Plus One

I've been away for a while, and a lot has changed in that time.  After my last post I was ramping up my training and feeling confident about my abilities to do well in the Open and possibly making it to Regionals.  However, life threw me a curveball(the best possible kind) and my plans changed.

When discussing our lives one of the constants that Michael and I always agreed upon was that we both wanted a big family.  In fact, a few months after getting married we had a baby on our radar.  So, we decided to "stop trying not to have a baby" and I went off the pill- oddly enough it was the same month I started CrossFit.

For about a year following that I fell more and more in love with CrossFit and the fact that I wasn't pregnant yet didn't seem like a big of a deal.  In an odd twist of events I actually started to think that maybe we should hold off because being competitive at CrossFit was becoming more important to me and I didn't want to 'throw it all away' by getting pregnant. I also didn't tell many people about wanting to have a baby as it was something personal between Michael and I(I am sure he is thrilled that I am now sharing this with everyone over the internet).

However, after competing on the CFW Team last year at CrossFit Regionals and seeing how many athletes had their kids cheering them on I realized that I could still compete and have a baby.  I began to tell more people about my desire to have children and then a scary thought hit me. What if I can't have children? So, I went to see a doctor and I consulted the owner of our gym.  All the while I had a nagging voice in the back of my mind: Maybe my body fat was too low? Maybe eating Paleo was making my body lack something? Maybe being on birth control for 5 years had wrecked my body?

The doctor was useless but Tania, a Biosignature Practitioner, had a lot of great insights.  To make a long story short we tried a lot of different things and then eventually I tried Charles Poloquin's Estrogenomics Cleanse(more to come on this at another time).  It worked and 4 months after doing the cleanse I was pregnant! The moment I saw the positive sign it hit me that I was finally going to be a mom-my absolute dream job-and I was overjoyed!

I am now 8 months along and despite an initial 3 month reprieve from CrossFit due to morning sickness I have been getting to the gym regularly.  In all honesty I have been enjoying working out while pregnant and I have come to realize that being pregnant doesn't mean you need to put your life on hold or change your goals completely.  I plan on blogging for the last few weeks of pregnancy to share my thoughts on working out while pregnant(and pregnancy in general).  After that I will be using it as a way to document my progress post-baby.  I have set myself a few goals that I will share in my next post and I am hoping to use the blog as a way of keeping myself honest in attaining those goals.