Well, who would have thunk that my quickest post to date would receive an outcry of desperate proportions. I was confronted on all social media forums. Twitter, FaceBook, Posterous and in person.
Readers, I promised you raw veracity. I would be Joe Friday from Dragnet: Just the facts.
I will share some of the MacDonald’s comments most notably Elaine’s, my sober food coach and Ben, our CrossFit, Lord of the Rings.
And, while I wanted to cry out: Smite me! Smite me! And, expected my head to be resting on a stick at the entrance of CrossFit to warn evildoers of consuming poisonous food, the reaction was moderately different.
Yesterday, was my first day back to CrossFit since my back injury. I hoped to miss Ben entirely because I know there would be a brief consult about MacDonald’s post. I am never that lucky.
As soon as I saw him, Ben called me over with this chicklet white teeth, smiled and said under his breath, “So what did do with the chicken nuggets?” I told him the truth. “I threw them out window of my car.” He smiled. “You turned a corner, Beals.”
On FaceBook, Elaine Polito, had a more colorful response:
“O.k., I haven’t heard from you, that means you haven’t peeled yourself out of that bed and out of the cave. is the King Cal that important to you or is getting in shape. WTF good thing you threw up those fries up or I would have shaken you upside down like a piggy bank looking for change! Please get out of f—king bed, it’s a f–king beautiful day, and lots of f–cking exercising to do and f–ucking eating right……NOW! For Pete’s sake.”
On Twitter, I received this robotic response: @amandagbeals JUST FAILED big time. LOL! http://amandagbeals.justfailed.com. Click here. I know have bots on Twitter recording my epic failure. Righteous!
For the record, after several fries and yes one bite into the batter of a chicken tender, I broke the law and threw the bag of shit out the window. And, I ate BROILED scrod, not BOILED scrod. Keep in mind, I was not trained in the culinary arts by Nurse Jackie.
As for returning to the box, I felt good. My lower back still has a minor twinge in it. So, the lovely Master of the Dark Arts, Mat F, had me running for most of my session ( and running is my goat that I hope to crush and boil, not broil). The only problem is that I just had my hair straightened and I was not supposed to get it wet. C’est la vie.
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September 24th, 2009 at 11:26 am
Good stuff Beals….I would have eaten all the stuff and not felt bad about it at all, but I’m the food outcast of CFNE anyways. I had McDonalds probably once in the last several months….it was about 3 days after the throwdown I think. It was GLORIOUS and I loved every second of it. It’s like everything else, if it happens once every 2-4 months and it helps keep you sane, fuck it. Look up Melissa Byers blog about her “Healthy/F-off Scale” when it comes to food and sanity. I believe its http://www.byerscrossfit.com. I had ice cream last sunday night too btw….and it was one of the 3 times I’ve had it in the last 3 months, so thats not bad I must say.
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September 24th, 2009 at 11:43 am
Well, Daigle, I appreciate your honesty as well. I know you and I have talked about this before. You particularly drilled into my head the way you performed better if you ate cleaner. So, I thank you for that. And, whether or not others agree, I have to approach Paleo with a forgiving attitude. I want to limit the number of fails but it has taking me longer to get on board than others. I will definitely check out the link.
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September 24th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
If I had nothing else to do today…I would go to that side of the road in Weymouth to see if in fact you did throw them out the window. We’ll know……………we will find out…ohh don’t you worry!
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September 24th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
I ain’t no liar! In fact, I am fairly certain, I couldn’t have worked out last night and completed Helen without puking if I had that crap in my system. Anyway, who wants to go to Weymouth?
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September 25th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Imagine the potential: a commercial showing 2 streams of cars headed in opposite directions all tossing easily identifiable McDonald’s bags out of the car. The bags are clearly filled with McFoodies, too. You, Amanda, may have started something. Inspired those behind you (or covered their windshield with an impenterable mass of yellow crap.) Either way, you made a dent in the fast food armour of America.
Congratulations for not beating yourself up on not going Paleo full-time, all the time for the first time. Everyone can’t follow everyone else 100% of the time…what would we have? We’d all try to be looking like Paris Hilton and Bon Jovi (Kim Kardashian, take that.) It’s a process…and important stuff like fitness just doesn’t come the same to all of us (me, so included.)
Cheers,
Greg
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