I'm baaaaack!
So this weekend was awesome. Had a great time with everyone and got to learn some really cool things. As far as the eating went, it was a cheat weekend and there was essentially no way of getting around it unless I wanted to lock myself in my room and starve. Friday I was good just because I brought all my food with me. Saturday and Sunday were no bueno - we're not even going to get into the horrific (yet delicious) things I ate. Trust me, my digestive system punished me enough for it. In conclusion, I'm moving on. No more cheat days.
There are a LOT of things on the docket for this week: food shopping, food prepping, FINALLY getting to really clean up my room and put the school supplies away, and various other sundry items such as researching grad schools and getting stuff done for RITA. No big deal, I like to say.
Last night after getting home, I essentially went right to bed. Submitted my points for Week 1, made a very brief shopping list, and passed the hell out. I gotta say, I don't miss vampire hours at all...it's really nice going to bed and not waking up at noon or later. I got so much done in the time from 9 am to noon that I don't know why I don't just go to bed early all the time. Hell, I'm gonna do it right after I post this! Picked up the puppy and went to the gym. Because I'm dumb, I forgot they changed the class time from 12:30 to 12, so I showed up at 12:30 wondering why everyone was loading up barbells. The coach was really chill about it and let me just do a 500 m row to warm up and then join in on the last exercises. Today's workout was all strength. My specialty...or so I thought.
Strength:
5 rounds: 12 deadlifts, 9 hang cleans, 6 push press -- working up to an unbroken weight (63 pounds)
Skill:
4 x 8 box squats (125 pounds)
The idea behind the strength portion of the workout was to get yourself to a weight where you could finish all 3 exercises without ever letting go of the barbell. Each of the 3 exercises ended conveniently at a point where you were already set up to transition into the next one, so it left you with no reason to put the thing down. I was pretty much done by the end of the 1st round, and that's kind of what I was afraid of. I maxed out at 63 pounds. Now if you've read some of my other posts, I'm definitely capable of lifting a lot more than that with those exercises. Being away from the gym for even just a week really kills me. I knew I would have a hard time going back because my knee and back pain came back over the weekend, and my body wasn't prepared for it. Literally my body is addicted to CrossFit. People might think I'm crazy but it's true. After just 4 days of being away from it, all the joints start going through withdrawal and they just start hurting again; 7 days...fuhget about it. I of course beasted through the squats because I've got the freakin legs of Superman.
I ended this week with 57 points. I'm not quite sure how many you can get but it's a good starting point. I could definitely use some more bonus points this week and I also need to stay away from the cheats for sure. I'm not complaining. I was feeling great up until Saturday so any setbacks I may have in the next couple days are completely my fault.
On to the most important part of my week...and that is food!
Today I super scrounged, not for lack of knowing what to eat, but more because there is nothing to eat in this place. For breakfast I tried my hand at a strawberry pineapple smoothie with almond milk since I wanted to get out the door and run some errands. Yeah, it was gross. Never again. So after doing the errands I had a couple pieces of smoked turkey and an orange. After working out, I baked a chicken breast and grilled up the last little bit of eggplant. Few hours later I had a snack of an apple with almond butter. Went to work for a couple hours and by the time I got out I just wasn't hungry/didn't feel like making food at 9:30, so it's being deferred until tomorrow.
Tomorrow is food shopping day. I've decided to do a little in depth research since I have tomorrow completely off. I'm going to make a trip to Trader Joe's just to see how the quality/price matches up with the things I buy at Wegmans. Obviously I'm still looking to go to the public market for things like fresh veggies and also meat, but there are some things that will still need to be bought in the stores.
I'm very psyched for some of the recipes I'm looking to try. I'm probably going to make another shepherd's pie too just because it's easy to have on hand for lunch since I'm so uncreative when it comes to that meal. I'm home practically all week so why not try something new! After doing some research I found some great looking substitutes for pasta -- spaghetti squash and zucchini. When you cook spaghetti squash and scrape out the insides, it looks like real spaghetti, and after I get a julienne peeler, I can made noodles out of zucchini. Very exciting since I've kind of started missing pasta a little. I essentially spent my afternoon going through recipes and picking out my favorite ones. There will be no lack of good food in this house.
The recipes on the docket for this week are (I'll post the recipes tomorrow since they'll take up a bit of space):
Italian Meatloaf
Cauliflower bread
Pepper and Sausage Chowder
Artichoke Pesto Chicken Pasta
I plan on getting myself a metric crapton of cauliflower to keep on hand just because it actually can be used in a lot of things. I'll also be getting myself some almond flour so maybe I can give pancakes a shot. I haven't decided on snacks yet but those are usually a last minute thing of picking up a few extra veggies or fruit. I think I'm more leaving that up to what I find at Trader Joe's. The deli meats and the jerky really worked out last week so maybe I'll go for more of that.
If anyone is curious about which sites I use to get Paleo recipes/more ideas, here are the ones I've been using a lot lately:
http://paleomg.com/
http://fastpaleo.com/
http://www.paleoeffect.com/
http://www.paleoplan.com/
I'm sure there's millions more out there but those are the ones that I've recently been getting most of my recipes from.
Methinks it's finally bed time. I can definitely get used to the graduated life.
G'night all!
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