Friday August 10, 2012 - Day 21 of Whole 30

Food
Breakfast:  1/3 Noatmeal + 15 blueberries
Lunch: Leftover cold rotisserie chicken, 6 carrots, 1/2 cucumber, 6 medium strawberries
Dinner: Going out to dinner at Maribelle's for a friends birthday.  Probably will kill the Whole 30 tonight, but it's been real!

Workout
5 sets of:
7 DB* hang power cleans
7 DB* push presses
:25 AirDyne @ 95% effort
4:00 walk rest
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Front leaning rest on floor, accumulate 180 seconds; rest and break as needed to ensure perfect positioning throughout
*Use the same DBs for both movements, goal is a tough but fast weight

Mood/Feelings/Notes

Thursday August 9, 2012 - Day 20 of Whole30

Food
Breakfast: 2 eggs + 5 macadamia nuts + 1 large strawberry + 10 blueberries + 1 cup hazelnut coffee (black)
Lunch:  Salad with carrots, red peppers, cucumbers, and ground chicken + buffalo mayo dressing + 1 apple cut up with cinnamon, roasted almonds (chopped), and coconut milk... DELICIOUS.  Like an apple pie only healthy.
Dinner:  Rotisserie chicken + lemon roasted carrots + kombucha and a few macadamia nuts + 10 blueberries + 1 large strawberry

Workout
Rest day

Mood/Feelings/Notes
TOTALLY.BLOATED.AFTER.DINNER.  blahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Wednesday August 8, 2012 - Day 19 of Whole 30

Food

Breakfast:  1/4 cup ground chicken, 1 cup packed spinach, 2 fried eggs

Snack: 8 almonds + 2 macadamia nuts + 1/4 k-cup of Our Blend (caffeinated)

Lunch: 1.5 andouille chicken sausages, 1/4 cup broccoli, 1/2 cucumber, 1/4 red pepper

Snack: Large Banana + 7 macadamia nuts

Dinner: Paleo Chicken Parmesan (sans Parmesan) + Green Beans + Trilogy Kombucha

Workout 

5:00 AirDyne @ easy pace

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5 sets of:

20 single-arm overhead walking lunge steps, switch arms @ 10 reps  I did 10, 15, 20, 25, 25

200m single-arm Farmer’s walk, switch arms as needed  I did 25, 35, 40, 40, 40

20 sit-ups  I did regular ab mat situps with legs spread

:60 rest

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5:00 AirDyne @ easy pace

Loading for single-arm movements should be challenging but still allow for smooth & continuous movement; as such, it’s likely that different loads will be used for each

Mood/Feelings/Notes

Today was fine - no real cravings.  Probably snacked on nuts a bit too much at my desk while working through some really frustrating excel files, but it definitely could have been worse.

Tuesday August 7, 2012 - Day 18 of Whole30

Food
Breakfast:  2 eggs, fried, 1/3 cup tuna salad, 4 slices of cucumber
Snack: 10 macadamia nuts, 6 carrots, 4 cucumber slices
Lunch: Leftover meat sauce + butternut squash
Snack: 5 macadamia nuts + Chai tea bag (with caffeine)... tasted gross so I only drank half of it.
Dinner:  Grilled steak, sweet potatoes, broccoli

Workout
A. Power clean, 1-1-1-1-1-1-1; 2:30 rest, perform a few tough, deep dips or push-ups between sets
I did 63/73/83/93(f)/88/93(f)/93 GOT IT
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3 rounds for time of:
12 power cleans @ 55-65% of best load in A
12 burpees
I did 53# and it took me 3:33

Mood/Feelings/Notes 
Really exhausted around 2 PM.  Drank half a cup of caffeinated tea. Felt amazing when I caught the 93# clean.  Struggled getting my elbows turned quickly but FINALLY got it and was so excited!  It is only a 3# PR but I will take it!

Monday August 6, 2012 - Day 17 of Whole30

Food

Breakfast:  2 eggs fried in ghee with 1/4 cup ground chicken and 1/4 cup packed spinach

Lunch:  Firecracker tuna salad + 1/2 green bell pepper raw + 10 carrots + 1/4 cup blueberries

Snack: Mini Tangerine

Dinner:  Meat sauce + Butternut squash

Workout

A. High-bar back squat, 8-6-4-4, 30X1; 3:00 rest  I did 75, 85, 95, 95
B. Pull-ups, COVP, 4 x max (-2 if max is 20+); 2:00 rest I did 14, 11, 8, 8
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For time:

400m run
:90 rest
400m run
I did 30 cal airdyne; rest 90 seconds; 30 cal of airdyne.  Took about 2 min for each 30 cal sprint.

Mood/Feelings/Notes 
TOTALLY bloated after dinner.  Felt like a crazy balloon.  It was terrible.  But it did go down before bed time.  Think I just ate too much too quickly on a completely empty stomach.

Sunday August 5, 2012 - Day 16 of Whole30

Food
Breakfast: 1/2 apple with cinnamon, 2 eggs fried, 3 pieces of applegate farms breakfast sausage
Lunch:  spinach, ground chicken, red pepper, cucumber slices, diced carrots + mayo buffalo dressing
Snack: Snacked on some macadamia nuts... probably 7 or 8
Dinner:  1 piece chicken breast, sweet potato, 1/2 apple, few blueberries and 3 strawberries

Workout
Rest Day.  Mobility on hips.

Mood/Feelings/Rest
Starving today.  Just can't eat enough.  Starting to see some definition in my abs and less bloating!

Saturday August 4, 2012 - Day 15 of the Whole30

Food

Breakfast: 2 eggs fried in ghee, green beans, and 1/2 banana

Lunch: 1/2 banana, green beans, small burger patty and tiny piece of chicken + trilogy kombucha

Dinner:  The whole fam went to Dewey's so I had a salad with strawberries, Macadamia nuts, and chicken.  No dressing or oil or anything.  It sucked.
Snack:  1/3 of a cucumber, 1/2 apple with cinnamon, 8 raw almonds, 1 sweet potato

Workout

Three rounds for time of:
400m run
3 x [5 burpees + 5 toes-to-bar]

14:09 … kip just isn’t there on the TTB, but Rob coached me and I understand the movement, so I am sure I will be able to get them, just need practice.
+ 1 dip every 45 seconds x 10
+ 25 weighted GHD situps with 10#

Mood/Feelings/Notes
Blah.  Everyone around me was eating totally bad food, so it was kind of hard, but I made it through fine.