When Something Clicks

Being successful can mean many different things to many different people. Having a healthy happy family, having all the things money can buy, simply getting married, or being able to fit into those size 6 pants . Whatever it is, we each have our list. And when it comes to Crossfit, the lists are even more diverse.

For some it's gymnastic movements, others it's oly lifting. Some still it's completing a WOD as prescribed or being able to do a push up. They're the things we want to be able to do someday. And when you get serious about it - you work the movement, you study others doing it, then one day - it clicks. And there was that perfect form on a snatch, those 2 more inches to get your chin over the bar, or learning how that kipping movement works for a bar up.

For the last 3 months I've eaten my plans, I've done extra work, and I've (tried) to take care of my body. As I've progressed through the weeks, I've noticed workouts getting "easier" (not that anything in Crossfit is easy haha) and I was beginning to be able to lift more weight. But lately - something's clicked. I'm able to do things that were never even on my list because I never even thought I'd get there.

My lifestyle has started clicking with Crossfit.

I wish I had something profound to say about that but alas it comes down to the simple truth that I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing. I'm doing what my body has needed me to do. You can't eat a Big Mac with a diet Coke and still expect to lose weight. You can't only put in an hour a couple times a week at the gym and expect to see more rounds in the WOD. 

And that, my friends, is where I was living. 

Maybe not with the Big Mac (gross), but I expected more than what my body could give. I wanted so many things but wasn't willing to put in the effort to get them. So I became satisfied with being "decent". 

Decent. 

It sounds so mundane to me now. Nothing about life should be decent. You should never settle for a decent anything. 

I'm marrying a man - an extraordinary man - who has all of these ambitious plans and ideas and goals on his list for us. But I never bought into them, I'd just roll my eyes and say "ya, ok". We live a safe life, we live a sustainable life, we live a decent life. But now? I find myself imagining about that list. Can we do that? What if we took that risk? I'm finding myself thinking that some of these ideas might just be possible. 

This process has completely changed me. 

We have 9 more weeks till the show (9, single digits, oh em gee!). And I've still got a ways to go - in this journey and with Crossfit. But I'm going to eat up every second that I can - and pretend it's covered in chocolate. 

Ok maybe my rambling ended up somewhere near "profound".

Meal Plan #6

Meal 1: 2 whole eggs

2 egg whites

3 oz Flank steak

1/4c Frozen spinach (Here we go, round 2)

Meal 2: 6oz Ground Turkey

Green peppers or onions

4oz Yam (FREAKING YAMS!!!)

Meal 3: 6oz Orange Roughie

8 Asparagus spears

Mid Afternoon Snack: 6oz Orange Roughie

Meal 4: 4oz Flank steak

2oz Chicken breast

Over a bed of spinach

1/2 of a red pepper

4 rings of banana pepper

11 Pecans