Or - time flies when you are having the most fun ever! I've been part of the Fresh Meat 12 week programme for 10 weeks now and we've gone through:
- falls
- stops
- pack work
- core
- endurance
- speed
- whips
And yesterday we finally did hits! We all took our skates off, lined up and went down the line bashing each other. It was great! BUT I felt like I was holding back a little bit. It was the similar feeling that I used to get with kickboxing. Maybe I'm unsure, or just not competitive but I find it hard to give it 100%. Also, I'm probably the biggest lass there and I didn't want to hurt anyone. This is not the attitude needed for roller derby!
Kickboxing did fully prepare me for hits though. Being shoulder barged (in shoes at least) is nothing compared to holding a pad for a side kick from a man with something to prove. When we did that you'd have to plant your feet wide, brace yourself and try not to show fear. Oh and one or two people would also stand behind you to catch you. In derby there are no people to catch you, and you have wheels strapped to your feet. So actually, maybe it is harder but it is also 10,000,000 times more fun.
SO the Fresh Meat is going well but in other news I am not feeling good. I have allergies to food and/or pollen for the first time. I am feeling a little out of control around food and sugar is becoming an issue. I am sure I will drone about this many more times but basically I have become less and less able to use willpower to go low carb. I have been low, ill and down. I remembered about 3 years ago I read The Diet Cure by Juila Ross, which uses supplementation to deal with food addiction and low mood. I am eagerly awaiting my copy and hoping I can finally deal with my food demons once and for all.
Showing posts with label Primal Eating. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Primal Eating. Show all posts
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Monday, 14 February 2011
Just a primal girl, living in a heavily non-primal world
Sorry for all that breathless roller derby hysteria. Back to the issue at hand (at least briefly);
After the Year of Hell that was 2010 I decide to cut the bullshit and eat super clean all of January. I took up the gauntlet throw down by the fine people at Whole 30 Being me, I made it to day 26 and then went on a ruly epic pizza and beer bender with the Mr. Before that point however, I felt amazing. I lost 11lbs in the first two weeks. My skin was perfect.
Having fluffed it entirely I need to get back on the primal horse (did horses exist in primordal times (if that is the right phrase, god do some research already why don't I?), or should I say primal bison or similar?). Sorry I went all double brackets there.
Ihave a difficult week but am planning to get back on track asap. I don't think I'll be Whole 30 though, because I started to miss butter so much that I thought about sleeping with it under my pillow. But I have learnt not to rely on cream and cheese and crappy shop-bought mayo and will continue to be mindful of these things.
Meanwhile I have been doing weights vaguely consistently. Following the recommendations of the lovely Charlotte at The Great Fitness Experiment I have been following The Female Body Breakthrough by Rachel Cosgrove. See her results summary: at The Great Fitness Experiment
I actually quite love weights. Lifting a big old (well relatively big) chunk of metal makes me feel like a badass! For someone who looks like a primary school teacher (thanks for that quote Spaced) it is a good feeling.
After the Year of Hell that was 2010 I decide to cut the bullshit and eat super clean all of January. I took up the gauntlet throw down by the fine people at Whole 30 Being me, I made it to day 26 and then went on a ruly epic pizza and beer bender with the Mr. Before that point however, I felt amazing. I lost 11lbs in the first two weeks. My skin was perfect.
Having fluffed it entirely I need to get back on the primal horse (did horses exist in primordal times (if that is the right phrase, god do some research already why don't I?), or should I say primal bison or similar?). Sorry I went all double brackets there.
Ihave a difficult week but am planning to get back on track asap. I don't think I'll be Whole 30 though, because I started to miss butter so much that I thought about sleeping with it under my pillow. But I have learnt not to rely on cream and cheese and crappy shop-bought mayo and will continue to be mindful of these things.
Meanwhile I have been doing weights vaguely consistently. Following the recommendations of the lovely Charlotte at The Great Fitness Experiment I have been following The Female Body Breakthrough by Rachel Cosgrove. See her results summary: at The Great Fitness Experiment
I actually quite love weights. Lifting a big old (well relatively big) chunk of metal makes me feel like a badass! For someone who looks like a primary school teacher (thanks for that quote Spaced) it is a good feeling.
Saturday, 27 March 2010
McDonalds 2009 A Fine Vintage
In the Guardian Guide section today there was a link listed to a story about a woman who left a McDonald's Happy Meal out on a shelf for a year.
Clicking on it I'd thought it would be gross, but it looks practically the same. Worth a look. You've got to wonder what food that doesn't rot would do to your body.
Since doing Atkins, and then even more with Primal, so much more of my food has been in the fridge. I think that freshness and the amount of time something takes to go bad must be a factor related to health. My fridge is crammed with vegetables, salad leaves and hard fats, whereas the cupboard has just nuts, seeds, eggs and spices. (And my husband's carbs, but I ignore them!)
With Primal as opposed to Atkins, one of the best things is that I can have a fruit bowl with actual fruit in!NB Atkins does have a berries, and then a fruit rung, but I could never quite get there. With Primal Blueprint, fruit is on the menu from the start. Yay!
