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Day 14 Nutrition Breakfast: Nasty powdered eggs from the hotel Lunch: 6 inch roasted chicken with tomato, cucumber, and spinach on wheat from Subway with some gas station hot chocolate Dinner: Chicken and sauteed veggies with an apple and almond butter for dessert Snack: Beef jerky Fitness: Nothing today Life: Long drive and not feeling well combined to create a lazy Sunday. Back to accomplishing things tomorrow.

Day 13 (late post from Saturday) Nutrition Breakfast: Quiche, sausage, coffee Lunch: And here is where the weekend started going off the rails. Went to Subway and got a 6-inch roast chicken with spinach, cucumber, tomato on wheat. Dinner: Chicken strips and coffee Snacks: No snacks which for me is great since this was a road trip, but I was up at 4:30 so I consummed plenty of diet Mountain Dew Fitness: Nothing official, but I hiked around for about 2 hours. Hawk Ridge has some great trails if anyone ever gets a chance to visit. Life: Went to Hawk Ridge in Duluth to watch bird migrations. It was pretty cold and windy on the ridge, especially with the wind coming off of Lake Superior, but it was a fun trip and I'm glad I went even if I couldn't stay Paleo for the weekend. This just makes me want to work that much harder for the rest of the month. I'll update again for today (Sunday), but I wanted to make sure I got all of yesterdays information down before I forgot.

From what it sounded like, we're ordering pizza at the hotel. Depending on where it's from though, I might be able to order a chicken sandwich and throw away the bread or something like that. Chain pizza places are just difficult to work around since it's either pasta or pizza that you have to work with.Edit: I just looked it up and both Domino's and Pizza Hut have salads so there is some hope. While they're not the healthiest things on Earth, they're definitely better than pizza or pasta so here's hoping I'll be able to resist stuffing my face with delicious cheesy carbs.

Day 12 Nutrition Breakfast: Quiche, sausage, coffee Lunch: Spinach, tomato, turkey, dressing and some beef jerkey Dinner: Salmon and broccoli with apple for dessert Snack: Dried cranberries and a diet cherry Coke Fitness: Didn't get an official workout, but I'm going deer hunting for the first time in a few weeks so my friend and I went scouting for a good place to build a blind. This involved wandering through the woods for a good three hours so I consider it a workout. Life: I'm going to have a tough Saturday ahead of me as far as staying Paleo goes. I'm taking an overnight trip with a student organization and I'll have a difficult time controlling where we eat since Subway and pizza seem to be the current plans. I also won't be able to get a workout on Saturday or Sunday, but this trip will involve a lot of hiking so I think the fitness department won't be a total loss. I'll try and update tomorrow, but I probably won't be able to until Sunday evening. Any suggestions of things to eat at Subway that stay sort of Paleo.

I don't even consider this to be a mouse "problem" since it's just one smartass little mouse. It's like a real life Mousehunt. It makes for a funny story, but it's still quite annoying that we just can't seem to get rid of it. At least it has only eaten my roommate's food and not mine.

Day 11 Nutrition Breakfast: Quiche, sausage, coffee Lunch: PaleoKit, quiche, and a couple of slices of turkey Dinner: Grilled chicken, spinach, shallots, onions, mushroom, some olive oil/vinegar dressing, glass of almond milk, apple for dessert Snack: Beef jerky Fitness: 15 minute elliptical warm up, deadlifts up to 95 pounds, squats at 45 pounds, bench press up to 80 pounds, assisted dips, 15 minute elliptical cool down, and some leg lifts when I got home. Life: Went to turn on my computer today only to have it boot up for 5 seconds and then shut down. It's definitely a hardware issue and I don't trust myself to crack it open and have it still work after I put it back together so I had to take it into a local computer place. I'm now using a computer that I was able to check out from my campus library. I just need my computer to last until I graduate so here's hoping it's just the power adapter and not some bigger issue. I also went to check the mouse traps and found that the peanut butter was gone and there was a mouse turd on the trip plate. Little bugger took the bait and left some crap behind! It's like he's taunting us now. Continued practicing Soilder's Joy on the mandolin and read a little more.

