My many URL’s

I’m obsessed.  Literally obsessed, and I don’t know how to stop myself.  I officially have like 20 domains purchased! But two new ones I’m excited about are:

Healthy Kids Plates , Kids Dinner Plates and Free Healthy Meals.

They aren’t really set up well yet, but certainly they are going to make me millions and millions of dollars:)

Anyway- back to the purpose here.  I really do feel energized and thinner (although I still weight the same)

I think I’ve had 3 eggs with half an avocado every single day! It keeps me full till lunch, when I have leftovers from dinner the night before.  I’ve been snacking on apples and almond butter.  String cheese and greek yogurt, fruit, lot’s of carrots, and chicken breasts. 

I know we only have one week left.  However this is how I see the future:

more protein (especially the eggs and chicken)

More fat (especially the avocado’s)

One grain per day

1 dairy per day

unlimited fruits and vegetables.

Too Sick to Blog

Ughhhhh….I am SICK!  My youngest daughter had this last week and the inevitable happened – I caught it!  I felt pretty good with a twinge of a sore throat yesterday but today…I have hit the wall! 

The good news since I checked in was a 2.4 weight loss on Saturday.  That’s VERY cool.  I did a brief Video Diary on Saturday.

Sunday we celebrated my dad’s 70th birthday and went out to eat.  I did great until we got home to the double chocolate muffins that I’d made in lieu of cake.  I decided that this might be one of those “kick up your heels” moments that Robb Wolf talks about so I cut one in half and ate it.  Then I ate the other half!  Arghhh!  It was so good!  I promptly wrapped those up to go home with my parents!  I can’t be trusted!

Today I”ve done fairly well with food until tonight when the thought of meat or chicken is nauseating!  So I had a warm 1/2 bagel which I really couldn't even taste…but it was comforting.  Sick trumps a perfect diet.

Day 5 – DONE

I’m done with day 5 of this experiment.  I’m less hungry than I was yesterday at this time due in part to my addition of some serious butter on my steamed broccoli tonight!  

Breakfast:  Mocha Smoothie; 3 hours later – 2 eggs over medium cooked in butter, 1 1/2 slices thick bacon

Lunch:  Grilled Chicken Caesar salad from McDonald’s, no dressing, (only ate a bit of the salad…it was gross); 1/4 cantaloupe with a couple blueberries.

Snack:  Handful of pistachios

Dinner:  Angus burger, steamed broccoli, a few bread & butter pickles (No sugar added), some reduced sugar ketchup, a square of Ghirardelli 86% Cacao.

Last night my sleep was horrible.  My daughter coughing up a lung down the hall, my husband’s Blackberry vibrating on his night table, and my almost-20-year-old burning the midnight oil on her computer.  Tonight it’s melatonin.  I have to SLEEP!

New about Paleo

 What do you think of the new picture Betty?  Let’s forget the spa and end this thing in Hawaii! :)

  The reason for me, and I think Mindy too, that I may end the day still hungry, although I know I need to eat more food, is the lack of available approved food, right?!?!?  If we had ton’s of money, ton’s of food, and possibly a personal chef, we would be full and satisfied at every meal! At least I would.

I wanted to post something awesome and new about Paleo, but I didn’t have time to do any learning and reading yesterday.  I spent the day in the kitchen preparing stuff for my Healthy Kids blog,  so I kept nibbling food all day and not having a substantial meal.  That is always disastrous.   But, even though I ate a little too much dried fruit and white chocolate, I stayed pretty tight to my plan.

Breakfast: Avocado, three eggs, and blueberries.

Snack: Banana and nuts

Lunch: I really wanted the rest of the spinach salad.. but it was all wilted and gross.  Instead, I just had some more chicken.

Dinner: Chili: MMM, it was really delicious. 

I know I wasn’t going to focus on weight, but I still weight the same.  My wedding ring fits though.  Maybe I’m just going to lose weight in my fingers.  Maybe tomorrow I’ll post a bunch of ‘before’ pictures.  Maybe.

