20.16

Woke up this morning to the husband exclaiming, “It’s 8:50 a.m.” This was a bit shocking to both of us because (a) the kids were still sleeping and (b) it was a Wednesday and he should have left already for work! Thankfully his work is pretty flexible so he got on a 9 a.m. conference call while I took M to daycare. 

My workout for the day was a run. Since I hadn’t run in over a week, this run felt pretty good. I did a 30 minute run with 3 minutes running + 2 minutes walking. It was one of my fastest on average runs so far. I suppose that’s good.

Whole30 eats today were the usual breakfast, leftovers for lunch, and crockpot pork tenderloin (just threw a tenderloin in the crockpot on low with some beef broth, garlic, onion, and cumin) with canned green beans on the side. This is what we call quick and easy Whole30.

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1.19.16

Unfortunately I woke up feeling even worse today than yesterday. I just have a head cold that is mostly in my nose and head. The headache is definitely the worst but the nose that is stuffed but won’t actually blow is pretty terrible too, especially at night.

No workout today as I just did not feel good.

For dinner, we had the morrocan stew from WellFed. The only substitutions I do on this are no olives and I cut the zucchini and carrots smaller. I also cook the veggies longer than the recipe says because neither I nor the husband like crunchy veggies in cooked food. 

Hopefully I’m feeling better tomorrow

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1.18.16

Husband had the day off but I had work to do so I woke up with the baby, took a work call, and let him sleep him. M even slept until 10.  The only crappy part of the morning was waking up with a cold. Blargh!

Around noon/1 I was able to get a workout in. I did 1 rep max of my push jerk (115# - only 10 off from my max pre-baby). Then I did four rounds of 5 burpees, 10 box jumps, 15 kettle bell swings and a 400 m run. I was SLLLLLLOW. I wish the running was making me faster but that’s just not happening yet.

After my workout we ran some errands and picked up some groceries so we could get back on our #NotWhole30 plan. For dinner we had Quick Curry from a Pampered Chef cookbook, which I modified by substituting arrowroot powder for cornstarch and used full fat coconut milk instead of lite. Had coconut rice on the side. It was pretty good.

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1.17.16

Today was literally spent in the car. Thankfully the kids were amazing. The baby slept the entire way (not kidding he might have had his eyes open for 10 minutes the whole 8+ hour drive) and the toddler was quite amused with Mickey on the DVD player (with wireless headphones #newminivanftw). Got home in time to watch the Broncos pull out the W and eat pizza #notwhole30.

Tomorrow marks the return to Whole30 (and hopefully my post about how we're planning to do it nowadays), working out in the morning (hopefully! Assuming the baby doesn't wake up 3 times tonight) and work (essentially from home for the next two weeks with 3 calls already scheduled for tomorrow).

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1.16.16

We decided to let M spend some time in the hotel pool today before we headed to my grandparents. She loves swimming so she enjoyed that. We got to my grandparents' house in time that the husband could watch most of the IU basketball game. Throughout the course of the day my aunts and uncles and a couple of cousins joined us. Nothing too exciting happened. Left around 6 after saying good bye to everyone and watched the Packers heartbreaking defeat. Tomorrow is a day of driving. Yuck.

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1.15.16

We spent the whole day with my grandparents at their apartment. My grandma was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer a few months ago so this trip's sole purpose was to spend time with her especially since she hadn't met H yet. We visited, played cards and enjoyed some brunch. For dinner we met my aunts and uncles (all but one set live close to my grandparents) for Friday fish fry. That was quite fun and the fish was pretty good and not at all Whole30 compliant. No workout or cooking again today!

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1.14.16

The kids slept until 9 am central time (10 am our time) so that was awesome. We got packed back up and hit the road for the rest of our trip. Made it to the hotel around 3: 30 and got M to take a brief nap since she hadn't slept all day.

For dinner we took my grandparents to a nice but overpriced restaurant. Thankfully M behaved wonderfully. Much better than she normally does at restaurants. She got quite a kick out of making my grandpa laugh which amused all of us.

No workout today and the whole30 train is completely derailed for the time being.

