November 2012
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Week 3: Paleo Challenge Review
The challenge Week 1’s Review Week 2’s Review
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The good came with the bad this week. And the bad was, well, bad. I hope I haven’t made Paleo look easy for people, because it hasn’t been. At all. Especially with working Monday to Friday, doing five CrossFit sessions a week, staying up to date on this blog (hi! sorry this post is so...
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It’s a weird feeling to feel yourself losing weight.
And no, I don’t mean a grumble in your tummy, or sweat running down your back, but rather with your own two hands. To people who have never needed to lose weight, it’ll be a foreign concept, but it’s truly the strangest thing for your hand to mindlessly brush against a part of your body, and for your brain to trigger,...
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A Blessing in Disguise; Weight Loss.
Last week on my way to work I received an email with a little question that has graced my mind ever since;
“Won’t you find it sad to wake up in 50 years and feel like your whole life was centered on your weight?”
My initial reply (in my head) was “hell yes, and it sucks, and I hate myself for it, and hushhhh you, we shall not speak of such things.” But then yesterday, when I was standing in my...
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The Colo(u)r Run
Let’s cut to the chase. Had it not been for the wonderful world of social media, I don’t think I’d have ever heard of ‘The Color Run’. I would never have seen Instagram photos of it, Twitter tweets about excitement for it, or blog posts about fellow bloggers’ experiences from doing it.
So when I heard The Color Run was heading to Melbourne, from what I had...
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A Spring Weekend in Melbourne
As if I haven’t had time to blog lately. FO SHAME. But really, I remember many a weekends in Toronto coming to a close where the mere thought of sitting at a computer hadn’t even crossed my mind; horse riding, swimming, kayaking, running, y’know, suddenly filled all my moments.
And now, my friends, I’m pleased to report Melbourne seriously delivered on this past hot spring...
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Me: I'm gonna go get myself a treat tonight
Matt: What treat?
Me: grapes!
File under: where oh where has the real Liz gone?
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Week 2: Paleo Challenge Review
The challenge I’m reviewing
Week 1’s Review
This week. My oh my, what can I say about Week 2? It seems to have gone by in the blink of an eye, and? And it’s been easy, hard, and really, really annoying at times, but overall kinda awesome.
General thoughts:
The hard: I’m out of the honeymoon phase, that’s for sure. I have had some intense carb & sugar...
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I woke up this morning in a fairly bitter mood. (As my replies to asshole comments will prove. But whatever. It’s my blog. I can do that)
Anywho. Then I decided I needed to go grocery shopping with it being Sunday and all. And so I went into the dungeon that is my archives to find an old Paleo Breakfast Casserole Recipe. And? And I got inspired. Inspired by myself. (Hussh you. That’s...
to be blunt, it’s times like these that suck.
times like… i’m not sure whether to say ‘being overweight,’ or ‘being on a diet,’ (i suppose i mean both) that suck.
i should be in a bar right now; wearing a dress. high heels. with my hair neatly curled. i should have a drink in my hand. be slightly tipsy (i don’t do the smashed thing anymore....
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Butterfly Effect
Tonight is my night off from CrossFit.
It happens but once a week, and I have to admit, I’m really damn excited about this. But usually when Thursday rolls around I have a “to do” list up to my hoo-ha: laundry, clean, tidy, vacuum, grocery shop, paint nails, wax legs, catch up on sleep, kiss boyfriend, call home, or do this, or that
Usually I don’t even notice my ‘Rest Day’ is, well, a rest...
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3 Simple Health Points I learned this week from...
Omega 3 / Fish Oil
I remember my old personal trainer going on, and on about Omega 3. Yadda yadda yadda, I didn’t really care. I don’t really know what it is, I’m not a pill popper anyways, and the thought of consuming fish oil simply grossed me out. But then this week I started reading. And reading. And reading some more. And as it turns out my trainer may have been onto...
My life in Numbers
171 is the number of pounds I weighed this morning 46 is the number of pounds I’d have to lose to be 125 21 is the number of pounds I’d be happy & content losing 165 is the number I’d have to weigh to get my clothes back 147 is the lowest I’ve ever weighed (that was in Nepal) 203 was the highest the scale has read (it made me cry) 16 is the number on the jeans I’m wearing (they were $17,...
Proceed with caution.
Short of the amputation diet, I have tried nearly every diet known to chubby folk; high-protein, low-carbs, no-carbs, slim-fast, atkins, south-beach, Weight-Watchers, paleo, gluten-Free, dairy-free, Jenny-Craig, Dr.-B., cabbage-diet, & Eat-Clean-Diet. Whoa.
Right out the gate I’ve been unsuccessful with some, and then quite successful with others, which I think is what’s scaring...
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Week 1: Paleo Challenge Review
I can’t believe it’s already been a week. I can’t believe I didn’t cheat. And I can’t believe how well I did *as I pat myself on the back.*
A quick review of what Paleo is / The challenge I’m doing:
Eat like a caveman did; essentially just meat & veggies
No dairy
No wheat/grains
No sugar
No processed food
No legumes (including peanuts)
Yes to high,...
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Let me introduce you to Katie...
I met Katie on my first day of work. She was the twenty-something girl sitting at the computer next me; instantly I designated her my, “go to for help,” person.
I remember at around 10am asking her a simple question. She didn’t say much, but was nice while she stated the answer. Around 2pm I overheard her make an appointment with a doctor.
Nosy me, as most people do, wondered...
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Soccer Mom. (Minus the Kids. Psssh. Minor Details)
I felt like a soccer mom tonight. Except… minus the kids and minus the soccer (I gotta admit sometimes I’m so busy I have no clue how mothers embrace the chaos. And (confession) sometimes I think I’ll epically fail as a mom as I love sleep too much, am too selfish for it, and at the end of the day procrastinate and am way too lazy to constantly entertain little minds… huh....
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Paleo, Life and Why is the Sky so Blue?
Oh hi there. Didn’t see you over there sitting at your screen. Welcome. The above creepy, self portrait, is me, myself, and I in the ladies washroom. OH THE THINGS I DO FOR THIS BLOG. Anywho…
I am totally in the honeymoon phase of this diet. I wake up each morning and actually don’t mind getting out of bed because that means I get to weigh myself. I know, I know, I shouldn’t weigh...
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A quick post to say something simple. Today was my second absolutely perfect day of eating paleo. I know it’s only been two measly days in the grand scheme of this challenge, but I can’t even tell you how good it feels to not have cheated. To have passed on the fries in the middle of the table. Not ‘stolen’ a piece of my roommate’s cheese platter, or the other...
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Taking on the Paleo Diet...
I’ve been nervous to write this post for some time. Nervous because I can assume what it must be like to read my story; my story of inconsistency. Of ups. And downs. And I’m feeling awesome. And now I’m not. To read, “today I’ll start Weight Watchers!” Only to watch it fade. Or to see me declare “Operation Skinny Jeans.” Only to never hear of it again. But I suppose that’s who I am. Someone who...
moods are a funny thing. you can be walking along, rocking life, not a care in the world, and then bamn. something changes. and you change.
i was feeling pretty good about myself today. i even snuck into the disabled washroom at work to snap a photo of my waistline. i had a plan to blog that photo, with a caption along the lines of, ‘these pantaloons are feeling looser these days,’...