Clicking on it I'd thought it would be gross, but it looks practically the same. Worth a look. You've got to wonder what food that doesn't rot would do to your body.
Since doing Atkins, and then even more with Primal, so much more of my food has been in the fridge. I think that freshness and the amount of time something takes to go bad must be a factor related to health. My fridge is crammed with vegetables, salad leaves and hard fats, whereas the cupboard has just nuts, seeds, eggs and spices. (And my husband's carbs, but I ignore them!)
With Primal as opposed to Atkins, one of the best things is that I can have a fruit bowl with actual fruit in!NB Atkins does have a berries, and then a fruit rung, but I could never quite get there. With Primal Blueprint, fruit is on the menu from the start. Yay!
Friday, 26 February 2010
Day 1: Let's Primal
I final made a leap into the past today and went primal! Woooo! Feeling very excited about it right now.
I was wondering about when to start and how best to fit it into my insane schedule for the next month, but at the same time I was fed up feeling rubbish and lethargic and blah so I got up and did it.
When I say I just did it I don't mean I am totally primal now. There is a lot more to it than just food, but that is where I am starting.
Today's menu:
Breakfast - 3 egg omelette cooked in 1/2 tbsp coconut oil, with 1/2 avocado. 2 oz berries after.
Lunch - 1.5 cups of romaine lettuce, 1 whole yellow pepper, 1 cup raw spinach, 1 cup rocket. Tuna (from a can, though in future will be shopping for fresh when I can afford it). With homemade dressing (2 tbsp olive oil, 1 of red wine vinegar, dried basil and 1 crushed clove garlic)
Dinner - 1 organic chicken breast, 1 cup asparagus, 1 cup courgette.
Snack - 1 oz hazelnuts
Drinks - loads of water and 1 plain white tea
Fitday thinks this is 1,498 clas, 55% fat, 12% carbs and 33% protein. This is less fat than I am used to with Atkins but also less calories.
This is dairy free - I'd normally get more calories from cheese and cream and mayo. But I want to try this mostly dairy free for now, because with Atkins I couldn't get my net carbs above 30g and wonder if dairy is the reason.
But my net carbs from this = 26g so I could be heading for ketosis, which is not what I want. Maybe I should add an apple....
Still lots to learn, but feeling positive!
I was wondering about when to start and how best to fit it into my insane schedule for the next month, but at the same time I was fed up feeling rubbish and lethargic and blah so I got up and did it.
When I say I just did it I don't mean I am totally primal now. There is a lot more to it than just food, but that is where I am starting.
Today's menu:
Breakfast - 3 egg omelette cooked in 1/2 tbsp coconut oil, with 1/2 avocado. 2 oz berries after.
Lunch - 1.5 cups of romaine lettuce, 1 whole yellow pepper, 1 cup raw spinach, 1 cup rocket. Tuna (from a can, though in future will be shopping for fresh when I can afford it). With homemade dressing (2 tbsp olive oil, 1 of red wine vinegar, dried basil and 1 crushed clove garlic)
Dinner - 1 organic chicken breast, 1 cup asparagus, 1 cup courgette.
Snack - 1 oz hazelnuts
Drinks - loads of water and 1 plain white tea
Fitday thinks this is 1,498 clas, 55% fat, 12% carbs and 33% protein. This is less fat than I am used to with Atkins but also less calories.
This is dairy free - I'd normally get more calories from cheese and cream and mayo. But I want to try this mostly dairy free for now, because with Atkins I couldn't get my net carbs above 30g and wonder if dairy is the reason.
But my net carbs from this = 26g so I could be heading for ketosis, which is not what I want. Maybe I should add an apple....
Still lots to learn, but feeling positive!
Saturday, 20 February 2010
Overly optimistic first post!
Hello and welcome! I realise I am probably saying this to precisely zero readers right now because this is, for the time being, an entirely secretive squirrel blog.
So, what the heck is primal ninja all about? Let me explain about my self, my weight and exercise battles and the purpose of this here blog.
Primal is the diet/approach to life (not a fan of the 'd' word, but it is hard to get out of this mindset) that I will be trying out and discussing in this blog. Why on earth I am doing this crazy plan rather than just 'eating less calories' or 'watching my portions' (as advised by my Mum and most 'experts' 10 zillion times), is explained below.
Ninja relates to the fact that my exercise of choice is American Kickboxing, and I kinda liked the way 'ninja' juxtaposed nicely with 'primal'. NB I don't claim to be an actual ninja, so please don't comment saying if I'm a ninja then so is your Grandma etc, or that kickboxing doesn't = ninjahood. I KNOW that, and I know martial artists can be very pissy about their method and how much better it is than your's an all that - I just like the sound of the name and it is in recognition of the fact that I want to be a hell of a lot fitter and more impressive. I have a purple belt in American Kickboxing. and am working on blue.
