My love of Cheese and our Breakup.

So I just made it through Day 2 of both the Paleo 30 day challenge and Day 2 of the WTF was I thinking Squat Challenge (day 2 = 205 squats).

First a note on Paleo. Yes, it’s only been two days but that’s a long time in ways (if you don’t believe me watch the movie I recently watched and see what can happen in two days…. the Stanford Experiment) and I MISS cheese already. Cheese more than chocolate even. Mind you, I miss chocolate as well but, Wow, you don’t realize how many things you have cheese on or cheese flavored! I feel rather, sad…lost and sad…without my cheese. Sigh. I shall miss it, so. But my body won’t!

I did give in on one thing and I’m not going to beat myself up over it. I, admitting this sounds horrible, have consumed between 3-5 diet sodas almost every day for a long time. A long time. I’ve tried to just stop quit on that in the past and if you’ve every tried to totally quit caffeine with no warning you’ll understand my next word…..Migraine! Um, no, can’t do those again. So I made the decision to allow myself one soda per day and that seems to be working ok. I could feel the headache coming on today shortly before getting the soda and had a minor panic moment! Eventually, if things go well, I’m hoping to just ease all the way off but until than I’ll have my one. (Did I mention I work nights so usually there’s at least one energy drink as well….gone!).

Meanwhile, in squat hell….the challenge started yesterday with 200 squats. Today was 205 and tomorrow 210. What the happy hell was I thinking! Oh, wait, I was thinking I’m going to have one Hell of a great Squat Ass when this is done! By calculations and with Sunday’s as rest day according to my normal workout schedule, I should be rockin’ out 315 squats when this is done. Well, we I mean since my gym partner has chosen to brave this with me. Gratitude is having a friend to workout with and a coach/friend to do Paleo with. Again, it’s going to be a Hell of a month!

 

That’s all for the moment. Oh, let me tell you about my little “help I need something sweet” find. I researched a few sites for what I could grab to snack on (food prep tonight but sometimes it’s just grab and go) and LaraBar‘s came up. I’m not usually a fan of pressed together goop but this goop actually tasted pretty damned good. So far I’ve had the Macadamia Cookie and the Apple Pie. The Apple Pie was really tasty, the Cookie I could take or leave. But it’s something for when I need to get by! So far there’s only four I’ve found that can definitely be classified as Paleo but it’s a start!

 

All for now…..go rock that body today and Love YOU!

~ Tricia