Eat a Donut People
My boss brought donuts to our staff meeting this morning. At one point the meeting fell off pace and to restart the group he chirped, “Eat a donut people, you need sugar!”
It was as if the Paleo world was throwing it in my face! While I can’t eat donuts in the first place (gluten intolerant) I am a sugar addict – chocolate, cookies, ice cream – and I got an instant hunger and craving in my gut after he said that. Ah! Maybe there is something associated between sugar and cravings.
6:00 – Felt hungry when I was teaching class
7:15 – 1 date at the grocery store on way to work
7:30 – Paleo pancake, 2 oz. Deli meat, ½ cup blueberries
7:35 – I’m already done eating??!!
tea (caffeine free, herbal), water
10:15 – I’m hungry and I have a headache
10:30 – cup of coffee
12:00 – lunch, Tahini Spinach, 1.5 ounces ground beef, 2ish ounces turkey deli meat, 1.5 cups broccoli and @ 10 macadamia nuts
12:28 – I feel hungry
1:14 – still getting hunger pains
1:38 – 10 almonds, Starbucks peppermint tea, I averted my eyes from the Dark Espresso chocolate bar
1:50 – my head hurts in the front left side
2:00- zero brain power right now, I’m in a daze
4:00 – ate everything in site, an egg, some ham, a lara bar, lots of almond butter, oddly still not full
9:00 – ½ avocado, tomato chicken, and olive oil salad, sautéed onions
Paleo Challenge
I recently decided to take on a one month Paleo Challenge. This blog will track my experience. I will also use it to discuss CrossFit, food and performance, training out of a garage space, and topics related to those three.
I’ve been doing the Paleo challenge and keeping a log for one week now. The first of my posts will be uploading the information from my log.
The main reasons for my Paleo Challenge were;
- I CrossFit
- I am gluten intolerant and discovered it recently (more on that in another post)
- For one year I have followed the Zone diet with 97% strictness; however, after a number of months in the Zone, with added fat and tweaking, I still experienced diminishing returns, cravings, and frustration
- I just read the Paleo Diet For Athletes
- I liked the idea of putting the quality of my food before the quantity of my food.
So here we go. I’ll post more information in the following days on how I got started, what is paleo, and what are paleo foods.
Day 1.
7: 30am – Cooking for Health and Performance Pancakes, 3oz. Deli meat
8:00am – Headache
20 oz. Water, 1 cup coffee
11:30 – hungry
11:45 – more hungry than at 11:30
12:00 lunch – Cooking for Health and Performance Tahini Spinach (used kale instead), broccoli with olive oil, beef
12:10 – head ache is back, WTF?, also have a weird throat pain, maybe I’m dying
12:15 – Mucus in my throat
12:49 – I think my stomach is hungry
1:30 – double espresso – I know, I know, caffeine overload, but I had a meeting
4:00 – 2 oz meat, some nuts, 1.5 dried apricots, wasn’t hungry until 4 pm
4:30 – WOD: 21-15-9 pull-ups, kettlebell swings, wall ball (Wallball is the devil), good energy level
5:40 – ¼ larabar and 5 almonds
8:00 – 4.5 ounces ground beef, Cooking for Health and Performance whipped yams w/ coconut mlk, 15 or so almonds
