What I Learned From A Family of Cavemen

(I wrote and published this over on Mom's Gone Strong blog originally but decided I wanted to post it here as well! Sorry if you end up seeing it twice!)

 I took my daughter to see the new movie The Croods recently.

 We sat down with our large thing of movie theater popcorn (you got to let loose sometimes, right?!) and settled in to enjoy what we thought would be a decent enough movie and were surprised with a movie that was both funny and heartwarming and will probably go down as one of my all time favorite animated films.

Goals Goals Goals

I have failed, yet again, to make it through Whole30. Mostly because I am sick (ear infection and pretty terrible sinus infection) and when I am sick I crave carbs and junk food. After all I am human.

The worst part of being this sick is my inability to exercise. I'm benched for the foreseeable future. I see lots of walking and simple yard work over the next week. Nothing strenuous for a bit!

I've been thinking a lot about why I can't seem to get with-and stick with- the figurative program lately. I want to be more active, eat more strictly and get my ass in bikini shape but my heart just hasn't been in it.

My best guess has to do with goals. I am seriously lacking any concrete long term goal and it is keeping me from progressing how I would like. So, starting Monday (assuming I have beat this bug by then) I will be starting my next 6 week challenge and start working towards some goals....that I will come up with a share in the near future ;-)

Whole3ish!

I am testing out the Blogger app, forgive me if it ends up wonky!

Since MGS is up and running I have been focusing more on that then on I have over here on my personal blog, mostly because I just don't have that many ideas for blogging! However, I have been thinking that since this is my personal blog, why not make it more...well...personal?

So, here we are! I feel like I have a story to tell so I will share it here now. Starting with my most recent adventure.

Easter is one of my favorite holidays. I love all the little traditions that it involves, including of course jelly beans and chocolate eggs. After a weekend of indulging on lots of tasty sweets I think its time for another go at the Whole30.

The Whole30 is a 30 day elimination diet. Basically you follow a strict dairy, grain and legume free diet which helps stop cravings and helps narrow down any foods that you may have an intolerance or allergy to. For me, it helps with the cravings quite a bit and helps me feel better overall after an etxended period of non-paleo diet choices.

The combination of post-easter bloating, the fact that its a new week, a new month and a whole new (hopefully warmer) season has me itching for another go. Here's the thing, I usually only stick it put for 3 weeks. So this time I'm calling it my Whole21 ;)

Day 1: Today went well. Eating salted cucumbers instead of smores was rather painful though!