Day 10 Nutrition Breakfast: Quiche, sausage, coffee Lunch: Spinach, cucumber, tomato, turkey, and olive oil/vinegar dressing Snack: PaleoKit Dinner: Spinach salad with grilled chicken, mushrooms, peppers, shallots, green onions, tomato, carrots and salsa. Glass of almond milk and strawberries for dessert. Fitness: Day off in the workout department Life: Got everything done and once classes were finished I just checked out mentally. Continued my book.

Thanks everyone for the support. Day 9 Nutrition Breakfast: Quiche, sausage, coffee, and an apple Lunch: Tuna and tomato with a bit of olive oil Snacks: Didn't have anything as a snack but I had a ton of work this afternoon and not enough sleep to do it so I got a Mountain Dew. :/ Dinner: Chicken with sauteed veggies and strawberries for dessert Fitness: Almost made excuses and didn't work out today because of everything I needed to catch up on (including an assignment that I'm procrastinating on right now) but since I won't have time tomorrow and will be gone on the weekend, I stopped making excuses and did thirty minutes on the elliptical. Life: Still super flipping busy. Right when I get done with one thing, 8 more obligations pop up. I had to put in 6 hours at work to finish something I thought I had more time on, a full morning of classes, and to top it all off my rental company called and informed me that they're bringing people to look at my apartment tomorrow so now I have a bunch of cleaning to do. Grrr.

Weekly weigh-in results: 8 POUNDS! I'm going to have to start eating more to keep from losing weight too fast! Starting weight: 250 Current weight: 242 Day 8 Nutrition Breakfast: Egg quiche, sausage link, coffee Lunch: Spinach, tomato, cucumber, and turkey with dressing and some leftover broccoli and cauliflower Snack: PaleoKit Dinner: Grilled chicken with mushrooms and acorn squash for dessert Fitness: 15 minute elliptical warm-up, squats with 85 lbs, bench press with 75 lbs, 10 assisted chin-ups, planks, 15 minute elliptical cool-down. Life: Swamped once again but it should calm down tomorrow. Lab practical this morning, a bunch of assignments I had to do, and a one-time evening class from 5:30-8:30. Hoping to catch up on work tomorrow as well as do some reading that isn't from a text book.

Something my mom uses when going out to eat is just cutting the entire meal in half before eating anything and having half for dinner and then take the rest home for lunch the next day. It might be worth it to try.

Day 7 Nutrition: Kept Paleo all week with very little problem. The only time I had a craving for bread was when my roommate was making toast, and that craving passed quickly. Breakfast: Egg quiche and 1 turkey sausage link with 1 cup of coffee Lunch: Finished off the last of the turkey taco with spinach, tomato, and salsa Dinner: Chicken stuffed with mushrooms, green onions, and shallots, steamed broccoli and cauliflower, a cup of almond milk, and maybe some acorn squash for dessert. Snack: Some almonds throughout the day Fitness: Took the day off because of life getting in the way. I was originally going to the gym 6 days a week (3 days cardio, 3 days weights) with just Wednesdays off, but the past 3 weeks I've had to go 5 which I beat myself up over a little even though I know that 5 days a week is great. I need to stop getting into my own head about this stuff. Life: Busy busy busy. Laundry, groceries, cooking for the week, 2 homework assignments, a group project, and a lab practical tomorrow. On top of all this, my roommate found out that a mouse got into his chocolate stash (he was LIVID) so we had to wash out all the cupboards and all the dishes. This is both a bad and a good thing, bad since there's a mouse somewhere but good because it finally forced me to throw out a bunch of food I was holding onto that I shouldn't eat. I hate throwing away food so I had a bag of rice, bread, peanut butter, and granola bars that I wasn't eating but that I didn't want to get rid of. Mouse poops and bite marks finally gave me an excuse, so out went all my grains. The other good news in all of this is that I saw the mouse two weeks ago (under my bed :shock:), it vanished for two weeks, and then suddenly reappeared but it didn't leave behind a ton of poop. This makes me think that there's just one and that it is going through the whole building and not just our apartment which is slightly comforting as everyone has to deal with it and not just us.

