Failure

So in less then 1.5 weeks I have once again not made this Paleo thing work in my life for an extended time period. I got sick and I am still sick and what do I want to eat...comfort food. What is comfort food...soup and bread. This is a HORRIBLE choice and yet it is the hardest thing to stay away from!!

But today I got a call from Jon Fragoso saying that he was going to be sending a pre-released copy of Everyday Paleo written by his wife Sarah Fragoso for me to read and review.

I am pretty excited to be reading this book and hope that it will give me the inspiration that I need to get on board and really work hard on this thing called the Paleo lifestyle.

Box jumps

So looking back I probably shouldn't have worked out yesterday as I was starting to get a sore throat which has evolved into full blown being sick...

but anyways here is what I did yesterday

strict press

singled at 107

Workout

10 pull ups

20 kb swings (35 lb)

10 box jumps (20 in)

5 rounds

9:48

Saturday Big Cheat

Had a girls night in, that is all I have to say about that. The day was great until dessert.

A Great paleo day

Today I was really struggling with a sugar crazing! I totally want something sweet! My hubby has been sick the last couple of weeks and he happened to have bought some orange juice, so I got some and watered it down a lot and that seemed to help my craving! Hopefully I can have a 90% weekend!

Honesty

I have to say that I am TOTALLY a stress eater, and it showed its ugly face this evening when I found myself eating PRETZELS! I had about 11, other then that today was good, aside from the fact that I probably didn't eat enough food. Tomorrow is another day.

Got my goat

How is it that a workout can make one (me) feel incompetent!?!?

Today was a workout that involved Knees to Elbows and I have to say that EVERYTIME I have to do this movement in a workout I have the worst time EVER! I am usually last and I have to give myself a mental pep talk regarding my capabilities as a human being, but I digress.

Strength Back Squat x10

55x10

77x10

99x10

109x10

Workout

5 rounds

7 deadlifts (97lbs) I went pretty light today because my back was not feeling the greatest

11 Knees to Elbows

200m run

time: 13:15

On a positive note I have had a PERFECTLY paleo day today!

Day 2 ... there was a cheat

Of course I was confronted with the hardest temptation possible while at work today. Part of my job is providing family therapy as a part of supervised visits for CPS. Today my client made chocolate chip cookies with their kids. This is my BIGGEST temptation in the WORLD. I LOVE chocolate chip cookies...so I had 2! While the rest of the day was good this was a failure, I couldn't help it! Hoping that tomorrow will be better!

Day 1

Stayed Totally Paleo today!! Day 1 of 30, 29 more days to go...

Strength

Push Press

99x3

104x3

109x2

Workout

4 rounds

45 seconds of work, 20 seconds of rest

cleans (65 lbs)

rowing for K

dips (with a band)

kb swings (35 lbs)

total reps

222

30 Day Paleo Challenge

The 8 week Paleo Challenge is starting tomorrow at the gym, seeing as how I am never able to make it past 2 weeks of the challenge I have decided that I am going to do a 30 day Paleo challenge adding helpful coping skills like the below dinner menu along with using a paper chain as a count down to when I can enjoy something with a lot of chocolate or a nice glass of wine, until the chain is gone I am going to commit to not falling off of the wagon. I have found that falling off of the paleo wagon creates guilt and a desire to not continue caring about my appearance or my diet for a number of weeks. So I am going to give it my best shot for 30 days and we shall see how things go, please feel free to provide positive reinforcement or share your own struggles with staying Paleo for an extended period of time.

Lunch-time Quickie

400m run

15 db push press (25 lb dbs)

15 pull ups

200m run

12 push press

12 pull ups

200m run

9 push press

9 pull ups

200m run

6 push press

6 pull ups

200m run

3 push press

3 pull ups

400m run

time: 12:37

Rounds in 15 min

Todays workout included a lot of stretching for me and practicing ring push ups. Push ups in general suck for me so this was not my favorite thing to do. I skipped the squats because I did them on Monday with Santos.

Workout

10 wall ball (12 lb)

5 burpees

200m run

7 rounds plus wallball and burpees

Las Vegas

Left Friday afternoon for a weekend in Las Vegas with some great friends.

Friday Brenda and I worked out at Crossfit Las Vegas the workout was the following...

250m row

30 body weight squats

15 burpees

200m run

Rest 4 rounds total

Each round between 3:14-3:17

It was a great weekend with some great friends, good food and fun times!

Backsquat by 10s

Backsquat work
55x10
77x10
99x10
104x10

Workout
350m row
20 db deadlifts (25lb)
20 kb 1 arm snatches (10 each arm, 26 lb)
3 rounds
9:14

Sleds are from Hell

3 rounds

Partner A

In 5 minutes drag an empty sled to the street and back

complete as many bench presses as possible with the remaining time

Partner B spot

I completed a total of 60 bench presses at 77lbs