I love Grace. A whole bunch of you did 30 Clean and Jerks for time yesterday and it was pretty cool. I believe there was even a men-followed-by-women version at 5:00. I like the picture of Larry’s pull at the top and look at those elbows on Cullen! His technique is so good. Christine’s push jerks were really on as well.
So, what’s on for Paleo-Zone today?
Leftovers from yesterday for one. And some cold green soup that I made yesterday. Carl mentioned something about soylent green, but then admitted it actually tasted pretty good. Into the VitaMix (a high powered blender) went sorrel (3 blocks worth), spinach (4 blocks worth), some sea salt, black pepper, 1 bunch Parsely (1 block), white miso (1 block) and a little lemon zest and a small avocado (about 9 fat blocks), plus water to thin it. The entire thing is 9 blocks carbs and 9 blocks fat, so 2/3 for Carl and 1/3 for me. Kind of a nice trade from a giant salad-eating marathon. I made plenty of extra chicken so a 3oz piece for me and Carl gets 6oz.
I thought you all might like to see an email that I got from my friends Matt and Cherie at CrossFit Verve in CO. See, it really does work.
On another note, we have been strict (loose term for me and Cherie) Paleo Zone, with fewer carb blocks and increased fat blocks with a post workout change or two. It has been great and I'm loving the quality of the food more than anything. My performance is through the roof when I stick to it. Our clients are looking super sexy because of it too! Anyway, thought you'd be proud. All the best, Matt
That Larry guy is HOT!
I must confess, I ate 4 bites of Bodi’s chocolate chip cookie after 10 rounds of 10 deadlifts/10 HSPU’s last night.
I feel better now.
Day 2 yeah. Feeling good. Lots and lots of salad eating. I plan on making a huge batch of Jen’s curried cabbage recipe today which will be a good 4-5 meals worth of carbs for me. I was debating whether to say this or not but Courtney’s honesty has inspired me. I plan on having 3 small chocolate pieces as part of my snack on most days. It is 2 fat blocks and 1 carb block for all 3 pieces. I will just add some protein and 1 more carb balcok to round out teh snack. This will help to keep me happy and sane in many different ways. It is high quality chocolate with very little sugar- hence the low carb blocks. After losing over 100 pounds in the past 18-months I know my strengths and limits and this will help me to be successful for the next 13 days! I am also super psyched about a my ebay score on a used vitamix, should be coming today. Needed an upgrade after burning out the motor on my blender last week making a smoothie
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Erin, I could not agree more with you on the woman power thing. I am always so inspired by Jen, Jenny and Kate and can’t wait to be as strong and fit as them some day! Ok enough said for the moment.
Just wanted to say that I’m really excited about Raisins. Trying to satisfy my 6 carb blocks with green vegetable makes me feel gluttonous and bloated. But just 1 TBS of raisins can take the place of a cup of spinach, a whole cucumber or 6 cups of lettuce. Plus they’re sweet.
Nikki, I miss you! Its nice to be able to see your posts but I am looking forward to seeing you more often! I feel good but need some two ingredient recipe ideas. Some of you know I do not cook and need all the help I can get. Had some salmon sushi last night and snuck in some soy sauce. I keep forgetting to bring my own non wheat soy sauce, but at least I didnt gorge on white rice!
Jen,
Did you answer about jerky? Ron wants to know if he should be eating it too.
For lunch today I had two scrambled eggs cooked in 1/3t butter, a manageable 3c lettuce with 1/4c carrots, 1/2c green onion, and 1oz TJ’s Uncured Pastrami on top of the salad. I used balsamic vinegar as dressing, and had 3″ banana for dessert. That’s a 3-3-3 meal. So far I feel great, and I haven’t been too hungry.
This list showed up in my inbox in two different ways so I guess I am suppose to share it. For those of us on a limited budget I have to chose what I can buy organic. This is a list of the things with the highest and lowest pesticide residues.
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Buy these things organic when possible:peaches, apples, sweet bell peppers, celery, nectarines, strawberries, cherries, pears, imported grapes, spinach, lettuce, kale, carrots and potatoes.
This is the low pesticide list I iwll think twice about spending a lot extra for organic for these things: onions, avocados, frozen sweet corn, pineapples, mangos, asparagus, frozen sweet peas, kiwi, bananas, cabbage, broccoli, eggplant, watermelon, and papaya.
Of course local is always best, but you do what you can do
PS I miss you too Briar, was hoping to see you at the games on Sat. I am starting to feel a bit better and hope to be back to speed soon!
Nikki, I was planning on coming but we got into a car crash Fri and my body was hurting. Everyone is okay but Im a little black and blue today. Im hoping to scale the workout for tomorrow and hoping my new healthy eating habits will have me recovering faster. Maybe Ill see you this Sat!
Dang- it takes a lot of time to chew all these veggies… Lunch and dinner now take about 30 minutes more just in chewing time. The things we’ll go through just to look good naked…
Courtney, of course I choose the hot guys to put in pics on the blog. Thanks for sharing him. Yes, beef jerky is certainly helpful, although I find the turkey jerky easier to chew. You have to check the carb grams because some of the less-natural versions have some carbs from added sugar. But I couldn’t get through a Zoned week without it. Chauncey-I highly recommend the salad-in-the-blender method. Try the green soup. Briar, I’ll get you some 2 ingredient ideas coming up. You are all awesome.
Had a 2 block smoothie today: 2/3 scoop Jay Robb’s Vanilla Protein Powder, .5 c berries, 3″ banana, 6 almonds and water. Pretty good, but I usually add yogurt or milk so I didn’t get very full and barely made it to my next meal.
Changing portions today, because I was a bit hungry last night. (So, I had a 1 block snack late last evening. 11 blocks for day 1, instead of 10) The plan today was: Bkfst 3, Snk 2, Snk 2, Dnnr 3 I’ll see how that feels. Gonna try to stick to 10 blocks today.
I’m quite sure that if paleo-peeps were alive today they would be lined up @ DQ. I am missing kashi cereal & cold milk for b-fast….. My ratios are definately spot on… but I worked my first shift w/out any overprocessed RN snacks. It was our year anniv. in our new unit & cake & candy were EVERYwhere. I raised my snobby 2 day in zone-ish, non-grain/sugar eyebrows and marched away.
One day at a time. thanks for the meal posts…. I am grooving on TJ’s ‘greens’sauteed in minute amounts of OO and garlic!
c-u-thurs for a much needed WOD.
erin
clarification…my ratios are NOT spot on. Room for improvement is always good! -e
I love eating…
I need some help with salad dressing ideas. I’m not a big fan of balsamic vinegar and 1tsp olive oil doesn’t go very far.
Christine,
I am not a big fan of any salad dressing that’s not “Ranch” dressing, which I obviously can’t eat, so I have learned to eat my salads with no dressing at all over time, but in the beginning… before they invented ranch dressing… just kidding. When I first started Paleo, I would squeeze fresh lemon and then use sea salt and some pepper. The lemon is not enough to count toward your blocks and it’s actually quite good!