Paleo: Day 4

Only had 2 real meals today. Found some good recipes in my paleo book, so I tried out two of those. Paleo Meat balls and paleo meat loaf. Both are pretty awesome. But I made those for the week. Hello, lunches.

Breakfast/lunch: Flank steak, 2 turkey bratwursts, Asparagus, and some strawberries.

Dinner: paleo meat balls and boccoli, grape juice.

Anyway, I'm actually feeling really great today. However, tomorrow is Monday which means another week at the office. Fun times.

Paleo: Day 3

OK, Here's the run down of the day...

Breakfast: Grilled Halibut, broccoli, strawberries and apple butter.

Lunch: Sliced Roast Beef and grapes.

Dinner: 2 chicken breasts, broccoli, glass of OJ.

Today was quite a bit better. No headaches, no real feeling of hunger. Tomorrow morning, I'll weigh in and see how much I've lost thus far.

Paleo: Day 2

So here it is. My day 2 of the paleo diet. It started off somewhat rough as I had a headache until about 11am. And due to the fact that my eating has drastically changed, I'm suffering from food withdraws. More specifically, insulin spike withdraws. My body is calling out for the sugary-sweetness of the typical American Diet. Basically, as I eat a large meal full of foods that are really good for me, and eat until I am content my body wants more food after about an hour or two. As you can see, I'm posting this on Day 3 of the diet, and things are improved immensely this morning.

So here goes

Breakfast:

1 pork tenerloin, 2 cups of broccoli, 1 apple and 2tbsp of almond butter.

Lunch:

2 cans of Tuna, 4 oz of roast beef, 2 cups of celery, 2 cups of grapes/strawberries, 2 tbsp of apple butter.

Dinner:

1 top sirloin steak, 2 cups of broccoli, 1 apple and 2tbsp of almond butter.

Also yesterday I started my skill work. Did some bench presses (been a long time!) and some front squats. Got a few additional things to do on the power rack today, so I think I'm going to get started on that. I'll post again tonight.

Paleo: Day 1

April 1, 2010. A date that will live in infamy. A date that I walked into my office and there was a bake sale. And I had foldin' money in my pocket. But I kept walking. That's right, I kept walking.

That should be a song. or not. For those of you who are curious, here's what wikipedia has to say about the paleo diet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleo_diet.

Here are my meals for the day:

Breakfast: 3 eggs, scrambled. Bacon (have to get rid of it and I'm not one for wasting food. There are starving people in India, but they probably don't eat pork). 2 cups of broccoli. Yes, that's broccoli. For breakfast. 1 apple and some OJ.

Lunch: 4oz sliced roast beef, 2 cans of tuna and assorted spices and a splash of olive oil, 2 cups celery, and an apple.

Dinner: 2 pork tenderloins, 2 cups of broccoli, 1 cup of grapes, 1/2 cup strawberries and 1 tbsp of apple butter.

Thoughts: I think that the breakfast that I had this morning was one of the better ways to start off the day. I didn't sleep much last night and was awake for the first few hours of work. My energy level slipped off because I went so long without eating, but once I had lunch I immediately felt awake.

I also weighed myself this morning. 332.6 is the starting weight. The goal is 20 pounds by the end of the month. Hopefully about double that will really happen though.