First week with Leeny

Well, I'm on day 7 and almost finished my first week.  Definitely NOT Whole30 because I ate pizza last night!!!!  Still, I have done much better than I usually do.  I've cut down from 2 Starbucks runs a day to 1 small latte in the past week.  Sam took the kids to Cici's on Friday night and I didn't even feel a temptation to go with them.  I was reading the Whole30 message for Day 7 and they said "don't paleo regular foods", unfortunately, we do that a lot.  I made honey muffins, chocolate pudding and peach cobbler yesterday-all dishes that have substitutes that technically make it paleo, but are regular dishes.  Still, as Sam says, you have to get to a stage where you can live with it permanently....

Leeny's challenge, Day 2

Not too bad a day, no-oat oatmeal for breakfast, chicken salad for lunch and a Scotch egg for dinner. Definitely missing my usual copious amount of coffee more than anything

Leeny's challenge Day 1

I did pretty well for Day 1.  The major change I noticed was that I had a major caffeine headache because I drank a lot less coffee than usual.  I made some chicken salad for dinner tonight and had a go at making Scotch eggs.  Not sure how successful they were, haven't tried any yet!!!  

My latest 30 day challenge

My paleo leader, Leeny, has decided to do an informal 30 day challenge and of course I jumped on it immediately.  It's not going to be a Whole30 challenge, but more an awareness of what we are eating.  Her introduction to it can be found here:
http://www.paleocurious.com/1/post/2013/07/the-paleo-awareness-challenge.html
It's amazing how she can write exactly what I feel or am doing.
I'm also going to use the Whole30 daily email support.  It's a really good way to know what you are feeling is normal.
https://daily.whole9life.com/email_images/pdf/whole30-goal-sheet-day-0.pdf
This is their Quick Start guide
http://whole9life.com/book/ISWF-Quick-Start-Guide.pdf

Freedom 4 mile run

Sam and I ran the Freedom 4 mile downtown yesterday. It's the longest run I have done and I ended up having to walk some of it. Still we did pretty well (of course Sam would have run it in a much shorter time)

We took a picture before the race

Then we took one after the race, we look pretty much the same-still smiling

Peach cobbler

4 peaches

1/2 cup water
1/3 cup honey
1 tablespoon ghee, melted
1 1/2 cups almond flour
2 tablespoons coconut oil
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 egg
pinch of salt

Start by dicing 4 peaches and place in a saucepan with 1/2 cup water and 1/3 cup honey. Heat on stovetop until boiling, stir often. Then turn heat to low and let simmer 10 minutes.
Melt 1 tablespoon of ghee in the bottom of a baking dish. After fruit has simmered for 10 minutes add it to the cake pan and set aside.
In a separate bowl combine 1 1/2 cups almond flour, 2 tablespoons coconut oil, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, one egg and a pinch of salt. Mix well. Then spoon this chunky mixture over the peaches. Place in over and bake at 350 for 35 minutes. Let cool and top with a spoonful of coconut milk.

This is CF 26!!!

Featuring Sam Sylar in the first few seconds.  I did NOT do this workout!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5K2nn16FM4