Happy Weekend, y'all!!!

Hey Everybody! It's Labor Day weekend! Guess what? I'm not sick anymore!!!! Yay! 

Mr. Bean had his side of the family in town for the weekend, which is TOTALLY a rare thing, so we got to hang out with his sister and brother and the rest of the family.  I couldn't be prouder of him.  We had lunch at Fontaine's in the Highlands, and I know that he was dying for a muffaletta.  He had peel and eat shrimp, crab legs and water with a side of sweet potatoes.  He barely even touched the sweet potatoes!  That night he ignored MORE beer and tortilla chips! 11lbs lost is a fantastic motivator, I suppose!

I love seeing him with his family.  He's so much more at ease.  It's such a rare gift, as they live all across the world.  Since his sister and brother in law moved back to town he gets a little more time with them, but with his parents in Canada, and Paul and Stef live in FL, it's hard.  We spent a some time at the park with the little angel baby, too! She's amazing... I am continuously in awe of her chubby fingers and her curious little mind!  Someday, I promise I'll post a pic, but I want to make sure that it's kosher with Mama!

The Intrepid Brothers Bean!

On Friday, I had the opportunity to go out with a few gals to hear some music.  That was a lovely time to soak up some brooding folksie stuff, and estrogen!  

Full disclosure?  I had wine.  Whole 30 approved? Nope. Do I feel bad?  Nope.  Speaking of the Whole 30, Weeeeeeell, let's talk about that shall we?  Yes.  

But first, look at how cute I looked on Friday! 

 Cuuuuuuurly!

(How You Doin'?)

So, here's the training and diet update.  I have a half marathon in October.  That means that in addition to the ridiculous lifting that I'm doing, I've been logging (oops.... trying to) at least 20+ miles a week.  What I found this past week is that in spite of eating ample calories to fuel what I'm doing, my legs are just dead weight.  Now, I know that the human body is terribly adaptive.  I also know that eventually, I might actually adapt to living on coconut oil, avocado, and the other lovely fats that I can eat on the Whole 30/ Paleo approach to eating.  I will even go so far as to say that I'm truly enjoying how I feel in the day to day state by eating Paleo.  My skin looks good, I sleep great, and I notice that I'm actually retaining water a LOT less.  

However, after 4 terrible runs in a row, with the last one (a 5miler!) leaving me feeling like hammered death, I'm going to make a couple adjustments moving forward. I'm not willing to sacrifice performance at this stage of the game even while supporting Mr. Bean in his endeavor.  I'm adding oats back in to my diet this week.  Granted it'll only be one serving a day, but I'm comfortable saying that oats were never an issue in my diet to begin with.  I'm also going to leave fruit out of the equation with the exception of post workout, and I'll be using sweet potatoes more often as well.  I'll keep you posted on how everything works out.  With these things in mind, tomorrow I will post my recipe for crispy and delicious sweet potato fries tomorrow with pictures.  

Enjoy your holiday weekend friends!  Train hard, eat clean and love like you mean it!