Day 12 - Last night's cheat meal

So it was off to Tommy's for our Thursday night sushi extravaganza. Sushi, sake, soy sauce and eel sauce galore. Albacore tataki, cucumber paradise roll, crunch roll w/ spicy tuna, poki bowl no rice extra spicy, saba sushi and rinse it down with a baked soft-shell crab cut roll. It was bomb.

Woke up feeling like I got hit by a mac truck. Congested, aching, sore over an hour late for work and I still feel like I haven't woken up.

Whelp another week of paleo it is, feeling great and appreciating ever more how good, good food makes me feel.

Day 8 - One week down

Lesley and I "successfully" put 1 week behind us. The reason I quote is because we ended up having 1 cheat meal for the weak (and boy was it delish). We just can't seem to stay away from Tomm'y Sushi bar for more than a week at a time. Other than that meal we actually really enjoyed ourselves following a strict Paleo diet.

The biggest surprise was that our food which we had planned to last 4 days ended up lasting us 6. We looked forward to creating new meals with an assortment of beautiful fruit and veggies. The best part was we ate as much as we wanted.

I had a realization about how food should make you feel. It really shouldn't make you feel anything. If you are aware of your stomach processing what you've eaten then it's likely struggling to process. When you eat good foods even to the point where you are full an hour later it should feel as if you hadn't even eaten. The process of our internal ograns should be completely transparent to us. That's how I felt this entire last week. No indigestion issues, no bloating, no gas.

The other thing I gained a great appreciation for was balancing the acid levels in my body. I now understand what this means. When I eat too much fruit(sugar) my body tells me right away "hey way too sweet". I can counteract this with a small bit of protein and immediately feel the good effects.

The only bad side effect I had was severe leg cramps everynight (except for the night I had sushi, lots of sodium, and last night day 7). This lends me to believe the low intake of sodium is what caused the cramps. I have read it may be a lack of magnesium, calcium or even potasium. I tried taking some cal/mag tablets with no success. I'll see if potasium helps.

I love eating this way. Lesley has stopped counting the days, she says its just "our new way of eating". I agree there is no better way to eat. I suspect we will have one cheat meal each week for the remainder of the 30 day challenge which isn't bad and in fact didn't make me feel bad either. I also felt really strong on my workouts. I dead-lifted my previous max 5x at the end of a 25rep workout.

Week 1 - 30 Day Paleo Challenge

Brian: -7.6lbs "transparent stomach process"
Lesley: -4.6lbs "new way of eating"

Day 5 - "like a million bucks"

It's Friday! Feelin like Snoop this mornin might just throw on my blue chucks. Weighed in at 179! I haven't been this light since I was 16 and I ate a ton yesterday.

Last night was pretty rough mentally. We BBQ'd with the neighbors and you know there's never going to be a shortage of alcohol. I stayed true, we did up some gorgeous fillets of salmon along with a nice salad and bbq'd pineapple. I had cramps for the 3rd night in a row in my calves. I read up on it this morning, initial research seems to be pointing to an electrolyte imbalance most probably because of no salt intake. I also saw mention of possibly needing magnesium/calcium.

Let's see what WebMD has to say...

http://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/tc/nighttime-leg-cramps-topic-overview

What causes nighttime leg cramps?

• Getting too much exercise or overusing the muscles.

Possible cause, I doubt it though since I'm actually exercising less since I haven't been balling.

• Standing on concrete for a long time, sitting for a long time, or putting your legs in awkward positions while you sleep.

I'm pretty balanced in these areas, and I don't recall any awkward positions (at least while I was asleep).

• Not having enough potassium, calcium, and other minerals in your blood.

Common cause I seem to be reading, hopefully the calcium/magnesium tablets I'm taking today will help.

• Being dehydrated.

Definitely not the the cause. My Total Body Water % (TBW) is very high right now around 63%.

• Taking certain medicines, such as antipsychotics, birth control pills, diuretics, statins, and steroids.

Nope.

• Having flat feet.

That's my brother Fed Flinstone they call him. Mostly because he doesn't wear shoes...

• Having thyroid disease.

Nope.

Anyways I'm not too worried my bods probably just adjusting to it's new pH level.

Had left over salmon, poached eggs, spinach and a bowl of mixed fruits and walnuts for breakfast. Packed my spinach, apple, raisin, strawberry, rasberry, walnut, chicken salad for lunch and grabbed a grapefruit, pluot, white nectarine, hard boiled egg for snacks.

I think I'll actually rest for todays Rest Day.