Take care of yourself and I hope that things get better so that next month you can come back and kick all sorts of ass. Best of luck!

Paleo wise everything is going great. So far it has been relatively easy to change to a full Paleo diet (minus coffee of course) and I've already noticed some weight loss. I haven't weighed myself yet since I'm holding off until tomorrow as a weekly weigh in sort of thing. This weekend has been fine as far as diet goes, but I've been swamped with school and struck down with allergies so my workout yesterday wasn't as good as I wanted and I just completely took today off to focus on chores and studying. I'm feeling much better though so I'm ready to kick my ass into gear tomorrow when I go work out. I'm hoping this week goes better than last as far as work outs, but otherwise I'm very content with my progress. I also hope to get back into Couch to 5K this week as I took last week off.

Day 6 Nutrition Breakfast: Two turkey sausage links and two eggs and a cup of coffee. Lunch: Leftover turkey taco with tomato and salsa. Dinner: Once again, leftover turkey taco with spinach, tomato, and salsa. Snack: A PaleoKit Fitness: 15 minute elliptical interval warm up, between 20 and 30 minutes of weight training. My allergies are kicking my ass so today I sort of wandered around aimlessly trying things out and seeing if I could do them. I eventually just decided to do another 20 minutes on elliptical and then did some lunges, push-ups, and leg lifts when I got home. Life: Pretty lazy today and haven't been doing the studying that I should. Gonna try and get some homework done tonight, but season 4 of Friday Night Lights on Netflix streaming will probably be too tempting in my sickly condition.

I haven't done one...yet. I hope to be in good enough shape by the summer to though. I would especially like to run the tough mudder or warrior dash. I know that the Marines also host one that looks crazy tough. Now to just find someone crazy enough to do them with me.

Day 5: Nutrition Breakfast: Once again, egg quiche, apple and a cup of coffee. I started thawing out some turkey sausage links though so hopefully I can have those for breakfast tomorrow. I might just cook them all up and then have them ready for a quick microwave on weekdays when I don't have time to make a full breakfast. Lunch: A spinach salad with tomato, cucumber, carrots, turkey and dressing along with a second egg quiche because I was surprisingly hungry by lunch. Snack: My paleokits arrived! I had to try one out and they were pretty good. Bigger than I expected though, almost less of a snack and more a part of a meal. I shudder to think how big the meal replacement kits must be. Also had a cup of coffee in the afternoon as a treat. Dinner: Turkey taco salad. This is just ground turkey meat that I brown and then mix with taco seasonings like regular tacos. I mixed it with tomato, spinach, and salsa. Very filling and I have enough for at least lunch and dinner for tomorrow. I also picked up some almond milk, walnut oil, and almond butter today so I had an apple and almond butter for dessert. I also had a nice cool glass of almond milk and it was effin delicious. I can't believe I've never had almond milk before. Fitness: 35 minutes of elliptical intervals. It was also a gorgeous day out so I took a walk to run some errands. I wandered around for about an hour. Life: Got a bunch of group work done for school and started learning Soldier's Joy on the mandolin.

Good luck on quitting. I smoked on and off since my junior year of high school (sorry mom) and have quit completely this year. Not having to stand out in the freezing winter has been completely worth it.

