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Final week/final review things! Goal 1: Paleo 6 days per week. So last week I ate paleo 6 days. Someone brought in this ridiculous(ly good) cake from some french bakery for my coworkers birthday on Tuesday. Unbefuckinglievable. I felt so sick for like 3 hours, but it was incredible. Almost worth it. BUT ANYWAY, the rest of the week was solid sooo A for that. Final average: B Goal 2: 4 days of exercise. 6 days of CrossFit. I'm in love. A. Final average: B Goal 3: Sleep more. Averaged 7. B for this week. Final average: 3.5. We'll call it a B+. Life goal: Volunteer.. Straight failed. No excuse. F Aside from my failed life goal and a slow start to this challenge, I'd call this pretty successful. I've decided to stop focusing so much on numbers (tracking my weight and such), so I'm not sure if I've lost any weight at all. But I do know that I feel 10000 times better about myself than when I started. I think I'm definitely headed in the right direction to create a really healthy, balanced lifestyle. And I mean, what more could you ask for?

Thank you! AAAAND WEEK 5! My oh my, couldn't be happier. Goal 1: Paleo 6 days per week. Paleo every day. I've basically been living at hu kitchen after crossfit, which is killing my wallet, but helping me stay on track haha. Their Turkey Egg Kale sandwich. Unbefuckinglievable. Also bought some grass-fed lamb sausage at the union square farmers market this weekend. Too good. A. Goal 2: 4 days of exercise. 6 days! Crossfit is super addictive, but I took 2 days off from it this week. One to rest and one for hot yoga. I found a studio in the city that offers $5 classes. Ridiculous. A. Goal 3: Sleep more. Still on track with that, but barely. It's hard to get to bed before 11, but I want to workout before work, so I gotta wake up earlier. So yeah. I somehow made it this week, but it's hard. A. Life goal: Volunteer.. Still failing at this life goal. Maybe I'm selfish. I dont know. And yeah. Happy, happy girl.

Yes. Apple. Fudge. Caramel apple fudge to be exact. My stomach hurts just thinking about it haha. WEEK 4 ! I'm just all around happy about last week and even more excited about this upcoming week. I think I've finally figured out how to pretend to be an adult and live on my own. Goal 1: Paleo 6 days per week. It's so much easier to eat healthy now that I'm buying/cooking everything myself. So I did accomplish my goal this week of eating paleo for 6 days out of 7. So yeah. A ! Goal 2: 4 days of exercise. Finally got back to 4 days of exercise. CrossFit twice, hot yoga twice. It was a good week. A. Goal 3: Sleep more. On track with 7.5 every night A. Life goal: Volunteer.. But I'm failing at this life goal. I'm trying to figure out if I'm actually busy or if I'm just making excuses for myself. Damn. AAAAND the reason I'm so excited for this week is because Wednesday marks the end of my CrossFit Elements courses, which means I can start going to actual WODs on Thursday alsfgalkfjglaksjg! I've never been this excited to workout. Or lift heavy things.

Apparently there's a tornado warning for New York today. That's good. REVIEWING WEEK 3 YEEEAH Goal 1: 21DSD. Feeling much better than last week, but drank too much kombucha on Saturday. I managed to survive the sugar detox kind of, but actually not at all because of my binge in the middle. So I'll definitely be incorporating it into another challenge in the future. But not now. I miss strawberries. Onto 6 days of paleo! Grading for that will be A/F. Aaaand for this past week: B Goal 2: 4 days of exercise. Only exercised 3 times woooops. B. Goal 3: Sleep more. AAAAAND BEST NEWS EVER. Broke 8 hours...yes....8...every. damn. night. A Life goal: Volunteer.. I didn't. I suck. I will I promise.

