Nick's 30 Day Paleo Challenge- Day 8

I finally started feeling good yesterday. My energy was back and I didn't feel sluggish all day. That's the real beauty of the Paleo Diet.

I met a colleague over from London for breakfast at a place by work. I had 2 eggs sunny side up and some bacon. They have great coffee there too (French Press).

For lunch I had some greens and beef. I am getting a little sick of eating veggies so need to try and mix it up.

Some additional good news I had a new TV stand delivered to my house yesterday. Have to thank my mom for waiting at my place when they delivered it. Looks pretty good.

I was going to dinner at Hu Kitchen (again) but managed to get a little NBA 2K in before I left:

At Hu Kitchen I had the chicken and broccoli. For dessert (key reason to go there) I had a carrot cake whoppie pie. Unbelievable. Soooo good. Really. Really. Amazing. 

Dinner:

And here is the cake:

Sooo good

So as I said I am feeling really good right now. I weighed myself yesterday and was down to 234. Not as much as I would like but I do like the fact that I have a ton of energy and don't have any sluggishness at all. 

I wanted a soda a few times yesterday and almost cracked but ended up going to a piece of fruit. I need to stay on the water. Keep drinking it. 

Hope everyone has a good day. 

Nick's 30 Day Paleo Challenge- Day 6/7

So I have to say that the weekend was far better than Friday. I regrouped and got my stuff together.
I woke up on Saturday morning feeling like total garbage. It was like a bomb went off in my body (it did sort of).

I got up around 9:30 am (slept terribly) met some buddies and went to breakfast at Hu Kitchen. Started off with the Paleo French Toast.

Really, really good. Actually better than regular French Toast. I was thoroughly impressed. Not by the price though. 4 pieces of french toast were $11.50 USD.

 I also had a smoothie which was another $9 bucks. Good news is after I left breakfast I beat level 70 in Candy Crush. This level is miserable and I was stuck on it for a solid 5 weeks. I am now on Level 72...booyah

When I got back home I needed a bit more of a nap....so I took one.

When I woke up I headed over to the Amish Market and grabbed some Chicken and fruit. Sometimes I feel like that is all I am eating.

For dinner I had a proper Primal Meal. Mr. Furious (aka Angry Boy) cooked up a few steaks and hand sliced bacon straight from the butcher.

 
In addition we also had some green beans with garlic (yum) and broccoli.

Here is the final product:

Very tasty. Thank you Angry Boy.

I hit the sack around 11:30 pm that night and slept better.

I woke up feeling a little better on Sunday and went for a bike ride with Marisa down to Hu Kitchen again. Guess what I had. Mine is on the left.

We did a few more errands afterwards (i.e. picked up a television and went shopping at the grocer). We then started watching the movie Diana which I didn't like (and subsequently fell asleep) for one key reason: Dodi Fayed was not a doctor. I think his occupation in real life was "Film Producer." The movie, in the parts I saw at least, painted him as this amazing surgeon. Not really true to form.

For dinner I had a chicken salad and some fruit.

I am starting to feel better but cant let episodes like Friday happen anymore. They throw me off the beam to much and divert me from my goals.

One good thing I learned this weekend is that when I do have a craving for some variety (and assuming I just got paid) that Hu Kitchen is a great place for me to go for healthy sweets. They have Paleo Cookies, muffins, Paleo "Candy"Bars and Blondies. So when I need a fix I will be going there.

Need more exercise and need to drink more water. I'll weigh in tonight and report back.

Speak to you all tomorrow.

p.s. I'm so pissed at myself about Friday......ahhhhh

Nick's 30 Day Paleo Challenge- Day 5

Day 5 started off as a good day. I woke up and had no headache plus I slept really well. I had some coffee in the morning when I got to work. At lunch time I had a Chicken salad with no dressing. All the while thinking "wow, I am through the tough part." Wrong.....when you treat your body like a garbage dumpster there are consequences. Have a look at some of mine from Friday night at Blue Smoke.

Cornbread for a starter....Boom

Lets bring in the BBQ chips:

Rib Sampler: crushed those

Only healthy thing on the table

Spicy Sausage

Ohh yeah I also had two regular cokes as if the food wasn't bad enough. So I was now in full sugar crave and we then went looking for Ice Cream:

After all this I thought it was a good idea to play some tennis. We booked 2 hrs but only got an hour in. I felt so ill. The court was empty that second hour.

And to make matters worse on my way home I picked up rice cakes with peanut butter and had 2 mexican cokes. AHHHHHHHHH.

I woke up the next day feeling like total crap.

I'll post saturday and sunday (where I did alot better and am back on the horse in a few hours). I think when I eat bad I avoid the blog (as I did with the juice cleanse) and I don't want to do that again. This is a place where I can be honest which is what I will be.

Happy Monday.