1. How are you guys?
2. How was your first day of eating Paleo?
3. Did everybody get their results/pics? (I am only waiting on an e-mail from Scantlebury)
4. Someone needs to be in charge of posting a funny or motivational video - Collin did it last time and it was great....
Good luck to all! Now let's hear from you!
Day 1 is always an easy one for me. It's the days leading up to day 1 that are so bad!
ReplyDeleteI know myself well enough to know that a strict diet with a fixed timeframe is a recipe for a yo-yo. I spent many years going up and down 20 lbs each time the seasons changed, and I'm not interested in going back there. Here are some givens for me as I start this challenge:
1) I have very little self-control. That means that if mom goes paleo, the whole family goes paleo.
2) I love to cook but don't have a whole lot of time to get it done.
OK, now for the goals and the strategy.
My goal is to lose body fat while increasing or at least maintaining lean body mass. I have been getting stronger and stronger over my past 2 years at WCCF, but it kills me that I can't do a strict pullup or a strict ring dip, and many other skills. I'm thinking that if I took a bit off my butt, then I'd have an easier time reaching those goals.
Strategy: Paleo (mostly) while trying to get a Zone-like balance of carb/protein/fat in all meals and snacks. As for "mostly", I have a few paleo exceptions that relate to my 2 givens above.
I need to be able to cook with wine. Just a bit can add so much flavor and so little bad that it seems reasonable to me.
Cheese is banned, except for salads. I LOVE cheese and eat way too much of it, so I need to force myself to stay away from it. Salads are the exception, though. If there is a bit of crumbled gorgonzola, feta or whatever in my salad, I'll eat a salad the size of Manhattan, no dressing required. Without the cheese, it stays untouched. A small price to pay to get lots of veggies.
1/4 cup of whole milk in my single cup of coffee in the morning. My sanity is critical to my health, so again, a small price to pay.
That's it. My official stake in the ground.
Starting point:
Lean mass: 121
Fat mass: 25
Body fat %: 17.8
Good call Kim, I agree lets make this official.
ReplyDeleteMy Goals are primarily to gain lean body mass. I'm a pretty waifish dude so losing fat isn't my primary concern but I need to start focusing on eating a lot more grass fed meats, eggs, and other high protein sources, of course coupled with a few veggies. :)
Concerning what allowances I will make to the strict paleo diet, Coffee, corn/grain fed meat when I don't have access to grass fed meat and 1 beer for my good friends birthday.
starting point:
Lean Mass: 153
Fat Mass: 9
Body fat %: 5.7
I like where we're going here.
ReplyDeleteMy challenges:
1. Willpower: I have very little of it, period. I love food and everything about it...ie: taste, texture, smell, cooking it...you get the idea. So, my biggest challenge will be adopting an "eat to live" mentality.
2. Upcoming social events: a). Football game/tailgating back in Iowa with my peeps. This will be the first sober one. b). Thanksgiving; my family are all foodies too.
My Goals:
1. lose the budda (or at least a big portion of it)
2. a god forsaken kipping pull up!
Strategy:
1. Aim for at least 4 nights/week at WCCF, working up to 5/6
2. Prepare my meals in bulk on Sundays for the rest of the week
3. Avoid my friends and all their debauchery, kick my beautiful Asian roomie (who brings dessert home in massive quantities at least twice a month) out, and find myself a caveman boyfriend who will hunt and forage for me.
Lean mass: 104
Fat mass: 61
Body fat %: 37.5
Good luck peeps!
Hey Guys,
ReplyDeleteThis is Tall Dave.. I am posting through Jonina (she's my lady.) I couldn't see it to eat a bunch of crap in front of her while she is working (and suffering) so hard and I am curious myself...so I am in. Actually one day in. I started yesterday.
Doogie...can I get an invite to set up a profile? DallamericanK@yahoo.com.
So my status:
Day one was hard. I was starving. Headache...sweating some. Doing better today. We have made a couple trips to the store to put some strategies in motion.
My Goals:
I did not participate in body fat testing (had no money), but I really just want to improve my conditioning and energy. I work long days and have a hard time doing well with the workouts.
Question (to the folks that demand larger caloric and protein intakes or anyone that has ideas):
I am good sized. 6'5" 200 pounds. Need a lot of food. Any good ideas? Like last night, I ate two chicken breasts, a thigh and 5 hard boiled eggs. Yea...i was a pleasure to be around!
Thanks much ... lets do this!
Day One I was able to stick to the eating plan. Felt like I should have had a little more protein at lunch though!
