Chocolate | Paleoblivion

This past week has been crazy and today I gave in to a delicious piece of chocolate cake w/ fudge icing. It was so good. As I was eating it I loved every bite. It was moist, soft, sweet, chocolatey amazingness. I literally ate it just 30 minutes ago. Now, as I sit here, I am so stuffed, I feel disgusting and I wish I never ate it! Damn it. It will forever be known as the devil himself from now on.

There has been a lot going on. For instance my beautiful niece Kylie Christine has graduated high school! Not only has she graduated she graduated with honors! I cannot even begin to tell you how proud I am of her. She had a rough start in high school and really turned it around. Off to college she goes in the fall and I can’t wait to continue to see her flourish. Father’s Day was also last week and I always love a day to celebrate my fiance and my own Father. I love them both dearly and they need to know they are appreciated. Too often they can really be overlooked. My fiance’s son is also in town for the summer and we are all so happy to have him. Especially my daughter. She loves her big brother and really is attached at his hip at times. It’s really quite cute. I will say that because he’s here to visit it has been easy to use him as an excuse to not eat “all” the way paleo. For instance, last weekend we HAD to let him taste Little Big Burger. I mean we HAD to. That is a decision I do not regret like the cake.

My paleo journey has really been going quite well with the exception of craving attacks every now and then. I think this past week has been the most difficult for some reason! It was like all of a sudden I started slacking. I haven’t worked out as much as I have been and since it’s been this way I have stayed away from blogging. Then I started thinking… I know I can’t be the only one that has times that are tough, and everyday is not always peachy. Oh the struggle. So after my cake, I decided to come on in and write about it. Time to tell it. This will hold me accountable! That is in fact the reason I started to write about my journey. Accountability. I am DONE acting up!!! That is it!!! Tomorrow is a new day! I will pick back up on my jogging, exercising and eating paleo. I honestly do feel the BEST when I am keeping to it 100%.

Luckily for me I have not gained my weight that I’ve lost back. Even though I haven’t done as much as I was I am still at 197.4 pounds. I credit this to my fat-burning coffee without a doubt. My goal of 185 may not happen this month, but next month I am doing a weight loss challenge with Health and Effectivity and I think this will be just what I need. From what it sounds like you will have a team of support and people sharing their journey. I am really excited!

The other day I was craving a bacon lettuce and tomato sandwich. I made an amazing paleo version. I bought romaine leaves at Trader Joe’s for the “bread” and made some fresh guacamole that I spread on the lettuce, fried up some delicious paleo friendly bacon, sliced some ripe juicy tomatoes and added just a touch of kosher salt and fresh black pepper to them, then sprinkled just enough goat cheese on it to give it just the right flavor! Honestly, I prefer this version to bread. It was absolutely amazing and I’m sure I will make it again. I think I will also try it with different meat. Chicken salad sounds amazing! I have been eating melon of all kinds like it is candy. It is so good and fresh! I love it fresh out of the fridge when it is ice cold! One of my favorite fruits.

All in all even though I have had a few slip ups, I still enjoy my paleo lifestyle and I am definitely in no way giving it up. Can I just say that my stomach is literally turning from this cake. That will teach me. I will definitely remember this feeling next time I have the thought. Ugh.

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Cheese!!! I think she was just as happy and proud of herself as all of us!

THis is one of my closest friends Rosaunda and I at my nieces graduation party. It is absolutely normal for me to act up when in her presence.

Woo HOO!!!! We successfully completed 30 whole days paleo! That was awesome! We decided to continue on going. We have both had such amazing results how could we stop? We feel amazing, the food is great and the exercise is needed.

Now for the cheat day… or days. Adrian and I decided on day 31 to have a small cheat. He got a delightful piece of cheesecake with a layer of chocolate on top and I had an amazing mini chocolate cream pie. They were delicious! We also added feta to our greek salad this same night. Day 32 went well and we were back at eating paleo. We took the kids to the Starlight Parade which is one of the largest parades in Portland next to The Grand Floral Parade. We packed up sandwiches for the kids and we stopped at a delicious paleo food cart called Cultured Caveman in Portland that offers some amazing food!!! We got the chili and chicken strips and they did not disappoint. The chili was definitely my favorite thing! We also tried a salted chocolate, honey, coconut milk popsicle that was pretty spectacular. Then we headed to the parade.

There is this lovely doughnut shop right in downtown Portland, you may have heard of it, called Voodoo Doughnut. Now, if you live in Portland or close you definitely should have tried it. At least once. My oldest son Jason advised me that he had never had Voodoo and neither had his brothers and sister. So off to Voodoo we went. The line was as long as always. 45 minute wait to be exact. You could smell the sweet decadence outside. This was torture. I wanted some so bad. We got inside and purchased four doughnuts for my children and headed on our way back to our spot at the parade. I am happy to say that Adrian and I survived that temptation and carried on with our night. We found another cart later in the evening that offered lamb and chicken kabobs. They were probably not 100% paleo but they were delicious nonetheless.

Which brings us to Day 33. Now in our defense, we were running around quite a bit this day and we were not prepared with food. We skipped breakfast and headed out shopping because we had our engagement photo shoot. Finally at around two o’clock we caved and got chinese food. I had a cashew chicken and an egg roll, I did skip the rice. Adrian had my rice, his rice, BBQ pork and fried shrimp. Hey, go big or go home! After that we didn’t stop there. This chinese place was directly across the street from our absolute favorite bakery. Larson’s Bakery. Oh Em Gee is all I have to say. Their desserts are divine. Adrian got an apple critter and I had some kind of amazing chocolate cake with whipped filling. It was all kinds of amazing. We decided to head home and get ready for our shoot. We headed downtown to meet with our photographer and our photo shoot was so much fun! We really had a blast. I would honestly recommend couples do this for fun. It was such a great way to spend time together, be silly and feel sexy all at the same damn time! Great night. We ended it at McMenamins on the Columbia River. We sat outside on the deck with a beautiful sunset and a bottle of red wine. And some chicken wings. And some french fries. And some blue cheese. And some ranch. So, I guess you can say we definitely had our cheat day.

Today is a new day! We are back at it. I’m really looking forward to June. I have a goal to hit 185 pounds by June 30. That is 15.8 pounds. I lost just shy of 10 last month so why not reach a little higher. Last weigh in I was 200.8 pounds! Seriously .8 pound you suck. I got a new fitness plan for June from Health and Effectivity that I am so excited to start. Wish me luck! Below are some fun pictures from the last few days of food and fun!