Week 2 review wooooo: Ok. I fucked up. Story time. This weekend, I went apple picking with my family. We went to this little farm in the middle of Connecticut that we used to go to when I was kid (jokes on me, still a kid). The farm has apple picking and farmer's market things like homemade apple butter, apple cider, and fudge. I don't think I have any unhappy memories at that place. It's just awesome. And yeah. I've been ridiculously stressed out with moving, so when the opportunity presented itself to go absolutely bat shit food crazy, I went with it. Unfortunately. It started with an extra apple when we were picking them because I mean, let's be serious, how can you resist freshly picked apples? I could have easily just plucked em, put em in my bag, and moved on. But that just wasn't going to happen. And then it all kind of went downhill from there. We got back to the farmers market from the orchard and I chose not to resist all of the temptations around me. I justified taking a cup of hot apple cider because it's fall, hello. And then a piece of fudge...and then another piece of fudge...and then an apple cider donut...and then a bite of my sister's chocolate chip cookie...and by the time I got home, I felt absolutely sick to my stomach. I took a nap and when I woke up, I was craving sugar and garbage like no damn other. So I took the opportunity to eat my stress and ate everything in the house. So that was Saturday. On Sunday, I woke up feeling like garbage. My mom came by to help me pack and bring things to the apartment, which was nice. I like spending time with her. Yeah. So that was stressful too because we ended up running late and my roommate-to-be had dinner plans and I was fucking those up, so I was a mess because of it. We were on our way out of the house and my little sister drags me into the kitchen to show me something. She had used the apples we picked to bake two apple pies and she wanted me to try it. This girl is like mini betty crocker, let me tell you. She seemed so excited and I felt bad and again, I just went with it. I had forgotten to eat that day because I'd been packing, so I was pretty hungry. I felt full after a few generous pieces of pie, but obviously didn't stay full for long. After we dropped my things off, we went to a little Mexican restaurant in Harlem and I didn't bother restraining myself. Hello, enchiladas. So yeah, went home, felt awful. Not even sick, but just out of control. I just saw things and ate them because of the whole "well I already messed up today, so I might as well keep messing up" thing. That doesn't even make sense. So yeah, I had two days of just pure binging. And today, I feel gross, but I'm determined to not let that happen again. It's been a long, long time since I've felt so out of control like that, and I never want to go back to that place. I move into my apartment on Tuesday, so that should make things a lot easier. AAAAAND on the bright side, I tried CrossFit on Friday and I'm in. It's incredible. Goal 1: 21DSD. F. Just F. Goal 2: 4 days of exercise. C. I worked out twice. With packing and apple picking, I just didn't make the time to work out this weekend. Oops. Goal 3: Sleep more. Average 7 hours again, so at least that's ok. B. Life goal: Volunteer.. I got in touch with the homeless shelter in my town and the only time they could fit me in was at 6 am on Sunday. As much as I want to help, I needed the energy to pack. Wow, packing has been my excuse for a lot of things this week. I think I'm going to look for new places near the apartment to help out. Yeah. Despite everything this weekend, I feel good about this upcoming week. I start Elements at CrossFit tonight, so that's exciting. And once I'm in my own place, I'll have control over what foods get brought into it. So there won't be anything for me to binge on there. Aside from like carrot sticks. But yeah. OKAAAAY YEEEAH

Preeeeeach. Haha yeah, it's my go-to celebratory gif. And I've been doing something similar with my commute to work! It's usually still dark out when I get up to catch the train to work and usually getting dark out when I leave the office to catch the train to go home. It's the worst haha.

It feels awesome

For the first time in a long, long time, I got 8 hours of sleep last night. On a Monday night. What.

Reviewing week 1 Goal 1: 21DSD. No cheating at all, so I'm really happy about that. A for this week. Goal 2: 4 days of exercise. So I struggled with how to evaluate this. I got a workout in at the gym twice and went to hot yoga once so there's a definite 3/4. On Friday, since I couldn't/didn't get to the gym, I walked around 3ish miles, which didn't require much effort. I tried to balance it out with some lacrosse wall ball and another walk on Sunday, but I feel like I would be cheating myself if I counted those mini, effortless workouts as one meaningful workout. So I'm just going to call it 3 workouts this week and take the B. Goal 3: Sleep more. Average 7 hours. It might not be 7.5 yet, but after averaging 4-5 in previous weeks, I'm still pretty happy about this one. So yeah, B. Life goal: Volunteer.. Last week, I called a soup kitchen in my town to schedule some volunteer hours with them. I didn't get a response, so I'm going to call again today or tomorrow and see what's up. And yeah. That's week 1.

I'm pretty stuck right now. I went to a concert last night in central park (It was City & Colour. My god, I love that man.) and didn't plan too well ahead of time and couldn't get to the gym. I did walk for like 3ish miles yesterday though, so I'm trying to decide if that counts as one of my workouts for this week. I mean walking doesn't require all that much effort, but eeeeeehhhhhh. I hate making decisions. I shouldn't have just drank a coffee. That was stupid. Blaaaaaaah.

"I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul." One of my favorite quotes ever! Such a good mantra, especially for these challenges I also laughed out loud at work when I read "asskickery." I may have to use that at some point. And you're right about beef jerky and fruit. Bomb.com. I buy these sometimes and they really help! --> http://www.stevespaleogoods.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=1516 Congrats on such a great first week!