Sunday

I’m thinking about trying out www.crossfit.com. It seems like a fun new exercise program, so if I have time, I’m going to try to figure out the exercises.

Also, I am having a hard time not buying Rob’s Paleo book.  I refuse to buy it until I’ve read the other two paleo books I have, Cordain’s and Mark Sisson (not exactly Paleo, but close)

Anyway, Sunday was great.  Eggs, avocado and fruit

Salad for lunch (this time I added the chicken)

Beef and broccoli for dinner (the family had the rice, but not me).  Tasty, although it looks nasty.

Apple and nuts for snacks.

I also had some brownie crumbs.. MMM they were good.

Although I woke up with a headache yesterday, today I felt pretty good.

Looking for the Energy

I read Amy’s post with envy…this energy that she’s gotten from the few days of this eating plan.  I can’t get out of my own way.  I made myself go for a walk but I pushed through it…I didn’t find it enjoyable at all. 
Breakfast:  Mocha Smoothie (my last with whey protein as my tub of Jay Robb’s Egg White Protein Powder came in the mail today).  Some yellow peppers at the farmer’s market (see Video Journal).   Handful of walnuts on the ride back from Walmart.
Lunch:  2 Cage-free eggs fried in extra virgin coconut oil (EVCO), piece of Ghirardelli Midnight Reverie 86% Cacao (yum, one pc was very satisfying!)
Lunch 2: Nuked Hebrew National Hot Dog and handful of pistachios.
Dinner:  Dark greens salad with maple vinaigrette (just a smidge), 4 oz filet mignon on a bed of mashed sweet potatoes with some sautéed field greens with a glass of pinot noir.
I must elaborate on dinner.  Saturday night is date night in my house and so it has been a quasi-“cheat night” while I’ve been on Atkins.  Not that I’ve gone too overboard but there was the breaded whatnot or the “few fries” kind deal going on.  Tonight we went late (thus the lunch #2) because it was Homecoming and we had to drop off my daughter at the dance at school  and then we went out.

We went to Fifty South in Ballston Spa, NY.  This is a great place that we frequently frequent for breakfast but have only been for dinner a couple times.  At breakfast time, it’s a bustling “diner” type of place but at dinner it is a fine restaurant!  I’m going to have to Yelp! about this place because it’s THAT good.


I felt a little guilty about the sweet potatoes but ate them anyway because they were AMAZING and there was probably only about 1/2-2/3 cup and they complimented the filet so nicely!  The wine, don’t know why I had it.  I have 2-3 glasses of wine per year.  I’m not a big fan but thought that it might help me relax.

Speaking of relaxing, I’m giving myself a 6 out of 10 for sleep.  My body is in the bed long enough (on weekends) buy my quality of sleep leaves much to be desired.  Not sure what to do about that.
Two days “in the can.”

I made it

I made it through a family party with no pumpkin bread, no pizza, no soda, no pumpkin cookies, no brownie sundaes!  Hooray.  I brought a spinach salad and I ate LOTS of it!  I tried to not worry about the dressing I was putting on it.  Reading Mark Sisson’s book has been helping me put away my fear of oil based dressings. 

I never went on that roller blade ride, sorry kids.

But I had a super enjoyable 40 minutes on the stair stepper, and some chest, shoulder, back exercises.  Took my fish oil. 

I am in a super good mood and have lot’s of energy.   I think I can handle this for  awhile!

Breakfast, same old eggs and avocado, and an apple.  Lunch chicken with cucumber and dressing.  Dinner the spinach salad. There was no protein anywhere.  I should have put chicken on my salad, but I didn’t.  So there was NO protein for dinner. Plus a few handfuls of nuts during the day.

I’m not going to take photo’s of all my food. I get embarrassed sometimes, especially at family parties.  So this will have to suffice.

Oct 1st

I went to bed hungry again. That’s OK though. I can handle that once in a while.

