Last week, we got new instructions for our Paleo Challenge. One of them was to vote off one member of the team. Nickey volunteered to go but I correctly guessed that the voted-off member wouldn’t really be off the Challenge and I thought (and still believe) that Nickey would have a better chance of winning this on her own, without us deadbeats weighing her down. Herb and I are either away traveling or cheating on our diets.All the frickin’ time.

Except that this month in particular, I will be away from Manila most of the time, leaving Herb a solo act, and we all know that Herb ain’t nothing without Peaches. (I wonder how many of you will get that.) So I asked Nickey to reconsider and vote me off instead, and then I’d really drop out of the Challenge. Which RJ isn’t too happy about, but since I won’t have access to the WODs while I am away, we really don’t have much of a choice, do we?

But seeing Nickey again today for the first time in weeks and the progress she’s made has inspired me to get back on the Paleo wagon. Again. I know, I know. I promised to stop cheating this week and I made good on that – with alcohol at least. But, as I was trying to write this last night, I was also steadily plowing through a box of polvoron.

Food recommendation alert! The best polvoron in Manila is from Dial K for Kitchen. It’s so buttery, it tastes like pastillas. Costs an arm and a leg but it’s absolutely to die for. (Photo c/o their FB page.)

Hopeless.

Yes, I will be good. Rather, I will TRY to be.

But I’ll be going back to my own Paleo Challenge, which means that I’ll be strict when it comes to the food part, but I will allow drinking, as long as I comply with the Paleo-approved cheats. And smoking, as long as I don’t eat the cigarettes. Har.

Yes, that, to me, is being good.

Update: I just got an e-mail from RJ. It seems that those of us who have been voted off have been reshuffled into another group. Good grief. I’m now with Jaloy and Aaron in Team 3. I haven’t met them but I’ve just sent them an e-mail of apology.