It's Over

My seven week Paleo diet and CrossFit Challenge has come to an end. 

It was a good experience.  Mostly.  I was faithful to the diet.  As best as I could be - cutting sugar out of your life is a hard thing to do.  As you see there is sugar in red wine.

OK, I failed on the wine part.  Shame.  But - I did workout a fair amount.  I can do those pull-ups finally.  My dead lift increased by about 60 lbs.  I lost three inches in my waist.  But - only dropped one silly pound.  Of course I quickly reasoned that I must have gained an incredible amount of rock hard muscle.  Then they took the bicep measurements: nothing.  No change.  Those fibers just won't do it.  They are slow twitch to the end.  Barely a pulse.  So, I don't know.  I ate mushrooms, spinach, carrots, avocados, eggs and bacon for 7 weeks.  Ah, bacon huh?  I did hit the cashews pretty hard also.  And I almost forgot the bananas.  I put down some serious bananas. 

I never have taken the time to monitor what I consume.  I rather miss the days in college swimming when Hendrix and I would go to Arby's after practice, each get  5 roast beef sandwiches for $5 then in a matter of just a few minutes sit and eat all of it.  Youth.  We burned a whole lotta calories in those days.   

I need something else. A race.  A triathlon.  And maybe even carbohydrates again.  I don't know about the no sugar life.  It's still life without sugar.  It's just not as sweet.  My pancreas loves it though apparently.