Wednesday April 27 day 10

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.

Snack after work: chimmichurri sauce and steak. Kicked major butt

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.

Tuesday April 26 day 9

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.

Monday April 25 day 8

I ate this:

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...

Sunday April 24

Happy Easter!

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.

saturday April 23 day 6

Oh, man. I'mma keeping this brief:

Saturday was just not a great day, either

Breakfast was some left over steak while holding my son and watching Super 15 rugby on my laptop.

Lunch was more steak on salad. Water to drink.

Dinner was some paleo chilli I put together: ground beef, corn, peas, beans, mushrooms. pretty good. White wine to drink. Yeah, I know.

Did this workout for five rounds on Saturday, finally:

20 BW squats
20 feet up push ups
10 ab roll outs
5 chin ups
10 TRX BW rows
20 two handed swings 30 lb KB used

I had no idea that beans and peas were on the borderline of being considered Paleo ... interesting stuff, man.

Friday April 22, day 5

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...

Thursday April 21 Day 4

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.