Day 17

Hello day 17 and TGIF!!! What a week it has been! I'm looking forward to a restful weekend before it all starts again. When I began this blog I was really struggling to find work as a nurse practitioner. Starting next week I'll be working as an NP 4 days a week, one day volunteering in a community clinic and 3 working at an office just 10 minutes from home. On top of that I'm launching a new doula business in February. I am so grateful!

This morning Chad and I headed to CrossFit at 7 and got our butts kicked. We started off with sumo deadlifts and then got into our BRUTAL WOD:

PARTNER SPRINTS – 7 MINUTES
100 PULL UPS
200 KETTLEBELL SWINGS (RUSSIAN STYLE)
300 SQUATS
40 JINGLE JANGLES 10 YDS (DOWN AND BACK IS 1)

Chad had to leave straight from the gym to get to work, and of course, forgot the food I packed for him.  I headed home to eat breakfast and shower, before heading to clinic. In between patients I ran to Wholefoods and made Chad a salad and took it, along with his snacks, to his office. Then it was back to clinic for me, to see another patient. I was lucky to have a short day so I left the clinic around 1 and did some grocery shopping before going home. I had some roasted chicken breast wrapped in romaine for lunch, and snacked on Paleo stix. Since the weather is pretty cruddy I decided a big bowl of chili sounded really great. Chad hates beans so its convenient that they aren't Paleo approved. Here's today's recipe:

1 lb grassfed ground beef
2 cups sweet potatoes cubed
1 cups carrots cubed
1 cup onions diced
1 small jalepeno diced
1 large can fire roasted diced tomatoes
1 can tomato paste
2 cups chicken stock (because its all that I had)
2 tsp cinnamon
1 bay leaf
2 tsp garlic powder
S&P

I started by heating some olive oil in a large soup pot and adding the onions. I then added the beef and cooked it thoroughly. I transferred the beef to a bowl and added the sweet potatoes and carrots to the pot, and cooked til just slightly tender. I then added the beef back into the pot along with all the other ingredients. I let the chili to simmer for about 25 minutes.

Top this with some avocado and you have one yummy meal!

I thought it would be nice to eat the chilli along with some paleo friendly biscuits so I looked around for a simple recipe and stumbled upon this blog:

Biscuits

My attempt didn't turn out anything like hers. Granted I did use almond meal rather than flour, so these ended up being more like cookies than biscuits. I still liked them, but they were not really what I was going for. I had a big bowl of chili, 2 biscuits, and a small romaine salad for dinner. Carb total for today is 88. I'm already feeling sore so heading to CrossFit tomorrow will be a last minute decision.  For now I'm going to continue hanging by the fire and waiting for my sweet hubby to get home.