About Me
As I said I am a 28 year old female, entirely new to blogging. I am a research student and work part time in the voluntary sector. I LOVE to read about exercise, nutrition and all that jazz. I am also into fitness (though running makes me actually cry). I love fiction, films and cooking. I am into current affairs and campaigning around human rights, more of that later I'm sure. I have a soft spot for Murder She Wrote like you wouldn't believe, no more of that later, I promise. I will happily watch any show about weight loss or fashion and I am partial to dressing a bit retro. I love the idea of meditation, but somehow am always too busy to do it.
This is not one of those blogs where I weigh a whole load and readers will be amazed by my losing like half my body weight - though there are a number of really great blogs out there that are like that and hopefully when I have a vague clue how blogging works I will link to some of them.
Ok, so weight issues: ten years ago I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism. I was 18, just started uni and in a new relationship and I gained 3 stone pretty darn quick. Surprisingly, this was not brilliant for my confidence or self-esteem. When I eventually began to feel better I felt like I had emerged from a cloud of blah and was amazed I had looked and acted like such a big slob to be honest. I was amazed to look back and think 'woah, dude, I was that me who went to seminars in dressed like that?!' I struggled to function well for a while - I aged overnight, my skin was dry, my clothes didn't fit, I didn't notice. I barely did any work for uni. I took up karate and weezed my way through each class and kind of half-passed my FIRST belt! The instructor was kind to me, and very encouraging, but I couldn't figure out why - he was treating me like some enduring lardo - but I wasn't that big, was I? Well, yeah I was kind big. Not huge, but not happy either. I got up to around 15 and a half stone (217lbs, 98kgs). I am 5ft 7in.
Luckily the relationship continued (I am now married to the same great guy, Mr Primal Ninja, who will probably feature here with vomit-inducing regularity because as someone far more famous and skinnier than me once said, he is my rock, but I think she was actually referring to someone else). Also the uni course went ok once I was treated and I went on to be in uni for the next squillion years and to make a great set of awesome friends who were as into sitting around drinking tea and pretending to be at uni in the 19th century as I was.
I should break up this stream of consciousness. I'll put my expansive diet history in a whole new post.
If you've read this far thanks so much!
So, what the heck is primal ninja all about? Let me explain about my self, my weight and exercise battles and the purpose of this here blog.
Primal is the diet/approach to life (not a fan of the 'd' word, but it is hard to get out of this mindset) that I will be trying out and discussing in this blog. Why on earth I am doing this crazy plan rather than just 'eating less calories' or 'watching my portions' (as advised by my Mum and most 'experts' 10 zillion times), is explained below.
Ninja relates to the fact that my exercise of choice is American Kickboxing, and I kinda liked the way 'ninja' juxtaposed nicely with 'primal'. NB I don't claim to be an actual ninja, so please don't comment saying if I'm a ninja then so is your Grandma etc, or that kickboxing doesn't = ninjahood. I KNOW that, and I know martial artists can be very pissy about their method and how much better it is than your's an all that - I just like the sound of the name and it is in recognition of the fact that I want to be a hell of a lot fitter and more impressive. I have a purple belt in American Kickboxing. and am working on blue.
About Me
As I said I am a 28 year old female, entirely new to blogging. I am a research student and work part time in the voluntary sector. I LOVE to read about exercise, nutrition and all that jazz. I am also into fitness (though running makes me actually cry). I love fiction, films and cooking. I am into current affairs and campaigning around human rights, more of that later I'm sure. I have a soft spot for Murder She Wrote like you wouldn't believe, no more of that later, I promise. I will happily watch any show about weight loss or fashion and I am partial to dressing a bit retro. I love the idea of meditation, but somehow am always too busy to do it.
This is not one of those blogs where I weigh a whole load and readers will be amazed by my losing like half my body weight - though there are a number of really great blogs out there that are like that and hopefully when I have a vague clue how blogging works I will link to some of them.
Ok, so weight issues: ten years ago I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism. I was 18, just started uni and in a new relationship and I gained 3 stone pretty darn quick. Surprisingly, this was not brilliant for my confidence or self-esteem. When I eventually began to feel better I felt like I had emerged from a cloud of blah and was amazed I had looked and acted like such a big slob to be honest. I was amazed to look back and think 'woah, dude, I was that me who went to seminars in dressed like that?!' I struggled to function well for a while - I aged overnight, my skin was dry, my clothes didn't fit, I didn't notice. I barely did any work for uni. I took up karate and weezed my way through each class and kind of half-passed my FIRST belt! The instructor was kind to me, and very encouraging, but I couldn't figure out why - he was treating me like some enduring lardo - but I wasn't that big, was I? Well, yeah I was kind big. Not huge, but not happy either. I got up to around 15 and a half stone (217lbs, 98kgs). I am 5ft 7in.
Luckily the relationship continued (I am now married to the same great guy, Mr Primal Ninja, who will probably feature here with vomit-inducing regularity because as someone far more famous and skinnier than me once said, he is my rock, but I think she was actually referring to someone else). Also the uni course went ok once I was treated and I went on to be in uni for the next squillion years and to make a great set of awesome friends who were as into sitting around drinking tea and pretending to be at uni in the 19th century as I was.
I should break up this stream of consciousness. I'll put my expansive diet history in a whole new post.
If you've read this far thanks so much!
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