Canyon Crossfit Nutrition Day 2- I'm not prepared! (1/18/12)

I realize that I'm not prepared for Day 2. I haven't been to the store to shop since I was at Cats last night.  I don't have anymore bacon fat so I use butter to cook my eggs in.  Not even 7:30 am and I'm cheating already!  I'm starting to feel guilty and then I realize that it's my nutrition challenge experience and that I'm just going to do my best.  That's all I can ask of myself with so many other demands being placed on me (more placing them on myself than anything).  I work at Deloitte as a Senior.  I review tax returns and as most of you know tax season is upon us!  I'm also studying for my CPA exam (the two I have left I have gotten 74s on before but needed a 75).  The CPA exam has 4 parts and you have to pass them all in a rolling 18 months.  If I don't pass the next two I have scheduled I lose one of them (luckily the tax section) in May.  However, I'd rather just pass the next two and get it over with.  It's been a long journey so far and I'm starting to get burnt out.  So between tax season, studying, and trying to keep up my workouts so I don't lose my sanity and get fat- I'm spread a little thin.  Oh did I also mention that I have four weddings to attend this year.  One of my best friends is getting married in May and I'm planning her bachelorette party in Vegas- the weekend after tax season ends. I'm also in a wedding in June.  Then I have one in August and then September.  I'm notorious for fretting about things outside of my control so all these things combined I'm pretty hard on myself.

The tri tip from the other night doesn't look appetizing when I pack my lunch in the morning so I just pack a salad with some cherry tomatoes and then balsamic with oil for dressing.  I pack my apples and almonds again and hope I can last the day.  I get halfway through my salad and I want to puke.  Not clue why just not feeling it.  I stop and start inhaling my almonds to try and fill the void.  My stomach starts trying to eat me from the inside out and my resolve is starting to waiver!  Right as I'm about to say screw it and get some Cheetos from the vending machine I find a piece of gum.  Yes I know. Not supposed to have gum, however I decide that is the better option of the two.  It's get me through to my next snack which I've held off a little longer so I can hopefully make it to the end of the workday.  My head is now POUNDING and my stomach is seriously unhappy with me.

I get home and luckily my Dad has gone shopping (yes I live at home, yes I'm 26, yes I plan to move out once I pass the CPA exam and don't have $200 tests eluding me, until then I'm perfectly fine where I am growing my nest egg) for some meat and vegetables.  I have convinced my parents, somehow, to do this with me so that will keep me focused and help out when I have late nights at the office.  I shove more almonds and a banana into me before I head off to do my Performance WOD.  I'm cranky when I get there, hungry, and have a huge headache.

The Performance WOD is as follows:
400m Run
Cindy (5 Pull ups- I did a thin black band, 10 hands up push ups- did on my knees, 15 air squats)
21 Deadlifts #65
400m Run
Cindy
15 Front Squats #65
400m Run
Cindy
9 Clean and Jerk #65

I finish in 16:39.  Right in line with everyone else but now my head is REALLY pounding and I'm starting to get dizzy! I go sit outside and try to recover.  During my runs I was trying to figure out how long it would take someone to find me if I fell over- I felt like I had no energy and that everything was a struggle.  Where things felt so easy just a couple days ago now I feel like there is no way I'll finish.  I ask someone who's already been doing the "diet" for a couple weeks when my stomach will stop hurting and he says a week. UGH hope I can last that long!

I drive home head still spinning and force myself to eat chicken and vegetables.  I literally mean force.  My body was trying to not keep it down, but I told it differently.  Finally time to shower (had to eat first my head hurt so bad) and then time to study.  As I go to sleep I've got a raging headache and my stomach still hurts.  This sucks!

I vow to do better tomorrow!