I got to check out a local butcher on the way home from work today ... I had quite the time finding the place again, as the rain was coming down in buckets. I got into Florence Meats and poked around. Lots of stuff for sale that was mentioned in Paleo Solution. I'm not sure I'm brave enough for Cow Tongue or Cow knuckle but it might happen sometime later. In the end I bought some steak dipping sauce and headed home.
I ate fairly Paleo today:
Breakfast: roast beef dipped in ketchup. Yup, dry and getting worse. Almost done. Walnuts, water and a banana. Coffee on the way in
Snack: Walnuts and carrots with hummus
Lunch the usual, tuna on salad, carrots and green peppers on hummus, water to drink.
Dinner was a small piece of homemade lasagna, walnuts and a huge salad. Water to drink.
After dinner, I had a nap with my boy to get him asleep. The sun came out, and I asked my wife if she wanted to go for a walk. She said no, so I jumped at the chance to get out of the house and go to the local park for a workout. Simply awesome.
I did this five rounds:
30 TH KB swings 30 lb kb used. Need to get heavier KBs in the van 20 one handed snatches 10 one handed flips 20 feet up push ups 30 bw squats - also used the 50 lb backpack for two rounds 20 lunges
This took me about a half hour; I got all muddy, too. But the mud was warm, so it was all good.
OK, looks like I'm going ot have to go back and fix some of the days' numbers. Man, I hate when I mess up like that.
Speaking of messing up, I cheated a little on the Paleo diet today. Nothing huge, just a little disappointing.
Here's what I ate:
Breakfast: roast beef and poached eggs. I need to stop overcooking the pot roast. Seriously.
Snack water and a handful of walnuts.
Lunch: the usual of tuna on salad, hummus and carrots and green pepper. Water to drink.
Snack: stress. and two slices of pepperoni pizza with hummus. Meh, that'll be my cheat for the week.
Dinner: small - I mean tiny bowl of pasta with a huge salad. Water to drink. I saw this as punichment for me - I wasn't going to make my kids each stupidly dry meat. I am the only one that needs to suffer in that way...
All in all, not a great day for a Paleo type of diet. I am liking it, even if I am a little bored with what I am offering myself. However, I will be taking advantage of Robb Wolff's recipes, and those of others in the know, and getting a varied menu shortly. Seriously, it's good.
My wife asked me to get my son to sleep, so I do what I do best... I fell asleep with him in the rocking chair. My wife came in about 9pm to wake me up and put my son in the crib. We'd been like that for almost two hours, she said.
I did this five rounds for a workout today:
20 BW squats - should make this a bit harder next time, perhaps with a sandbag/BTB 20 regular push ups 10 bicep curls 10 triceps extensions 8-10 deadlifts 190 lbs 10 TRX body weight rows 10 ab roll outs 20 two handed KB swings 10 snatches each side 30 lb KB used.
I'm glad I got the workout in, even if it was a bit late. I'm going to go upstairs, grab my copy of the Paleo Diet and read the thing with the hockey game in the background.
Breakfast ... bowl of chilli ... with had lentils in it ... beans, peas, corn, ground beef... delicious, but not Paleo as I later found out.
Lunch was a black coffee with some roast beef.
Snack was a handful of walnuts with some grapefruit juice
Dinner was roast beef, potatoes, corn, peas and a large (I mean large) piece of carrot cake leftover from yesterday at my parent's place. I was kinda sick after sticking it in my gaping wadi.
I finally got a copy of The Paleo Solution today. Kind of an interesting read - the sections I read covered the whys and the whats... I get into in later on this week.
I did this workout five rounds:
20 BW or with 50 lbs extra squats 20 feet up push ups 20 two handed kettlebell swings (30 lb KB used) 10 KB snatches each side 10 overhead presses with a 60 lb backpack 10 ab rolls outs.
what a lousy day outside ... but I had to get out there or suffer the rest of the week...
I had a tough time keeping to the Paleo diet today ... my mother likes to cook with cheese.
Breakfast was late, as I was up with my son really late. Had pieces of roast beef. With some grapefruit juice.
Snack was walnuts with coffee
Dinner was hummus with veggies. At least I think it was hummus. Veggies were all over my plate; potato, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower ... they went on an on. Pork with peas with a salad was the main meal. It was good, and surprisingly paleo in nature. Where I fell down was the dessert, carrot cake. Lots of sugary icing, man.
No workout today, as most of the day was spent at my parent's place, hacking into my nieces' facebook accounts and enjoying the havoc.
This was a pretty nice holiday plan - but I didn't stick to it.
Nope, no morning workout today for me, nor did I get an evening one in, as a buddy came by needing help with their macbook. I did what I could for them; later reports are that what we did together worked as a band aid solution and my permanent solution was also recommended by the fine people at Creative Technology. Seriously, they are a cool store, man.
Ate this;
Breakfast was salad and tuna about 10am.
Snack was black coffee, waluts
Dinner was steak and salad. Chicken breast, too. Rice, veggies on the side. LOOOOTSA of leftovers as both my wife and I were putting stuff on the table to eat.
Not a lot of calories on this day. Which is nice in that that means there are less calories to work off later.
Didn't do much in the way of reading today as most of the day I was confronted with small domestic situations I had to solve. Ah, it's joyful being a dad...
OK, going through my food journal and research notes from last week.
Ate this:
Breakfast was coffee on the way into work
Snack was walnuts and water to drink
Lunch was not good, a tim horton's chilli and bun.
Dinner was lasagna - pasta, lots of ground beef, cheese, spinach and other veggies. Salad. water to drink
I was supposed to go to rugby, but it was called off as the fields were too wet. I hate that, especially when I was kinda looking forward to it all day. I didn't work out, I'm sorry to say.
