Finding Johanna

I've tried a low carb diet before. It was during college and I ate a lot of bacon, eggs, pork rinds, and cheese. Needless to say it sucked BIG TIME. I had some serious mood swings and felt like crap - because I was eating crap. Every since that experience I have pushed off the idea of low carb dieting. THEN I hit a plateau. I mean HARD. In the past five weeks I hadn't lost a single pound. I was really irritated and needed to figure out what I could do within the realm of paleo/whole30 that would get me past my plateau. In the book It Starts With Food , they talk about limiting your intake of fruit and potatoes if weight loss is a key goal. So I decided for one week I would avoid all fruit and potatoes and see what happened. So far I have pushed through my plateau but a whopping 4 pounds and I am now only 15 pounds away from my initial goal of being half my size. FIFTEEN POUNDS. That is completely doable and now that I have realized that I should limit my sweet potatoes, banan...

This weeks grocery haul rang in at $78.77  This is all the Whole30 approved foods I got  And these are the treats the other two members of my household picked out!  This weeks menu plan Saturday:  B: Spinach eggs  L: Leftovers  (I have leftover BBQ from lunch yesterday)  D: Los Pinos Winery Run - they have food trucks etc.  Sunday:  B: Blueberry Pork Hash  L: Tuna Salad  D: Smoked Chicken and Kale Apple Salad *SMORES AND SWIMMING  Monday:  B: Smoothie  L: Sausage, turnips, collard greens  D: Asian Pork Lettuce cups  Tuesday:  B: Eggs  L: Chicken and plantains  D: Wild turkey with apples and cranberries and brussels  Wednesday: B: Blueberry Eggs  L: Sausage, turnips, collard greens  D: Asian Pork Lettuce cups  Thursday:  B: Smoothie  L: Chicken and plantains  D: Wild turkey with ap...

So I want to start out by telling you my friend Sarah is the bomb. She has helped push me so much towards my running goals. I know I have bragged on her before, but our current running buddy situation has made me kick some serious running booty this month - and it's only June 10th! In April we decided we would start tracking our miles and try to collectively get to a specific total. Every time we run we text each other and share how far and how fast we ran. Sarah tracks all of this for us and we make sure we get to our planned total by the end of the month. April we started out small with 30 miles combined, so I did a total of 15 miles that month. May we bumped it up to 40 miles combined, so I did a total of 22 miles that month. For JUNE we added a third member, Sarah' s sister Anna, to our mileage club and decided to shoot for a combined total of 75 miles. I gave myself a personal goal of running 5 miles straight this month - WHICH I already accomplished on Monday! ...