More of the same.
Saturday, 01/05/13
Weight: 141.0
Breakfast: Homemade turkey sausage (bleh, needs some tweaking), egg, 1/4 avocado, chai tea
Lunch: Leftover Jalapeno Garlic Chicken, peppermint tea
Dinner: Leftover elk paleo spaghetti, roasted broccoli
Snacks: nothing
Notes: I was feeling super cranky today and basically spent the whole day in my pajamas. I really wanted to go get some Taco Bell, but I sequestered myself in my apartment and ate leftovers. What an exciting life.
Sunday, 01/06/13
Weight: 140.8 (So close to the 130s!!!)
Breakfast: 1 Gross homemade turkey sausage, 2 eggs, chai tea
Lunch: (DON'T KILL ME) Slice of Costco cheese pizza (it was heaven, at the time)(gluten digest and super enzyme taken before lunch), pepsi, 1/4 Costco frozen yogurt
Dinner: Sesame orange salmon, leftover roasted broccoli
Notes: Yeah, not the most Paleo lunch I've ever eaten. I went there planning for it, though, and I'm trying not to feel guilty about it and I want to just move on. I do feel sick though. Joints increase popping, stomach distension/bloating, extreme energy crash ~2 hours after eating. We'll see how my face is tomorrow...
More Notes: Stomach is doing lots of rumbling and talking to me after dinner... it may have to do with lunch, but also seems to do this after I eat salmon.
Monday, 01/07/13
Weight: 141.4 (The pizza undid me)
Breakfast: Gross turkey sausage (they're almost gone), 1ish egg, chai tea
Lunch: (cafeteria, paid for by work) some kind of kebab, tons of broccoli, roast beef, sweetened green tea
Dinner: Salmon Salad
Snack: green tea (needed the caffeine), broccoli, mandarin
Notes: This was a crazy, busy, snowy workday so my food is WAY off. And I'm not sure if it's from the pizza yesterday or what, but I was EXHAUSTED all day. Like having trouble keeping my eyes open. Come to think of it, it could be because I only managed to eat about 1/4 of my breakfast before work got too crazy and the food got cold and I forgot about it. Or the crappy cafeteria lunch.
Exercise: First time back at yoga in over 2 months! It felt good.
Tuesday, 01/08/13
Weight: 141.8
Breakfast:
Lunch:
Dinner:
Snack:
Notes:
Wednesday, 01/09/13
Weight: 141.6
Breakfast:
Lunch:
Dinner:
Snack:
Notes:
Exercise: Yoga
Thursday, 01/10/13
Weight: 142.2
Breakfast: 2 turkey sausages, 2 eggs, black tea, raspberry leaf tea
Lunch: Ranch chicken and sauteed bell peppers, mandarin
Dinner: (Shhh, don't tell the paleo police) Taco Bell (I only ate about half of it and felt sick, so I stopped)
Snack: (Don't tell the Paleo FBI) Movie theatre popcorn and seltzer water/soda mix
Notes: P to the M to the S is so much fuuuuuun.
Friday, January 11, 2013
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Paleo Asian Dressing
Omg you guys. This stuff is goooood. It tastes very similar to the Asian dressing at a local restaurant that I love (but that dressing is probably full of sugar and omega 6s.). I'm going to put this dressing on a salad tomorrow. Tonight I'm baking some Orange-Sesame Salmon and making an extra piece for lunch tomorrow. So the salad will be organic spring mix ($3.99 from Costco), salmon filet, 1/2 an avocado, diced, 1 bell pepper, sliced, and this amazing dressing drizzled allll over it.
I didn't measure the ingredients for the dressing, but here's my best guess:
1 teaspoon coconut aminos
1 teaspoon gluten-free dijon mustard
juice of one mandarin orange
1/4 teaspoon toasted sesame oil
1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
1/2 clove of garlic, minced
a dash or two of crushed red pepper
Put all ingredients in a jar and shake it up. This amount looks good for my large lunch salad, so if you're serving more people, double or triple it. Voila! Paleo Asian dressing!
P.S. Hermione says 'hi'!
I didn't measure the ingredients for the dressing, but here's my best guess:
1 teaspoon coconut aminos
1 teaspoon gluten-free dijon mustard
juice of one mandarin orange
1/4 teaspoon toasted sesame oil
1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
1/2 clove of garlic, minced
a dash or two of crushed red pepper
Put all ingredients in a jar and shake it up. This amount looks good for my large lunch salad, so if you're serving more people, double or triple it. Voila! Paleo Asian dressing!
P.S. Hermione says 'hi'!
Friday, January 4, 2013
Quick Start
Here's my attempt to keep myself accountable during this part of my Paleo journey. 2 weeks of easing back into it, a 30-day Paleo challenge with my gym starting 01/14/13, and hopefully the 21-Day Sugar Detox after that.
Wednesday, 01/02/13
Weight: 145.6
Breakfast: 2 eggs, chai tea
Lunch: (didn't have any food in the house to bring) orange glazed pork chop and steamed veggies from the dining hall
Dinner: Elk Paleo spaghetti
Snacks: Almonds, 2 squares dark chocolate, 2 applesauce squeeze packets, roasted seaweed
Thursday, 01/03/13
Weight: 143.6
Breakfast: 2 turkey sausage patties, 2 eggs, chai tea
Lunch: Tuna made with avocado stuffed in a pepper
Dinner: Elk Paleo spaghetti
Snacks: Almonds, carrots, 1 square of dark chocolate
Sleep: Tired from 4-7, Energy rush right before bed (9pm), Almost 9 hours of sleep but still exhausted in the AM
Friday, 01/04/13
Weight: 142.6
Breakfast: 2 turkey sausage patties, 2 eggs with sauteed onions, 1/4 avocado, green tea
Lunch: Elk Paleo Spaghetti, carrots, applesauce squeeze packet
Dinner: Jalapeno garlic chicken with cauliflower rice
Snacks: Almonds, 2 squares dark chocolate, peppermint tea, snack bag of Classic Lay's Potato Chips (oops!)
