30 Day Paleo Challenge
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<p>5 days of no carbs, and it's still killing me. I just feel hungry and tired all day. Grrr. </p>
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<p>Two things I've learnt is eating this way is way more expensive and I spend a lot more time fluffing around reading websites about eating.</p>
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<p>Any reason you aren't eating carbs from veges? It will make you feel a lot better, and less hungry.</p>
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<p>You sound the same as me, it's a big transition to eating healthily when you are used to just grabbing something from the cupboard. What I've been doing is preparing everything and chucking it tuperware in the fridge, so I can replicate just grabbing something for lunch or a snack. So once a week I clean/cut up my veges and cook some kumera and beetroot, etc. I've even been cooking a lot of my meat when I cook dinner so I can use the leftovers the next days. So there are things you can do to make it easier.</p>
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<p>It's getting easier and I have to think about it less. I'm also adding a new recipe a week (so I don't get overwhelmed, I'm not a big cook) for variety.</p>
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<p>So far I've been on this diet for four days and I've lost 2kgs. Shows you how bloating sugar and grains are huh.</p>
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<p>And the big worry I had was lack of energy for the WODs, but I've been feeling awesome and the sore muscles have pretty much gone too. Had a hard workout last night and I don't feel like I even went last night, normal I struggle to get up the stairs.</p>
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<p><strong>Any reason you aren't eating carbs from veges?</strong> It will make you feel a lot better, and less hungry.</p>
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<p>You sound the same as me, it's a big transition to eating healthily when you are used to just grabbing something from the cupboard. What I've been doing is preparing everything and chucking it tuperware in the fridge, so I can replicate just grabbing something for lunch or a snack. So once a week I clean/cut up my veges and cook some kumera and beetroot, etc. I've even been cooking a lot of my meat when I cook dinner so I can use the leftovers the next days. So there are things you can do to make it easier.</p>
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<p>It's getting easier and I have to think about it less. I'm also adding a new recipe a week (so I don't get overwhelmed, I'm not a big cook) for variety.</p>
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<p>So far I've been on this diet for four days and I've lost 2kgs. Shows you how bloating sugar and grains are huh.</p>
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<p><strong>And the big worry I had was lack of energy for the WODs</strong>, but I've been feeling awesome and the sore muscles have pretty much gone too. Had a hard workout last night and I don't feel like I even went last night, normal I struggle to get up the stairs.</p>
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<p>Think I might be fully drinking the kool aid now.</p>
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<p>Sorry, I guess I misrepresented myself, I'm getting my carbs from veges ... just not the bad (but good tasting) ones from bread and processed sugar foods. </p>
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<p>TBH, my main meal have remained the same aside from getting rid of stir fry sauces with sugar, my lunch hasn't changed too much, but my snacking and breakfast have changed heaps. Giving up the sweet foods has been easier than I thought.</p>
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<p>Breakfast is the hardest for me, I'm generally dopey in the morning and putting a couple of pieces of toast down and boiling the jug is about the effort I like to make. Now I actually have to plan what I want and what I'm doing ... not good for someone lazy!</p>
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<p>I haven't weighed myself yet, I don't have scales, and don't want to buy another set (I have all my household stuff still in Hamilton in storage) so have decided I'll weigh myself once or twice a week at my uncle's. I'm trying to keep my expectations low so that I don't get disappointed though.</p>
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<p>My big worry is my lack of energy, my normal walk tends to wipe me out now.</p> -
<p>Take a page out of NTA's book and measure yourself as well (I've done this at the start of the challenge). It's a better judge of progress.</p>
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<p>(ignore me weighing myself daily, I'm addicted to it)</p>
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<p>As for breakfast, if you have a pattern of behaviour then plan for it the day before. You need a breakfast that you can throw together, so prepare it the night before (or in one session a week). I'm currently making an omlette pizza and all I have to do is throw on the meat and veges I've already prepared, takes five mins tops. Just have some protein, carb and fats and you're good to go.</p>
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<p>My energy is through the roof. Hit xFit four times last week, and doing five this week and a home workout on Saturday. Three into it and I feel fresh as a daisy.</p> -
