My last post that was my first post of this blog was almost a year ago. At that point I thought I was at my heaviest. I was wrong....
I now weight...
140.7kg
Well I'm not kicking myself about it. Never in my life did I think I would even get to this point. I'm slowly getting my ducks in a row to start again.
So I've signed up for a 8 week personal training session which told me my new current weight! That was slightly embarrassing with my personal training being a young healthy lad. But again I'm not going to beat myself up about it. I'm going to DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!
I've also signed up for a 12 week challenge that starts in 3 weeks. So I'm trying to break out of habits leading up to that.
I'm also going to try the Paleo Challenge:
Paleo Challenge: What to eat
YES to meat, seafood, vegetables, some fruit, eggs, nuts, and seeds. Beef, pork, chicken, lamb, seafood, tuna, salmon, shrimp. Avocado, asparagus, arugula, spinach, broccoli, celery, sweet potatoes, yams, any type of leafy green, red cabbage, artichoke. Berries, melon, pomegranate. Chicken eggs, ostrich eggs. (no Do Do eggs). Almonds, brazil nuts, walnuts.
No to processed foods. Pretty much anything in the middle of the grocery store. Can't recognize it growing or running around in the wild? Don't eat it.
No to sugar. I don't care whether it's super natural 100% organic fair trade sugar from the honey of communitarian bees, ITS STILL SUGAR. No sweeteners, no agave nectar, honey or maple syrup.
No grains. This includes bread, rice, pasta, cereal, oatmeal, corn and all of those gluten-free pseudo-grains like quinoa and sprouted grains.
No to legumes. Peanuts, peanut-butter, beans, peas, lentils.
No to dairy. Milk, cheese, yogurt, etc.
Less alcohol. No sugary mixers, no beer or alcohols containing gluten.
Fewer sweet fruits and starchy vegetables. Bananas, eating a bunch of apples, dried fruit, or white potatoes. (If you have serious inflammation issues like arthritis, you may want to consider avoiding all nightshades for 30 days.)
Cook with real fats. If you're cooking, then cook with lard or animal fat. If you don't have that, then cook with coconut oil, olive oil, or butter.
Still got questions? I'll be posting more on all the great things you can eat, how to shop, snacks, and more. In a nutshell, eat eggs and bacon for breakfast. A salad with meat on it for lunch. And meat and veggies for dinner. Easy!
Note: The initial rules I had up here I had grabbed from Joe Petrusky at CrossFit Love, who had grabbed them from Whole9Life. I attributed them to Petrusky, not Whole9Life. Rules are changed, now my own. Apologies!
Paleo Challenge: How to move
Do some form of high-intensity training (HIT) two or three times a week. At the simplest, that could mean intervals on a stationary bike for 15 minutes, or sprinting (don't if it's icy), or CrossFit, or anything that gets your heart rate up for 20 minutes or so. That's about an hour or so of actual working out a week -- very doable.
Paleo Challenge: How to sleep
Get more sleep. Duh.
Okay, that's it for now. A whole lot more to come. But you have to decide to make the commitment -- you gotta want it.
So...You in?
Though my ultimate goal is to make a CrossFit Games in NEW ZEALAND!!!!!
Will post a picture soon .....Here we go!!!
