Disclaimer: There is absolutely nothing educational or really at all intelligent in this post.

HI!! PLEASE FORGIVE ME<33 for not posting, commenting or replying to any comments in the past couple weeks :( I’ve been a wee bit strung out!!

The week before last I went on five job interviews in four days on top of still working and trying to keep my life together. It was a pretty stressful week, but I won’t go into details.  I will still be working as a trainer, but I’m trying to find a different (better) studio to train at…which at this point is getting harder than trying to nail jelly to a tree.  I got offered jobs at a couple places but I don’t really feel that I ‘click’ with some of them.

My brain has felt like mush and I’ve had some incredible learning experiences in the past couple weeks and it has definitely given me a bit of a new perspective on training.

Anyways! Here are the recipes I promised.  As always, these are really simple..and paleo-friendly :)

STUFFED ACORN SQUASH

Ingredients:

  • 1lb ground beef (or sausage!)
  • 2 acorn squashes
  • Coconut oil
  • 1 Onion (chopped)
  • 1 Green pepper (chopped)
  • Carrots (I used about 3/4 bag of baby carrots, pre-cooked)
  • 1 Apple (chopped)
  • 1/4 cup pecans (chopped and toasted-optional)
  • Sage, Thyme, Salt, Pepper (Sorry, I didn’t do measurements :(!)

Directions:

Cut squashes in half lengthwise and preheat oven to 400.  Scoop seeds/bullshit out of the squash and place squash cut side down in a baking dish and fill with 1/4″ of water.  Cook for about 30 mins.  While it’s cooking, melt coconut oil in a large pan and saute the beef until almost done, set aside.  Melt some more coconut oil in the pan and add chop veggies.  When the veggies are done cooking, stir beef back into the pan, along with the pecans and seasonings.  Cook for a couple minutes and remove from heat.  When the squashes have finished cooking, dump the water out of the pan and scoop beef/veggie mixture into the squashes’ “cup holes”. They will be overflowing :).  Toss back in the oven for another 10 mins. DONE.

Eat them with butter.

I’m not really down with ‘paleo brownies’ or ‘paleo cupcakes’ or whatever.  I mean shit, I don’t mind eating them, but these are not things that should be eaten on a regular basis, ya know?  I mean what’s next, ‘paleo happy meals?’  But I digress.  I made this fudge as a Christmas present for Steve’s mom and it was a hit! ABSOLUTELY RICH AND DELICIOUS.

COCONUTTY PALEO FUDGE

Ingredients:

  • 3/4 cup of almond butter
  • 1/2 cup of shredded, unsweetened coconut
  • 1/2 cup coconut oil, melted
  • 1/2 cup cocoa powder
  • 1/2 cup ‘paleo-friendly’ chocolate chips (Enjoy Life brand )
  • 1/4 cup honey

Directions:

Place nut butter, coconut oil and honey in a microwave safe bowl and heat for 1 minute.  Remove and add cocoa powder, stir.  Next, mix in coconut really well.  Last but not least, sprinkle in the chocolate chips.  Line a 9×9 baking pan with wax paper and pour the mixture into pan.  Place it in the fridge for a few hours until it hardens..then eat!

**This has to be kept refrigerated or else it will melt!

Other than that, I seem to have gotten a case of program ADD.  Surprise. I stopped doing the oly lifting program I started with after Christmas.  I missed straight up heavy strength training too much so I’ve come up with a new program to follow.  I’ll be finding ways to incorporate in some oly lifts for shits and giggles.

I figured I’d share my last olympic lift day where I worked up to heavy singles (80-90%) of the snatch and clean and jerk and then 2 x heavy single of the front squat.  I struggled with snatches through the entire program so I’d been keeping them relatively light while my form was still raunchy.

Yes I’m wearing winter gloves in these, it’s like 20 degrees up in that mother!

Snatch @ 58lbs. This was a warm up set @ 53.

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Clean and Jerk @ 78lbs (lol failed first attempt)

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Front Squat @ 103lbs

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Don’t act like you’re not impressed by my highly sophisticated music choices.

That’s all for now.  I have a couple clients in the morning, but I will be spending the rest of the day glued to my google reader and catching up.

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