Day Five: The Real Challenge Begins!!!

OK. It's Friday and it's the start of a long weekend, this is where the real challenge begins! Regularly I find myself each Friday feeling exhausted from a full week of teaching, training and sport. I look forward to the weekend because it usually consists of; lighter trainings, teaching spin classes and socialising. Hence the title of the post, where the real challenge begins. Because I am out of routine work and training wise I have seemed to develop a more relaxed routine with my food intake. I often have 'treat days' which is usually chocolate (also known as the love of my life) and meals out with friends. Although I am pretty good and choose a healthier option it still would not fit the 'Paleo' bracket. This weekend I have a few social outings so stay tuned with tips on how I overcome these barriers. 

To help me get through Friday I made a Paleo Pizza (see recipe in the recipe section)

Todays Food Intake

Breakfast: Left over dinner from last night

Snack: 15 mixed raw nuts, 1 apple

Lunch: 1/4 Cup cooked brown rice, 1 can lemon pepper tuna, 1 cup spinach (easy put together meal as I got home late from netball last night.)

Snack: 1/2 cup of thai chicken curry soup

Dinner: Paleo Pizza with side salad

After dinner I went for a drink with friends and watched the rugby. I would usually have a coke but...this is obviously not Paleo so I had a soda water with fresh lemon :). I enjoyed every minute of it and the best thing was I didn't have to avoid the social occasion.

I survived the day without something sweet!!! This is the first Friday in many months and I feel proud. Tomorrow will be the real challenge as I am going out for dinner with friends. 

Just some snaps to finish todays post with...

Todays WOD (6am CrossFit-always a good start to Friday)