Whole 30 Day 26

Up and at 'em at 5:30 this morning.  This Whole30 is really doing some great things with my sleep.  #ilovesleep. 


As I said before, I've been highlighting the hell out of my "It Starts With Food" and I've pulled a few random passages out to share with you.  Enjoy!


"Thanks to nature and biology, our brains have been hardwired to appreciate three basic tastes:  sweet (a safe source of energy), fatty (a dense source of calories), and salty (a means of conserving fluid). . . But there is one very important point to keep in mind with respect to these signals from nature.  They weren't designed to tell us which foods were delicious - they were designed to tell us which foods were nutritious.


Food scientists caught on to the fact that our brains respond strongly to specified flavors (such as the aforementioned sweet, fatty and salty), and armed with this knowledge, they began to modify our whole foods.  They sucked out the water, the fiber, and the nutrients, and replaced them with ingredients like corn syrup, MSG, seed oils, and artificial sweeteners, colors, and flavors.  All of this with the specific intention of inducing cravings, overconsumption and bigger profits for food manufacturers."


Breakfast:
Black coffee
Cactus fruit
Egg muffin


Snack:
About 10 pistachios


Lunch:
1/2 lemon LaraBar
Salad from Freshii with lots of veggies, eggs and chicken for protein, olives and olive oil for fat, and lemon for flavor.  Except they forgot my lemon which made my salad taste...well, like lettuce.  And I found a soy nut mixed in with the greens.  Get it together, Freshii.

The culprit

Dinner:
Leftover chicken and sweet potatoes from yesterday
Plantains and salsa w/ a few tablespoons of guac (aka my daily snack)

Activity:

Strength - Build up to a heavy 3 rep overhead squat.  I stopped myself at 90 pounds.  To be totally honest I probably could have done more but with the way my lifting has been lately, I was a little timid to keep going up while squatting with a weight over my head.

WOD:
10AMRAP of:
60 over the bar burpees
20 overhead squats
10 muscle-ups

Followed immediately by:
2 rounds of:
20 box jumps at 20 inches
15 sit ups
10 push ups

Slept great last night and my anxiety is low low low.  I'm also really excited it's the freakin' weekend! Only 4 more days - I can hardly believe it!!!!!!