30 Days with Inside Tracker

Here it is day 30! Woo hoo!! For the past 30 days I've eaten from my recommended list from Inside Tracker!

I do feel I have a little bit more energy. I still take naps a few times a week. But I really like taking naps:) I no longer crave sugar like I once did. I LOVE sweets!! LOVE LOVE LOVE them all!! I've noticed that I don't put as much maple syrup in my oatmeal. As far as running goes, it's about the same. I really need to push myself harder during runs.

On day 1 I weighed myself. My weight is usually all over the place so I'm not sure how accurate this is, BUT according to the scale in the last 30 days I lost 4.7 lbs. I did not count calories. I ate when I was hungry. Somedays I was starving, some days not so much. I did not start doing this with the mind set of losing weight. However, I'm hoping that by continuing eating the way I am, my weight won't fluctuate so much in the future.

Will I continue to stick to my recommended food list? YES! However, once in awhile I will stray from it. My husbands bday is this week and I plan on have a little bit of ice cream and probably a Jimmy Johns sandwich or two :) I will continue to have fish several times a week. And of course I'll be drinking red wine, because science said so!

I'm still planning on being retested in September! Can't wait to see my results!

Have you had your blood tested with Inside Tracker?

Mid Week Update

Here it is day 25 of eating from the recommended list from Inside Tracker.

Sunday June 21 I flew to Pennsylvania. I flew all the way up there to run hills to help me get prepared for the Bird-in-Hand half. I was up at 2:45AM, Sunday morning. I fly space available and the flights on Sunday didn't look good. I was trying to catch a 5:15am flight to Atlanta, so up at the wee early morning for me. Ended up making it to PA at noon. Grabbed a Starbucks and drove to my Aunt and Uncle's house. Later that afternoon I went for a 3 mile run. Oh did I mention the hill part. Yes I ran hills. OUCH! I finally went to bed at just before 10:00pm.

The first hill

Random selfie

Before I went to bed, I thought how did I stay up that long with a tough run? Well it's got to be because I'm finally eating what I'm suppose to. I'd of been sleeping by 5:00pm a couple of months ago.

Monday I woke up before 5:00am. We took the train to DC. When we arrived at Union Station I got another Starbucks and off to explore the city we went. We walked for hours. My iPhone health app said 10 miles. I have no idea if it's accurate or not, but my legs felt like it was 10 miles. Back to bed around 10:00pm.

DC

Tuesday up at 6:00am, ran 4.7 hilly miles. Went and visited my grandfather and ran a few errands. Around 4:00pm I was finally tired. BUT considering how much that run wore me out and I hadn't slept as much as I normally do, I was due to get tired. I ended up taking ENERGYbits and felt better. That afternoon we had a hell of a storm. One of my Aunt and Uncle's neighbor/friend ended up with a tree in his roof. From around 5:30pm-9:30pm we were busy running around (literally sometimes I was running from house to house cause it was quicker) making sure people were ok and seeing the damage.

Before round two of hills

Had to stop and take a selfie with my friends!

Wednesday back up at 3:00am to catch an early flight. Had to run, again literally, run in Atlanta. I'm good at running in a dress and flats all while dragging my roller ;) When I got home I did take an hour and a half nap. I went to bed at 7:00pm, because we had to get up again at 3:30am so my husband could catch a flight to commute to work. When I got home I took an hour nap.

Now to the entire reason why I decided to write all of this. Normally after a trip, especially one that wore me out, I would have never left the couch today. I have so far today (it's 3:30 as I am typing this) have done five loads of laundry, worked out, cleaned my kitchen and cleaned some of my house. I'm not tired and I plan to get back to cleaning after I'm done posting this.

The best part of traveling to your families house, is that you don't have to eat out. I stuck to my "diet" the ENTIRE time. Even in DC. We were at a restaurant and I brought all of my own food and ate only it! I didn't splurge and eat sugar. That's a big thing for me.

I'll let you know how the rest of week went!!

Week 3

Week 3 I started feeling like I had more energy. I have stuck to eating from my recommended list. 

Friday I woke up and went for a run on the beach. After that I did a leg and arm workout. Had to run errands for several hours. Normally I would have required a nap. This day I didn't. I was shocked. I did several things around the house and still went to bed at my normal time. 

Week four will be interesting because I'm traveling. 

Stay tuned!!

Week two!!

Week 2 of eating with the recommendations of Inside Tracker is done!

I stuck to my recommended food list this week. After one week of little to no sugar, the cravings have subsided. YEA!!!

I did make pizza! I made whole wheat crust, homemade pizza sauce and just used mozzarella cheese and basil as toppings! I'll post the recipe soon.

I've been eating a lot more fish and chicken. Since June 1 I've only had red meat once. Lots of fruit and vegetables too.

As far as energy goes, I feel better than last week! That's a bonus.

I'll keep you posted about week 3.

Week One DONE!

Week one is complete with eating the recommended foods from Inside Tracker! It was a little tough giving up ice cream and chips! In the last week I've eaten more fish and vegetables than I have in a very long time. I'm not going to list everything I ate, because that would get boring.

I'd love to tell you after one week of eating better I now have tons of energy. Well I don't. I wasn't expecting to be fixed after one week, especially considering this was my menstrual cycle week. I know TMI. Sorry. I'm hoping this was one of the last months that I'll have to spend most of the week in bed. If you read below the description of what happens when you have low DHEAS, that's me. Weakness, fatigue etc. That's all me!

The foods that are recommended to raise my DHEAS are mostly foods that I'm allergic to. Almonds, peanuts, walnuts, you get the picture. I'm focusing on the foods I can eat, salmon and avocados. My mom found a place that sells wild Alaska salmon. They get it from Doug's Wild Salmon. I've also added resistance training three days a week. 

Today I'm going to try to make homemade pizza. Whole wheat bread was recommended a few times. I'm going to attempt to make my own crust, with homemade pizza sauce. If it's successful, I'll share the recipe. If it's a bust, I'll try again until I get it right :) 

I'm hoping that this week I do have a little more energy to run more. I ran three times last week and it was slow going. 

Stay tuned for next weeks update :)

National Running Day!

Happy National Running Day!!

Day One

Day 1(June 1st) of eating with the recommendations of Inside Tracker has arrived!

I decided to get on the scale this morning. Well...... it wasn't pretty, but being sick for 2 weeks and not running for three weeks will do that to you.

I started out eating a banana just like I do every morning. Later, I had eggs with spinach, hint of onion powder and nutmeg, half an avocado, tomato and sweet potatoes with maple syrup, cinnamon and onions.

After breakfast, I worked out. I walked two miles on the treadmill with an incline and then worked on my core and lifted weights. 

Pre workout I took my 30 ENERGYbits and then I had four drops of peppermint and two drops of lemon essential oils. The peppermint has been helping with my chest congestion.

Post workout I drank Iskiate. 

For lunch I had leftovers. It was sautéed veggies with chicken over bulgur. I added the side of tomato because it's one food that keeps popping up on my food list. Not pictured is one block of 85% dark chocolate. 

Dinner was mahimahi with pineapple and black bean salsa, with green beans, tomato and acorn squash. Dessert was a mango (not pictured) one square of chocolate with 3 oz of red wine.

 So far (one day) I've stuck to eating exactly the way Inside Tracker suggests.