Today’s Paleo Tip is not really a Paleo tip.  But I was reading Primal Blueprint while at the gym, about exercise.  I LOVE that he says long easy cardio is good! I love long easy cardio.  I’m a long easy cardio queen!  However, one thing I am going to try to change is doing new things.   All I ever do is jog.  But he recommends doing more spontaneous fun things in all areas of activity.  So, today I’m going to go for a roller blade ride with my kids. They are going to love it!

Yesterday I did great!  Breakfast, another 3 eggs and half an avocado with peaches.

For lunch, I ate more taco salad

For a snack, apple and almond butter

and for dinner, chicken and broccoli.

I know it sounds exactly like the first day, but I like what I like.  I also had a few handfuls of nuts during the day.. pistachios and cashews.  I’ll try to reign that in.

Tonight will be TOUGH! It’s a pizza party at my In law’s house. I am bringing a salad though.

Here We Go!

Welcome to October, people!  It's day 1 of the Paleo 30 Day Plan and I'm pretty psyched. 

Breakfast:  A few walnuts & a Protein Smoothie (1 scoop Jay Robb vanilla whey, 1 heaping teaspoon cocoa, unsweetened almond milk, teaspoon instant coffee).  I only have a smattering of whey left and have ordered Jay Robb's Egg White Protein and was hoping that would arrive today. 
Lunch:  A salad from the grocery store salad bar with mixed greens, chicken breast, sugar snap peas, green pepper, cucumber, bacon, and a smattering of sunflower seeds and dried cranberries.  They didn't have olive oil so I put about 1T Italian dressing on it and added 3 chunks of cantaloupe.  Oh, and a diet Coke.  Cavemen had diet Coke, right?
Mid-PM:  About an ounce of pistachios.
Dinner:  Grass-fed sirloin and steamed green beans with butter.  1 "block" from a Chocoperfection Dark Chocolate Almond Bar. 
I'm not sure about the Paleocity of the Chocoperfection.  It's made with cocoa, cocoa butter, and chicory root.  It is about 8:00 PM now, and I'm hungry.  I don't have much to eat that's Paleo-approved and have already had 2 oz nuts today, so I will go to bed soon.
Thanks Amy, for posting up the fish oil calculator.  That's helpful.
I have decided not to log my food for these 30 days.  I log food compulsively but want to get away from that, so My Fitness Pal will be put aside for the time being as I just eat when I'm hungry.  What a concept!
I stopped at the farm today and got raw milk for the kids, 2 dozen eggs, the sirloin that we ate tonight and some grass-fed veal cutlets.  Tomorrow the rain will be gone here on the Eastern coast and I will go to the farmer's market to load up on organic fruits and veggies (mostly veggies).  For now I'm putting down the laptop and picking up The Paleo Solution to read more about what I should be picking up for food tomorrow and to start to ready my brain for sleep.  So glad tomorrow is Saturday and I won't have to get up at 5 AM.
My Video Journal

Supplements and Day 1

OK, I’ve decided, I’ll really only am going to post once  a day. Every morning with the prior day’s food and one new thing about Paleo.

Today’s new thing: I’m using Robb Wolf’s fish oil calculator and am taking 6 fish oil pills per day.  I’m also supplementing with Vitamin D (per Robb’s podcast).

Well, I finished yesterday with an apple and almond butter for a snack, and Taco salad for dinner. I forgot Legumes were not Paleo and had black beans in my taco salad.  Oops. It was tasty though.  I went to bed super hungry, so maybe need to eat a little bit more at each meal. But then again, maybe I’ll get used to eating less.

I drank lot’s of water, took my fish oil and vitamin D, and this morning I feel great!  I’m going to try really hard to not worry about the scale. I’m obsessed with the scale. But the point of this experiment was to eat Paleo for 30 days, and not about losing weight.  I’m only 123lbs, so weight loss doesn’t happen quickly for me, not having much to lose.  So when I try a new program, and don’t see a change on the scale like the very next day, I give it up promptly.  But this time is different.  No scale, only compliance.