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1.13.16

Originally we had planned to leave for our trip tomorrow but yesterday we decided it'd be wise to leave tonight so we could break the 8 hour drive in two for the kids' sake. It helps that my sister gets a hotel discount at the chain she works at so we only had to pay $40 to stay at our sort of half way point. So today was all about packing. I managed to walk 8000 steps in my house just from packing. Turns out two kids including an infant require a lot of stuff.

I didn't get a workout in and I didn't cook so on those fronts the day was quite uneventful.

The drive went quite well and luckily the kids slept pretty good at the hotel. Glad we only had 5 more hours to do tomorrow instead of all 8-9.

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1.12.16

I took H for his two week check up last week and unfortunately the office was out of one of the vaccines. I decided to have all of them delayed until today so the morning involved the doctor's office and then a couple of errands. It was snowing quite a bit so I shortened the errand list after being out for a bit.

The workout for the day was a run. I looked at the CouchtoHalf plan and realized I could redo two weeks and still be on track. Since I haven't felt super great during my last few runs I thought this was a good idea. So today was 7 rounds of 2

minutes running + 2 minutes walking. Still didn't feel great but I got it done. Starting next week I'm going to be lifting 5-6 days a week including run days and I'm quite excited to get back into heavy weights. My crossfit comeback is going to be epic if I have any say in it.

For dinner I made the husband pina colada chicken from WellFed. Unfortunately he didn't care for it and said he'd rather I had made a chicken curry recipe I used to make quite often. Noted.

I didn't eat though because it was my monthly book club meeting. I did not comply with Whole30 but actually that's our plan. I'll explain in a separate post how the husband and I are going to be doing Whole30 from here on out. Nevertheless I had a lovely evening with my girlfriends and was glad I went (I almost

skipped because H was quite grouchy from his shots. Thankfully he mostly slept after I left and the husband managed just fine).

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1.11.16

So I'm a week behind. Awesome. Since I'm an hour into an 8+ hour drive home I might as well catch up!

So Monday started out with a brief work meeting at the house. Thankfully it involved a good friend of mine who entertained H while I did the work stuff. She hung out for a bit afterward.

The highlight of the day was a crossfit style workout I did. Unfortunately my notes on this are at home so I'll have to fill in the workout details later.

Eats for the day were all Whole30 compliant with dinner being Italian meatballs from WellFed. While the recipe is quite involved and lengthy the end result was super flavorful and lots of leftovers. The only downside was we ate quite late.

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1.10.16

M was excited when we woke up today to find 3+ inches of snow on the ground. She’s really only played in the snow once and it wasn’t much snow so she really wanted to get out there. I let the husband sleep in so as soon as he woke up we bundled up and headed outside (H was taking a nap so this was perfect timing). M stayed outside and played for over an hour! She loved it and never complained about being cold. I did not except her to like the snow that much!

I hit the grocery store up to stock us up through Wednesday (we’re going out of town Thursday - Sunday) and then it was treadmill time. Today was long run day with a 4 mile run at 2 minutes running + 2 minutes walking. This workout was a harder for some reason than it was last week, but you can’t win them all!

Then I go to enjoy a Packer win!! The Packers are my second favorite team and my family’s favorite team so I was quite excited to see them win. 

Whole30 eats for the day were sweet potatoes + fried egg, an apple with sunflower butter (because breakfast was early), and new york strip plus green beans. You can’t go wrong with steak in my eyes, particularly one that’s cooked to a nice medium rare!

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1.9.16

Saturday was a super laid back day. We ate leftovers and my parents came over to hang out with us and the kids. My mom, sister, and I took a trip to a local craft store where I got some fabric for a few projects I want to workout. We watched some football (I don’t think Cincinnati should be allowed to host a playoff game with that behavior from their fans) and ate leftovers. 

There was an exciting point this morning though when I weighed in. I’m doing a weight loss challenge on facebook that goes from January 4 to the end of April. It requires a weekly weigh in. I lost 6.8 pounds! I was stoked. I know weighing yourself is frowned upon during Whole30 but you only get 3 passes on the weighing (one of which I’ll take next week when are out of town) so I decided I was going to do it anyway. You can’t beat losing 1 pound a day! I know it won’t last but it’s great motivation to keep it going.

