On the rails, but recovered well... Days 23-25

Not sure how to record what I ate on Thursday, but the quickest way would probably to say that I ate pretty much anything I came into contact with. Sorry if this includes you - I don't actually remember trying to eat anyone, but if I got a bit Luis Suarez on your ass, or any other part of you, then I apologise. It's not my fault you're made of meat...

Just not waaaaaaay too much!!

In my defence, I didn't go beyond the realms of acceptable foods from the challenge food list. But if it was on the list, I probably ate it. Twice. Also in my defence, and to reflect what Laura said in her blog yesterday, if you're gonna go nuts (or bananas - choose your favourite paleo-madness pun) and eat loads, there are far worse choices you can make than fruit, meat, eggs, more fruit, veg, nuts, more meat and even more fruit.

It serves me right, I guess, for getting a bit cocky and talking about feeling in control in my last blog entry. A little bit of a reality check that one of those days can be just around the corner pretty much anytime and when you're least expecting it. And it shows that control is relative - my binge day was another persons healthy day.... Actually, it would still have been a really healthy day for me in another month. 

Full control was regained on Friday, when I didn't feel hungry at all and Saturday has been good, despite being out and about all day.

Thursday Food. (An approximation - I may have missed some stuff)
8:00am, breakfast: 3 eggs, scrambled. Some cashew butter. Espresso with almond/coconut milk
9:30am, snack: 2 satsuma's and about 30g of mixed nuts (brazil, walnut, cashew, almond) and dried coconut
11:00am:, another snack: 5 (yes, 5!) small plums.
1:00pm, lunch: Crossfit Leeds Burger at Zed.
3:30pm, snack: A banana and another 30g of my nuts and coconut
5:30pm, pre-Fab Abs: protein shake, a banana and some cashew butter
7:45pm, snack-in-the-car-on-the-way-home-from-Waitrose: Some cooked jumbo king prawns
8:15pm, er... Starter?: A small piece of thin cut veal, pan-fried, and a fried egg
9:00pm, dinner: Sliced beef (from a joint I had just cooked) with roast veg, salad leaves, loads of olives, sun-dried tomatoes and hot cherry peppers, tomatoes, cucumber, wilted spinach, horseradish, mustard.
9:30pm, dessert: Strawberries.

Wowzers!! I think that's it...

Thursday training: Ferino's Fab Abs at 6pm.


Friday Food
11:00am, snack: 2 satsumas
2:30pm, lunch: sliced beef with some roast veg, salad leaves, tomatoes, peppers and a few olives and hot cherry peppers.
5:30pm, pre-training: 1/2 serving protein shake
7:15pm, post-training: protein shake (full dose)
8:00pm: ?: a couple of teaspoons of cashew butter

Friday Training
6pm CrossFit Class
Power clean and push jerk tekkers and try for a 1RM. I was a bit disappointed with this, as I only made it up to 70kg, which felt fairly easy and I did a couple of times, but failed at 80 (after a hideous clean attempt) and ran out of time before trying 75, so didn't even get to equal my best power clean or push jerk, which are both 75.
Today's WOD was 5 rounds of 7 HPC's and 15 wall balls. Rx weight for the HPC's was 70kg, which I thought was a bit much for me, and I decided to go at 55kg. Absolutely smashed this, putting in a time of 5:53, best time of the day I think, so should probably have gone a bit heavier. Might have to try it in an open gym session with 70kg, see how I get on.

Saturday Food
8:30am, breakfast: 3 egg omlette with 3 rashers bacon, mushroom & spring onion. Espresso with almond/coconut milk
11:30am, snack: An apple
12:30pm, lunch: Roast beef (cold) with salad leaves, tomatoes, spring onion, some olives and hot cherry peppers and a 2 egg scramlette (half scrambled, half omlette!). Followed by 2 plums.
2:30pm, snack: A satsuma.
8:00pm, dinner: A very large sirloin steak, swede mash (just swede with a little coconut oil), salad leaves, 1/2 avacado, tomato a little wilted spinach and a fried egg!


6 eggs today. A PB!

No training for me today.

Between breakfast and lunch I went to HG3 with the Masters team for the Dominance WOD. I was the non-wodding member again this month, as my pull-ups aren't up to scratch yet. Wully, Ferino and Mick put in an awesome team performance.

Between lunch and dinner I went to Old Trafford to watch my struggling team come from behind to beat Stoke 3-2. Decent 2nd half performance and some good substitutions (can taking Nani off ever be a bad thing?!) and a scintillating last 20 minutes contributing to a fab Saturday!

Result!! Much needed...