Damn You Water Baby!

Wow, busy busy day today. Got up at 10:30, made breakfast, and got my butt to campus to finish off an online final. Got that done with 2 hours to spare, came back home for a late lunch, prepped a little for dinner and then ran off to the gym. Got back from that and for the past 2 and a half hours I've been in the kitchen getting food ready for this week. Now I'm finally in bed (and have to be awake in 7 hours - FFFFFFFF).

So, anywho.

Breakfast today was scrambled eggs with an orange on the side. Didn't want to go too heavy since I knew lunch would be coming a few hours after. Didn't bring any snacks with me to campus since I figured I'd only be a little while. It ended up being a little longer than expected so I was a little hungry by the time I came home. Lunch was grilled asparagus wrapped in deli ham, which actually ended up being a lot tastier than I expected! Along with that I had a couple slices of tomato and an apple with almond butter. Literally, after eating almond butter, I will never go back to peanut butter...ever. So incredibly delicious. It actually kind of reminds me of nutella.

Before I went to the gym, I started prepping things for when I was going to cook later. I cut up some sweet potatoes, carrots and onions for a shepherd's pie. I also boiled some eggs to have on hand as snacks. While chopping things up is incredibly cathartic, I didn't feel like dealing with it several hours later.

The workout today wasn't too bad. Warm-up was 8 rounds of tabata rowing, 1 lap of ultimate stretch, 1 lap of inchworm and 20 ham to plows. I'm definitely starting to beast through rowing which feels great.

Strength:
5-5-3-3-1-1-1
Deadlift, one set every 2 minutes. I was so psyched to be doing 1 RM's with deadlifts. I maxed out at 185 pounds. Can I just deadlift my patients from now on?

MetCon:
3 rounds of 40 wallballs, 120 jump ropes. Time cap at 15 minutes.

Wall balls are tough. They're pretty similar to those clusters I was doing Saturday where you're in a squat position and come back up and throw something above your head. The idea is to pace yourself. A lot of us take the number of reps and cut them into smaller sets. Like I was doing sets of 10 at first, but once I got tired it cut down to 5. There were definitely a few moments where I caught the ball with my face. Finished all that in 14:24 and you know what I have to say to that? I freaking finished and I'm here to tell the tale!

The real troubling part of today was the water intake. I went back to my half my body weight in fluid ounces thing. Been carrying my water bottle with me everywhere. So now I have water baby. But try having water baby and jump roping. There were definitely some almost awkward moments with that one. Literally every jump was like "Oh no."

So meal prepping went REALLY well tonight. I came home and made some delicious things. One was a paleo shepherd's pie, which was grassfed ground beef, carrots, onions and mashed sweet potatoes. I seasoned everything with Italian seasoning, garlic powder, and black pepper. The mashed potatoes were made with unsweetened almond milk and olive oil. It turned out so yummy! You basically saute the carrots and onions together for a few minutes, then add the meat and cook it until there's no more pink. The potatoes you make separately. Once everything is cooked, you put it in the oven for 20 minutes at 350 degrees.

 

For dinner I made seasoned chicken drumsticks with mashed cauliflower. Mashed cauliflower is actually pretty good. You just steam the cauliflower and then mash it up with a fork and some almond milk. It kind of starts to get gross when it starts cooling off so you need to eat it fast. This was my first time eating organic chicken. Very tasty!

I have work for the next two days, so I'll be bringing Shepherd's pie and the leftover chicken with some steamed broccoli. I also made a Western Frittata, which had peppers, onions and tomatoes. I've never made a frittata before so it was definitely an adventure. You cook up the veggies, then pour the eggs over them, reduce the heat to low and cook for 15 minutes, then you put the whole pan in the oven until everything sets. It looks good so hopefully it ends up being yummy. I'll bring that with me for breakfast along with a couple chicken sausages. Needless to say, I'm ready to go! No Cheetohs for me tomorrow!

All in all I think I did really well today. 3 full meals, plenty of water, and exercise. Perfect day in my book. So I realized that I lied about the point scheme with the challenge. I was going off of what we were told in the eBook they sent us. Everyday, you can earn up to 9 core points. They come from eating real food, no sugar, no alcohol, no dairy, no legumes, no processed stuff, drinking half your body weight in fluid ounces, and taking fish oil. If you don't follow one of those guidelines, you won't get a point. Then there's bonus points such as exercising, getting 8+ hours of sleep, going to a Paleo event with the gym, and bringing a dish to a Paleo potluck. So far I'm doing really well! Don't know about the fish oil part since I'm not taking that right now, but maybe I'll grab some at some point.

I don't know how I'm going to get up at 5:30. I'm incredibly not tired. Probably just going to watch Vampire Diaries until I get sleepy.

G'night all!