OK, so I got in trouble with Chris for eating Cheerios. If they are bad how come they taste so good? Anyways, I accept your 30 day challenge Chris! I can already tell that I will be in some serious trouble Sunday at the Super Bowl party I am going to, so I might slip a bit there, but you have to start somewhere. If I follow the Paleo Diet all other days than when there are big events like that, I think I am doing pretty good.
So far I can see a few hurdles:
- Valentines day, this should be ok though. I don't know how hard it is to get Paleo food at restaurants, but I might let that one night be the night I don't follow Paleo depending on where I end up going.
- My wife's birthday is coming up, same as above.
- My parents are visiting from Denmark. Even if they will be staying with us, so I could pretty much be in control of what I eat, it will be impossible for me to get my dad to follow a Paleo diet, so dinner might be a little tricky. Plus, seeing my parents twice a year makes it a great opportunity to get some authentic comfort food, courtesy of my mom. Let me just say that traditional Danish food is not quite Paleo.
I have never cared for what I ate ever. I have just been eating whatever I felt like, though like most people I have been trying to watch calories a bit by choosing light products, I am not sure how good it is, but it felt allright. I have been at a constant weight of around 220 pounds for the past 2 years, I did gain a little weight after moving to America - portions are way bigger here than in Denmark. It is so easy to keep eating food when it is sitting on your plate, even if you aren't hungry any more.
I also started cooking more ever since I moved in with Kristin (my wife) since it is more fun to cook when you have someone to cook for. When I lived by myself I ate the weirdest shit, and I am sometimes surprised that I survived hehe (I could go 24 hrs just eating half a cucumber because I was too lazy to buy food).
I have never been working out at a gym on a regular basis. Growing up I played soccer like 85% of Danish boys, but I stopped playing at 18. After finishing high school, I moved in with a friend and our apartment became the default place to hang out for all of our friends. I started college, but my room mate didn't study. Lets just say it was your typical bachelor pad. Pizzas and coke (and I wanna say weed, but I don't think there is a lot of nutrition in that) was the foundation of our diet, and when we cooked it was heavy on pasta and rice. I eventually got a girlfriend and moved in with her. I started to eat more home cooked meals, and after a while I started training Kick boxing. I did this for about a year, and kinda liked it but it was never really my thing. I knew I didn't want to compete, getting punched and kicked in the face is not my thing. So I stopped. This is about 4 years ago.
When I started at LaLanne Fitness I probably didn't quite know what I was getting myself into. I had heard of Crossfit from a couple of friends in Denmark, my former room mate is one of them. It seemed like a cool kind of workout, and having been a member of Crunch but never using the membership, I knew I needed something different.
I have never really worked out with weights in my life. Soccer was just running around, we didn't hit the gym at all. Kickboxing was at a beginner level, and I felt good just kicking and punching bags for 1.5 hours, I didn't feel like I needed to lift weights.
I have always been big, so I never had to compensate by lifting anything but my own body weight. When I was 4 I was as big as the 6 year olds, and I have been 6'-6" since I was 16.
Just starting working out on a regular basis like I am now, is a huge change in my life. I have never thought that I would have fun lifting weights, but it has changed. The best part of all of this is that I used to smoke, but I quit the day almost died during the baseline w/ Chris. I felt horribly out of shape, and I probably was. And I knew that smoking didn't help at all. I had one whiff of a smoke on New Year's Eve and almost choke, that is one bad habit I wont be going back to.
So now I am doing Paleo, hopefully it will be as big of an improvement for me as starting crossfit has been.
Saturday Feb 06
B: 3 Scrambled eggs with 1 chicken breast, avocado, tomato and macadamia nuts.
L: Didn't eat lunch
D: Beers. I actually only had breakfast on Saturday, and I shouldn't have been drinking, I blame the people I was with.
Friday Feb 05
B: Cheerios, had I known it would be my last bowl I would have eaten more of them!
L: Ham/Cheddar sandwich. I guess the only Paleo think in that sandwich was the salad.
- Starting Paleo -
D: Tuna w/ eggs and tomatoes. Since I didn't have many paleo friendly food ingredients in my kitchen, I ate a somewhat amputated dinner. I wanted to add black olives, but apparently they are bad too. Bah.
