Lettuce Burger With Feta Cheese & Pesto

Did it today! Delicious, nutritious, simple and so light on the stomach. 

Been doing CrossFit since 2009 and I still catch myself in “bad” eating weeks.

My dad started trying to avoid ice cream by making a healthy home made dessert and he told me it has no sugar in it. It was delicious. We were eating them like there was no tomorrow. I sometimes film myself while working out.

 Also, I sleep in a very small room, and I sleep alone most of the times. So my gasses were nobody problem but my own.

 Maybe thats why first thing I noticed was in a max set of string ring dips on tape my body looked kind of full, like not at all fat, but given that I had been training while fasted, that full kind of look seemed strange. Then and only then I reflected on the gasses. 

Besides being funny and smelly, they were, too, kind of strange. So that night I went to check the healthy home made dessert recipe in detail. 

Aha! refined sugars everywhere. No, he was not adding sugar, but oh boy I had found the silent assasin of my tinder profile and the creator of questionable body odor.  I politely told my dad I would have to decline from now on his polite request and since then I have been doing mixed fruits with cream and maybe some nuts as a last snack before coking to my small room. Guess what.

 This healthy cooking and no sneaky parts, and no bloating whatsovever. 

This realization made me question myself. I had been rationalizing not doing the full CrossFit nutrition prescription since last tried it ... (shame on me) in 2011 (quality and quantity: the dreaded “paleo-zone” or “Rx +” prescription; or simply the CF prescription for optimal fitness) with several explanations. 

It was too hard. 

It was self evident that if fasting and training was not giving me more results in body composition, adding food to the equation could not improve it. And lots of procrastination because while not doing it myself I was a strong proponent to athletes everywhere, to try it.

 So inside I knew this was the qay to go. 

Recently with all this “bad eating week” and the coming back to the path of the force, I determined that I would do one week of quality focus and then focused 3 weeks of quantity. 

And I would cycle this 3-1 following coaches advice to check back on quality after a couple of weeks. And to go back to fasting which felt amazingly convenient, but my stamina and strength are not where I would want them to be. 

This sort of confession/ acknowledgement/testimonial is my why of thanking CrossFit and giving back some thoughts to the community that decided that easy will no longer suffice.