Oooooosh!

I know, I know, it's been aaaaages. I am a bad person.  However I have been a busy bee trying to shed some lard!  I started wholefood30 having been inspired by the lovely Stubz who has lost about 6 stone doing wholefood for various periods of time - he's just started 120 days which is amazing.  Wholefood 30 is strict paleo; no grains, no dairy, no legumes, no soy, no sugar, no alcohol.   I know- NO ALCOHOL!  Oh my goodness it was hard, but I was horrified about how huge I looked in photographs from a weekend in Snowdon so I kept at it...AND I lost a stone (with a little help from a colonic!)
However after my first, ever festival and Cowes Week and no Crossfit for 3 weeks I have piled on a bit (not sure how much as I've been to scared to step on the scales).  Therefore I am going to do a mini wholefood until I go sailing with my Sandhurst girlies (no way I will manage avoiding the wine that weekend!).  I've also  got some friends who are looking at paleo/wholefood so I shall be posting the recipes that help keep me away from the cake aisle in Sainsbury's.
I've just come back from bog snorkelling in Wales and as you can see from the photo I've been wasting away ;-)

I spent the weekend with the lovely Nina and the fabulous couple Jules and Rich.  Jules is on a ketogenic (no carb) diet and appears to be thriving so apart from the booze my diet was pretty healthy.  Nina produced some fabulous sweet potato fritters which are a great mini carb boost for post-training energy dips.


Sweet potato fritters (should make 4 or 5)
1 sweet potato grated, 2 eggs, 2 tablespoons coconut flour plus seasoning (I use salt, pepper, freshly ground cumin, smoked paprika, some chilli flakes.  Mash it all up and fry in coconut oil for about three minutes on each side.  Super duper - we had them with half an avocado and a fried egg for breakfast.

As well as being a good girl in the kitchen (I've just whipped up a batch of courgette fritters to take away camping for next weekend) I have dragged myself back to crossfit.  Oh my goodness I currently can't move my arms from doing Fran but with ring rows instead of pull ups (my rotator cuff is still not healed).  Today's WOD was totally bonkers and I expect I won't be able to walk tomorrow - 7 minute AMRAP 8 russian swings and 24 double unders, followed by 3 x400m runs with 60 seconds in between, followed by 7 minute AMRAP 10 wall balls 10 box jumps.  Filthy...really!