Angela's Food Log: June 24th, 2010

So tired--third night of 6 hours of sleep or less.

• 1 grande *$s coffee with 1/4C cream
• 2 Handfuls of trail mix
• 1/4 C baked/refried potatoes left over from the other night
• banana
• 2-3 handfuls of trail mix
• 1C "baby" carrots
• 1T almond butter and 1/2 T coconut oil
• 6oz (?) sirloin tip steak (finally, food!)
• 1/2 red bell pepper
• 1.5 C Primal Apple Something*

So... I forgot the most important part of my lunch: the meat. Hence the lack of meat until dinner.

I tried making a primal dessert, even though I am firmly in the camp of "don't try to make perverted substitutions of former favorite foods". I peeled, cored and sliced 6 or 7 medium Fuji apples, tossed them in a bowl with cinnamon, cloves, ginger, and a few drops of lemon juice, dumped them into a 9" round pie dish lightly oiled with coconut oil, and baked uncovered at 350F for 30mins. While that was cooking, I mixed 2C almond meal, 1T raw local honey, and 1T pure vanilla extract to make a topping of sorts. After the apples had baked for 30mins, I took them out of the oven, added about 1/2C water to the dish and sprinkled the almond mixture on top. I then put it back in the oven for about 15 minutes.

First impression: it was ok. The almond topping wasn't very exciting, and the apples weren't cooked to that delightful mushy stage that you get in real, good apple pies. If I had included chopped nuts in the topping, that might have helped. Next time, I will try that as well as covering the apples while they are baking with aluminum foil (we are currently out of foil). MC seems fairly unimpressed with this, so I suspect I'll be finishing the rest myself :S

Angela's Food Log: June 23rd, 2010

Was woken up in the early morning by a horrible calf cramp! This seems to happen when I go sufficiently low-carb and work out. I have seen posts by other people on LC diets complaining about muscle cramps. We'll see if the cramps continue--I am not sure what to do about them.

Today has me seriously considering if I should dump the coffee and cream habit--mostly because of the amount of dairy it causes me to ingest. I have heard many many people say that dairy stalled out their progress on weight loss, and even though I am not trying to "lose weight" (i.e. make the scale go down), I wonder if it is interfering in my body's ability to use stored fat as fuel. Also, I have a sneaking suspicion that the dairy might be responsible for my skin problems :(


Food for today:

• 3 (?) handfuls trail mix
• 1 grande *$s coffee with 1/4 C cream
• 2C beef guacamole left over from last night
• banana
• 2 handfuls trail mix
• 2 shot americano with 1/4 C cream
  
• 2T almond butter and 1T coconut oil upon getting home from work
• half a large pork sausage (getting tired of sausage)
• 1 small glass Merlot
• 3/4C baked & refried red potatoes with 3/4 C hamburger 

Angela's Food Log: June 22nd, 2010

Tuesday. CrossFit tonight.

• large coffee (*$s) with 1/4C coffee cream.
• Lunch: 4 bacon-wrapped halibut nuggets, 1/2C sausage.
• Caesar salad with baked Cajun chicken breast (B/L, S/L) at Smuggler's Cove pub. Felt a bit bloated during the afternoon.
• 2 shot breve with half-and-half from Olive Olio's. Tasty!
• Some sausage as an afternoon snack...
• Dinner: Guacamole Beef (Courtesy of Taryn @ Tabata This; link here), 1.5 baked small red potatoes with a dab of butter on each half. Also a strip of bacon.

CrossFit tonight was great: 6 rounds, 4 mins each of: 8 hang squat snatch (25bs) & a 250m row. My fastest time was 1:34, slowest time 1:46 (first round). Felt good, a little wobbly on the squats though. Need to work on snatches for sure.

Angela's Food Log: June 21st, 2010

Uh oh. I didn't log Monday and now I can't remember what I ate. Here's what I *do* remember:

• large coffee with 1/4C coffee cream
• 1C sausage
• green salad with grated carrots, apple slivers, salad crunchy mix and olive oil/balsamic dressing
• Double Americano with 1/4C cream
• Dinner: sausages, bacon-wrapped halibut chunks, refried leftover chicken with sliced vidalia onions, glass of Merlot, bacon. Sooo good!

Hmm... that might actually be accurate.

Angela's Food Log: June 20th, 2010

More weekend! Yay again!

