Getting ready!!!
thought I would post a list of foods to avoid according to Paleoplan.com for those of you new to Paleo.
Also I am including a couple of links to sites that will get you started on recipe's and meal ideas.

1. Legumes – All kinds of beans such as black beans, garbanzo beans, kidney beans, mung beans, string beans and lima beans have to be eliminated. Black-eyed peas, chickpeas, lentils, snow peas, sugar snap peas, peanuts, soybeans and soybean products are also excluded.
2. Dairy products – All kinds of dairy foods like butter, cheese, cream, yogurt, ice cream, low-fat milk, skim milk, whole milk, dairy creamer, and all processed foods that contain dairy must be avoided.
3. Cereals or grains – All forms of cereal grains such as barley, corn, millet, oats, rice, rye, sorghum, wheat, wild rice, and all foods made of cereal products are to be avoided.
4. Grain-like seeds – Amaranth, buckwheat and quinoa are excluded in Paleolithic diet recipes.
7. Factory farmed meats – Certain parts of conventionally raised chicken and turkey (skin, legs, wings and thighs), fatty beef roasts and ribs, fatty pork chops, ribs and roasts, lamb chops, leg and roasts, pork sausage, and T-bone steak are to be avoided in the Paleo diet plan. The fats on animals who were fed pesticide-laden grains aren’t favorable. Opt for grass-fed, pasture-raised animal products.
8. Soft drinks and fruit juices – All types of sugary soft drinks and all types of fruit juices canned, bottled and even freshly squeezed fruit juices (lack the fiber) are not allowed.
9. Sweets – Sugar is excluded. Raw honey and coconut sap are acceptable sometimes.
The Paleolithic diet is based on food choices of more than 2 million years ago, when man became highly evolved species. The Paleolithic people are believed to have lived very long lives. They were lean and active, and didn’t suffer from lifestyle diseases. Man’s evolution was a result of natural process of selection, and man’s food choices substantially contributed to that phenomenon. Thus, even during the time of computers and the Internet, many are practicing a Paleo diet for a longer, healthier life.


Resources:
http://www.paleoplan.com/recipes/
http://paleodietlifestyle.com/paleo-diet-recipes/
http://www.elanaspantry.com/paleo-diet-recipes/
http://mypaleocrockpot.blogspot.com/

On Jan 1st I will post my beginning measurements and gulp.....weight.  I will post again on the 16th and then finally on the 31st.  If you are participating as well, which I do hope someone will, please post your stats as well on that day so we can share our successess together.

Lets get ready to get healthy!

For those of you who plan to participate in at home or at personal gym WOD's but are new to the crossfit lingo, I thought that I would give you a list of common crossfit terms and acronyms.  It took me a few times, asking my crossfit instructor what an amrap was before I actually understood the term. I don't want anyone to get discouraged because they do not know what a crossfit term means.  We are not creating a secret society with our own code, we are adopting a healthy lifestyle that should be easy for everyone to do.


Accronyms and Abbreviations:

• AMRAP: As Many Reps (sometimes Rounds) as Possible
• ATG: Ass to Grass
• Box: the term which refers to a CrossFit gym
• BP: Bench press
• BS: Back squat
• BW (or BWT): Body weight
• CFJ: The CrossFit Journal
• CFT: CrossFit Total – consisting of max squat, press, and deadlift.
• CFSB: CrossFit Strength Bias. A program developed by Jeff Martin and Darrell White, explained here. You’ll need a CFJ subscription.
• CFWU: CrossFit Warm-up
• CLN: Clean
• C&J: Clean and jerk
• C2: Concept II rowing machine
• DHP: Dead hang pull
• DL: Deadlift
• EMOM: Every Minute On the Minute
• FS: Front squat
• GHR(D): Glute ham raise (developer). Posterior chain exercise, like a back extension. Also, the device that allows for the proper performance of a GHR.
• GHR(D) Situp: Situp done on the GHR(D) bench.
• Global (Globo) Gym: the world-wide accepted norm for what a gym is i.e. 24 Hour Fitness, Fitness World, YMCA, etc
• GPP: General physical preparedness, aka “fitness.”
• GTG: Grease the Groove, a protocol of doing many sub-maximal sets of an exercise throughtout the day
• H2H: Hand to hand; refers to Jeff Martone’s kettlebell “juggling” techniques (or to combat).
• HSPU: Hand stand push up. Kick up into a handstand (use wall for balance, if needed) bend arms until nose touches floor and push back up.
• HSQ: Hang squat (clean or snatch). Start with bar “at the hang,” about knee height. Initiate pull. As the bar rises drop into a full squat and catch the bar in the racked position. From there, rise to a standing position
• IF: Intermittent Fasting
• KB: Kettlebell
• MEBB: Maximum Effort Black box, term coined by Mike Rutherford. Search the forum for it. Originally laid out in one of the early Performance Menu issues.
• KTE: Knees to elbows. Similar to TTBs described below.
• MetCon: Metabolic Conditioning workout
• MP: Military press
• MU: Muscle ups. Hanging from rings you do a combination pull-up and dip so you end in an upright support.
• OHS: Overhead squat. Full-depth squat performed while arms are locked out in a wide grip press position above (and usually behind) the head.
• PC: Power clean
• Pd: Pood, weight measure for kettlebells
• PR: Personal record
• PP: Push press
• PSN: Power snatch
• PU: Pull-ups, possibly push ups depending on the context
• Rep: Repetition. One performance of an exercise.
• Rx’d; as Rx’d: As prescribed; as written. WOD done without any adjustments.
• RM: Repetition maximum. Your 1RM is your max lift for one rep. Your 10 RM is the most you can lift 10 times.
• SDHP: Sumo deadlift high pull
• Set: A number of repetitions. e.g., 3 sets of 10 reps, often seen as 3×10, means do 10 reps, rest, repeat, rest, repeat.
• SPP: Specific physical preparednesss, aka skill training.
• SN: Snatch
• SQ: Squat
• SS: Starting Strength; Mark Rippetoe’s great book on strength training basics. Available right here.
• Subbed: Substituted. The CORRECT use of “subbed,” as in “substituted,” is, “I subbed an exercise I can do for one I can’t,” For example,if you can’t do HSPU, you subbed regular pushups.
• TGU: Turkish get-up (See exercise section)
• WO, sometimes W/O: Workout
• WOD: Workout of the day

This list seems daunting and you will not use all of them, so don't fret.  In a couple days I will post the other list of vocabulary used in crossfit, the exercises.  This list will include video links so that you have a demonstration of what I am talking about.

Get ready!!! This is going to be a ride!

Welcome to Rocky Mountain Mom Paleo Challenge.  My challenge will begin on January 2nd (because you can't start on hangover day) and will end on February 2nd.  On this blog I will list my Paleo food choices and WOD's.  Difference between my blog and others....I will post a WOD from an actual crossfit gym, and how I modify it at a standard gym, and my idea of how to modify it at home....in short, you do not have to pay $150 a month for a crossfit membership!

What I ask of you is to post your Paleo food choices, and your WOD's (however you choose to do them), so that we can keep each other motivated.

I am a mom of a 15 mo, a full time worker, a full time student, all in all, a very busy girl.  If I can do this, so can you!!! I have lost 20 lbs so far just by following an 80% paleo lifestyle, but now I need to shed those holiday lbs that I gained back....final goal, 100% Paleo for 30 days.  I will post the body stats on Jan 1, lets see how much progress we can make....who's with me?!!