Day 9, 10, 11 Paleo

Day 9

Banana with Sunflower Seed Butter
Kiwi, and Blueberries

Woo Hoo!  I made it through the weekend.  Yesterday was really hard.  Non-Paleo protein shake from breakfast.  Chicken Salad for lunch.  Protein shake for pre-workout.  Hit the park with my friend and run into 3 other friends.  I always love when that happens.  I only ran about 3/4 of a mile because my buddy wasn't feeling to well.  I did get in 3 miles though.  I love the feeling after you work out.  Post workout - banana with sunflower seed butter, kiwi and blueberries.  Yum!!

Kobi is ready for his run at the park

Day 10

I'm already wondering what I'll be doing for dinner as I have a meeting tonight with SIFE to work on our trifold board.  I ask for suggestions from another paleo friend, he says Luby's.  I'm told I can get meat and veggies there.  I've never been to Luby's and it doesn't sound all that appealing.  For lunch, I need something other than chicken salad!  I stop at Wendy's and get a side sald with a small chili.  Yes I know the chili has beans which is a paleo fail, but at least I still haven't had any grains!  Although, they put a million saltines and croutons in the bag with my salad and chili, but I tossed them to the side.  :)



One of our SIFE projects.  That's me on top in leopard.

I had a meeting with SIFE to work on our trifold board for recruiting, and I was in a rush so dinner on the go - green tea tango smoothie with no extra fruit from Smoothie King.  Yum.  SO delicious but has dairy and sugar.  Ahh.  I need to get back on track.  No legumes.  No dairy.  At least I'm starting to miss grains and fried food less and less. My SIFE peeps had Popeye's chicken and french fries.  Surprisingly I didn't leave the meeting craving fried chicken or french fries.  Win!  I had some mango and kiwi when I got home.  Mango is a pain to cut up!  Maybe I'm doing this wrong.  My friend told me I need to finess the mango.  Cut it into slices off the pit, then cut the skin off.  I'll try that tomorrow.  I was cutting the skin off with a knife, like peeling a potato or something.
Day 11

My parents back in maybe 1985 or 1986?
With me and my brother.

Happy 31st anniversary to my parents! They've been together for such a long time and just moved into a new house!! Love you guys!



I wake up feeling like I need to get back on track.  No dairy.  No grains.  No legumes.  No sugar.  I felt blah this morning and my weight went up a little.  I am going to allow myself protein shakes though.  I use BSN Lean Dessert.  Whipped Vanilla is my favorite.  It tastes kinda like whipped cream. 

Lunch time - Chicken and bacon on arugula mix with balsamic vinaigrette.  Good?  Well it was yummy, but ugh, the dressing had soy oil in it!  Oh come on.  I just won't use much of the dressing.  I'm still getting a hang of this whole paleo lifestyle. 

Serious cravings today.  I want a cookie, or a cupcake or frozen yogurt!!!  I'm going to try to push through these cravings.  I don't want to cheat on my new lifestyle.  I know eventually it will happen, but I want it to be good and worth it and PLANNED!  Not just because I have a craving for sugar.  Maybe I'm having this craving because of my smoothie from yesterday.....  :(

Check out this link about cheating on paleo:  Paleo Plan - Cheating

I didn't have time for a real dinner, so I got a smoothie again.  I know I said no dairy, no sugar, but I was starving and seriously had no time to sit down and eat.  I did at least have some beef jerky so I didn't finish the smoothie.  I am teaching someone how to use AutoCAD and I had to go straight to her house from work.  I really enjoy teaching others how to use the program.  I start teaching a new group of people new week.  It's just something I do on my own.  Maybe it's my future career?  AutoCAD Teacher?  Possibly.

A screen shot of AutoCAD