Backbends are so much fun! When I finally figured out how to get there from a standing position, it really really quickly turned into the exorcist walk hahaha which is a great party trick if you can do it without laughing...which I can't... Awesome machete by the way haha and good luck with your goals

My Real Life Buddy is my coworker, Michael. For around 11 hours (sometimes more) of my day, I am either in commute or at work, so I spend a lot of (sometimes all of) meal-eating time around him. We eat lunch together every day, and he never gives me shit about wanting to eat at specific places with paleo options, even if it means limiting what he eats too. Michael is not paleo at all, but I know I can count on him to test out my weird, "cro-magnon" (as he calls them haha) food experiments...even when I tell him beforehand that yes, I did put an avocado in your pudding. He's honestly the greatest one-man support system ever, and I'm so glad I work with him.

Also, here's my grading system for this! I would love feedback on it. I can't decide if I'm being too lenient... I'm gonna grade myself on a weekly basis, and then take the average at the end. A = 4 points, B = 3 points, C = 2, etc. I'm tweaking the standard rounding rules a bit so 0.6+ rounds up instead of 0.5. Is that weird? I don't know. Anyway...yeah. Goal 1: 21DSD A - 100% 21DSD friendly foods. No excuses or exceptions. B - 1 mild slip-up (ate an extra serving from the "Limit Foods" list) C - 2 mild slip-ups D - 1 major slip-up (consumed anything on the "No Foods" list) F - 3+ mild slip-ups/2+ major slip-ups/any combination of the two Goal 2: 4 days of exercise A - 4 good workouts. B - 3 good workouts. C - 2 good workouts. D - 1 good workout. F - 0 workouts. Goal 3: Sleep A - Average of 7.5+ hours. B - Average of 7 - 7.5 hours. C - Average of 6.5 - 7 hours. D - Average of 6 - 6.5 hours. F- Average of < 6 hours. Life goal: Volunteer I realized I left this goal somewhat vague. Ideally, I want to volunteer once a week at this shelter in my town. That's going to be somewhat difficult with my move and all, so I'm not going to give it a specific location or cause. I'm going to leave it at volunteering once a week in any capacity. This will be graded once at the end of the challenge instead of weekly. A - Volunteered 6+ times. B - Volunteered 5 times. C - Volunteered 4 times. D - Volunteered 3 times F - Less than 3 times. Aaaaaand yeah. That's that.

Your sister clearly has great taste

It's the 21 day sugar detox by balanced bites. Go here: http://the21daysugardetox.com. It's awesome. Anyway, hi! I'm doing the 21DSD as part of my challenge too! I've been trying to find someone to go through it with, so if you're interested, message me and we could work together on it. I'd love to hear what 21DSD recipes you're learning! Power to you for beating cancer and using it for motivation to develop a healthier life! And good luck with the rest of your goals as well.

These goals are awesome! I'm definitely in the same boat with the vegetables haha. I'm excited/curious to see how you incorporate them into your diet! Good luck kicking your own butt

Missing french fries? I made celery root fries a few times, and I think it's a total winner. It doesn't taste 1000% like regular fries, but I mean, it's not a potato soooo... I think it's close enough. And if you season it right, it'll be damn good anyway. You need: 1 celery root 1/4 cup of olive oil I used 1 tbsp each of garlic powder, onion salt, paprika, and Sunny Paris seasoning. Whatever seasonings you want. I'd recommend trying spicy combos. Salt and pepper to taste. So yeah, I wrote up a step-by-step thing with pictures and stuff here: http://gapyearthings.com/2013/08/25/food-experiment-paleo-french-fries-w-celery-root/.

Hi So much respect for your whole30 goal! It's an intimidating challenge, and you seem so determined to beat it! I'm excited to see how it goes My dad introduced me to warhammer training when I played lacrosse in high school, and I didn't know it was actually a thing in real life! haha. I remember he took me into the backyard and was like "here, beat the shit out of this tire with this sledgehammer," and I thought he was absolutely insane. But he was (and you are) obviously right about it because 5 minutes of wacking a tire shreds your back and arms and core and everything like no other! So props to you for taking that on as well. Stretching is such a great goal to have too! It's so underrated but it makes such a difference. Have you tried yoga?

Congrats on the whole 30, that's awesome! And yeah, sugar is a bitch. I think I could like live off of fruit. Damn sugar. Agh. Thank you, and good luck as well! Well thanks I just feel like it's pretty ridiculous to live in a community that you're not contributing to in some way. But that's just me haha. And hate on my ronald all you want. What we have is special, so I don't expect you to understand . I suppose Cyan is acceptable...even if it is a shade or so too blue.