Day seventeen...holy bomb ass workout!

This morning's hour and a half workout with Dee involved...1/2 a mile of lunges, backward lunges, and squats with a 15 lb body bar. 1/2 a mile of jogging with weights held over the shoulders. Suicide sprints, mountain climbers, side ways planks, one leg burpees, pushups, plyo pushups, reverse tricep dips, bear crawls up hill, bunny jumps, renegades, military squats and press, plank ups, backwards run up hill, and abs to finish it off. I'm pretty sure I left out a couple of things but that is all that comes to mind right now. Over two months ago, I would have wanted to throw my weights into the fountain, run to my car, and drive away.  My body is on FIRE and I feel like I could take on the world right now. Love it! 

Breakfast: 2 boiled eggs, 4 oz pan seared pork tenderloin, 4 strawberries, 1/2 avocado.

Post workout meal: 5 oz pan seared pork tenderloin, handful of macadamia nuts.

Snack: 1 apple, handful of carrots. I can already tell that I am going to be a bottomless pit today. Time to grill more chicken for the week!

Lunch: 6 oz grilled chicken breast with spicy Mrs. Dash, 2 cups mixed greens tossed in olive oil and balsamic vinegar, 1 oven roasted beet, 5 slices grilled sweet potatoes, 2 strawberries, and a handful of crushed macadamia nuts.

Snack: Handful of frozen raspberries. Mmmmm....tastes like mini popsicles! 

Snack: 3 oz broiled tamari and fresh ginger salmon. 

Dinner: 6 oz char grilled flank steak (with spicy Mrs. Dash and olive oil), 8 char grilled asparagus spears, 16 steamed green beans, sauteed fresh garlic and olive oil red swiss chard, 2 strawberries, and a handful of blueberries.

Snack: 3 oz grilled chicken breast, 1 apple, 2 slices of grilled sweet potatoes.

I've been hearing some negative feedback about the paleo diet. Frankly, I find it annoying but lets entertain the idea for a bit shall we? Fad diets are grouped together by people that think that it is a unhealthy choice of eating. Cabbage soup diet, grapefruit diet, HCG diet, sleeping beauty diet, air diet, five bite diet, ear stapling diet, tapeworm diet, baby food diet, and the cotton ball diet. All big no nos in my book. Restricting and starving yourself wont get you your long term goals or build muscle. Believe me, I know..instead it got me the skinny fat physique for the last couple of years. The paleo diet is defined by what you can not eat as much as it is what you can. No grains, potatoes, sugar, legumes, or dairy. What you can have is delicious fruits, coconut, vegetables, nuts, olive oil, wild fish, and grass fed protein. The cavemen didn't eat twinkies, ho hos, chips, or big macs (and yes I was guilty of this before as well)...why should we? Look at my shopping lists alone and you'll see all the nutrients and foods offered. Now google paleo diet (not the 30 day). There you go, there's even more. I'm not saying the paleo diet is all mighty, all other diets suck, and grains are horrible. Consuming specific grains in moderation can provide significant health benefits with very little downside. Sprouted grains (such as wheat grass) and cereal grasses as examples of good grains. And take barley as another example (when consumed presprouted, sprouted, or cereal grass forms, it's a monster of nutrition) high in beta-glucans and it's one of the lowest of all foods on the glycemic index. Will I eat jasmine rice ever again in the future? You bet your sweet ass I will. The paleo diet has taught me discipline and learning to enjoy foods with out having to smother it in sauce. I'm seeing the results I want, I have more energy, and I feel a hundred times better. I think the key is finding a healthy eating lifestyle that is still enjoyable and easy to maintain. Everyone is different, so find one that works for you and stop involving yourself in what other people are doing. Eat clean, work the body hard, and live well.