IW360 - Day 40  Friday Aug 14th

Info: Foot is getting better, thank you big pharma for your lovely non healthy concoctions! I was able to get a flip flop on my foot today! Can't wait till this is over and I can stop taking these pills. Hey gotta do what you gotta do right?


On a more positive note, shored up the details with Paleo Magazine - a recipe I submitted got chosen to go in their "Readers Choice" cookbook that will be available at Barnes and Noble later this year! Pretty cool in my opinion! I will let you all know when it comes out, AND I will even post the recipe I submitted on Whole360 in the next few days!

If you haven't, check em out - its a pretty good magazine! Click to go now!

Food Log:

Whole 360 Compliant

Exercise: 

none (taking a week medical timeout)



DAY 40 COMPLETE

IW360 - Day 39  Thursday Aug 13th

Info: Went to the doctor for the foot issue, she basically confirmed I'm an idiot and then gave me some medicine to help get rid of the gout faster. I have been chugging cherry juice too but this is one of the worst cases I've had. I guess 3 cases of beer in 2 days and enough red meat (with no veggies) for three people was a bad idea! I had to skip a concert I had planned on going to tonight because it hurt so bad there was no way I could walk through the venue. I hate taking pills and the like, but I am so glad I made it to the doctor to get help this time.

Time for a little heavy: I am making a statement right here as well, I will not let this happen again. Not only did I miss the concert, but I missed going with my daughters and that is unacceptable to me. I don't really communicate with my dad much, never really have (not for a lack of trying on my part) and it still bothers me somewhat to this day (although I'm used to it now) and I don't ever want to be that person that isn't in contact with my kids whenever they want or need it. /heavy off

Miss out on this? Never again!

 

Food Log:

Whole 360 Compliant

Exercise: 

none (taking a week medical timeout)



DAY 39 COMPLETE

IW360 - Day 38  Wednesday Aug 12th

Info: Couldn't sleep last night whatsoever, got myself some full blown gout again. Just goes to show cheat days are not worth it. Luckily I've used them all up and I now have to behave myself! We were supposed to hike Hanging lake today....no way that was happening, you know since I couldn't put a shoe on. It wasn't because of the excruciating pain, well that was part of it, the other part was my right foot was like a size 13 and my left was still a size 9. Don't think it's possible? Good thing I snapped a pic!


 

That's a nice walrus flipper I'm sporting.....

Food Log:

Whole 360 Compliant

Exercise: 

none (taking a week medical timeout)



DAY 38 COMPLETE

IW360 - Day 37  Tuesday Aug 11th

Info: Was home for about 12 hours total and then my friend and I packed up the camper and headed over the mountains for a little R&R. Found a really cool campground right next to a river which was awesome......getting a really sore toe, which is not awesome (gout again?) We are supposed to hike hanging lake tomorrow morning but we will see what happens with the toe again.


 

Camping on the river = So much WIN!

Food Log:

Whole 360 Compliant

Exercise: 

None (Lazy day 5/5)



DAY 37 COMPLETE

IW360 - Day 36  Monday Aug 10th

Info:  Today was the start and thankfully the end of a road trip back to Colorado! My friend from Michigan met me at Nationals and is coming out to Colorado for a little vacation, so I cancelled my return flight home and road tripped it back with him.

Saw this last night while walking around Quincy. Tornado 1, Car 0. The branch was actually driven down through the dashboard too! Crazy stuff!

This was about the extent of sightseeing in Kansas.......

Food Log:

NOT Whole 360 Compliant (Cheat day 5/5)


Exercise: 

None (Lazy day 4/5)



DAY 36 COMPLETE

IW360 - Day 35  Sunday  Aug 9th

Info: Sorry for the slow updates, life has been crazy, but that's no excuse. I will try to get caught up over the next few days. Today I had 6 stages to finish up at the Nationals match before the end of the day. Got them finished with only a few crash and burns and had a great time. The only issue was that I re-hydrated with Miller Lite and some crappy food. Yeah recipe for disaster.....more on that later... I am glad to  be done shooting though because the humidity is brutal out here.

Our greeting to the start of day 2...at least it cooled it off for a few minutes!

Food Log:




NOT Whole 360 Compliant (Cheat day 4/5)



Exercise: 



Walking/Running ~ 5 miles




DAY 35 COMPLETE

IW360 - Day 34  Saturday  Aug 8th

Info: Well it's finally here! Day 1 (for me) of the 2015 USPSA Nationals! Had to get out to the range early for shooters meeting and to get all set up, there is a crazy buzz out here that I have never felt in any other match I have been to. It's not surprising since over 375 production division shooters are about to duke it out to see who is crowned the 2015 National Champion! The stages are pretty technical and really test your skills - I can't wait! My goal for this match (since it is my first national Championship level match ever) is to finish above 50% of all of the competitors, have less than 10 "mikes" (what we call misses in USPSA) and finish in the top 5 of my class. on the Paleo front, I even bought and packed Paleo food so I would be in my best mental and physical condition today! 12hrs on the range when it is 90 degrees and 85% humidity is going to be a heck of a challenge!

