Day 57 - Weight 289.4 lbs. - Final Daily Post

Today is the last day, complete with a final block of paleo-iffy chocolate, putting me at 29 points. I'll stand on that. I like my pre-CrossFit choco-snack with Tara chocolate (fat block!!!), almond butter, natural 80% dark Ugandan chocolate, some natural deli meat, and a tarantula butt (a.k.a kiwi fruit). Tell me, doesn't a kiwi fruit look like a tarantula butt?

Had I known chocolate was a point, I might not have tried it. That would have been a mistake, in my book. Perhaps I'd have had it less often--who knows if it'd have helped me or hurt me? But either way, honest marking is what it is. If you're gonna tackle this lifestyle change thing head on, you have to be somewhat uncompromising, but there has to be some elasticity as well. You can't sink into a pit of depression because you broke down and got the cheese fries once.

Yet you empower yourself greatly each time you forego the cheese fries. That shamrock shake you can't miss in March, well, it'll taste the same next March. Pizza is great, just don't have it often--in fact, make healthy food so yummy that the kids beg to try it! It worked for us. And if you keep from indulging over and over, it gets easier. Now, I can't wait to go out. If I went out twice a month I'd still live. I just have to decide if I'm willing to accept whatever consequences there are. And if I do things right, the consequences are that I enjoy myself instead of feeling guilty.

Thanks to CrossFit's paleo Zone eating, I've finally found a diet I can live with, have fun with, and get GREAT results with. As Cheryl has said a million times, if you go off for one meal due to a night out or something, just go right back on so all those chemical balances don't get out of whack. And as my trainer buddy Ralph at the YMCA has said a million times, have a cheat meal, not a cheat day. This paleo Zone thing makes that not only possible, it's favorable. You gotta keep ties with regular American crap food so you don't get sensitized. May as well enjoy the practice! Also, as with all things CrossFit, variation and surprising the system are good things to do once in a while.

I'll keep posting once or twice a week. Why not? If I have to ditch it I will, if not, I'll just enjoy the ride. Either way, I hope you, reader, got something out of this. That'd make this just that more valuable and special.

Love,  Kevin   ;)


Menu
Breakfast (4 blocks)
- 1/2 cup greek yogurt, 1/4 cup cottage cheese, 1 HB egg, 1 cup strawberries, 1 cup broccoli
- 1/2 cup blackberries, 1/2 tsp. olive oil, 15g chopped nuts

Snack (2 blocks)
- 1 cup Chan chili

Snack (2 blocks)
- 4 Tricia meatballs, 1/2 cup natural salsa

Lunch (4 blocks)
- 2 cups Chan chili, a pile of spinach

Snack (2 blocks)
- 1 block dark 80% chocolate, 1 Tara chocolate, 1 kiwi fruit, 1/2 tsp. almond butter, 2 oz. natural deli meat

Dinner (4 blocks)
- 2 cups Chan chili, ~2 cups spaghetti squash

Total water consumption: 9+ quarts throughout the day, including coffee and tea

I will never post my menus regularly again. Thank God. I'm so sick of that. Really.  ;)  
Based on the rules and all that, my total points for the day: 0

Total points: 29
Yay! I did it!