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<p>Take a page out of NTA's book and measure yourself as well (I've done this at the start of the challenge). It's a better judge of progress.</p>
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<p>(ignore me weighing myself daily, I'm addicted to it)</p>
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<p>As for breakfast, if you have a pattern of behaviour then plan for it the day before. You need a breakfast that you can throw together, so prepare it the night before (or in one session a week). I'm currently making an <strong>omlette pizza</strong> and all I have to do is throw on the meat and veges I've already prepared, takes five mins tops. Just have some protein, carb and fats and you're good to go.</p>
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<p>My energy is through the roof. Hit xFit four times last week, and doing five this week and a home workout on Saturday. Three into it and I feel fresh as a daisy.</p>
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<p>What's an omlette pizza? Do you make the egg part earlier and then chuck the other bits on top? Or is it just like a normal omlette?</p>
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<p>Good stuff with your energy levels and exercise. I may have turned a corner today, do not feel as low energy as I have in the past few days.</p> -
<p>Nepia. Are you a big hua or just unfit? (No offense meant by this question by the way)</p>
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<p>I'm fit but i'm quite overweight. 190cm and 115kg's I can easily run ten k's but can injure myself because of the weight on my joints. </p>
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<p>I've been reading this thread with interest.It's quite inspiring some of the results posters have made.</p> -
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<p>What's an omlette pizza? Do you make the egg part earlier and then chuck the other bits on top? Or is it just like a normal omlette?</p>
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<p>Good stuff with your energy levels and exercise. I may have turned a corner today, do not feel as low energy as I have in the past few days.</p>
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<p>Good, it does take a while to detox from the sugar. I had already made a big start on that before I started this challenge, so it went quick for me, but the first two days were bloody terrible.</p>
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<p>My omlette pizza is the mess I make of a normal omlette, so instead of a filling I chuck it on top and be done with it. I just like saying pizza.</p> -
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<p><strong>Nepia. Are you a big hua or just unfit? </strong>(No offense meant by this question by the way)</p>
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<p>I'm fit but i'm quite overweight. 190cm and 115kg's I can easily run ten k's but can injure myself because of the weight on my joints. </p>
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<p>I've been reading this thread with interest.It's quite inspiring some of the results posters have made.</p>
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<p>You're about the sixe of Liam Messam then ... are you the same shape?</p>
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<p>Bit of both (and no offense taken whatsoever). I'm about 104kg but only 173cm! Mostly I just like eating sugar and wanted to do something about since I'm highly susceptible to type 2 diabetes. I've been this weight in the past and looked fine, but I'm this weight and look like I'm trying to be the 1990s version of Marlon Brando.</p>
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<p>I don't run too often but walk everyday, twice at the moment. If I had all my my gear I'd walk once and do an indoor cycle while watching True Detective or Banshee or some other show. I have an ankle injury that prevents me from running too much - which I got while training for the Taupo round the lakes a couple of years ago.</p>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Kirwan" data-cid="413329" data-time="1391562579">
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<p>Good, it does take a while to detox from the sugar. I had already made a big start on that before I started this challenge, so it went quick for me, but the first two days were bloody terrible.</p>
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<p>My omlette pizza is the mess I make of a normal omlette, so instead of a filling I chuck it on top and be done with it. I just like saying pizza.</p>
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<p>Yeah man! I'm the same shape as Mess, we work out together. Although I try and take it easy on him when we are sparring in the ring...... :)</p>
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<p>I've got a bit of beer fat and skinny skinny legs that whack me all out of proportion and makes for Mrs Hooroo mickey taking pleasure!</p> -
<p>First weigh in since I started last week and I'm sitting at 101.5kg - I think I was around 103.7-104.7kg. Pretty damn happy with that TBH and if I hadn't lost some I might have thrown in the towel!</p>
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<p>I guess it shows the difference that diet (especially no sugar) makes, as I haven't done any more exercise than normal.</p>
