We are back in the great state of Texas after being gone for about a month. It was a fantastic tour of weddings, receptions, CrossFit boxes, our honeymoon, lots of site-seeing and visiting with family and friends. I wouldn’t trade the last month for anything in the world.

If I HAD to make one complaint, it would be that our paleo eating habits went out the window. Really, really far out the window. We had lots of plans for trying to stick to it as much as possible, but well, that didn’t really work either for a variety of reasons which I will not go into because really, it’s just a bunch of lame ass excuses and laziness. Granted, you only get to honeymoon one time (hopefully) and sometimes you just need to do whatever it is that you want to do. But, there’s always a price.

I am back from this trip finding myself feeling like I have gained weight. My clothing is not really as comfortable as I would like and really, I am feeling really uncomfortable in my own skin. I hate this feeling.

Being that I have amazing tools at my disposal to help deal with this sort of thing, for the next 30 days, I will be doing my own paleo challenge. That means that I will be on a strict paleo diet doing my best to not cheat at all except for maybe a paleo dessert here and there, but definitely not often.

I will be doing a CrossFit WOD 2-3x week along with WODs from the CrossFit Endurance site at least 2x week. I will also be food logging. I know… I know you would love to see a picture of every single thing that I eat, but sorry, I am using plain old pen and paper this time. I will be submitting my food log to my coaches at CFCP and reviewing it with them to help tweak my diet.

I imagine that somewhere along these 30 days, I will start weighing and measuring my food to get a better idea of exactly how much of what I am eating. I have been very hesitant to do this in the past as I think it’s sort of neurotic, but at this point, I want results and I will do whatever I need to do to get them.

I am tired of feeling like this and tired of feeling like I will never have a body that I can be proud of.

Speaking of weighing and measuring, I will also be weighing and measuring myself. Tonight, before I go to sleep, I will ask V to take my measurements. Next time I am at CFCP, I will take my weight ( I don’t have a scale at home ) and get my body fat assessed. I have put off doing this as well as I am REALLY afraid of the result. I am guessing that I am somewhere between 30% – 40%, but we will see.

On August 1st, I will retake all of the above (measurements, weight, and body) and post whatever the changes are. It may work and it may not work. Whatever the results, at least at that point, I will know what I need to do to tweak my program.

It’s time to pay the piper.