Cruising Along

I cannot believe it is already January 11th! I feel like so many people set big goals for the New Year (myself included!) but it is tricky to stick with them.

Katie and I went cross country skiing! 

I have been doing pretty well at my goals. Last week I worked out six days, only drank h2o & La Croix, and I attempted the elimination diet.

Protein balls:
1T water, 1C oatmeal, 1/2C peanut butter, 1 mashed banana,
 2T chia seeds, 1T honey, 2T chocolate chips, 1 scoop of vanilla protein powder.
Mix all ingredients, roll into balls and place on cookie sheets,  store in the fridge.

Key word attempted. So, I was all ready and prepared for the first few days. It was not terrible, but I was sort of crabby. Then one day I wanted to eat the whole kitchen so I decided to make protein balls. These held me over and were only “clean” ingredients (I hate the word clean). BUT then I realized after I ate about five there were oats and chocolate chips that probably had dairy. Ahh shoot!

The rest of the week I ate well (no dairy/gluten/followed elimination diet) and then I had cauliflower pizza. I had to run to the bathroom so quick, I thought I was not going to make it. The next day I STILL had a bathroom problem. Annoying. I honestly felt leaner and more flat, but I still LOVE cheese.

A beautiful snowy morning on the Gateway! 

So today? Well I decided to introduce gluten back and dairy. SLOWLY. And only high quality foods/organic. I am only going to have dairy once a day to try and decrease bloat. I obviously did not do the whole two weeks of the diet, which I am honestly OK with. I want to give it a go when school is done, I have a month “off” from parties, I am not going up to see Kyle, etc. You can call it an excuse, but I am still happy with trying it and realizing now is not the right time for it.

We found that running on snow is just as tricky as running on sand!