Notes: Stomach upset after chips and dinner :(
Sleep: I must not have had enough fat with dinner because I'm dragging pretty bad and it's not even 9pm
Wednesday, 01/02/13
Weight: 145.6
Breakfast: 2 eggs, chai tea
Lunch: (didn't have any food in the house to bring) orange glazed pork chop and steamed veggies from the dining hall
Dinner: Elk Paleo spaghetti
Snacks: Almonds, 2 squares dark chocolate, 2 applesauce squeeze packets, roasted seaweed
Thursday, 01/03/13
Weight: 143.6
Breakfast: 2 turkey sausage patties, 2 eggs, chai tea
Lunch: Tuna made with avocado stuffed in a pepper
Dinner: Elk Paleo spaghetti
Snacks: Almonds, carrots, 1 square of dark chocolate
Sleep: Tired from 4-7, Energy rush right before bed (9pm), Almost 9 hours of sleep but still exhausted in the AM
Friday, 01/04/13
Weight: 142.6
Breakfast: 2 turkey sausage patties, 2 eggs with sauteed onions, 1/4 avocado, green tea
Lunch: Elk Paleo Spaghetti, carrots, applesauce squeeze packet
Dinner: Jalapeno garlic chicken with cauliflower rice
Snacks: Almonds, 2 squares dark chocolate, peppermint tea, snack bag of Classic Lay's Potato Chips (oops!)
Notes: Stomach upset after chips and dinner :(
Sleep: I must not have had enough fat with dinner because I'm dragging pretty bad and it's not even 9pm
Whoa, Almost a Year Away (And a Recipe)
Well I didn't mean to abandon this blog for almost a year, but here we are. My abbreviated Paleo journey:
December 2011to January 2012 - Heard about Paleo for the first time and began researching
March 2012 - Moved across the country and pretty much gave up on trying to implement the Paleo lifestyle
August 16, 2012 - Sick and tired of feeling sick and tired, I started super clean Paleo. Over 2.5 months, I lost about 17 pounds and 2 pants sizes.
November 2012 to December 2012 - Started slipping from Paleo with National Novel Writing Month, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Gained 4 pounds, started sleeping like crap again, joint pain, constant stomach pain, and my face looked like a pizza.
January 2, 2013 - Once again, sick and tired, I committed to clean Paleo again.
Tonight's meal was jalapeno garlic chicken with cauliflower rice. I saw this somewhere on Chowstalker but can't find it again, plus I changed it up enough so it's my recipe now :). Probably wear gloves or be careful with the jalapenos. My hands are still burning a couple of hours later. I used my new mini-Cuisinart food processor for this, and it sped up the whole process. You certainly don't need one, but it will make it go much faster!
Jalapeno Garlic Chicken
2 tablespoons of coconut oil and/or ghee (I combined them)
1 white or yellow onion, chopped
8 cloves of garlic, minced
2 jalapenos, most of the seeds removed, diced
2 chicken breasts (or whatever cut you have handy), cut into small pieces
Juice of one lime
Salt and pepper to taste
1. Heat the oil in a pan over medium-low heat
2. Add the onions and saute until translucent, about 5-7 minutes. Sprinkle a little salt over them to get them sweating.
3. Salt and pepper the chicken chunks, and add them, along with the jalapenos and garlic, to the pan
4. Squeeze the lime or dump the juice over the pan
5. Cook until chicken is cooked through
Serve over cilantro cauliflower "rice" (I used the recipe from the amazing book Practical Paleo - if you don't have it, go order it right now)
Ok, one more recipe on the books. I hope to keep it up this time!
December 2011to January 2012 - Heard about Paleo for the first time and began researching
March 2012 - Moved across the country and pretty much gave up on trying to implement the Paleo lifestyle
August 16, 2012 - Sick and tired of feeling sick and tired, I started super clean Paleo. Over 2.5 months, I lost about 17 pounds and 2 pants sizes.
November 2012 to December 2012 - Started slipping from Paleo with National Novel Writing Month, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Gained 4 pounds, started sleeping like crap again, joint pain, constant stomach pain, and my face looked like a pizza.
January 2, 2013 - Once again, sick and tired, I committed to clean Paleo again.
Tonight's meal was jalapeno garlic chicken with cauliflower rice. I saw this somewhere on Chowstalker but can't find it again, plus I changed it up enough so it's my recipe now :). Probably wear gloves or be careful with the jalapenos. My hands are still burning a couple of hours later. I used my new mini-Cuisinart food processor for this, and it sped up the whole process. You certainly don't need one, but it will make it go much faster!
Jalapeno Garlic Chicken
2 tablespoons of coconut oil and/or ghee (I combined them)
1 white or yellow onion, chopped
8 cloves of garlic, minced
2 jalapenos, most of the seeds removed, diced
2 chicken breasts (or whatever cut you have handy), cut into small pieces
Juice of one lime
Salt and pepper to taste
1. Heat the oil in a pan over medium-low heat
2. Add the onions and saute until translucent, about 5-7 minutes. Sprinkle a little salt over them to get them sweating.
3. Salt and pepper the chicken chunks, and add them, along with the jalapenos and garlic, to the pan
4. Squeeze the lime or dump the juice over the pan
5. Cook until chicken is cooked through
Serve over cilantro cauliflower "rice" (I used the recipe from the amazing book Practical Paleo - if you don't have it, go order it right now)
Ok, one more recipe on the books. I hope to keep it up this time!
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