Whole30 Challenge and my shopping list

Aaron keeps pestering me about what my New Years resolutions are and I have decided that my persistent visits to the cookie jar needs to stop. Hence why I am starting the Whole30 Challenge today! I have read a lot about this challenge since I started on the Paleo road and was intrigued by it. The aim is to cleanse your body of the dirty foods we eat these days such as sugar, grains, legumes and dairy. So NO cookies, NO peanut butter, NO ice cream and definitely NO chocolate. As good as I have been making my Paleo meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner, I waste my hard work by snacking on a cookie... or two.. or sometimes three... I decided this Challenge will be a great way for me to say no to these nasty treats and to stick to my goal of being grain and sugar free! There are hundreds of other people doing the Whole30 Challenge so I am constantly motivated by their comments on meals they have been eating or troubles and cravings they have been having. A common one was headaches which I noticed I had chronically when I started Paleo. I thought it may have been the change in the weather but there you go.  They are gone now though thank goodness! Lasted about one week!

I am going grocery shopping so I am all set for healthy Whole30 eating. My list is quite massive but I plan on making the below meals which will last me hopefully over a week but I have to feed Aaron as well who is a bottomless pit so see how we go..

Chicken with Squash & Salsa
Chicken, Shrimp & Sausage Jambalaya
Flank Steak with Spinach
Roasted Vegetable Lasagna
Sausage & Vegetable stuffed Squash
Salmon Chowder
Stuffed Capsicum
Prawn, Sausage & Zucchini Casserole

These will be for dinner and hopefully left over for lunch. Aaron is starting to ease off the cereal in the morning so I am now buying more eggs (a 60 pack which lasts us the fortnight and a bit longer) I like to boil some up as a snack for when hunger strikes! 

I will be posting the recipes for the above meals and how they went in the coming weeks as I have not tried most of them. They look amazing though!

My Paleo Diet book arrived today! Can't wait to get stuck into that tonight! Will let you know if I learn anything knew!

I dragged myself to the gym yesterday to do the CrossFit Darwin WOD.

I found my 3RM for Front Squats which was challenging as everything is in pounds and the power rack was being used so Aaron had to clean the bar off the floor for me then I grabbed it off him. Unco! I ended up getting 55kg as when I tried 60kg I couldn't make it up on my second rep. Bit disappointed with that considering my 1RM is 65kg.

The CFD WOD was pretty hard as I haven't used the Oly bar for over one month. We were doing Hang Power Cleans which aren't my specialty. I really want to work on my Olympic lifts as I haven't really done them before and they are definitely a weak spot. There you go Aaron, another New Years Resolution :)
Along with the HPC we were doing burpees which tire me out SO quickly! But I made it through with an ok time. I was aiming for below 4mins but that is something I can work on.

- Warm Up -
Burgener Warm Up
5x Front Squat @30kg
5x Front Squat @40kg

- Strength -
Find 3RM Front Squat:
3x 50kg
3x 55kg
1x 60kg
3RM: 55kg

- WOD -
 4rds for time of:
7x Hang Power Clean @30kg
10x Burpees
Time: 4:20

Eat Healthy, Feel Healthy, Live Healthy!