• Cup of coffee with 2T whipping cream
• 4 slices bacon
• 2 scrambled eggs in bacon grease with 2 slices cheddar cheese and diced vidalia onoins
• Homemade frappuccino: 1C whipping cream, 1C almond milk, 1C frozen coffee (freeze in ice cube trays), 1T raw local honey, 1/2T pure vanilla extract. Nom nom! (see picture, below)
• BBQ at my parents': Large steak, green salad with local organic lettuce that I picked myself, salad crunchy mix, grated carrots, apple slivers, and olive oil and balsamic vinegar dressing. I had a 1/4C of Mario's Vanilla Gelati with assorted fruit for dessert. Tasty but I think it made me unable to get to sleep, as we ate dessert at about 10PM. Also felt itchy and headachy when we got home, but that could have been due to the caffeine wearing off :S

Here's a picture of my frappe:

Angela's Food Log: June 19th, 2010

Weekend! Yay!

• 1C Coffee with 2T whipping cream
• 3 slices bacon
• 3 chicken thighs (B/L, S/L) baked in olive oil with salt, pepper, and oregano, with 1.5 baked small red potatoes with 1T butter
• another baked chicken thigh later in the evening

Slept in. Was a little sore from yesterday's workout, but not bad. Got a 2-hour massage treatment in the afternoon that REALLY helped =)

Angela Food Log: June 18th, 2010

Wow, this is day 5 already... so far I think I've stuck to the rules. 

• Grande Pike Place coffee from Starbucks with 18% cream
• 1C pot roast left over from dinner
• 3 fish oil capsules (will look up EPA/DHA amounts when I get home)
• 2000mg Vit D (in tablets)
• Double americano with cream
• 1T almond butter & 1t coconut oil
• 2 chicken thighs (B/L, S/L) fried in olive oil
• 1T almond butter & 1t coconut oil @ 12:30PM

Still feeling sick, tummy unhappy, headachy. Went to CrossFit anyway and did the Baseline again (first time was in January 2010 when I started, time 15:23). Time 7:20 scaled: knee pushups, green band for pullups. Yay!

Did not eat enough at dinner (we were rushing out the door) and was starving by 10:30pm. Got home at midnight but didn't want to eat anything substantial right before going to bed, so I think I had another tablespoon of almond butter with coconut oil.

Angela Food Log: June 16th, 2010

• Breakfast: one large pork sausage. Last one, so sad. Handful of strawberries. Large Coffee with 1/4 C. whipping cream.
• Lunch: leftover chicken stir fry and 1 C. strawberries.
• Afternoon snack: 2 handfuls of trail mix: hazelnuts, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, a couple raisins and a few pieces of date. Out of coffee, so none this afternoon.
• 2 T almond butter & 1T coconut oil upon getting home after CrossFit in the evening. 
• Dinner: Pot roast with dry rub of salt, black pepper, turmeric, coriander, and one other spice (can't remember). Seared in pot on stove, cooked for just under an hour at 350F. Damn tasty. I also ate a cup of cooked mixed veggies : broccoli, cauliflower, and carrots. Left most of the carrots. 

I think I may need a kitchen scale so I can more accurately record things like "pot roast" and "chicken stir fry". :S

Angela Food Log: June 15th, 2010

This is yesterday (the 15th):

• Breakfast: half a large pork sausage: pork, water, salt spices. Coffee with heavy/whipping cream.
• Snack: Larabar (coconut cocoa)
• Lunch: one large pork sausage and a BAS (local organic lettuce that I picked myself, strawberries, salad crunchy mix and a lemon juice/olive oil dressing)
• Afternoon coffee: 2 cups, each with 1/8th C whipping cream.
• Snack after work: 2T almond butter with 1.5t coconut oil. Yes, I eat this on a spoon. Yes, it's odd. But it's tasty!
• Dinner: Chicken stir fry: boneless skinless chicken breasts, Vidalia onions, olive oil, garlic, local organic "bok choi" (it wasn't bok choi, but a very closely related leafy green).
• Dessert: several strawberries

Mood: exhausted. Got home from work and was near to collapsing on the couch and passing out. Rallied later in the evening Woke up the next morning feeling under the weather in some indefinable way.

First Post - Angela June 14th

So MC and I started off our Primal/Paleo 30 Day Challenge with a trip to Costco to get supplies. We discussed the In/Not In list (which I'll post for each of us tonight) and made ourselves a Primal dinner.

My Food List:

• 2 eggs, scrambled in coconut oil with a few drops of Cholula (?) hot sauce.
• 2 slices bacon
• an ounce(ish) of medium-rare steak with Montreal Steak Spice (left over from the previous night's dinner)
• 1 large pork sausage (pork, water, salt, spices... that's it)
• Big Ass Salad (organic lettuce from MC's parents, feta cheese, olive oil, balsamic vinegar, salad crunchy mix (pine nuts, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds)
• ~500mL Perrier, lime flavour
• 2 medium strawberries

I'll make another post tonight detailing today's meals, along with MC's and my In/Not In lists (which are going to be slightly different).

Cheers!
~A