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1.8.16

Well shit, I got 3 days behind! So the most exciting part of Friday was I did a crossfit style workout that I based on my old box’s programming. I did the following:

5 minute jogging warm-up

Strength: Front Squat

-4 minute warm up

-6x1 (last weight was 115# - which is 100# less than when I was previously doing crossfit; this was by no means meant to be a one rep max but I have a long way to go to get back to my pre-pregnancy lifts)

Then I did 2 WODs:

1. 10 minutes EMOM; minute 1 - 2 power cleans; minute 2 - 20 double unders

The best part of this workout was that I still have double unders. DUs were something I worked really hard on last year at Crossfit. I would stay after class to just do those. And so I was really pleased this stuck. Now I just have to keep doing them.

2. 3 rounds: 10 box jumps (16″), 10 push-ups (knees), and 400 meter run. The runs felt harder than they should. This took me 16:49 - I did the same workout in 14:59 except it was 20 box jumps back in August of 2014, so I have a ways to go to get back to that!)

Overall I loved this workout. I am planning to join a box by July if not sooner, but in the meantime I’m hoping to do these type of home workouts 2-3 times per week.

That evening I made Whole30 chicken wings and ranch dressing with roasted brussel sprouts on the side (which we love). 

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1.7.16

In an attempt not to get behind again, I’m writing this one the same day :) I always struggle with verb tense in my entries since I’m writing them a day (or 2, sigh) later, so maybe this will be easier.

H’s 2 month appointment was this morning and our cleaning lady was here (#firstworldproblem), so the morning was a bit rushed while I got myself and the baby ready and tried to stay out of her way. The appointment went well and H is growing like a weed (over 13 pounds!). Now if only he’d sleep through the night; last night was particularly rough with 1:45 a.m., 3 a.m., 5:45 a.m., 7 a.m. wake ups. Luckily, only 2 involved feedings so the others were just trudging in to stick a paci in.

We ran some errands after the appointment (to keep ourselves out of the house) and I was once again reminded that Whole30 is expensive! (and again reminded so this evening when I had to throw away $15 in pork because it had gone bad).

When we got home I managed to get my 2nd run in of the week. The run was interrupted when I had to go get H out of bed. Honestly this was a hard run, it was the same workout as Tuesday (6 x 3 min running, 2 min walking) but I seemed more winded/out of shape today than Tuesday. I honestly contemplated giving up my plan to run the half in May, but in the 9 hours since then that attitude has dissipated. Long run on Saturday or Sunday will be more telling of what I can really do. I should cut myself some slack and remember that technically I’ve only been cleared to exercise for 2 weeks (even though I’ve been working out for 4+). AND I have to remember it’s going to be hard. I’m not going to accomplish anything if I have fear of the hard stuff. Besides I’ve done a half before and the worst thing that could happen is I walk and there’s no shame in walking. At least it’s moving me forward.

Whole30 eats: B - you know, sweet potato and fried eggs (trying something different tomorrow I think!); L - leftover Cincinnati Chili; D - Taj Mahal Chicken Curry from WellFed (I might just cook through the dinner section of this cookbook) - this link is for leftover turkey curry but the book called for chicken thighs so that’s what i used. The husband generally doesn’t like thighs but he told me they were okay in stuff (i.e., not plain); I happen to love them because they stay so much more moist than breasts. 

Wish me luck - I’m thinking of working out in the EARLY a.m. tomorrow!

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1.6.16

The H man was super clingy today so not a lot was accomplished. I did have a major work success that I spent some of my spare time on so that made me pretty happy. I put my work out clothes on at 1 p.m. but because of the clingy-ness I never got a chance to actually get a workout in. Prior to baby #2 I was routinely working out at 6 a.m. (doing Crossfit at my old box), and, while the idea of waking up at 6 a.m. these days is a bit crazy (since I’m still waking up at least once if not twice before 6 a.m. with the baby), it may be the only way to guarantee I get a chance to workout (the after kiddo-bedtime is a no go for a couple of reasons: (1) I don’t prefer it as I’m generally worn out (2) that’s husband and me time (3) I’ve read that it is not good for sleeping).

