Going Primal Tracking

Still tracking on my Going Primal experiment over at my main blog. You can find my Day 19 there. Also, a Primal grocery haul and a post on exactly what primal and paleo are.

Changes

I originally started this Adventures in Tracking blog for those interested in the daily tracking of my food, exercise, etc. On my Adventures in Dietland blog I was posting very regularly and didn't want to bombard those not interested in the daily stuff with a bazillion posts.


Since then our homeschool year has started (and some other life things) and I am not finding time to keep up with so many blogs! So for at least the rest of my Going Primal series my tracking vlogs/posts will be over at my main blog.


You can find days 12, 13, and 14 here.


I may consolidate the two blogs and get rid of this one long term. We'll see!

Going Primal Days 9, 10 and 11. Plus 5k Recap

Got days 9 and part of 10 on the vlog, took day 11 off from vlogging.

Things are going fantastic. I'm excited to see what my weigh in is tomorrow. I feel thinner. My clothes fit looser. I feel great. Really enjoying Primal.

My 5k however was HORRIBLE. OK, it wasn't that bad, but it WAS pitiful. It let me know just how much I have let my fitness go over the summer. Not that I haven't been working out, but it's been hit and miss, definitely much less than needed for me to be at the level of fitness I'm happy with. My race time was 38+ minutes, which for me is not good. My fastest 5k was 32 and change. I was just too out of shape, my lungs couldn't keep up. I had such a great training plan, but just didn't follow through with it. But, I'm taking that as my little wake up call and hitting it hard getting back at it.

I'm back to planning my workouts. I like the structure. Not that it's rigid and I can't change things up if I feel like it any particular day, but I find that a plan WORKS for me. I'm going to start out just planning a week at a time.

Going Primal Days 6, 7, and 8

Days 1 and 2 of Going Primal

I posted this video (along with my starting stats) on my main blog, but wanted to go ahead and do a regular tracking post over here.

I'm excited to add back in a few things I missed on my hardcore 30 days of Paleo. LOVING having the organic whipping cream for my coffee. Also, I'm glad to have some whey protein smoothies back. I went back to my Jay Robb Whey Protein. It seemed to fit the suggestions from The Primal Blueprint best (other than Primal Fuel that he sells of course). It's whey protein isolate with as little junk as possible. Those two things are the only things much different from my Paleo eating so far. But they're also much enjoyed!

I'm just a few days in, but so far so good. (Oh, and the pancake in the video was an utter failure, will try again!) Still feeling great. I think the scale may actually be moving finally! Not that I was worried about that ;)

I'm going to try and stick as true to Primal workouts as I can, but I really ENJOY workout DVDs so I will be throwing a lot of those in whether they are what everyone would consider 'primal' or not. I think for the weights workouts and intense workouts he discusses they will work for me. He discusses striving for variety, my goal is to not repeat a workout DVD all month! I think I can stick to the basic purposes of the workouts he discusses while being creative with what I have and enjoy.

I took off tracking for the long weekend. I did two long walks. 6.2 miles on Saturday and 5 miles on Monday. In The Primal Blueprint Mark Sisson suggests really upping your lower level activity (walking, hiking, etc) in trying to lose weight. Will it help me? We'll see Wednesday! That's my first weigh in day.

Paleo Last Vlog

I decided 3 weeks of tracking my Paleo eating and exercise via daily vlogs was enough. My goal was to give a good idea of what going Paleo looked like for me and I think I've done that. Also, I may do the daily vlogs again to track my Primal experiment in September, so I thought I'd take this last week off. 

My final thoughts, weigh in, and measurements will be on my main blog August 31st, if you're interested!

Paleo Days 17 through 21

I skipped part of day 20 and took all of day 21 off from filming. So far I've done three weeks of daily vlogs. I'm not sure if I'll continue this last week or not. Mostly I wanted to give a good overview of what going paleo looked like for me, what I'd be eating, etc. I think I've done that. We'll see.

Oh yes, and on day 20 I had my first non-paleo splurge. I had a venti iced skinny vanilla latte at Starbucks. Leave it to me for my splurge to be coffee related!

You can see my week 3 weigh in and measurements here if you're interested.