Food log

Breakfast

• 2 egg cupcakes
• handful of walnuts & grapes
• green tea

Lunch

• African Beef Curry
• Cauliflower Coconut Pittu
• Coconut Date Roll
• Clementine
• Handful of Walnuts

Supper

• Workout Shake
• 2 Johnsonville New Orleans Sausage

Calories- 1430
Carbs- 79.9 g/ 60.1 g (net), 18%
Fat- 85.7 g, 53%
Protein- 119 g, 29%

Daily Bread

Breakfast

• Protein/Berry Shake
• Coconut Water
• Chocolate Whey Protein
• Strawberries & Blueberries
• Spinach
• Walnuts
• Multi-Vitamin and Vitamin D

Lunch

• African Curry Beef
• Cauliflower Coconut Pittu

Snack

• 4 slices bacon

Supper

• Chocolate Workout Shake
• Paleokit

Today was a heavy calorie and carb day.   1345 calories. 90.2 g carbs (68 net). 68.7 g fat.  25% carbs, 45% fat, 30% protein. 3:1 Omega 6 to Omega 3.

in emails

Food Journal

3/8/11 (yesterday)

• Two eggs
• Chai Tea w/ Coconut Milk
• "Breakfast Squash"- half roasted acorn squash, ground sausage, and egg roasted together in oven
• Chai Tea w/ Coconut Milk
• Workout Shake (Coconut Water and Whey Protein)
• Coconut Shrimp (here) with garlic sauteed broccoli 
• Paleo Vanilla Ice Cream w/ honey drizzled on top

So it's occurred to me (writing this now) that while my diet may be very paleo and even very good for maintaining weight it may be a little heavy on the treat side and may not really spur weight loss.   We'll see.  Also, should I rely on coconut as a staple?  I may be overdoing that some.  I had a coconut product with every meal.

3/9/11 (Today)

• 3 Egg Cupcakes (here)
• Chai Tea w/ Coconut Milk
• Can of Tuna with Tbsp of Mayo
• 1 cup Broccoli
• Coconut Date Roll
• Handful of Walnuts and Grapes for a snack
• Chocolate Protein Workout Shake (yum yum!)
• African Beef Curry (one of my all time favorites) w/ Cauliflower Coconut Pittu

Today I had approximately 1200 calories, 75 g carbs (55 g net), 52 g fat, and 130 g protein.  I think that's just about right.  My omega 6/3 ratio seemed a little skewed.  I need to add my fish oil back in.  I've been slacking.  Also, I need to drink more water.  I wake up thirsty in the middle of the night.  That'll be my goal for tomorrow.  That, and to convince myself to go to crossfit with the devil of a workout scheduled.  Ugh.

day in pictures

My day nutritionally (minus the multi-vitamin and vitamin D).  I tried my best to not change my diet despite what I saw on the screen in front of me.  I wanted to see what I do normally.  I was a little worried when I saw my calories at only 1101 but honestly it's all I was hungry for.  I'm also a little worried about the 70 grams of carbs.  It's the one date roll did me in.  All in all it was a pretty good day though.

fail.

I dropped the bar Monday.  Literally.  I didn't know my max weight for back squats and took on too much too fast.  What kills me is that I should have known better.  I came up and down twice and decided to go for a third.  I knew it was too much.  THEN when I got down there and got stuck I didn't bail on the bar.  I crumpled.  They even taught us how to drop that bar in a back squat (Thank you, Bledsoe!  I'll try to remember that lesson next time).  And yet, I crumpled.  The bar hit me at the base of my neck and bounced around a bit as I tried to hold on and slowly fall to the floor.  What a way to start a workout. 

The rest of the workout went off without a hitch.  Confidence shot, however, it felt a little like crap.  But I did it.  And yesterday I overcame a mental block: box jumps.  During the warm up I couldn't get up there 3 times.  I decided to move on and come back to that later... didn't happen.  When it came time to work out and I realized that I had to do 70 of them I didn't know what I would do.  I looked at the big box and tried it.  Couldn't get myself to jump.  Looked at the small box and had the same results.  Since it was obviously a mental thing (and because I was embarrassed to be the only one with a tiny box) I grabbed the big box and prepped for the dead lifts.  I think it took me a minute and half to get through that first set of 10 box jumps (ridiculous).  I swear, if those coaches do sit down and make fun of us after hours I'm one of the people they talk about.  By my seventh set I was much more speedy.  Hopefully I've conquered that fear.  I should be on to bigger and better embarrassments at crossfit. 

two non breakfasts to try

http://jensgonepaleo.blogspot.com/2009/12/rosemary-orange-glazed-chicken-with.html

http://jensgonepaleo.blogspot.com/2011/02/really-tasty-beef-jerky-soy-free-gluten.html

my motivation... or lack thereof

I have been having a hard time getting myself and my food together lately.  I wake up in the morning and just can't get myself to scramble another egg or fry any more bacon.  And it's not just that I'm sick of eggs (or that I'm sick of bacon-- at all!).  I can't get myself to cook anything.  I've thought about salmon patties and even craved them.  But when I think about what I need to do to make them I give up and decide to drink tea instead. I'm just low on energy.  What makes it worse is that I'm eating like crap on the weekends.  I have to hope that if that stops so will this lethargy.  So today I want to nip this in the bud.  I'm going to pre-make breakfasts.  I'm going to make egg cupcakes (and hope that they're better than the ones I made while we were on South Beach), and salmon patties, and prep a breakfast squash.  I'm also going to keep some other options in mind: frittata, apple muffins, an apple cut up and palced in the microwave for 2 minutes with ground cinnamon, leftover steak thinly sliced and tossed with scrambled eggs and salsa, butternut squash pancakes, coconut pancakes, and almond flour pancakes (ideas found here).

Anyway, maybe if I can get breakfast back under wraps maybe the rest of the day will go better.  More energy, more accomplished, better workouts, less stress. That's my hope.