ReplyDeleteBreakfast; eggs and sausage (a bit of a cheat here since it had maple syrup in it, but hey - too cheap to throw the rest of that out).
Lunch: salad with leftover grilled chicken breast.
Snack / Pre-workout fuel: carrots and almond butter... (should replace carrots with a protein, will grill up some chicken tonight for that!)
Dinner: salmon and asparagus.
Post Workout - had some coconut water.
Day one is almost done. Now to plan tomorrow's menu.
@DK - way to stick it and support your lady!!!
Hey there - its the REAL Jonina Hernandez. Tall Dave has decided to make life easier for me and out complain me daily while partaking in the paleo diet.
ReplyDeleteDay one was tough and I have no idea how I'm still conscious after the workout today. As Dave mentioned, we weren't equipped well yesterday which made for a tough 24 hrs. We stocked up on some good things after tonight's WOD and now I am feeling more optimistic.
My goals are to lose the area Dave and I fondly call "the Jelly" before i turn 30 six days after the challenge ends. For you mathematicians out there, yes, I was born on Christmas. And yes, it sucks. I would also like to see how my diet in the past effects how I feel so that hopefully I will sleep NO MORE than 8-9 hrs a day. Already this group has been influential to keep me from caving!
Lean mass: 106
Fat mass: 34
Body fat %: 24.9
So I've been eating whole30 for a few days now - officially on day 12. Still, I had a monster fit with my brain yelling GIVE ME LATTE NOW around 3pm today. I've been taking it pretty light (aka not showing up) at the box for the last 12 days so I'm pretty psyched to try eating right and working out AT THE SAME TIME.
ReplyDeleteGoals
1. Eat whole foods
2. Use capitalization as much as possible when posting.
3. Do real push ups
When I was in high school I did 40 push ups on my toes every day in gym class. I want that back. I read somewhere that you can't out train a bad diet. And I'm pretty sure (after a few months of trying) that it is true, and I'm pretty sure I'm willing to change what needs changing to bring back push ups.
Over the, what, year and a half I’ve been with WCCF, I’ve been slowly shaving off what I like to call the “negatives” of my diet; pasta, rice, breads, most dairy, most processed foods, and a majority of sugar. Lately though, something’s not right: I come home at the end of the day and get lazy. Protein shakes instead of real food, semi-prepped Trader Joes meat instead of my own cooked stuff, and not nearly enough veggies as I used to consume.
ReplyDeleteThis is also the time of year where things get stressful at the office, and there’s an abundance of sugar everywhere. As we speak right now there’s a bowl of leftover Halloween candy no more than 4 feet from me (there’s a 6 foot cubical wall in the way), but I’ve found myself casually scooping up a handful of whoppers on the way to my desk, when I know I have veggies in the fridge. As Thanksgiving and Christmas approach, its time to nip the bud early on. This will definitively eat in to my baking hobby, as I don’t believe in “paleoized” baked goods/sweets.
My goals are as follows:
1. Rid myself of dependency on Whey Protein. I don’t necessarily think Whey is bad, I just feel its playing too much of a role.
2. Get my weekends under control. No more grazing on snacks at parties, downing pizza’s, burgers and wings. I’ve already cut back on beer and can nurse a tequila all night, but its something I need to be wary of, because this can affect the others.
3. Cook more. Sounds simple, but you know as well as I do that when you step in to the house for the first time in 13 hours or something at the end of the day, the last thing you want to do is start dicing onions and browning beef. Well, stop feeling sorry for yourself and just fracking do it.
4. Phasing out dependency on legumes: Lentils, beans, peanuts, etc. I’ve always loved lentils, so simple, so filling, so easy to prepare. Again, I don’t necessarily think they’re bad in doses, but no more giant stockpots of lentil soup.
Lastly, this is a non-nutritional goal, but this is a chance for me to get to know some of you new folks/people I don’t get to lift with. Going over these lists, I’ve shared shorts with Scantlebury, seen Corro kick some ass, and Kim H just speaks for herself. I’m Dole, I’m a 4:30 guy mtw, 8:30 f, and I’m at Sealfit Saturdays when class is in session. I’m usually dressed in loud colors with bright red VFF, and I talk more than I should. I’m also the incredibly handsome guy in need of a haircut.
Lean body mass: 151
Fat mass: 15
Body fat %: 9.6
Pleased to "meet" you Dole. I didn't see your bright red VFFs on Sunday but I do believe I saw your underwear. :-)
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