Day Four

Friday! At the end of a long week, I got a little lazy with my food. I packed a lot of snacky type foods and ended up not having enough to get me through the day.

Breakfast: Raw broccoli, guac for dipping the broccoli and a jalapeno habanero sausage. The sausage was delicious - maybe not completely Paleo, but it was gluten and hormone free. The guac however. Biggest disappointment of the week. I didn't have time to make fresh, so I bought this at the store. It was nearly $7 (local market) and awful! I also had my usual coffee and really can't remember if I had OJ or not.

Lunch: One bunch carrots (from the CSA, SO good), 1/2 of an orange pepper, 2 eggs (there were some almonds that i ate as a snack earlier), and more of the disgusting guac for dipping my veggies.

I had a meeting right after lunch that had Indian catered. I had just read on Robb Wolf's site that he and his wife tend to go for Thai when they want to eat out. Curries are meat, veggies, coconut milk and spices - Paleo! (Just make sure to not get something with potatoes.) I saw chicken curry so I had a small portion. I realized later that since it was Indian curry it was probably made with yogurt versus coconut milk, but still, much healthier than anything I would have gotten out of the vending machine. 

Dinner: Two plates! The boyfriend is home and is such a good sport that he was willing to eat shell-less tacos with me. I found myself a good one. :)  We had tacos (with beef this time - not grass fed, but organic/hormone free), salsa, and home made guac. This guac is AMAZING. We had a side of butternut squash. Easiest thing ever. Precut package from TJs, tossed with olive oil, sea salt and pepper. Roast at 400 for 25 minutes. And yes, I had one glass of red wine. Oh, he didn't sniffle at all after eating, which is quite unusual. So now we just have to figure out if it's gluten or dairy he has some sort of allergy to. 

Day Three

Or also referred to as the day in which the excitement is gone. Don't get me wrong, I'm still love it and plan to continue. But today included a very not so yummy dinner that helped reality set in. Amazingly, my first thought wasn't to go out and grab something. I sliced up half of an orange pepper to replace my veggie and had an extra (small) handful of nuts to replace my healthy fat. Moving on...

Overall thoughts now that it's been 72 hours. Not that 72 hours is an indication of anything. I feel much lighter overall. I've actually lost 4.5 pounds since Monday. That's crazy. I know the days of losing 3 and 1.5 pounds overnight will end soon, but it's fun. I LOVE not counting calories. I love that I don't obsessively think about food all day and when I can eat next. My meals are already planned out in advance and I work them in around my meeting schedule. I am annoyed with the headache I am getting every afternoon. I think I might be letting myself get too hungry after lunch, so maybe an afternoon snack. On the neutral front, I thought it was funny when I read that this food lifestyle will reset your clocks. I am dead by 8:30, but wide awake and ready to start the day at 5am. It seems like my body really wants to sleep when the sun goes down.

Breakfast: Black coffee (it's decaf, by the way), OJ (I'm going to be very sad when this jug is done), 1/2 of a yellow pepper, almonds, 2 hard boiled eggs.

I woke up at 5 to catch up on emails and made myself breakfast around 5:20. I knew I'd never make it 7 hours until lunch, so I had an apple around 9am.

Lunch: Salad with a chicken breast, 1/4 avocado, two stalks celery, mushrooms, 1/2 yellow pepper, and salsa as the dressing.

Snack: Tried to get rid of the headache. The only Paleo option in the vending machine was to pick the almonds and walnuts out of the trail mix. Yeah. Waste of money and time.

Dinner (or, the meal that made me fall out of Paleo fantasy land and into Paleo reality land): 1 can tuna with a tiny bit of dijon mixed in (my first known cheat) and a bunch of chard stir fried with almonds. Umm, I hate cooked spinach. It tastes like dirt. So why I thought I'd enjoy chard in a non-disguised fashion is beyond me. This came in my CSA box last night. One of the reasons I started back  up is that I want to be forced to eat a variety of veggies (when I shop for myself I'll eat broccoli and red bell peppers every night). However, I think I would have been better off to make this in some sort of broth soup.

On a more happy note, I got an Amazon package in the mail today with my first order of coconut oil. Due to lots of science-schmiense, olive oil is not the best oil for high temp cooking. Now that I have coconut oil, I can jump back into my happy stir fry land. Just no more brown rice. And no more soy sauce. It's pretty neat, it's a solid at room temp but melts at 72 degrees. When you throw it on a hot wok it melts immediately. However, it is not awesome enough to transform chard into a delicious veggie for dinner.

That wraps up my first three days on Paleo! The weekend should be interesting and so should cooking for and eating with another human. I haven't been tempted since I've been eating at home alone all week. But my favorite person lands tonight (how this cave woman is going to stay awake late enough to pick him up at 11:35 remains to be seen), which means I won't be flying solo. But I can do it!

Day Two

I'm enjoying my seventh Paleo meal as I type this post. I woke up feeling great today, and 3 pounds lighter! I'm sure it's not actual fat loss, most likely it's just the drastic decrease in my sodium consumption. Today was not bad. No cheating (really want to go a full seven days), but I did snack a bit. 

Breakfast: OJ, black coffee, steak, 2 scrambled eggs with salsa, 1/4 avocado.

Lunch: Steak salad with avocado, tomatoes, and red peppers. Side of broccoli with no garlic!

Around 3:30 I was pretty hungry and realized I forgot the apple I thought I had brought. I went to Grab N' Go and had bought two hard boiled eggs. I feel like a total hippie idiot for saying this, but I could totally taste the difference between the pasture fed eggs I've been eating and these. 

I had to run errands after work, one being to TJs. I picked up some almonds and snacked on too many on the way home. 

Dinner: Chicken breast (cooked with salt, pepper, and lemon juice) with broiled zucchini and crock neck squash. 

I decided to try a new CSA (yes, my third) recently. This one delivers to your home. For only $1 more per week, I'm getting 3 extra items and home delivery. I have lost the option to select what I want, but I'm okay with that. 

There was a bit of a mix up on my part on when the first delivery would be. I thought it was next week, so off to TJs I went to stock up on produce. I got home to find my box waiting for me on the porch. I hope the boyfriend is ready for a product heavy weekend!