Yep done 1 week.
3 more to go, but in all honesty I will need more than 3 weeks to achieve anywhere close to a goal. So the latest is the paleo challenge continues until my budgers are visible and waving a jello-hello. Seriously though - I think I cheated a bit this week and didn't get the results I wanted. I know it is only week one, but I want to try to get to the bottom of this self sabotage and get results.
Move/
I went to crossfit 3x, and did 1x 4.5km run and 5x steep hill run things (done badly but still done. Note to self: I need to stop training with one of Australia’s elite crossfitters as it plays havoc with my sense of achievement and progress).
I have noticed my rowing has improved. A baby step of progress but I don’t get gassed on a 1km anymore and want to cough up a lung. I have seen a 10-15sec improvement on the 500m. I will have to do a 1km this week maybe to baseline and track progress.
I am still breathing like a wheezing old dog (poor me) after running 400m or so. I didn’t realise this until a crossfit newbie said to me a few times during a particularly gruelling WOD ‘Come on Jose, you can do it’. Thanks I thought but worry about your own work love (see I am still not ‘that’ nice). When I said thanks to them after the WOD, they were ‘oh no problems, I thought you were going to die, you were breathing rather noisily’. Thanks for that. Not. Crap. I am noticeably an ex-smoker.
I don’t know – did I really think I would get off lightly for 15 (+) years of smoking? Lung please be nice, I am sorry. Respect. ‘scuse me whilst I cry for a moment. Never again. Vomit.
Eat/
I did ok. No dairy. No grain. No other baddies. Much.
I had some slip ups: I ate more than one paleo brownie. I used glucose instead of agave so I didn’t have an insulin reaction. Is a no gluten, no fructose, no dairy cheat still a cheat? Yep. I hear it is. Whole9 say about not having Frankenstein paleo treats and losing the sugar habit and whatnot. I say I bloody tried and this was the least-bad treat I thought of.
More confession: I also had some nut slice thing made with coconut oil, nuts, almond meal and other stuff. These babies were bad (as in paleo bad). They had heaps of nuts and a few tablespoons of honey. Hello omega-6 imbalance and insulin triggerness.
So along with those two badies, I also had a lot of nuts as you know. Oh and 2 rows of 70% dark chocolate (with nuts for extra measure). International fat sign.
Live/
I still am obsessing about food and I think my appetite surpasses my partners (he is a 20kg bigger than me). Safe to say my body hasn’t converted to running on fat yet.
Results - I have more energy. I am still a bit allergic to the world and still have rashie eyebrows (hot). I am less cryie, and tired. I feel stronger, I mean I even got a PB for my strict press (I can now push 23kg – look the f-out world!)I lost about 1kg of gut, and budgers. 9 to go.
Week 2 Fine-tuning
This week I am not consuming the nuts. (ha ha sounds rude right). I will try not to have the paleo treats, chocolate and whatnot. I will have my fish oil.
I will try my hand at intermittent fasting to kerb the appetite and get a bit of calorie deficit in my life. This may be against the paleo philosophy to worry about calories, but heck I have a deadline and am currently eating that of a professional athlete training for the regionals, not a normal boring human tyring to lose fat cells.
I will aim for 3x (+) crossfit sessions, with 1x lung-airing run and 1x sprints. Sleep? Well. I am trying. Robb Wolf podcasts help a lot. No offence intended, but they make me have nice snoozy commutes to work, and I feel I am osmosis learning the paleo ways whilst I snore away. Efficiency is very crossfit you know.
Observations
People in my office are full of it. Full of crap ideas on health and full of crap food. Good to watch though and feel elite-er than them. Opps is that bad karma?
No interventions, I am too self-obsessed xxx
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