About this blog

In other words, the Zone + Crossfit = Optimal Heath!
This blog focuses on nutrition, using the Zone Diet as the basis. However, I often eat Paleo foods in Zone proportions.
I love to investigate anything having to do with food- what we eat and why. And what happens within our bodies, our organs, our brain, when we do? My precious mother struggled with eating disorders. I want to avoid this delimma based on research, common sense, and the natural consequences on my body. The Zone shows me where the balance lies between eating too much and eating too little.
My husband runs a Crossfit gym. Exercise and choosing the right foods have become a mission for ourselves and our children. We don't want to be nerds about it, we just want to be healthy.
I have been asked by several friends what I feed our family, especially our kids. My husband and I follow the Crossfit prescription to nutrition (meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch, and no sugar). If you know me, you know that the sugar part of this equation will be a life long struggle given my love for chocolate! Evan adheres to the stricter version known as the Paleo-Zone diet (and I do on my good days!) which requires the same foods in a ratio of 40% protein, 30% carb, and 30% fat. Children require 50% carbs, 30% fat, and 20% protein. If you're wondering how to figure this out, I do it on a per meal basis and I have a "block" chart from the Zone website.
It seems like a headache at first, but if you're interested, just know that it is not that bad once you practice it for a couple of weeks. All you need is a $10 scale and some determination. It really is quite simple and makes my life easier at the grocery store and when cooking dinner. Most of all, I feel great when I eat well- mentally and physically, and we all know that the physical can affect the mental and visa versa!
Evan and I are hunter/gatherer wanna-be's! This blog will track my journey of health as it should be, and the honest reality of living in a sugar fried culture. When it comes down to it, I get excited to talk about nutrition, but I am definitely not perfect at it! If you have the desire to eat well, but it is often a challenge to overcome the temptations along the way, then you are in the right company!
I hope you leave this blog feeling enlightened and encouraged as you go throughout your day!

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Wedding Weekend

Ok, confession time...I went to my cousin's wedding this weekend- stranded at a lama farm on Signal Mountain in Chattanooga. For real! We got carried there on a bus after parking our car at a community center. It was a beautiful farm. A beautiful wedding, but also a wonderful SITDOWN dinner! I saved 6 blocks for that meal during the day. I planned on eating well, but not worring too much about going over on blocks, especially since I had saved so many. So I went through line and fixed my plate with green beans (drenched in margarine), asparagus, a few baked apples (should have passed over on account of the sugar), breaded chicken and then I saw the prime rib at the end! I drank water. I figured I had room for the apples to be desert. I sat and enjoyed my meal and got full. There, no room for desert. We talked, the kids played, and then...they called everyone around for the cake cutting. Spice cake with cream cheese frosting sounded especially enticing on a farm outside looking over the hilltops, surrounded by apple trees. Have I justified myself yet? I even asked my brother if it was good enough/worth a cheat. He tried to deny it on account of me, but I could tell...it was really good. Ok, it is a wedding and I won't be making this at home and this is the kind of time I should allow myself to celebrate with food!!! So, I did...I even had some of the groom's earth pie (creamy stuff with crushed oreos). Now the groom's cake was even better, so I ate it and then ate part of the wedding cake. So, I did it and I enjoyed it. But I also hate that I broke my pledge for 10 weeks straight. I was 2 days shy of 2 weeks. Pathetic or good run? You can be the judge, but please love me anyway! Actually, that is not the end of the story. I ate lunch at my grandmother's house today and she had chess pie, so I decided to just train wreck it! With some icecream! Ok, there, do you feel good about yourself? Tomorrow is Monday, a new day, a new week, a new frame of mind. I'll be packing my lunch and hitting the road for the day! Lunch meat and cheese, grapes, a peach, and almonds. Snack of cheese, more grapes and almonds. As far as the way I have felt physically, I felt tired today and I will probably feel tired tomorrow, but not as bad as that waffle made feel 2 weeks ago! That might be because the desserts I had were much heavier on the fats than the starchy carbs. But hey, desert is pretty much desert, right? And sometimes it is called for! :)
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