Finding Johanna

It seems that once you begin to train for a serious race like a marathon- everyone wants to know your story. So how did I, Johanna Smith Eppley, decide to complete 26.2 miles?  In 2012, after being married for a year my husband and I decided it was time to start trying to plan for a family. I weighed about 285 pounds and knew that I had to change to have a healthy pregnancy. I started exercising and lost about 60 pounds, then decided to sign up for a 5k just to see what would happen. I was NOT a runner. I don't really even know why I decided to do it honestly - I had never really run before. I didn't really know how to train properly, but in December of 2012 I did my first ever 5k. I walked most of it. I finished in about 48 minutes.  One week later we found out we were pregnant. SO instead of continuing to run I let the stress and exhaustion take over and I quit working out and started indulging my food cravings. Fast forward to my daughters first birthday. I ha

I have noticed over the past couple of years doing Whole30 that my body seems to react when I eat too many almonds or a lot of almond butter. I used to eat those Justins almond butter packets with a banana or an apple and noticed my stomach would hurt super bad later in the day. I would have a big handful of almonds and some olives and an epic bar and again my stomach would hurt later. My diet is somewhat limited so eventually I was able to definitvely pin it down to the almonds. Almond butter and almond flour are used quite a bit in paleo recipes. A lot of the things we have been eating lately use almonds. But my stomach has been REALLY hurting lately. So I have decided that if I have issues digesting almonds I should probably just stop consuming them all together. A lot of pre made items we eat use almonds. RX bars, a lot of the larabars, simple mills products, mikeys products. A couple of days ago we made almond flour muffins. They were AMAZING. Way better than the recipe I shared

I love broccoli salad. It is probably one of my favorite go to whole30/paleo meals  I picked up some apple juice sweetened cranberries at natural grocers  Chopped onion, sunflower seeds, cranberries, green apple, and broccoli  With mayo, mustard, and a touch of red wine vinegar  Almond butter and jelly tortilla wraps for the park  I found these at natural grocers and they are really cool. They made little square sheets and they taste just like fruit roll ups.  On Saturday I made pancakes. I mixed three bananas and 6 eggs with cinnamon and a little coconut flour.  Pour on a griddle and top with fresh blueberries  Emma loved them!  For dinner we had teriyaki pineapple pork  Top pork chops with onion, jalapeño, and fresh pineapple  I seasoned it with shichimi togarashi but you could use anything  Then coat it with the coconut aminos teriy