A little Colorado Leadslingin' going on!

Food Log:

Whole 360 Compliant

Exercise: 

Walking/Running ~ 7 miles


DAY 34 COMPLETE

IW360 - Day 33  Friday  Aug 7th

Info: Miss me? Yeah probably not, but I'll pretend you did! Now that I am back from my travels lets get this caught up. For the sake of saving time I am not going to list all the food I ate until I get this caught back up, but I will let you know if I was Whole360 compliant or not in the food log area. I have notes on everything I ate (I forget if I don't write it down) but its a lot of stuff and really not that important.


Made it to Quincy last night, and today wanted to head out to the range and check out all the stages and to rub elbows with all the Pro shooters. I'm not a start struck type of person, but I got to see most of the pros that you see on TV shows etc and it was pretty cool. I kind of stalker/tagged along with them to check out their stage plans (USPSA shooting in a nut shell is - you are presented with a problem (stage) and you have to solve it the fastest and most accurate way possible, but you use pistols) After a good 3-4 hours I was #1 SOAKED (its so humid in IL) and #2 felt decent about the stages and what I was going to do. So after a quick trip to the hotel to rinse off with clean wet, I got dressed and went back outside for some more sweating and to check out Quincy a bit. Quincy has a pretty rich history (Abe Lincoln had a presidential campaign office there!) so there was some cool stuff to check out.

This guy has an interesting story, a true hero IMO, Check out the story HERE

One of the bridges over the Mississippi

Food Log:

Whole 360 Compliant (yay!)

Exercise: 

Total Hotel workout

25 crunches x 3 sets
50 body weight squats x 3 sets

DAY 33 COMPLETE

IW360 - Day 32  Thursday  Aug 6th

Info: Travel day! What can I say, this trip started out great...Bought a Super Shuttle to the airport, and a Black Escalade showed up instead. Win #1. Get to the airport and wrangle all my bags to check in, get through security fast and make it to the gate, where some stranger comes up and asks to sit down. We chat about where we are traveling and hes not an anti gunner so its a cool conversation.  Then he drops the "Is Christ in your life?" bit and I decide to oblige him (I was baptized Catholic, attend church when I'm forced to, but believe in God) and he's actually OK with that. Then he asks permission to lead me in a prayer and I was like heck why not? SO he prays for my family and for me to have a strong performance at Nationals and a safe flight. Win #2. Time to board the plane...I'm towards the last to get on, plane is crammed full and then like a bright awesome pot of gold an entire row is empty. Win #3. Fly in to St Louis where I am renting a car, except you have to shuttle to get to the cars and baggage is taking FOREVER....finally get my bags, haul out to the shuttle area and just as the Alamo shuttle is about to bail she just stops and waits a second and opens the door. Gives me the extra 2-3 minutes to crank over there and hop on. Win #4. Get to the rental joint and its fast, I'm in and out in 5 minutes. Head out to the lot and the attendant is like "Sorry we are out of midsized cars" and then he looks at me and says "Pick whatever you want, we've got full sized cars, SUV's and a few Luxury SUV's if you want" I kinda looked at him like whaaaaa? I picked a Dodge Charger cause I didn't want to be greedy and ruffle my good luck! Win #5. I drive the 2 hours to my hotel in Quincy IL and check in is super fast there too, I cannot believe my good fortune so far Win #6. Head to dinner to meet up with a friend and get to meet one of the guys that was on season one of the TV show Top Shot. Dude is super cool and we geek out and talk computer stuff and eat dinner. Win #7. At this point I head back to the hotel to crash.....I don't want to mess up a nearly perfect day. Can't wait to see what tomorrow brings!

It's almost time!!!

Food Log:

Breakfast:  Leftover Paleo tacos with grass fed beef
 
Lunch: Handful of almonds, didn't want to eat airport food and didn't have room to pack any

Dinner:  Brisket and sausage with a giant side salad
 
Snack:  none


Exercise: 

Total Hotel workout

25 x 3 sets of pushups
25 x 3 sets body weight squats

DAY 32 COMPLETE

IW360 - Day 31  Wednesday Aug 5th

Info: Running around like crazy getting ready to head out tomorrow, BUT I did have time to make some Pickled Eggs!! I also found out that a Paleo Recipe I submitted to Paleo Magazine is going to be featured in their readers choice cookbook that's coming out later this year!! It's going to be available nationally so that's pretty cook news for Whole360! The recipe I submitted will be available in the recipe section in the next few weeks.

I cannot WAIT until these are ready!

Food Log:

Breakfast:  Hard boiled eggs
 
Lunch: Salad with sugar free bacon, kalamata and black olives. Hot sauce for dressing

Dinner:  Paleo Tacos with grass fed beef, romaine lettuce, red onion and black olives
 
Snack:  none


Exercise: 

21-15-9 reps of

75lb Thrusters
25lb bicep curls (each arm)
75lb trap raises

DAY 31 COMPLETE

IW360 - Day30  Tuesday Aug 4th

Info: Forgot to get pictures today, its ok it wasn't that interesting, although tomorrow I'll have some cool pics....I fired up the Whole360 recipe for Pickled eggs! Oh yeah almost forgot, today is 1 month in! 11 to go!

