I've blogged briefly a few years back and got pretty into it. After a little while I kind of lost interest and forgot all about it until I randomly thought about this one post I did on all the characters from McDonalds i.e. Grimace, The Hamburglar.. then I'd go look up my blog and read it and find it as entertaining as the time I posted it. Well life's changed quite a bit since then. I'm not gonna go into the details but here's the reason for this blog. I'm doing a 6 week Paleo challenge and we'll go a little more into detail as to what brought me here today.
I am a CrossFitter. Just google it if you want to know what it is.. And no, I'm not one of those super buff girls with extra tight abs and sexy toned arms. Although I hope to be some day. So I've done CrossFit on and off for almost a year now (more off than on) and I'm really ready to see some results. I spent a good 15 minutes complaining to my boyfriend last week about how I'm not seeing the changes that I would like. He asked me a simple question.. "How are you doing with your diet" and of course I tried to beat around the bush and push off blame because I knew it was a half-ass effort I was making. So that day, all down on my life, I went to the gym where I do CrossFit. My favorite of the gyms I've gone to. 3rd time was really a charm. And as I'm stretching getting ready for the workout that I'll soon regret I'm asked by the owner if I'll be participating in the Paleo challenge. And I say "What challenge?" So she goes on to explain that this is a 6 week Paleo Diet challenge. 6 weeks of clean eating.. Like really clean. Not clean with a RedBull and a canned Coke. And here it was.. the answer to my bullshit complaints landed right in my lap. I had to change my diet. So after some encouraging words and recipes from some of the other girls I reluctantly signed myself up. This would cost me $15 to do a Body Composition Analysis. Measures your body fat, water percentages and breaks down the amount of fat you have in pounds and shows you what's good and bad fat. Money well spent I think. So I don't have my results on hand but I'll make sure to post them when i get to them. And the prizes are 1st place gets one month free membership (a $125 value) 2nd place is 50% off the month and 3rd place is 25% off the month. I could really care less about the prizes to be honest. I want the personal gain that I hope to get from this i.e. shed some pounds and definitely some inches around the waist.
So what is Paleo exactly you might ask?? It's a huge list of things you can't eat. In the shortest most direct terms possible. Depressing isn't it? So it can be.. When me and my boyfriend went grocery shopping yesterday we found ourselves scrambling to eat every deep fried, carbed up, buttery, sugary thing imaginable. Although I was really hungover and extra thirsty so I pretty much was full off all the liquids I took in that day. And so lets get a serious answer on the Paleo Diet, trigger Wikipedia: The modern dietary regimen known as the Paleolithic diet (abbreviated paleo diet or paleodiet), also popularly referred to as the caveman diet, Stone Age diet and hunter-gatherer diet, is a nutritional plan based on the presumed ancient diet of wild plants and animals that various human species habitually consumed during the Paleolithic era—a period of about 2.5 million years duration that ended around 10,000 years ago with the development of agriculture. In common usage, such terms as the "Paleolithic diet" also refer to the actual ancestral human diet.[1][2] Centered on commonly available modern foods, the "contemporary" Paleolithic diet consists mainly of grass-fed pasture raised meats, fish, vegetables, fruit, roots, and nuts, and excludes grains, legumes, dairy products, salt, refined sugar, and processed oils.
So my super awesome boyfriend decided he would be doing this diet along side me and after many many conversations he's decided to also do CrossFit with me as well. It took a lot of convincing and guilt-tripping to get this to happen but none the less here we are. Day 1 of 42. Now my Paleo book allows for 3 cheat meals.. not days, but meals a week on Level 1 which we'll do for 2 weeks. Level 2 only allows 2 meals for 2 weeks and Level 3 only 1 meal for 2 weeks. It's gonna take everything in me to stick to this but it could be the start of something great. Did I mention there's no alcohol..? Like I said.. Great. So today I've logged my food in MyFitnessPal.com to track my calorie intake and done pretty good. Still have to get home and nap hopefully get a little workout in to really start strong. There's no CrossFit on Sundays.. Mon-Sat only even though my week really looks like a Mon-Wed.. Can we say "half-ass"? I bet we can. So I'm going to try and take myself through this day by day and blogging and tracking everything. If I'm constantly involved with it I figure there's less room for error.
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