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's Food Log: June 17th, 2010

• 1 large cup coffee with 1/4 C whipping cream
• handful of trail mix
• 1 C (approx) sliced pot roast beef with some onions
• another handful of trail mix
• 2T almond butter and 1T coconut oil upon getting home*
• 1 premade beef patty with 1t Cholula hot sauce. Patty contained only beef, salt, spices.

* I am clearly not taking enough food to work.

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

Meagan's Food Diary: June 17th

I need to go grocery shopping tonight. I have no paleo-friendly food left in my house.

Breakfast (8am):
Peach juice with 2 tsp Greens+
1/2 hardboiled egg
Tea with milk

Snacking throughout the day:
Trailmix

Lunch (12noon):
Salad (1 large carrot, green and yellow pepper, grapes, strawberries) with balsamic dressing

Snack (3pm):
Fruit and cheese box from Bibliocafe

Snack (5pm):
leftover chicken wings from Fifth Street
5 table water crackers + brie

****This is where the night went downhill****
Written 1 day later, retrospectively:
The evening was a bad food night for me, but put in stark relief my reason for facing this challenge. We went to a friend's house and he had cooked us dinner. Pasta with spaghetti sauce with garlic bread. I hadn't eaten because I thought it would be rude to not eat what he had made us. 5 bites into the pasta I started to feel ill, my skin got itchy, and I developed a massive headache. I stopped eating at that point. I am now understanding the benefit of fasting if the proper food choices are not available. White flour and wheat are NOT good for me. I feel disgusting, my eczema is flaring up, and I am having a "fat day." I am not going to get mad at myself for breaking the diet; if anything this experience makes me realise why I have decided to be more conscious of my food choices. I will get back on track today, which should be easy because I feel so gross that I can't even imagine eating non-paleo foods!

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.

My primal beginnings

I am undertaking this challenge with the knowledge that at this juncture, there are certain items I am unwilling to give up. My goal will be to eat roughly 85-90% within the scope of the primal/paleo diet, but still allow myself the luxury of a few choice foods. I think it makes sense to have reasonable expectations, and given that this is my first official foray into the vicissitudes of the paleolithic, I must be gentle with myself. That being said, I am making a pact to blog about what I eat, every day for thirty days. I promise to be 100% honest about everything I eat for the next thirty days. I make this pact with the knowledge that I will have a much better sense of my diet at the end of the month. I also forsee some difficulty in holding to the diet in July, given that I will be in the UK for two full weeks. I will stick to Angela's list of foods, with the exception of dairy, which I will try to scale back but not cut out entirely.

Today's food diary

Breakfast (8am):
Black Tea with milk
Scrambled eggs (2)

Snack (9:45am):
Banana
Green Tea with Ginger

Snack (10:15am):
Trail mix (nuts/pineapple/apricot/coconut)

Snack (11am):
16oz coffee (double shot espresso with 1/2cup water and 1/8 cup cream)

Snack (11:42am):
~1/4c Dried fruit (apples, cranberries, blueberries)

Lunch (Noon):
450ml Carrot & Coriander Soup
1 nectarine

Snack (1pm):
16oz darjeeling tea with milk

Snack (1:45pm):
~1/8c Dried fruit (apples, cranberries, blueberries)

Snack (3:30pm):
Trail mix
16oz peppermint tea

Snack (5pm):
6 Table Wafers with Brie (because I have them and they need to be eaten--won't buy more when these are done).
Perrier with Lime

Supper (7:30pm):
B.A.S. (Greens, Red and Yellow Peppers, Carrots)
Chicken Wings (Fireside Honey Garlic)
1 glass red wine