Workouts:
Monday: 1 mile warm up on treadmill, circuit room weights (3
x20 of light weights on each machine)
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Breakfast: Oatmeal with apple and pumpkin and
chia seeds. Egg and tomato.
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Lunch: Spinach salad with tomato, ¼ avocado, ½
can tuna in water, baked butternut squash, olive oil and lemon juice dressing.
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Snacks: ½ apple, banana with almond butter,
almonds
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Dinner: Lamb braised in chicken stock, white
wine and tomato puree, kale salad with avocado dressing, sliced beets and chopped
walnuts.
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Dessert: Nut-butter brownie with frozen
strawberries.
Tuesday: 32 min AM run (upper body felt sore from weights
yesterday, had a hard time running with good posture, shoulders kept wanting to
come forward), bike to class and lab.
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Breakfast: Oatmeal with apple, pumpkin seeds,
walnuts, and pecans.
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Lunch: Repeat of Monday’s lunch, with steamed
beets instead of tomatoes.
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Snacks: Banana and almond butter, almonds and
raisins.
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Dinner: Steamed salmon with leftover veggies and
eggplant braised in tomato sauce (same kind as on lamb on Monday).
Wednesday: Quick trip to gym for abs, with 10 min warm up of
the elliptical. 45 min trail run/hike (ended up trying to get as far up the
hill behind lab as I could, the trip down wasn’t much fun, think I was following
a rain run-off “trail” rather than a human-made trail.) Was in a great mood all day!
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Breakfast: 2 eggs (omelet style but not folded)
with most of sautéed zucchini, ¼ tomato, 1.4 avocado, spinach and an orange.
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Lunch: Butternut squash, beets, zucchini,
chicken sausage and spinach
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Snacks: Carrot sticks and Trader Joe’s trail mix
pack
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Dinner: Leftover eggplant in tomato sauce on top
of microwaved red potatoes. Attempted to
make a smoothie with kale, beets, a pear and cranberry juice. The flavor was good but the pieces of kale
were too big/there was too much of it.
Very filling though; didn’t have room for the delicious-looking pork
chops I broiled…
Thursday: Set up my bike trainer! (It’s weird how I have no
problem getting up around 5:30 when I’m in bed by 10…)Spun for 30 minutes, got
very bored staring at the garage wall, looking forward to watching lots of
Netflix documentaries. Biked to lab with
bike shoes on for the first time since the crayfish incident. Success!
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Breakfast: Oatmeal with whole peach, pumpkin
seeds, chia seeds and walnuts. Fried egg with spinach.
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Lunch: Salad with green apples, toasted almonds,
dried cranberries and vinaigrette dressing.
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Snacks: Carrot sticks, pears, almonds, roasted
pumpkin seeds.
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Dinner: Broiled pork chop with apple sauce,
leftover eggplant with tomato sauce on top of spinach.
Friday: 45 minutes of bike trainer (watched episode of NCIS
online, sat up and drank during 30 s limited commercial breaks, worked well).
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Breakfast: Sirloin steak, sautéed zucchini, peach.
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Lunch: Spinach salad with steak, raw zucchini,
tomato, ¼ avocado, balsamic vinegar and olive oil dressing.
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Snacks: Almond –milk yogurt, apple, banana,
orange juice.
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Dinner: Pork chop with applesauce, steamed
broccoli and carrots, quinoa.
Saturday: 1:45 run (was supposed to be 1:30, but was
exploring and ended going farther before I could re-cross I-80 and head home).
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Pre-run: Banana and teaspoonful of almond
butter, 3 Clif ShotBloks
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During run: 16 oz water with Nuun tablet, Hammer
Nutrition Gel (no caffeine)
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Breakfast (Post-run): Oatmeal with pumpkin and
chia seeds and raisins, 2 fried eggs with tomato and avocado, bowl of fruit
salad, earl grey tea.
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Lunch: Yam and sautéed zucchini and tomatoes
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Snacks: Carrots, roasted pumpkin seeds
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Dinner: Quinoa, steamed broccoli and carrots,
steak
Sunday:
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Breakfast: Omelet with spinach, avocado,
mushrooms and ham. Fresh fruit
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Lunch: Banana
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Dinner: Fruit salad, steak, squash
Thoughts:
So I’m
one and a half weeks into my trial Paleo diet, and getting farther into reading
The China Study by T. Colin Campbell –
which outlines the multitude of connections between cancer and consuming animal
protein. I’ve been feeling pretty good
so far, but I ended up with a pretty bad headache after my run on Saturday,
which has never happened before. This
might’ve been due to the colder weather or the change in my diet; those are the
only things that have changed since my last long run. I’ll see how I feel after next week’s run,
but at the moment I’m leaning towards switching back to something resembling my
old diet after my 30-day trial. I’d
still cut out wheat, dairy and processed sugar (they go pretty much hand in
hand anyway) and reduce my meat consumption to one or two times per week, as it
was before. My plan is to add legumes
back in first to see how they make me feel, because if I’m going to reduce my meat
consumption, I’ll need to be able to digest beans well. I won’t go overboard on consuming grains in
the name of carbo-loading, but I also won’t restrict my quinoa and brown rice
intake to after workouts. There’s simply
no way I could cut out meat and limit grains and still get enough to eat. But we’ll see, there’s a couple weeks left
for me to change my mind several times.
In
other news, my knees were a little more sore than usual during my run on
Saturday, I think this is from the new strain biking is putting on them; I
definitely need to get back into yoga soon since this usually helps my knees
too. I still haven’t swam… Biking on a trainer is definitely boring and
holding an aero position for very long is definitely challenging. School is simultaneously boring and challenging. Actually part of the challenge is that my
classes are so boring I have trouble paying attention, and subsequently don’t
absorb much of the material. Otherwise
life is good.
Motivation:
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