OMG we did it!!!!!!

Wow.... I can't believe it!!!!!!! :) We did it. I never thought I would ever go that long without caffeine in my life. CRAZY!!!!

Well today is the last day of this craziness.

As of this morning here are my results... 30 days of paleo / zone dieting and NO caffeine! (Well actually nothing to drink but water!)

Down 8lbs!!!!! (An average of 2lbs / week), 1/2 inch lost in my wrist, 2 1/2 inches lost in my stomach, 1 1/2 inches lost in my hips, & 1 inch lost in my thighs.

I also PR'd on my mile run and my 400m run this month and also accomplished double unders without singles in between.

I GUESS ALL THE HARD WORK DID PAY OFF!!!!!!!! :)

- Cassie

Yummy 3 Block Zone / Paleo Salad

So for those of you that think it's tough to eat healthy it's totally not! :) Here is a super easy recipe for a very delicious salad!!! :) I do 3 block meals so this is a 3 block zone / paleo salad that I eat for lunch almost every day.

3 Block Salad:

4 c. spinach (1 carb)
2 c. strawberries (2 carb)
3 oz. diced / cubed ham (3 protein)
Mix 1 tsp. olive oil (3 fat) & balsamic vinegar for dressing

ENJOY!!! :)

- Cassie

Recipes

Oh man oh man... this is sooo hard!!! I have been trying to find some paleo / zone recipes and there is NOTHING out there. Which leaves us with having to zone paleo recipes or paleo zone recipes... does that make sense??? :) ha ha.

What I'm finding is that some (or most) of the Paleo recipes are not very well balanced and a lot of the Zone recipes call for cheese (which I love, did I mention that?), or grains, etc.

The other problem that Krista and I are running into is that we get confused VERY easily when trying to calculate zone blocks!!! So trying to convert Paleo recipes into 2 - 3 block meals for us is NOT easy. LOL.

Does anyone out there have any Zone / Paleo recipes they would like to share with us??? :) Please and thank you!!!

- Cassie

Day 1 Menu

This is our menu for Day 1 of the Paleo / Zone Challenge which is Monday, January 3rd, 2011.

Breakfast (3 blocks):
1 whole egg
2 egg whites
1 oz chicken breast
2 cups zucchini
1 orange

Snack (2 blocks):
2 hard boiled eggs
1 orange

Lunch (3 blocks):
2 cups of spinach
3 oz chicken breast
1 cup raspberries
1 Orange
Olive oil / balsamic vinegar spritzer

Snack (2 blocks):
2 oz beef jerky
6 almonds
1 apple

Dinner (3 blocks):
Spaghetti Squash Supreme - recipe from the zone website

BEDTIME!!! Since I can't have any caffeine now I have to make sure I get enough sleep. And poor Krista can't eat chicken or turkey because she's allergic... So she will be subbing ham for her meat.

Let us know if you have any questions or comments... Thanks for your support!!! :)

As if one isn't enough...

So basically Krista and I have been laughing all day, because this is really BRAIN DAMAGE!!!!! ha ha. More so than I thought it would be. As if picking Paleo OR Zone isn't hard enough, we're doing both. As Jen C says, "We are doing the Zone, but eating only Paleo foods." We both kept looking at each other all day with these looks of confusion and I can't tell you how many times we said, "Wait? What? Huh?" today! I'm so glad that Krista is doing it with me. We have to support each other because this is going to be tough. I mean, just to get our food we had to go to 3 different grocery stores today. Oh, and just so everyone knows, strawberries are really hard to find right now.

Later I will post our Day 1 Menu, we are doing 14 blocks a day. 3 block breakfast, lunch and dinner, and 2 - 2 block meals.

- Cassie

Dearly Beloved....

So, Krista and I decided to do the Paleo Zone for 30 days, but I thought I could make a "diet soda" exception. :) I mean after all, aren't there always exceptions to every rule??? Well Saturday night Krista comes over for us to start brainstorming our menu for the week and drops a bomb on me!!! She decides to tell me that Shain thinks I really need to give up the diet soda... She was sitting next to me at the kitchen table and I had visions of smacking her!!! Ha ha. The thing is that I KNOW how bad diet soda is for you and I KNOW that Shain just wants what's best for me, but that's not something that I wanted to hear. For those of you that know me, you know that I have been a 'diet soda addict' for most of my entire life. I would have never agreed to this on my own terms, so I guess this is what it comes down too. On top of everything else I'm giving up for the next 30 days add another one to the list. 

So naturally, today in preparing for this craziness, I brought all of my diet soda in my pantry over to my parent's house for them. I have to get rid of it, out of sight, out of mind. (Or at least that's what I'm hoping!!!) So just because I think I'm funny, I took a picture of everything I was dropping off at my parent's house and sent it to Krista with this caption, "Dearly beloved we are gathered here today to say goodbye!" :)

- Cassie