Day 10

Yup, 10 days down! It was another good day foodwise. I did learn a hard lesson though. But first, breakfast was applesauce, lunch was at Genghis Grill where I loaded my bowl with beef, sausage, broc, and carrots. Yum! I can't remember if I had anything for an afternoon snack though. Dinner was at Snuffers with friends. I got a cheeseburger salad (a burger with no bun, on top of a salad.) It was way good but my lesson learned was that my body no longer tolerates high fat meat very well. Oops. It was an interesting evening after that. And not in a good way. :( But good to know for future reference.

Day 9

It was an interesting day. I wasn't very hungry all day, but I did eat. Breakfast was applesauce and then later, some raisins and almonds. Lunch was just some smoked turkey. Midafternoon I had another applesauce (unsweetened). For dinner, I tried to cook a spaghetti squash, and it didn't quite work out. I had a few spoonfuls of it but not much before ditching it. But I learned from it. I ended up having scrambled eggs for dinner.

Today was a day that I really could have turned to comfort food, but I'm proud of myself for not doing it. It helps that there is nothing I can eat that is true comfort food to me, so I'm not even really tempted.

Day 8

I weighed this morning, and have lost 6.4 lbs this past week on this diet. Granted, it's the first week of it and I'm sure cutting out all the starches is going to make a big first drop. I loved seeing that though.

I had a banana for breakfast this morning, and then some raisins and almonds mid morning. It got really cold and rainy today, so what sounded good for lunch? CHILI! Ok the chili wasn't completely paleo as it did have beans in it, but I picked around those as much as I could. There was some cheese on top (dairy). I also had a salad with that. Midafternoon, I had an apple. Dinner was baked chicken with a bit of bbq sauce (sugar, blah), the rest of the sweet potato fries, and a few banana slices.

Day 7

So here we are at Day 7, one week into this. I'm feeling good about it, and I'm really enjoying the "freedom" of this diet. I don't have to count calories, I do keep meat, nuts, eggs, etc in moderation, but I like that I can eat veggies/fruit whenever I want, and not have to worry about it. As long as I keep on top of having food around that I can eat, I do believe this is going to work for me long term.

Since I had quite a bit of sugar yesterday for Halloween, today is taking it easy. I had a banana and almonds for breakfast. Lunch was sliced turkey, a tomato, and broccoli with some cheese sauce(dairy). My afternoon snack was an apple and a cup of almond milk. Dinner is going to be pork chops, asparagus, and sweet potato fries again. I do have a spaghetti squash I want to try out soon. I might give it a shot tonite but we'll see.

Weekend survival

It was quite the interesting weekend, esp with it being Halloween. I survived it though. I'm glad that I have kept dairy and some sugar in, as having that outlet, made it easier to abstain from bread, pasta, rice, potatoes (aside from sweet potatoes), cookies, chips, etc. I still have had none. Go me! (I did have some candy yesterday, probably more than I should have, but it was halloween...)

Saturday was a pumpkin carving party, and it was potluck. I knew that would not go well for me, so I planned ahead, and fixed a lunch to take of turkey sausage, sweet potato fries, and red bell pepper strips. I had a string cheese before we went. All of that held me over just fine and I was able to resist all the goodies! It ended up being a long time after that before I ate dinner and my blood sugar dropped, so I had a small dumdum sucker to help that. Dinner was fun. We joined friends at Genghis Grill. It really was easy to say no to the starch. I filled up my bowl with beef, some sausage, carrots, broccoli and green beans, with some stir fry sauce. Delish!

For Halloween, I cooked us a good lunch of steak (beef loin tri tip) and scrambled eggs with a salad. And then had a banana before we headed to a fall festival. The protein from lunch held me over for a LONG time. After the festival, we first stopped at Sonic. And I was SO tempted to get something, but really...there is nothing there I can eat. Except the chicken from a grilled chicken sandwich...or a salad. That's no fun. So we ended up at Jason's Deli. I had a cup of broc cheese soup (dairy), and then a big salad with light ranch (more dairy). Throughout the evening, I did have some candy from D's halloween stash.

Overall, this weekend, I did struggle, but I feel like I pulled through it just fine.

Sweet Potato Fries

It looks like sweet potatoes are kind of borderline Paleo...acceptable enough, but maybe in very limited quantities. Well, I needed something to take to potluck (I'm packing up my own lunch to take so I'm not tempted by crap food) and these sounded perfect and easy!

Preheat oven to 400 degrees
Line a cookie sheet with foil and spray it with olive oil spray
Slice the potatoes up thin
Lay single layer on foil
Spritz with olive oil spray
Sprinkle with Tony Chacheres cajun seasoning and garlic salt
Bake about 10 minutes
Remove from oven, flip the slices over
Spritz with olive oil again and add more seasoning
Bake for another 10 minutes or until crispy
Enjoy!!

Day 4

I'm feeling decent today. Did some good research at lunch, so I have a better idea of some foods I can eat. Plus figuring out kind of in what order to eat them to have days of feeling great all day.

For breakfast this morning, I grabbed the last baggie of the omelette muffins and topped em with salsa at work, plus about 3/4th of a banana. Midmorning today I had some almonds and unsweetened applesauce. Lunch today was pretty simple. I made a big salad of romaine (cause I had it...) and tomatoes, with Zesty Italian Light (not Paleo), topped with solid white albacore tuna, and a side of a cup of dark chocolate Almond Milk...YUM! My afternoon snack was raisins.

Dinner deserves it's own paragraph. I got to thinkin today about how I am seriously going to burn out on Spring Mix salad and tomatoes. So I KNOW I need to add in more veggies, and I decided to start with the mighty bell pepper. I've honestly NEVER tried a bell pepper. Don't laugh, it's true. I guess I'd always thought of them as a PEPPER, so spicy. But a friend convinced me that they aren't at all. I've also never been to Sprouts before, until tonite. I'd been told it was the best place to get veggies, so D and I hit it up after I picked him up. And WOW! I'm impressed. Got meat, veggies, some fruit, almond milk, etc. And really didn't spend much. I branched out a bit more (though haven't cooked them yet) and got spaghetti squash, sweet potatoes, etc.

Back to the bell pepper...YUM! D and I polished off half of a red one with our salad tonite...lol I made italian chicken (chicken breast sauteed in a skillet with some zesty italian light dressing), plus a spring mix salad with tomato and sticks of red bell pepper and light ranch. It was delicious, and while it doesn't sound like much, this really does open new worlds to me! So it may sound silly to some, but I'm excited. And finally, this evening, I had a thin slice of provolone (dairy, I know), an apple, and some 100% juice.