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So, what are the haps, my peeps?
Keep the info coming! What has day three wrought?
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-- There's an article about BMI and fat calipers in today's blog post.
-- Also - there's been a question or two about the blocks in the adobe live document and how they total things up, namely totaling all the blocks. Don't worry about it. If you are eating 16 blocks a day, just enter your 4, 4, 4 and 2,2,2 or what have you and don't mind about the total. That breakdown is there for people that might not be exactly in proportion and skewing things -- like eating 2/3rds of their carbs as part of their post WOD meal.
Lastly, Max (and quite a few others I'm sure) is already thinking about cheat meals and provided this link: CHEAT MEALS along with these words of encouragement and advice about getting TOO into your diet:
First off, Good Luck to everyone starting their Zone/Paleo/Primal/Protein Power diet challenge today. It's going to be pretty awesome to watch.
Pretty much all of these diets prescribe "cheat meals" that you can allot into your lives so that you know how bad you feel when you don't eat the way your body is adjusted to eating.
The link I posted above is all about cheat meals and how NOT to go INSANE when dieting. A diet is nothing more than the way a person eats day to day. The diet of someone doing Paleo is meats, vegetables, nuts and seeds, little starch, some fruit, and no sugar. A 170 pound Man's Zone diet may be 17 blocks a day where 1 block equals 9 grams of carbs, 6 grams of protein, and 3 grams of fat. We eat these ways because it helps us perform better and because its healthy, but as this article indicates you can go OCD with a diet...which is unhealthy.
On the other hand this is a challenge/competition and whoever cheats the least will probably show some good results 
So, while we are early into this -- if you evantually find yourself whipping out a scale at a dinner out with the family on some special occasion -- you need to re-evaluate!
Post thoughts, meals and such to comments:
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As you wrap up day 1 of the challenge - post your meals, thoughts and comments to...comments.
Recipe Suggestion for Paleo Peeps:
Chicken and Chard
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Today the competition officially starts! Bon Chance!
If you want in, we still need before pics along with a check or cash for $20 for the prize kitty. The cut off date is Weds 10/14 by close of business.
The before and after shots are the main determiner for success along with your WOD performances. There will be weighing this week, and body fat measurements taken to help determine protein needs - but they're just extra data and starting points for you peeps out there. Get started and stick with it. Member Erica B. already posted this link about how to ingrain a behavior in the WOD comments section.
For those of you that are Zoning - I cooked up a "Live" Adobe document to fill out every day. Here it is:
https://share.acrobat.com/adc/adc.do?docid=c21dcdde-cf17-450f-8ef6-740d1fec4651 -- Just fill it out, submit it and we'll receive the data as well. One caveat - it used to be a paper form, so it still asks you to circle the number of glasses of water you drank for the day -- just use the drop down menu at the bottom of the form instead.
While not required, writing down what you eat is extremely helpful. The expectation is that those participating in the challenge will post their meals / thoughts / shout outs of support etc to the comments in the competition blog section at the very least and that you use the live document if possible. Savvy?
Also - if you get an idea about a form or a live document you would like to have available as well -- by all means let me know and I'll bake it right up for you.
Lastly - here's nice generalized Nutrition guide if you have not gone out and bought a Zone or Paleo book yet along with a few other helpful dealios. Mainly, the form stuff should be posted - but some people like having a soft copy of their own as well:
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Alrighty then... We have just a few days until the Paleo / Zone (and for one of us... Protein Power) challenge kicks in.
What's at stake: A better you. Money. A months free unlimited membership.
Here's what's going to / needs to happen between now and Tuesday PM (yeah it's an extra day, but should not make or break anything).
- All participants are going to get their before shots done. A few of you have, but the majority of you need it done.
- Dress Code for the shots:
- Men - shirts off, shorts - nothing too baggy. No banana hammocks!
- Women - Sports bra, shorts, lycra pants - nothing too baggy.
When / Where
We can do them here before / after class. I will be in pretty much all day Friday 10/9/09 with the exception of a two hour break at some point around 1-3pm. Saturday I will be available from 8:30AM until 1PM.
Alternatively, if you are uber shy about it - you can send in shots of you standing in the normal anatomical position (standing, arms at sides and out slightly with palms forward), front back and side.
No trickery will be accepted!. The CFD Science Labs software can tell when a shot was taken and modified.
And to repeat -these before shots are not going to be shared without your permission. The top five people at the end will have to be shared by necessity. The rest of you can decide if you want to be included in the final results posts that will go up when this shindig is over.
Measurements
We'll do this with a tape measure and use it to estimate body fat along with the reading on a scale (which can vary based on hydration level).
If you want to do this yourself at home and send us the data, you can. Here's how: Waist: Stand up straight, but don't suck in your stomach. Measure the widest circumference. Hips: Stand with your feet about 4 inches apart and measure the widest part of your hips. Forearm: Clench your fist so that your forearm is flexed. Measure the widest part between your wrist and elbow. Wrist:Measure in the dip between the bony part of your wrist and the start of your hand. The results are usually ballpark accurate. If a man got 17%, he could expect his true %BF to be between 15 and 19 percent. For our more fit, lean and muscular peeps we'll reduce the the % we get by 3-5 percent because very fit people may be lower in body fat than this tape measure test indicates. For our skinny but not uber fit peeps - this test result could be 3 to 5 percent lower than what their true %BF is. We'll adjust accordingly. So - we'll be using this test, along with some bf measurements from a scale to ball park things for you. At the end of the 60 days, we'll take after shots and re-measure to see what kind of progress has been made along with what should be some pretty dramatic "after" shots.
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