Since it's a big class, it's not as draining as it sounds when I describe it. The class is a majority white belts so our warm ups are really centered around them which makes for a fairly easy time for me. The only thing that gets me sweating and out of breath is sparring because you have on cumbersome gear and there's a lot of bouncing around and kicking going on. Yesterday though was the first time our high white belts have sparred so I got in one decent match with a fellow high belt and then spent the rest of the time working with white belts and teaching them what to do. My school also has a TKD club where I can get a much better workout since the classes are split between advanced and beginner, but I haven't been able to find the time to go yet.

Baked sweet potato fries are one of my favorite treats. I actually like them more than regular fries. Glad to see others enjoying their sweet potato deliciousness.

Day 4 Nutrition Breakfast: Egg quiche with an apple and a cup of coffee Lunch: Spinach salad with tomato, turkey, and dressing After workout snack: Sweet potato with cinnamon and nutmeg Dinner: Giant spinach salad with carrots, grilled chicken, cucumber, tomato, mushrooms, peppers, and I used homemade salsa as a dressing. Had an apple for dessert. Workout: Had TKD today with sparring and roughly 60 push-ups that I wasn't expecting. I say roughly 60 because I probably only did about 3 good ones. At the gym I did a brisk 15 minute interval elliptical warm up. Deadlifts, starting off easy at 65 lbs. Overhead shoulder press with 15 pound dumbbells. Exercise ball sit ups. Incline dumbbell flies with 15 lb dumbbells. Body weight lunges. And finished off the weights with bench press using just the bar. This last one disappointed me though because a few years ago I was able to bench between 95 and 105 lbs consistently, but I guess this is what happens when you stop picking up heavy things. I finished off with a 20 minute elliptical cool down. Life: Had an exam first thing this morning that didn't go as well as I had hoped, but from what my friends were saying pretty much everyone feels like I do. This was also our first exam in that class so I'm going to chalk it up as a learning experience and just move onto studying for the lab practical next week. Also got five hours in at work today. I make my own hours so work got put off in favor of studying this week and I'm playing a bit of catch up.

Veggie stir fry sounds delicious. What veggies do you have? So I can copy and make it for my own dinner, of course.

I'll add a longer post later, but I wanted to make a quick note that I just got back from the gym where I did deadlifts for the first time. I didn't even know I had some of these muscles in my back. And I'm realizing that I'm turning into a gym snob towards people who just sit on equipment and chat instead of working out. You know, working out. That thing that gyms are for. They're not for taking cell phone pictures with your three friends while posing holding 3 pound weights. I'm not joking.

Thank you for the suggestion. I know it's a lot better to hold myself back a little to perfect form instead of putting on crapton of weight right away, but I always have a tendency to start too hard. This will be good practice for breaking that habit.

Day 3: Nutrition Breakfast: Egg quiche, apple, cuppa joe Lunch: Tuna fish and tomatoes with a bit of olive oil and seasonings Dinner: Grilled chicken with asparagus, mushrooms, shallots, and green onions and I finally finished off the last of my delicious acorn squash for dessert Snacks: Had a few almonds throughout the day, I also found out that my Steve's Originals PaleoKit should be here by Friday. Yay! Fitness: Left my window open last night while a storm and a cold front came through so my allergies were bugging me a bit when I woke up this morning. Good timing though since Wednesdays are my off days from the gym because of my hectic class schedule. After class though the weather was real nice so I took a short bike ride along the Wisconsin river. Tomorrow I'm going to start a real weight routine sort of mimicking the one Steve posted this week, excepting substituting assisted pull-ups and chin-ups until I'm able to do real ones. Does anyone have any suggestions for a beginning deadlift weight or should I just experiment with the weight until I find a good place to start? Life: Gave a class presentation and got a 23/25 which made me pretty happy as I felt unprepared going in, but got a lot more confident as I was presenting. Gonna try and get some personal reading (Mary Roach's Bonk which I would like to finish before the month is done) in tonight.

Another interesting food documentary is King Corn which goes into the amount of corn produced in the US and how it has slowly crept into almost every processed food. It describes how corn could have a big hand in obesity in the US as well as the effect it has on farming. It's on Netflix streaming.