We need to give a number to the bar for our party on Saturday by Tuesday. Please try to let us know if you are coming. You can pay at the desk or have your account charged, let us know in person or email me. If you are free, let us know, and make an effort to come. It doesn’t matter if you are new, don’t know anyone, live close, live far. It’s going to be a night to remember! Yes the Patriots will be on!
Wednesday at 6:30 PM is the meeting for our second Paleo Challenge which will start Monday, January 13. As we get ready to start cleansing and tracking we are going to start throwing some information out here during the week to get everyone caught up with what exactly the Paleo Diet is.
What the Paleo Diet IS NOT is a food restriction, weight loss centric diet. The Paleo Diet is a lifestyle change. The focus is not on the archaic principles of good food versus bad food. The focus is on cleansing the body from unnatural, inflammatory agents and fine tuning our energy systems. Specifically the Paleo Diet focuses on ridding our diet of gluten, processed sugar and sugar in excess, and artificial preservatives and additives.
Getting rid of these things in the diet reduces inflammation in the GI tract, joints, tendons, and muscle tissue allowing us to feel better, recover better, and process food better. Ridding our diet of crap sugar makes our body operate more efficiently because of the better quality of food. We also use energy differently, burning body fat as fuel versus the sugar clogged up in our blood stream and liver as glucose. All together we lose a lot of excess water that our body is storing because of all the toxins we have been ingesting.
All of this ends up leading to weight loss, sometimes very significant and sudden weight loss. This is a great thing, but it isn’t the focus. The reason we stress this is because we don’t want you to think of it as good versus bad food, food that makes you gain weight versus lose weight. Popular belief would say we should eat more whole grain foods (pasta, oatmeal, cereal) than red meat if we want to lose weight. This couldn’t be further from the truth. Red meat is great for us and very much on the Paleo Diet. Whole grains are full of gluten which causes all sorts of issues in our body, on top of the fact that they flood the body with glucose. Glucose is important in small doses (think 1 piece of bread worth in an entire day) but in excess leads to all sorts of problems, the least of which being weight gain.
We will dive more into the specifics of how Paleo works tomorrow and in the meeting, but long story short it’s time to retrain your brain as to what you believe is good and bad. Think of what you are about to embark on as more a lifestyle change than it is a weight loss goal. The latter will happen, the former is more important.
The Paleo Challenge is open to everyone and anyone, and you know you should be doing it :).
TUESDAY
Strength: 3 Rounds
10 Strict Pull-ups
10 Dips
10 V-Ups
20 Supermans
*this is not for time, but work through it as quickly as you are able. Make the pull-ups and dips as hard as possible. There is a 10 minute cap.
WOD: 3 Rounds For Total Score, 2 minutes running clock for each movement/rest period
Double Unders (singles are not allowed. Must attempt double unders for any score)
CTB Pull-Ups*
Clean and Jerk 165/110*
Burpees
Rest
*Muscle Ups, 205/125
