Day three

Of course, nothing ever goes exactly as you expect. I had been planning on mostly cooking my own food on the diet; today was the second day in a row on which I went out for lunch instead. I got a sashimi plate with tuna, salmon and tilapia, so it was probably cleaner than yesterday's lunch, and with a greater intake of nuts today I was only hit hard by hunger once, around lunchtime, although throughout the day I felt pretty pleasant. If that's attributable to a smoothing out of my blood sugar level thanks to a low-carb diet, well, I may never go over 150 carbs again!

Meanwhile, I spent most of the day in excruciating lower back pain from the circuit training on Tuesday night, which had hammered my apparently rarely-used extensor muscles. I was still planning on going to the gym, but having to get up early on Thursday combined with not being able to even get to the gym until at least 8:30 tonight, combined further with the overall pain, led to me giving up for the night. I still plan on doing six hours for the week, but I'll have to make it up, possibly with an extra 30 minutes each on Friday and Saturday, days on which I have less going on. In fairness to me, it is my first few days at this and I don't think I anticipated quite this level of soreness, but going forward I'm presuming it has nowhere to go but up.

Dinner was another lamb patty and a container of raspberries. Fruit is probably going to be a big key in the near future because, as has happened in the past when I've tried to cut back on my sugar intake, I'm starting to really crave sweets. Today while driving home I had the sudden urge for a Fruit Roll-Up, which is random since I haven't had one in at least a year that I can think of. While I understand that a lot of people on the paleo diet have their "cheat meals" or perhaps even "cheat days," I think that's more for people who are on it for the long-term. My hope, if I haven't already said this, is to use the diet to drop weight fairly quickly and then start adding things back. At the very least, let's see how long I can go without really having the need for cheats. I guess my big fear is that "cheating" could lead to a bigger backslide earlier than I'd want. Of course, it could turn out that this exact diet isn't really for me anyway, but based just on the past few days it's clear that something lower-carb is probably the way to go. My mood seems to have evened out even at times of hunger, my stomach seems to be less acidic, and without getting too TMI on you, let's just say that my GI tract is less active than usual. These are all good things, I would say.