By the way, I also probably wasn’t in a huge hurry to workout because I still haven’t figured out a plan for non-running days. 

Whole30 eats for the day: B - sweet potato and fried egg (obviously!); L - leftover corn beef and cabbage; D - Cincinnati chili from WellFed2. I was really skeptical of this chili because I don’t generally like Skyline chili and I didn’t think the zoodles would work, but this was really good all around (and spoiler: when I eat it tomorrow for leftovers without zoodles, I was wishing I had some!)

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1.5.16

(totally posted this to my old tumblr yesterday...)

The theme of today was go, go, go!

The first productive thing I did was run a couple of errands to exchange some Christmas gifts. You would think that it would not be difficult to exchange an item for a different size that is only available online (but was purchased in store) but surprisingly this was a PITA at both stores. Ran to the grocery after where I saw corn beef on sale (predictably) so picked that up for dinner.

After the errands, the husband let me know (not with the best timing) that his office was having an open house from 3-5 to show off their new work space so that put my afternoon on quite a time crunch.

Once I got the baby down for a nap, I hit the treadmill for my first run involving 3 minutes of running each interval (for the last two weeks it’s been 2 minutes running/2 minutes walking); today’s workout was 3 minutes running/2 minutes walking for 30 minutes. It was harder than I’d like to admit but I got it done! After the run I rushed around to get myself ready and get the right stuff for the kids (I swear having two kids has increased the amount of things I need to take each trip threefold somehow instead of the expected twofold). Got M from day care and hit the road to the husband’s work. I didn’t mind the drive as it was another chance to roll in the sweet minivan (seriously it’s super sweet, I think I’m going to take to calling it the Batmobile as it is black and does a shit ton of cool stuff - keep in mind this is coming from someone who’s last car was 7+ years old and who thought the coolest feature on that car was the fact that I could PLUG my phone into a cable jack to play the audio through the car. New car has bluetooth and a bajillion other way cooler features).

The open house was pretty cool. M charmed everyone as she does and ate all of the fruit and vegetables (I’m not kidding, this kid LOVES raw vegetables, particularly when served in a tray of veggies. She literally had celery breath when we left. Now put a cooked carrot in front of her and she won’t touch it with a ten foot pole). H met a couple of our friends and proceeded to spit up all over my friend A and me. He was pretty good otherwise though because he was being held which he LOVES to do these dates.

Whole30 eats for the day: the favorite/only breakfast of sweet potatoes and fried eggs; lunch was rotisserie chicken and carrots; dinner was the corned beef and cabbage which was simple and delicious (I had a bit of a panic attack at the husband’s office because his friend/boss said “yuck” when I mentioned we were having that for dinner, but it turned out he was wrong).

I did not realize how boring daily blogging could be so pardon me while I figure out how to spice this up. Part of the reason I really want to start a daily habit is I’d like to have something to look back on, so this is really more for me than anyone else. So I guess what I’m saying is sorry I’m not sorry if you stumble upon this old blog and are bored ;)

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1.4.16

So after saying I only have 24 hours to write my daily post I go and totally miss that boat. Frankly I just forgot until this morning.

Getting back to our “schedule” on Monday was hard after the holidays, but with only four weeks left of maternity leave I really wanted to try to savor the time that I do have left.

However, I started the morning working so I guess I didn’t savor much of the last month :)

I got a workout in in the afternoon, which was back to New Rules of Lifting. I still hate it so I vow that was the last time I’m going to do it. I’m either going to find some boxes that post their workouts, raid my old Crossfit journal for some workouts, or find something online. 

Whole30 is still going strong. We ate the norm for breakfast, I had leftover stew for lunch, and we had an african stew from Well Fed 2 for dinner. The stew was great but didn’t leave anything for leftovers. So next time I’ll double the recipe.