Food Log:

Breakfast:  Banana and almonds
 
Lunch: Non breaded chicken wings, carrot sticks and celery

Dinner:  Coconut wrap burritos - with grass fed beef and romaine lettuce
 
Snack:  none


Exercise: 

50 x 3 sets of body weight squats
 10 x 3 sets of "trainer" Captains of Crush grip strength trainers
10 x 3 sets expansion band grip strengtheners

DAY 30 COMPLETE

IW360 - Day 29 Monday Aug 3rd

Info: Gonna keep trying to get caught up on these, but this is a first for Whole360 updates are coming in remotely from Quincy Illinois! Im out here for the next 5 days for USPSA Nationals. I will share some of that as well with you all...even though it's not Paleo it is a LOT of fun!

MMMM Greek Salad!

Food Log:

Breakfast:  Eggs and hot sauce
 
Lunch: Greek salad with baba ganouj, mushrooms, onions, cilantro dressing (cilantro and oil)

Dinner:  Soy free tuna mixed with avocado mayo, green olives and black olives
 
Snack:  none


Exercise: 

25 x 3 sets of situps
25 x 3 sets of pushups

DAY 29 COMPLETE

IW360 - Day 28 Sunday Aug 2nd

Info: Took it a bit easier today and hung around the house. Decided to skip teh match I was going to shoot today and do some dry fire practice and stay at home. Was nice relaxing a bit after a pretty busy week!

For wrap, burrito and taco fans these are a lifesaver! Paleo approved and pretty tasty!

Food Log:

Breakfast: Eggs and spinach omelet

Lunch: Paleo tacos (used coconut wrap instead of tortillas), tons of lettuce and a gallon of hot sauce lol

Dinner:  Same as lunch
 
Snack:  none


Exercise: 

Did light work today because I was sore as heck from playing in the nets last night (goalies bend in odd ways!)

25 x 2 sets burpees (ugh)
20 x 3 sets each arm sledgehammer swings

DAY 28 COMPLETE

IW360 - Day 27 Saturday Aug 1st

Info: Approaching a month and I have abused my cheat days and I can tell. Gains and losses are not where I want them to be, but I have a plan. Call it crazy but like I have said in the past I like to get the cheat days out of the way early so I have no choice! I have 2 cheat and lazy days left, after this month they will be gone - then what? That's when the the magic starts to happen! Stay tuned!

Dear grass fed cow, thank you so much!

Food Log:

Breakfast: Banana and a handful of almonds

Lunch: Beef jerky - was out on the range all afternoon so skipped the veggies

Dinner:  Grass fed steak and green beans
 
Snack:  none


Exercise: 

Ran/walked well over 5 miles getting some much needed practice in before USPSA Nationals next week! Also played hockey at night....talk about hot, strap on 40 lbs of gear and face some high level shooters....yikes!

DAY 27 COMPLETE

IW360 - Day 26 Friday July 31st

Info: I am going to deem this day one of the coolest in recent memory, today is when I picked up the side of beef myself and 2 others ordered. 315lbs of grass fed, organic beef!

Dear Full Freezer, You're my favorite......

Food Log:

Breakfast: none, was still too full from yesterday

Lunch: Steak salad with olive oil and balsamic for dressing

Dinner:  Grass fed steak and green beans
 
Snack:  none


Exercise: 

Walked around the neighborhood for about an hour and a half. Nothing crazy but was a nice brisk jaunt

DAY 26 COMPLETE

IW360 - Day 25 Thursday July 30th

Info: All you can eat sushi sounded like a good idea....until I was elboes deep in 6 full rolls.......Figured meh why not lets invoke cheat day #3 and wolf down a pizza too.....Ugh what a hog.

Soon cheat day you will be all gone and I can get on with my life LOL

Food Log:

Breakfast: Eggs and an apple

Lunch: All you can eat sushi... I pulled no punches!

Dinner:  Whole pizza, yep a whole Pizza Hut cheesy pretzel crust pizza....UGH (Cheat day 3/5 used)
 
Snack:  none


Exercise:  None: I was too full and roly poly to move! (Lazy day 3/5 used)



DAY 25 COMPLETE

IW360 - Day 24 Wednesday July 29th

Info: Bear with me, I am trying to get caught up, there just doesn't seem to be enough time in the day. I'm prepping for USPSA Nationals and trying to get work and school all in line and it leaves little time for me other than to pass out from exhaustion! I WILL get caught up though!

Man this is perfect!

Food Log:

Breakfast: Eggs and sausage

Lunch: Greek salad with lamb, kalamata olives and babaganouj

Dinner:  Didn't eat dinner, fell asleep on the couch!
 
Snack:  none


Exercise: 

25 jumping jacks x 5 sets
25 pushups x 3 sets



DAY 24 COMPLETE