Gone Primal

Two egg omelet with green, red and yellow peppers and turkey slices sided with blueberries and strawberries and a big glob a fresh guacamole. A glimpse into how I start each morning.

So to be honest I didn’t get through the day completely Primal. But I hope to be pretty solid the rest of the week. For breakfast I had a bowl of berries with heavy whipping cream plus a cup of coffee. Lunch consisted of chicken breast and drumstick and a pile of spinach. Dinner was more chicken, this time mix with peppers and onions, some Mexican spices, a can of diced tomatoes and a big glob of guacamole. It was awesome. Woke up at 179 today. Weight will always fluctuate a little so I am looking for a trend over the course of weeks.

Prior to dinner I went to the gym and did the following workout:

Squats -
1 x 10 x Bodyweight
1 x 5 x 135
3 x 5 x 185

Pullups- (using an assist machine)
1 x body weight -pathetic
5 x 5 x 110lb~

Dumbell Bench Press-
5 x 5 x 80

Sprints: 10 minutes — Alternated: 1 minute walk / 1 minute sprint

That was all good until we went out to a new local beer bar. I had probably 2 full beers made up of some samples. The beers were all heavy craft beers so they would probably do some damage. Hopefully not too much after a pretty good day.

Alright this is my first post on a site that will be partly my food and exercise notebook, but also a place to put any thoughts I might have about exercise, nutrition, primal living, etc. It might start off a little boring…

So I weighed in at 182 this morning. That’s a weight I once weighed which took me a number of months eating lean cuisines to get down into the 160’s. Being 5′8 but pretty muscular, 180’s still means I’ve got at least 20lbs of extra fat on my frame which is not healthy by any standards. Instead of Lean Cuisine we are gonna try something a little healthier. I read Primal Blueprint cover to cover a few weeks ago, but its finally time to give it a real go. One of my biggest challenges will be beer. Part-time my job is very beer focused, reviewing beer bars, networking, hosting tastings. Sadly beer is not primal. Hopefully we can invoke the 80/20 principal and I will be extra careful everywhere else and do my best to just sample beers for a while.

On Monday I had coffee, a 3 egg omelet with some cheese (for brunch really), a crab cake for dinner, a whole bag of nitrate free pepperoni as a ’snack.’ Also had a handful of almonds. Eat when your hungry right? Intermittent fasting will hopefully help offset my occasional beer.

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