Bad ass

I saw these socks on Sockdreams.com and I had to have them. In Crossfit women wear knee-high socks to protect their shins, usually with a pair of booty shorts because Crossfit woman have asses that deserve them. I'm definitely not ready to make the jump to booty shorts, but the socks made me happy.

I wore them to the open workout on Saturday and everyone commented. I answered that I was just trying to live up to them. In no way do I think I'm a bad ass yet, but I'm certainly trying.

The box is holding a Whole30 challenge starting tomorrow, and I've been spending the week getting ready for it. The idea behind a Whole30 is basically that you eat food the way it grows--no processed foods. This includes "processing" in terms of turning wheat (or anything else) into flour, and "processing" rice to make it edible, and "processing" soy to make it protein shakes or tofu. Basically, we're eating fruits and veggies and certain fats (olive oil, coconut oil, olives, avocado) and proteins. I've been 90% doing this to get in the swing of it, but I still haven't completely given up dairy. I told Kesha that she could pry my milky tea from my cold, dead hands. I'm mourning this and counting down the days. But I'm willing to try it to see how my body responds. I'm actually suspecting that my body will love it, because I do have such a solid workhorse of a body. We eat very little processed food anyway, but I'm willing to try it to see if my body does respond in a strong negative way to dairy.

I'm also willing to try it if it makes my Crossfit workouts better. I'm not as focused on weight loss now. I decided this morning that I'm not going to weigh in for this 30 day challenge, either. It's not about the weight of my body. It's about the weight that I can lift. I'm focusing on that. I know that if I got on the scale right now I'd be full of doubt and panic and I'd question the habits I'm working really hard to put in place and I'd basically destroy all the work I've done for the past two months. So I'm not going to do it. I'm doing this for Crossfit. For my workouts, for my lifting, for my jumprope, for my running. And that's it. The number on the scale is nothing I need to know right now.