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Before and After Photos

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Achieving Optimal Health

"In addition, I lost some body fat and definitely gained some muscle mass, while drastically reducing my appetite. It was weird, I was able to eat much less but maintained a higher bodyweight and felt much stronger, quite a paradox.

Other benefits were reduced joint pain, better sleep, better sex drive, more sustained energy levels, and the ability to concentrate much better.

I guess I felt that my higher carb diet was keeping me healthy before switching to paleo because I hadn’t ever experienced the health benefits of paleo. I had no basis for comparison, and once I went paleo there was no going back."  ~ Achieving Optimal Health On The Paleo Diet
With Greg Battaglia

Greg Battaglia is a Certified Level I Crossfit trainer and a Dietetics student at Immaculata University who is passionate about constantly exploring ways to improve human health and performance and helping others to achieve their health and fitness goals.

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Leeny Says....

 It's about 16 hours into the new year and I've got a new lease on life.  It's something about the start of a new year, the clean slate, this new beginning that allows me to psychologically purge last year's bad habits like a Catholic girl going to confession.  But I've done it...confessed my proverbial sins and am absolved.  Or so the new year allows me to think.  l'll take it any way I can get it.  That fresh feeling, the feeling that I can do anything now that time has started again.  Someone flipped over my hourglass and the sands are just starting to fall. 

This year I have a new resolve and it's come from many places.  The first and formost place I find this empowerment is at the gym...Crossfit St. Louis...a place where we all come to confront our demons and challenge ourselves to do things we never thought possible.  Pullups... Are you kidding me?  Clean and jerks?  I never thought it possible even 3 years ago.  The gym is my support, my pipeline to all things good for me.  I've learned more about exercise and nutrition than I ever thought imaginable.  The internet has also been a powerful tool in finding information on exercise and nutrition.  And the more I read, the more I find out I don't know.  There is SO MUCH out there.  But I DO know enough to realize that there is a better way to eat, a better way to fuel, and a better way to live. So while the last 2 1/2 years have taught me so much about functional movements and high intensity workouts, 2010 will be about an equally important component to fitness...Nutrition. 

So to honor this big nutritional epiphany on January 1, 2010, I cleaned out my fridge and pantry.   Out with all the junk that clogged up my fridge like bad plaque in an artery. In with organic eggs, fresh fruits and veggies, and lots of grass fed beef. I hauled out two trashbags full of bad tasting salad dressings from 1997.  Opening up my ice box is refreshing now...uncluttered, simple, and basic.  And that's how my diet approach for 2010 will be.  Specifically, I'm going to try the Paleo way of eating.  I will eat as my paleolithic ancestors did a gazillion years ago.  That's what our DNA is programmed for anyway.  It won't be easy, but after arming myself with information from books, blogs and podcasts, I know this is the way we were designed to eat. 

   

At Crossfit St. Louis, we know that there is more to fitness than just exercise and that's why we are starting a challenge for the New Year.  We call it Eating For A Better Body or EatFabb.  By better body, we mean both inside and out.  Details will follow so start thinking about the way you eat.  It's a new year...are you ready for a change?

Are You Ready??

Check this site daily for new information about what you are eating and how to make a change..Save the Date: Sunday, Jan. 17th - Kick-off meeting.  MORE INFO coming soon!