To eat or to not eat before super early morning WODs

So I do my CF workouts early in the mornings. On Mondays and Fridays (sometimes on Wed too) I do Crossfit Boot Camp from 6:30am-7:30am. On Tues/Thurs, I do Crossfit Indoor class at 5:45am-6:30am. Woooweeee eeaaarrrlyy. It's funny to think about how early I wake up now vs. just a couple years ago. When I was in college, I would complain about having an 8am class LOL!! Anyways, I have gone back and forth with trying to figure out if I should or shouldn't eat before I workout. I have been doing CF since March and I didn't eat before my WODs for a few months, then noticed my energy was low, so I started drinking advocare's spark and taking catalyst. This seemed to work great, however for three reasons (not in any specific order) I decided to stop using/depending on these:
1) I was spending waay to much $$$, it gets pretty pricey
2) I was becoming very dependent on these and I think it was more of a mental thing
3) I wanted to go 100% paleo, and spark and catalyst have some ingredients in them that are no-no's for paleo

While trying spark and catalyst, a few times I've also tried eating before my WODs. I tried almond butter, coffee, grapes, and some other random stuff. But for the past 2 months, I have not been eating prior to my WODs and after my crappy perfomance on Monday, I started thinking....'maybe I should eat pre-workout, but how do I work out the appropriate timing of eating and not having to wake up an hour or more before my class??' (I'm the kind of gal who likes to push it and sleep til 6:10am, be dressed and out the door by 6:15am to make it to my 6:30am class LOL)

I've asked other CFers and my coaches whether to eat or not before such an early morning workout because I know digestion time is important, and it seems to really be a personal decision. Some ppl get sick if they eat before a CF WOD, some ppl NEED to eat.

On Monday at boot camp, I was draaaggggiiin ass... BIG TIME. It was terrible. I thought it may be due to lack of sleep or that I need to eat pre-wod?? Since I knew that gettin up for my class this morning (Tues) was gonna be rough (gettin up at 5am is waaay harder than 6am for me), I started to think about how I could prevent another ass draggin WOD. I am on thyroid medication which I am required to take at the same time everyday and I cannot eat until 1 hour after I have taken my medication. Thus, I started thinking about what time I would have to take my medication in order to be able to eat before my WOD and also allow for appropriate digestion time. Time time time.. bla bla bla. bedtime, wakeup time, medication time, eating time, wod time. So I decided last night... just try it, just do it. Decision made: medication at 4am (yes, I wake up in the middle of the night and take meds and then go back to sleep, it use to be 330am! then I changed it to 530am and now I'm gonna try 4am) So I took my meds at 4am and then went back to sleep for about 1hr and woke up at 5am. At 5:30am I had some coffee with 1/4 cup coconut milk and about 1/4-1/2 cup mashed cauliflower. I drove to the CF gym and was PUMPED!! Again, I duno if it was mental, but honestly, I don't think it was.

The WOD was tough...it was a KettleBell WOD!!

50 KB lunges
25 KB squat cleans
10R/10L KB snatch
5R/5L KB push press
X 2

We had a huge group this morning, so Coach Crystal (yes, the 9th place winner at the CF games is my coach!!!! I know ur jealous!! ;) ) split our group up. I was in the group that started with doin KB snatches, then push press, lunges, squat cleans, repeat. I used a 10kg KB. There was a 16 min time limit and when she called time, I had gotten through 36 lunges of my 2nd round. I had a good amount of energy throughout the workout and after our class, I grabbed the KB and finished the WOD!!!

So, I think eating before is a good choice and I'm gonna try to do it from now on... I'm just wondering, what's the best pre-workout snack/meal and how long before I workout do I need to eat it?! I don't think a lot of ppl read my blog, but if anyone out there has any advice/suggestions/experiences to share, please post!!! Thanksss!!!