I did listen to some of Rob Wolff's podcast and plan to pick up his book on Monday.
I did eat fairly well today, at least until I got home for dinner. Still everything is still cool, although I still need to pick up the Paleo Solution, I did listen to a few of the episodes of Robb Wolf's podcast today on the drive in. Interesting stuff.
I ate this:
Breakfast: chicken and salad/veggies. OJ to drink
Black coffee on the way in (no dairy in a paleo diet)
Coffee with milk as a snack, with prunes and a handful of walnuts, carrots with hummus.
Lunch was the usual of tuna on salad, carrots and hummus, walnuts, water to drink.
Dinner was a very meaty lasagna; spinach, ground beef with some cheese.
Yes, kind of disappointed with the amount of dairy in today's meals. However, when presented with a gift of coffee, one doesn't turn it down. I also don't turn down lasagna when it is made by my six year old daughter. If you turn down either one, it is just bad karma. I also am getting rid of the almonds in my diet, as they as just too many calories; I really really like them, and I just have to put them to the side, at least for this week. Walnuts look like brains to me, by the way....
he he he he ... zombies... I hate them, but they are just so "there".
Did five rounds of this:
20 Bodyweight squats 20 feet up push ups 20 kettlebell two handed swings 10 kettlebell snatches (both hands) 10 ab roll outs 20 step ups with 10 lbs in each hand - 20 inch step 10 bicep / triceps with 50 lb barbell
a good workout; I would still like to be able to afford to do some Bjj, but between childrens' stuff and a mat leave, there's just no coin left over for it. Meh, I know I need to start running again. Cheaper and probably better for my sore neck in the long run.
Breakfast: chicken breast and poached eggs, water to drink
Coffee on the way into work
Lunch: tuna, green pepper with hummus, prunes and almonds, water to drink.
Dinner: stewing beef, broccoli, carrots, other assorted veggies slow cooked. It was pretty good. I ate early, thinking I was going to rugby training. I was wrong.
Instead, I held a barfing boy for a few hours while he, well.... barfed. He's getting pretty good with his aim, I must say. The other two children were out of range for a four month old stomach, but he was close to getting them.
I did do some more reading online and some listening to robb Wolf's podcast. He's rather inane during a lot of them - talking about a lot of stuff that isn't directly related to his book or the topic at hand. Random.
I did learn that I can't have milk in my coffee, though. Meh, whatever.
I guess I'm just used to Gary Vanerchuck's really good podcast ... kinda spoiled, I guess. I'm going to have to make up the training session during the long weekend. Before I get there, though, there is another two tough days ahead.
Yes, that WAS as good as it looks. The funny thing is that I really could have scrounged up enough money to get a Belt at Tim Hortons, but didn't. I could have set up another tab with the cafeteria lady, but didn't. I dunno why I didn't perhaps it was fate helping me keep to my diet today. Whatever else it was, it was also delicious.
Breakfast: coffee, 6 almonds, 6 prunes
Snack: that awesome bowl of unified fateful fruit seen above.
Lunch: tuna (no salad) almonds, prunes. Water to drink.
Dinner: meat casserole; ground beef, veggies (a lot of veggies) with some spagetti sauce and a few crumbles of cheese.
I did this very simple workout for four rounds
20 BW squats 20 push ups, feet level 20 lunges 10 knee to chest while on chin up bar 20 kettlebell swings to catch to two handed press
after this, I rolled on my ITB bands, my quads ... legs were rolled all over. Man, they were just balls of hurt.
So, I was working on building this blog today. I found a few videos ... I posted one on the other blog, for example. I did look around for the Paleo Soltion by Robb Wolf ... it's at the local Chapters. I'm thinking I'll pick it up on the way home tomorrow. I'm kind of concerned that I could only find the dead tree version, but alas, that is what I could find.
I did also find Robb Wolf on Facebook, but he as too many friends. I did go down his wall and read a few of the links posted there and also was kind of please to discover that we share 51 friends. I'm kind of proud of that ... ;)
I also did a #Paleo search on twitter. Yes, I did write that, really. For a research project like this, it is sometimes useful to gather as much information and opinion on an idea as possible. Twitter does that really really easily. I took a few minutes ... minutes .... and got a few ideas about how to eat Paleo ... not the least of which was "work the edges" - that is, when going ot a grocery store, don't shop in the middle of the store. Instead, work the outside aisle of the store. I'd not heard it put that way, but I know what the idea means. Go to your local store and see for yourself.
In any case, the last thing I did before going to bed was to watch this TED talk about the discovery and use of cooking. It did sound kind of lame, but he does make a compelling case for the importance of cooking.
OK, so ... I went looking around the intewebs tonight and found ... a website I already knew about.
Greg Carver's blog and gym is something that's pretty cool. Good recipes, too. I think one of the recipes is something I'm going to have to look into for this porject.
Oh, and there is the link I wanted to park here; I'm goin to Whole Foods to look into their supplements aisle at some point.
Ok, I'll admit this right off: I'm curious what it is to eat like a cave man. In the readings I'm doing, the stuff that is pounded into my head my the people I have friended on facebook, they all tell me that I need to eat better to live a healthier life.
Well, my diet isn't bad. I try to eat as healthy as I can as often as I can. But I know that I can do better.
I know I can do better. Really, I have to. I'm a dad.
So, given the excuse, the opportunity and the time to research what it is/means to eat like a caveman ... I'm going to take it and run with it.
I love doing research projects like this: you never know what really cool stuff you're going to find out about. The fancy name for such learning is called "Project Based Learning" ... wait, I'll wikipedia it for you ... lol ...
I'll be listening to podcasts, reading books and watching stuff on Youtube. I just know it. I'm also going to be talking to people to try and get my head around stuff that I just know is going to come up. I just don't know who or what we'll talk about.
