Since today is Halloween and also something people keep calling "Throwback Thursday," here's an adorable and paleo-tastic photo of 7-year-old me (right) with my friend Melanie (left) dressed as cavegirls in awesome dresses my mom sewed for us! I guess my paleosity (yep, I'm calling it, that's a word) has been in me to a degree for sometime!
No major post today, but I have some quick updates:
1. I'm on week 3 of barbell training, and I feel much stronger. I started off bench pressing 45 pounds (just the bar) and doing all the other exercises with 18 pounds, and now I'm doing exercises with 30 pounds, and today I tried adding weights to the barbell and bench pressed 50 pounds. The most notable change is - remember those hanging leg lifts I struggled so much with from the article "I Am A Weakling"? Not only can I now hang from the bar - I also did 3 sets of 8 reps on that exercise today!
2. When I weighed myself on Monday, the scale said 142.5 pounds - my lowest yet! I wish I'd done a better job keeping track of how much I weighed at different times in my life so I could mark each milestone, but in any event, I haven't weighed this little since at least before I moved to Massachusetts. When I started eating paleo and working out beyond just jogging, I weighed about 153, to give you some perspective. My peak weight was 156. Nice to know I'm back on track! I had plateaued there for a few weeks, but I've started monitoring caloric and sugar intake as well as eating paleo, and that's really helped get me back on track.
3. Speaking of sugar intake, today was not my brightest, shiniest moment. Since I bragged a bit in items 1 and 2, I think it's honesty time: I really binged on Halloween sweets today. I have a colleague who is an incredible baker and very festive, and she pulled out all the stops... so when I got to work today, the break room was filled with caramel chocolate chip cookies, brownies, cakes, cupcakes, etc. Plus there was a going away party for me and another therapist who's retiring, and they had the most amazing, moist, delicious cake for us... When I deviate from the plan, I *really* deviate from the plan. I don't think it would be hyperbolic to say I ate 10 different baked goods today. So what do I do on this? I come home, eat a sensible paleo dinner (paleo bacon chili over a sweet potato), and remember that tomorrow is a brand new day. I love the Nerd Fitness stuff about this - We don't cheat; we make mindful decisions to eat something that isn't paleo. Also, never two in a row. That line of thinking probably merits its own blog article, which maybe I'll write sometime soon... especially in light of the fact that all the holidays at the end of the year do tend to bring out my sweet tooth.
That's pretty much it for today! Hope your day was filled with a couple of treats and a bunch of adorable kids in cute and clever costumes!
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