Paleo Chicken Burgers

I have just spent the past 3 weeks travelling through the USA. I decided during this time, as I was not the one doing the cooking, it was easier to deal with the consequences of eating the dairy/gluten etc that make me feel rubbish. Really on the balance scale trying to figure out if feeling (more) lousy, was better than exerting more energy to chase down paleo style meals. So I went with diet rules out the window. Now I am back on the straight and narrow, and hoping to feel a ton better soon.

Paleo Chicken Burgers

Chicken patties

Nut butter satay sauce

Serve on lettuce leaves with avocado, veggies of choice including some roast vegetables such as zucchini, pumpkin, carrot and beetroot.

Paleo Chicken Burgers with Nut Butter Satay Sauce

I am loving getting back into some 'normal' food!

Continuing to learn this!

Doily Bunting

Doily Bunting

Equipment

Doilies on sale at Vinnies

 

What to do

Doily Bunting

Pretty for the wall, a window, a party or just because!

2013 started with more training, more running, more exercise, a new job, my brother's wedding (yay- I got a sister!). With a group of friends from church we were training for Tough Mudder. It was fun. I was loving trying to conquer a pull up (achieved!), and pushing myself to do things I never thought I could. I even had a half marathon on the possible radar. I was enjoying the social life, I was loving my new job, I was content. I was happy.

Beach view at the end of completing the Spit to Manly walk in early 2013.

However, my nose was still constantly running, I still felt like I had a low grade virus that just wouldn't go away.

I still remember the garagefit workout that changed everything. It was a 800m run, followed by pull ups or squats or kettle bell swings (or something like that), and then as many rounds as possible in 20minutes. I had tested it out during the week. I could potentially do 3 rounds in that time and that was my aim.  I was running 20+kms each week and so thought not much of the workout. However, little was I to know that a pesky 800m run was going to start the snowball effect that would impact the next couple of years.

I don't know what was different on this Saturday morning, as opposed to any other morning. We began the WOD. We began the run. Sudddenly, I was struggling, I was out of breath. I couldn't breathe. Was I having an asthma attack? Ventolin wasn't doing a whole lot. I couldn't keep going.  I felt a whole lot like this quote I had found on Pinterest about being more annoyed that you couldn't finish a WOD more than the injury itself!

I am to learn what this truly means over the coming months.

I have been really encouraged reading other peoples stories on blogs about their Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. I dislike reading other peoples 'how I cured my cfs/me in 6 month' stories, but instead love the inside story to what has sustained and strengthened people during this time of suffering, pain, questioning and hurt.

Part 1: The Never Ending Cold

Choconut Berry Bar

A slice of yum! Styled (ie placed ready for eating) on my new Anthropologie plates.

Step 1: Biscuit Base

Step 2: Coconut Cream

Step 3: Berries

Step 4: Chocolate Drizzle

Step 5: Consumption

Choconut Berry Bar

Happy Birthday, Maddie!