Anticipating the Crash!

Yeah!  Paleo challenge begins on Jan 14.  In order to get ready, I need to get rid of all of the temptation in the house.  Which means, I'm now carb loading for no apparent reason.  I'm binge eating junk food, because I'm anticipating NOT being able to eat it.  Salad after workout for dinner?  Mmmm, no, I'll take that pizza.  Grilled chicken lunch?  I'll have cheesey, pasta w/ veggies.  

Which means, I will probs have a horrible, HORRIBLE sugar crash the first week of the challenge.  Hopefully, I can eat all of my breaded chicken & fish, pasta & cheese before the challenge begins. 

Here's a list of foods that will be hard to give up:

• Cheese
• Cream in my coffee
• bread
• tortillas
• pasta
• potatoes (mainly mashed)
• Butter for cooking
• sweets
• post workout protein drinks

I'm sure the list is much longer, but that's what I'm anticipating sucking the most.  However, I'm going to attempt to follow strictly.  My normal life will definitely introduce items high on my F off list, but not for the challenge.  This is a Paleo experiment & I want the full effect of the lifestyle.  The exception I'll make will be normal meat, I mean I want to be able to afford to eat!  

Bring on the carb crash hangover! 

WTF?!? Me? Do Paleo?

If you know me, you know that I don't really give a shit about food.  Food is delicious.  Food is fuel.  Splurge every once in awhile!  If you work out enough, it doesn't matter how much or what you eat. Within reason of course.  I've moved more toward natural or 'real' food and away from things that will last in the cupboard longer than my lifetime.  I've even recently moved towards an attitude of 'eat carbs when you need them' attitude to see what protein would do as my exercise routine moved more towards weight/strength training from cardio/endurance.  But, notice the words there to see what protein would do.  (I'm a scientist so experiments are interesting to me:)

So when my friend KK asked if I wanted to do the Paleo Challenge with her Crossfit Gym (crossfit pacific coast) my initial reaction was to laugh out loud.  Yeah, right! Me drastically limit my food diversity?  HaHaHaHaHa!  But, I'm also really bad at peer pressure, so after some reading and major pressure, I've decided to give it a shot.  Of course, I consulted with my husband.  He of course rejected the idea (he makes me look like a diet crazy person already!) Don't worry, I convinced him that its a good idea because we'll be eating mainly delicious meat every night, and that he doesn't have to follow the diet, just support me.

What made me really decide to do this Paleo Challenge? Well, I'm introducing myself to Crossfit as well (at Santa Barbara Cross Fit), so I think this will be the best time to see some awesome results in my body (double experiment time yay!).  I've been injured for almost 4 months I haven't been able to play roller derby due to an injury that is JUST INFLAMMATION! If this diet will help get rid of inflammation, it should help me heal. And lastly, I'm working on healthy drinking patterns, so the challenge falls in the time range of no alcohol anyways, so it's one less major sacrafice.

Follow my paleo journey here!