what day is it?

Day 2 & 3, 

I am confused. Totally actually. I am writing this with a day lag. Or am I?  I think I am on day 3. Or is it day 2 and the days have just been REALLY long? Or it is day 3 and I am losing my mind. Please advise. Thanks in advance.

Let’s just roll days 2&3 into one, just in-case it is one of the above. What does it matter? The only date of any influence is the end day, which is the meal after the crossfit Australian regionals, end of May, something something (I better check that). Note: I am not competing. I am just your ultimate fan, suffering as you are in your strictness, minus the 3x WODs per day. 3-4 times a week will do me.

Live/

Apparently DIET is 95% the most important factor in weight management/ longevity/ whatever (or look good naked and fat loss), THEN SLEEP, and THEN TRAINING. So by my rational, lying in bed trying to sleep (and maybe thinking about paleo cookies) is more important to my physique than the 5 min AMRAP medicine ball of torture programmed at my box today? Nah not buying it, my new rule: eat well, move as much as I can, and then get to bed early. Simple. In that order. Oh my what would Robb say?

Sleep priority - I tried this last night. Training finished at 7:30. Dinner at 8. Bed at 9. Asleep at 1am. Wake up at 5:30am. So much for that. Ghastly. I might need to hone-in the long blacks (2x per day) and be tired whilst in adjustments, or just being a walking zombie. Zombie? That will help my fellow crossfit friend’s training at least, as they can run away from me to practice GPP. I don’t know. Is sleep really that important? Maybe I am one of those ‘get by on 4 hours per night’ people? (Glances in mirror to check for bags under eyes)

I didn’t cry today, and did a heap of work. I am feeling rather energetic actually… and chatty. Yuck how very upbeat of me. I will start freaking people out soon with new me. Grumpy Josie is known and knowable. Happy positive Josie is just too strange to comprehend. How vulgar.

Achievements/

I ate well, went to training (all on my own), got told I made someone proud, ate less nuts, lost 600grams (I am not buying into the whole9  rule of no weighing for 30days). I like progress and constant reassurance. I also like materialistic rewards, but I am trying to not be ‘that’ person and trying the ‘fit back into my skinny jeans without budgers’ as a reward.

Eat/

I have been putting my foodness into calorieking. Happy to share but far out how much more of me can you really take? Bottom-line, take home message: (buzzword bingo - I am in marketing you know!) Ave around 1200-1400 cals, 100g fat/ 100g protein/ 16.3g carbs/ 12g sugar (vege/ coconut derived) & 7g fibre. Stop me now. This space is getting obsessive. I blame the Robb Wolf podcasts. 

Move/

I went to bodym, did my crossfit training - Strength: 1-1-1-1-1-1 C&J @ 38kg. Note to self: crap weight. I need to get a new CFT stat. WOD: 5 rounds 15 PU (on knees as I am a weakling), 5 Power Cleans (RX was 40kg), did 35kg= 7:23. Happy with that, more happy for going 2x in a row.

Motivation I love you. Perseverance let’s date. xxx

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keep walking..nothing to see here

Day 1 of the next 30 days (paleo challenge). Not that eating well should even be a challenge right? How hard can it be? Oh hunger, be fed with lovely natural food. End of conversation. Waking up at 5am (*slight exaggeration for impact, but only by 20 minutes) to a cold, dark, rainy day and dragging person to work on a 2 hour commute (*slight exaggeration again of only 20 minutes, let's just make a rule for you to take off 20 mins of any time I say. Unless it is in WOD form) for 5 days a week is a challenge. The structured nutcase in me is halting this paragraph right now... General whinge belongs in the 'live' section of my thought process. Back to the point. 

Day 1- Horrendous, emotional and obsessive

Eat/ 

I ate lovely clean, natural and paleoterrific food. I just ate a lot of it. At a glance: 2x microwave special eggs/ bacon. Salad/ tuna/ 0.5 avocado/ lots of nuts (much more than my gatherer predecessor would have foraged for in a month), pot roast meat, bit of veggie, 2x berry/ coconut cream ice cubes (*ok it really was 4x but I omitted 2x for glutton reduction attempts), and 2x long blacks. This was all after ‘intermittent fasting until 10:30am. Busy day for my mouth.

Move/

Scheduled crossfit for after work, mainly so I could skive off work to the box and feel I had ‘stuck it to the man’. After 2 hours commute (you know the rule), and a not-normal playlist of depressing slow songs, I felt rather teary. Stay with me I am getting to my point. I asked my motivated other half if we can wag Crossfit today. Big resounding ‘No’ was the reply. Silence brewed my negative emotions for the 10 minute drive, ending in my crying about FML (look it up, I know shameful right, yes I read the newspaper I know it could be a lot worse). We drove past the box to go home. At the next round-about I intervene myself and request to go to the box. So off to WOD we go. Wiping tears and sculling long black coffee. 

Strength:  Back Squat. Allegedly form is looking good. 1-1-1-1-1 50kg

WOD: AMRAP 12 min 9 PU, 6 Burpee, 9 Back Squat (30kg) = 6+1 Rounds. Must say I am pretty proud of me for getting to the box and ignoring my ‘programmed emotional response based on my past-filter’. (Someone has been reading the psychobabble again).

Live/

Summary - Day 1 was an emotional one. I picked a few fights, lost as many. Ate my bodyweight in nuts. Cried. Dribbled spittle. Sweated. And didn’t even wash my hair. 

Next xx

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(n -30d) the day before

Oh gosh, I can put it away I tell you. Today (well yesterday at time of writing) marks the last day of bad eating before 30 days of wholesome, number-less, minimum packaged, grain free, dairy limited, legume free, sugar free, alcohol free eating. 

Reason - I NEED to. I am an bloated, grumpy, sleepy, inflamed human right now and the low body fat, strong, focused and energetic me wants out. 

I am not going to let you know my starting weight. Not because it is irrelevant, but mainly because it is pretty embarrassing. Ok it isn't really that bad, but whatever. Moving on. 

I have a few pictures my last meal but who cares. This meal ended up being breakfast, then lunch, then snacks, then dinner, then snacks. Hello justification for the 'I can put it away' statement. 

That is all in the past now. I ate all food groups - savoury junk, sugar junk and grains, both savoury and sweet grains. Lots of them. I drank beer and wine. And some milky goodness lattes. Safe to say it should be out of my system now right? Here is hoping. And trying and hopefully succeeding. 

Wish me luck xx

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no looking back

Wow that was a wipe out. This year I lost 7kg and turned into a skinny fat. I then got too excited and ate grains and sugars and all other evils and put the 7kg back on. In 2 weeks. Awesome. Now I am fat fat. 

I returned to crossfit and quit again, times 6. The only achievement I have done of any merit is I am now a non-smoker.

I am returning to the interwebs for my blogging from here in to log my next challenge. I am giving up sugar and grains (paleo styles) for the next 30 days or so. Let’s see how we go. 

3-2-1 Go xxxx

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