#MealPlan

As promised — My Whole30 Meal Plan for the week!

With links to recipes!!

(Really, it’s more of a sketch though)

For more of an idea of how I structure my meals, you can look

at this Meal Planning Template from the Whole9

Breakfasts:

Eggs

Sliced Turkey Breast

Fruit

Leftover Veggies

Carrots

Cucumbers

Sweet Potatoes

Lunches:

Leftovers from Dinner

Tuna with Paleo Mayo (This is more for Ryan, I don’t love tuna)

Grilled Chicken

Avocado

Leftover Veggies

Pre-Workout Snacks & Post Workout Meals:

Almond Butter

Grilled Chicken

Coffee with Coconut Milk

Sweet Potatoes

Carrots

Sliced Turkey Breasts

Dinners:

Taco Bowls

(Put all your favorite taco fixing in a bowl. Simple enough! I used ground beef, lettuce, fajita veggies, tomato, avocado, lime, and cilantro)

Baked Fish Sticks, Salad, Sweet Potato, Broccoli

(the above recipe is for fried — I bake mine at 450 for about 10 mins and they turn out divine!!)

Lemon Chicken, Green Beans, Carrots

(Remember to use clarified butter or ghee to make this recipe whole30 compliant)

Spicy Italian Sausage with Sauteed Summer Veggies (Squash, Zucchini, Onion, Asparagus…)

(Just chop all the veggies up, sauté them in some olive oil and lemon pepper, slices the sausage and heat in a skillet, then throw it all together and devour it! Easy, delicious.)

Salmon, Spinach & Walnut Salad, Cucumbers

Thai Chicken, Cauliflower Fried Rice

(I’ve never tried the fried rice! I keep wanting to …. and then I don’t. I’ve heard it’s delicious though!!)

#Whole30

Today marks the beginning of the first day of my SECOND Whole30!

I’m feeling very excited to use these next 30 days to,

“regain awareness, reset those good habits, and remind [myself] how amazing clean eating makes [me] look, feel, and live!”

one of my favorite quotes from Dallas and Melissa Hartwig’s book, It Starts with Food.

My first Whole30 was last September, and ever since then I have been eating and living a Paleo/Primal lifestyle. Of course, after the Whole30 was over, I began to reintroduce some foods that I had not been eating. I began eating some “less healthy” options, and incorporating more treats into my diet. This is to be expected — it’s the Whole30, not the Whole365. Through this past year, I have had a fairly balance approach towards paleo eating — I’ve learned to listen to my body and to know when to make exceptions, when to stick with it, when to say no even when I want to say yes, and when to say yes without guilt. My goal is to simply make healthy, conscious decisions, and to know what I am eating and how it will affect my body.

This being said, I’ve decided to make the Whole30 one of my yearly traditions. My birthday is in October, and then comes the myriad of food holidays at the end of October, November, and December. I thought that a Whole30 in September would be a great way to enter the holiday season with a healthy attitude towards food and a revived commitment to eat clean!

To learn more about the Whole30, read this article and explore around a little on Melissa and Dallas’ website!

And if you haven’t read It Starts with Food, I highly recommend it!

Follow my Whole30 in pictures: #TarasWhole30

Check back soon for my first week meal plan!

#Breakthrough

Do you ever have those weeks where all of the sudden, it just seems like everything comes together and you are exponentially better in some way than you were the week before?

This week was one of those weeks for me!

I hit a personal record weight by lifting 125 pounds in a back squat.

Back squats look like this:

I also hit a record on a 500 meter run (500 meters is just a little over a quarter mile).

Something new — I can officially do handstand push ups (HSPUs) against the wall! Of everything that I’ve done this week, this is what I am most impressed with! The Workout of the Day (WOD) included 75 HSPUs and I did them ALL going about half-way down each time. It was great!!

And finally, I’ve increased my weight overall with all the lifts we’ve done this week!

This week was a reminder to me — we have our good days and our bad days, but when we stick with it, progress in inevitable. Keep pushing. Don’t stop. You will get better. You will reach your goals. And you will have your own breakthrough weeks.

What are your breakthrough stories? How do you stay motivated?

#LoveCrossfit

#Intro

Live. Eat. Love.

What more do you need in life?

Live Healthy.

What does it mean to live healthy? Truly healthy — physically, spiritually, emotionally? What about relationships; what do healthy relationships look like? What does it mean to have a healthy balance? How do we take time for ourselves?

Well, hell if I know! But I love trying new things.

Learning new ways to live a holistically healthy life is important to me, and I will talk about it in this blog.

Eat Clean.

I believe in real food.

Just over a year ago, I was introduced to the Paleo way of eating and Mark Sisson’s Primal Blueprint.

It change my life.

From Mark’s Daily Apple

Eating clean means eating natural, unprocessed, non-modernized foods.

I Usually Eat: I Usually Don’t Eat:

Meat Refined Sugar

Fowl Grains

Fish Legumes

Eggs Processed Foods

Veggies

Fruit

Nuts and Berries

Tubers

Healthy Fats

Some of my favorite resources are:

The Beginner’s Guide to Paleo

Eating clean is delicious, and I will talk about it in this blog.

Love Crossfit.

Crossfit is ….

Some olympic lifting, some powerlifting, some bodyweight movements, some cardio, some running, some sprinting, some interval training, some circuit training, and some electric sliding.

Yes, sometimes.

Crossfit is my favorite way to be active, and I will talk about it in this blog.

So, how do you #Live #Eat #Love?