Paleo Challenge Day 22

Well…today was a cheat meal day…

Breakfast was nice and healthy leftovers from yesterday and boy are those paleo breakfast bars good. After one of those with some extra strawberries and a date or two I got ready to go to the grocery store.

Tonight’s meal was going to be a mix of paleo staples and very non paleo items. While cookin I had just a little shredded rotisserie chicken. So glad that Fry’s sells shredded rotisserie chicken. I would much rather pay the extra and save myself the hassle and mess of shredding my own chicken.

Dinner tonight was started with a couple of appetizers. We had bacon wrapped dates stuffed with almonds (of which I had 2) and yellow peppers stuffed with organic raw cheddar cheese and wrapped in bacon (of which I had 1). The main meal was my zucchini pesto “pasta” with realm pasta on the side. My brother-in-law and sister-in-law were over and they love…Love…the chipotle penne pasta I make. It was inspired by a meal I had at Restaurante Allegria in Napa. It is a chipotle cream sauce with corn, sundried tomatoes, shredded chicken, basil and nitrate free bacon. We paired that with some great rosé wine. This is probably the biggest cheat I’ve had. After dinner…a small slice of banana creme pie – oh my. I also made some paleo cookies I found on paleOMG – one of my favorite blogs ever! I cooked them a little too long and replaced the sun butter with almond butter but even the non-paleo people in the group liked them.

Looking forward to a fun filled WoD tomorrow!

Paleo Challenge Day 9

Well Happy Monday! Today was a great day although I haven’t been sleeping well the past few nights. Here’s hoping tonight will be a different story. I have been caffeine free for 10 days now and am feeling great.
Breakfast this morning waited until I arrived at work it included 3 pumpkin pancakes. A few hours later I was ready for my morning snack of an Apple Pie Larabar. I bought quite a few dates the other day and really need to find time to make my own bars.
I didn’t have any dinner leftovers last night, so lunch was from the cafeteria. They don’t have the healthiest of food so I ended up with a big salad. It had: lettuce, spinach, broccoli, cucumber, red and green bell pepper, carrots, chicken and lemon for the dressing.
After work came the first workout of the week. It was 5 rounds of: 5 dead lifts and 10 jump over bar burpies. I did … okay. The prescribed weights for the dead lifts were 185 and 275 for women and men. I, however, only did 125 in 8:47 and the last couple sets were…rough. My back was definitely rounded much more than it should have been and I must work on this.
Dinner was AMAZING. We had wild caught sole, lightly brushed with coconut oil, topped with macadamia nuts and orange zest and broiled for roughly 8-9 minutes. Paired with that was zucchini pasta with cherry tomatoes warmed and tossed with homemade pesto. Yum! There was none left…so tomorrow will be another day at the cafe, but oh well.