Paleo Challenge: Day 33

Yesterday was a day that I wasn’t home from pretty much 7:30am till 7:30pm. I started with a fab run with my running buddy and ended at Buzz for iced coffee drinks and then hitched a ride home with a friend that we planned to meet there. It worked perfectly. And we just managed to miss the rainy day ahead. I had just enough time to shower before heading to a Stella and Dot trunk show I did at a friend’s house. It was awesome!! So exciting to see so many ladies excited about the fabulous pieces and it’s just always fun to hang out and make new friends! Then I ended up spending an enjoyable 4 hours at Caribou Coffee — time flies when you are in good company! Then home for dinner and catching up on a little tv before a decent early bedtime.

Here’s what I ate: (or didn’t, haha)
Breakfast
-coffee

Lunch
-had some deli turkey from a sandwich at the party and some almonds — not a lot, I’ll admit, but got so busy making sales and dressing up the ladies that I hardly had time to sit

Snack
-at Caribou I had a sparkling fruit juice with tea

Dinner
-cauliflower pizza with a little cheese, then pepperoni, spinach, and red onion on top
-paleo chocolate chip coconut ice cream sandwiches – amazing!!!!

Paleo Challenge: Day 32

Friday!!!!! I have lots of good stuff ahead this weekend including what I hope is some time to sleep! Not really tomorrow as I am getting up early for another long run – hoping for 10 miles or so as my half marathon is 2 weeks away.

Here’s what I ate today:
Breakfast
-acorn squash hash and eggs
-iced Americano (just assume I used sugar and half and half….seriously people, 5 hours of sleep again, this was crucial)

Snack
-umm…I don’t remember if I had one, I don’t think so

Lunch
-I made a salad but it tasted sad — the lettuce was pretty limp, so I had an apple and then carrots and guac

Snack
-veggie chips

Dinner
-went to dinner with a friend to a new little eatery called Protein Bar. It’s like healthy fast food, sorta. We ate there and enjoyed catching up. I had a chili burrito — I ate some of the whole wheat burrito but otherwise it was a super salad of kale and other leafy greens with chicken chili (had quinoa in it) and then had a blended drink of almond milk, espresso, and chocolate protein powder. It was a very cool place and there are a lot of other things I want to try later.

Enjoying a great Stella and Dot piece today

Paleo Challenge: Days 31 and 32

What day is it? Friday?

Let’s rewind to what I did the last few days. Wednesday was a whirlwind. Got home from work and tried to go to rooftop tabata at the gym only to realize that it was not happening. Woh woh…at least I had a nice couple mile walk there and back home. It was all for the best though because I was so tired and ended up going to be at 8:30. It wasn’t even fully dark yet outside. Gotta love that!

Wednesday I ate:

Breakfast
-acorn squash hash and eggs
-coffee with almond milk

Snack
-Bananas Foster Lara Bar (hadn’t tried this one yet– super yummy)

Lunch
-salad with chicken, bacon, egg, carrots

Snack
-apple
-a few veggie chips

Dinner
-leftover chicken and roasted veggies from my Dad’s cooking the night before. added some green beans to bulk up the leftover veggies. Super duper tasty!

Thursday I ate:
Breakfast
-acorn squash hash with eggs
-coffee (with half and half and a little raw sugar…deal with it! you don’t know my life! hahaha…

Snack
-Banana

Lunch
-went to lunch for a coworker’s birthday to PF Chang’s and had chicken and broccoli

Snack
-veggie chips

Dinner
-I had a Stella and Dot trunk show at a friend’s house and she had a great spread of salad with apple, avacado, and a couple other things I can’t remember, and then some chicken. And I had a glass of wine.

– Not going to bed last night until 11:30pm is making today ROUGH! Aye yi yi…I’m telling you now, I already hit Starbucks and am enjoying an iced Americano with half and half and raw sugar. You would not want to be around me if I’d skipped this.

Paleo Challenge: Day 30

Made it to the 30′s now! Wow! While my weight has fluctuated a little day to day, I think I am down a good 5 pounds and have lost several inches total in my measurements. So that is exciting! I do feel much more energetic than I did at the beginning (aside from how tired I am from little sleep) but I can’t say that I think I had less energy overall before I started this. That’s a toss up. I also think the weight and measurement improvement was happening anyways as I’d slacked off on working out at my usual level/frequency for several months and was trying to ramp things up again anyways. But considering that this was a great motivator to be accountable to working out and eating right for 6 weeks, I guess it has still been worth it!

Moving on…my family leaves this morning so last night was our last bit of time together. My dad made us all dinner (and even left us leftovers of his yummy chicken and some roasted veggies). I also made cupcakes for another Stella and Dot trunk show I am doing for a friend tomorrow night. And my one brother baked some awesome Biscoff cookie banana bread last night to take home to my mom (I had a nibble an it was amazing).

Here’s what I ate:
Breakfast
-acorn squash and eggs
-coffee with almond milk

Snack
-banana

Lunch
-salad as usual

Snack
-apple an veggie chips

Dinner
-chicken and roast veggies

Paleo Challenge: Day 29

5th week has arrived! Yay!!

Long work day, eager to get home and hang with my family again for the few evening hours there would be.

We went to dinner at Guapo’s (my fave Mexican restaurant) to celebrate my youngest brother getting straight A’s in his spring semester at college (yay, Corey!)

Here’s what I ate:
Breakfast
-egg white scramble with ham/onion/pepper/acorn squash hash like last week

Snack
-veggie chips

Lunch
-same salad again

Snack
-carrots and guac
-Fuji apple

Dinner
-Grilled chicken and veggie fajitas (no tortillas were consumed!) with guac and tomatoes

Paleo Challenge: Day 28

I keep getting one day behind! Sunday was a great day but my lack of sleep for another week really caught up with me! Late night at the wedding, early wake up for a full day of Mother’s Day plans with my fam (my mom gave us instructions for how to spend the day without her here in DC). Saw The Great Gatsby movie in the morning (which ended at 1pm…almost the end of the day!). Then we went to Silver Diner for lunch. I had not realized that this locally owned chain had made a shift to using a farm to table, locally grown style of food. It was awesome!! Then the rest of the day was a blur of family kitchen time prepping my food for the week along with dinner and dessert for the night.

Breakfast
-Lara Bar

Lunch
-split an egg white scramble with tomatoes and onions with a side of strawberries, and then quinoa blueberry pancakes with agave syrup and grilled bananas (for the sake of the moment i decided to be on the side of the argument that quinoa is paleo cause it isn’t a grain)
-iced coffee

Dinner
-my dad made sweet potato gnocchi am a tomato sauce with turkey sausage. So delish!

Pales Challenge: Day 27

Yesterday was less paleo than it could’ve been. It was a super busy day — started with a 7 mile run, then yoga. I was back home in time from both to have let my visiting family have a chance to sleep in and leisurely get ready. We then went to get coffee from our fave place, run a couple errands, stop at the Apple store cause i decided in the last week that it was time for me to get an iPad. So now I am the owner of an iPad mini I am in love! I hate buying any new technology so this was a big leap! My brothers are big tech gurus so I felt like having their moral support during the purchase would be good. Also to guilt me out of the terrible buyer’s remorse I usually get. Then it was home to get ready for the wedding and that was the rest of the night.

Here’s what I ate:

Breakfast
Pre-yoga and post-run I had a Lara bar

Lunch
Coffee, eggs and bacon around 2:30pm

Dinner
Chicken and grilled veggies at the wedding (and I did taste test a couple of my tiny desserts frm the wedding dessert bar.