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<p>Energy levels seem to have stabilised, I don't feel dopey all the time, I'm also not feeling hungry in between meals/snacks like I was for the first few days.</p>
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<p>I've been poaching chicken breasts the last few days, and man have they been turning out nice. I've just been chucking some veges in with them (whatever is left over) and it makes a nice stock that I use with my stir fry.</p> -
<p>Ok, with a day to go for my first week on this challenge I've lost 2.5kg. 50 days of the calorie counting was 2.2kg, so we have a winning approach methinks...</p>
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<p>Less than 1kg to go to my first goal of under 80kg. Have 1RM in the Snatch and the Clean & Jerk due today, so will see what impact losing 4.5 kgs in 2/3 months has had, and this weeks diet.</p>
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<p>Had a few cravings yesterday, but since I have added some fruit back I sated those with Raspberries and Blueberries (a small handful as a post workout meal). Yep, I bloody went to xFit yesterday - Beach WOD at Browns Bay, lost of squats, sit-ups, press-ups and shit tone of burpees and a nice swim between each one. Was pretty fun actually.</p>
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<p>Have done four sessions this week, with the 5th today. Body is holding up really well, no soreness or any real tiredness either. </p> -
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<p>Ok, with a day to go for my first week on this challenge I've lost 2.5kg.<strong> 50 days of the calorie counting was 2.2kg</strong>, so we have a winning approach methinks...</p>
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<p>Less than 1kg to go to my first goal of under 80kg. Have 1RM in the Snatch and the Clean & Jerk due today, so will see what impact losing 4.5 kgs in 2/3 months has had, and this weeks diet.</p>
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<p>Had a few cravings yesterday, but since I have added some fruit back I sated those with Raspberries and Blueberries (a small handful as a post workout meal). Yep, I bloody went to xFit yesterday - Beach WOD at Browns Bay, lost of squats, sit-ups, press-ups and shit tone of burpees and a nice swim between each one. Was pretty fun actually.</p>
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<p>Have done four sessions this week, with the 5th today. Body is holding up really well, no soreness or any real tiredness either. </p>
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<p>Yelps! Good that you made the change. Good luck with that last kg.</p>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote">cut cauliflower into smaller florets, drizzle with some olive oil, a bit of salt and pepper and a decent covering of smoked paprika. Bake at 160-170 till it starts to caramelise then finish with a squeeze of lemon juice. It's the business!
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<p>I'm definitely going to try this now ... I tried one of the cauliflower mash recipes all over the internet last night and it was tasted way too sweet. Then I had my normal steamed cauliflower today and it was still sweet. Hopefully this one wont be sweet.</p>
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<p>Taste, relying on smell quite a bit, will change a little depending on the conditions under which something has been grown.</p>
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<p>I say roll with it. As I keep explaining to my kids: once you cut down the sugars, you start to detect more flavour in everything. Whenever I clean up my eating for a long period, then have something like fast food, I feel nauseous because my brain can't handle the transmission!</p> -
<p>I'm still on target, last two days have been pretty rough with cravings and social side of the weekend throwing up temptation in my face. Haven't fallen off the wagon, weight has leveled out at 80.8kg, chiefly I think because I have upped my fruit - which I just have to do in the weekend.</p>
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<p>Will dial that back down during the week when work can distract me for most of the day.</p>
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<p>Second week is where you are supposed to get an energy boost after going through the detox first week, that would be nice...</p> -
<p>Alright, now we are talking. Found a butcher with Paleo sausages and......wait for it.....Paleo Bacon!</p>
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<p>Ten days in with no sugar, no alcohol, or any processed food whatsoever I almost ate the Bacon from the bloody packet.</p>
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<p>Have scheduled in five xFit workouts again for this week (gotta get those points), so Friday will be halfway.</p> -
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<p>What makes the bacon paleo, Kirwan? No nitrates?</p>
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<p>No Nitrates and not cured with sugar, like pretty much every Bacon you can buy in a supermarket is. I'm not allowed Honey either...</p> -
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Yeah, now that you mention it, I haven't found any bacon without sugar.<br />
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<p>Yeah, now that you mention it, I haven't found any bacon without sugar.<br><br>
How does it taste?</p>
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<p>I'll let you know after breakfast tomorrow :)</p>