Food Log

Fuel Challenge Week 5 (final)

Posted by bronick on February 10, 2014
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Well, the Fuel Challenge is officially finished now! How do I feel about it? Pretty good actually. Did I lose any weight? Yep! Did my performance improve? A little. Did I learn anything? Nothing new…  more getting back to doing what I learned in the past.

So lets start off with some photos of the few things I did get around to cooking this past week:

Not much to show off, as this week was a lot of more of going thru the food from my freezer. Did I mention how handy a vacuum sealer is ;-)

The challenge officially ended on the 5th according to the original information, however, the benchmark follow-up wasn’t until Sunday the 9th. Did I stick to it until Sunday? Yes… for the most part.

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Fuel Challenge Week 4

Posted by bronick on February 3, 2014
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A step backwards… Food-wise this week was pretty good, however, I didn’t goto the gym at all this week. Getting sick last weekend threw a wrench in the plans to getting back into regular scheduled workouts. I did not do  much bulk cooking this week, as I needed to start using up what I already have stocked piled in the freezer. However, I did manage few things…

My big cooking was the chicken soup, exactly what I needed for being sick. However, I kinda cheated with it…

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Fuel Challenge Week 3

Posted by bronick on January 27, 2014
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Week number 3 done and I’m still doing good for the most part…

I did have minor breakdown in the diet this past week… I got sick :-( and so I took some vitamins mix and cold medicine which definitely was not whole30, but it was what I had at my apartment. Meal wise though, I’ve been good and here are few meals for this week:

The full food log is here: Ben’s Food Log

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Fuel Challenge Week 2

Posted by bronick on January 21, 2014
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Week number 2 is over and done… and I’m still doing good.

Still trying to get over the never ending pile of dishes I seem to have. But since I’m finally starting to use my previous made food which I’ve been stockpiling in the freezer, hopefully that will reduce a bit. Speaking of my freezer, I did finally get around to organizing it! I got a two baskets to put in the freezer and a whiteboard to keep try of what I’ve got stashed away in there. Here are the kitchen “projects” I did this past week:

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Fuel Challenge Week 1

Posted by bronick on January 13, 2014
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Week #1… Done!

First thought… Anyone know how to teach cats to wash dishes? Just kidding, kind of. I’ve been doing a LOT of dish washing because I’ve been doing a lot of cooking in my tiny kitchen, which is a good thing, and have started stock piling food. Overall, I think I’m did pretty good. One of my biggest hurdles with meals is being lazy, there are lots of time when I just want to eat. Not have to cook and clean. Just eat. Queue the slow cooker! Plus every time I cook, I’ve been making lots of food and freezing part of it (queue vacuum sealer) for quick meals later on. Here are a few of the meals I had this past week:

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30 Day Paleo Challenge – Weekend #2

Posted by bronick on June 11, 2012
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So week #2 is starting of with a not-so-on type of weekend, which is better than the off-the-wall type of weekends I had prior to June. I did manage to cook a fair amount of quality food, but also managed to have a few not-so-quality foods and drinks. Pretty much every dinner this weekend was on the grill:

What went along with these fabulous meals wasn’t so paleo… a few apricot wheat beers, couple glasses of red wine, and a some sangria as well. That being said, I did have some will-power and managed to resist the chips, dip, and other crap that my friends brought over for my impromptu BBQs.

Then there was Sat evening at the bar which ended in Taco Bell :-( That was my one off-the-wall meal of the weekend. Its usually in these social and late night scenarios which I endup not making the best decisions when it comes my eat.

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30 Day Paleo Challenge – Week 1

Posted by bronick on June 9, 2012
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Week number 1 is done! And overall I think I did pretty good. While didn’t do so good with packing food to bring to the office, I did try to make some smart choices… like getting a carne asada salad rather than a pastrami sandwich. I did do much better with breakfast and dinner having finally cleaned up my kitchen and did some cooking at home. Here are a few snapshots:

Another area I didn’t do so well with is the drinking, as I did continue to have some wine with dinner throughout the week. But in spite of this, I did still manage to make process according to the scale (which I know is not always a good measure, but it is nice to see progress there).

With regards to starting on a Friday, I think it works out well. As my weekends tends to be a little off when I’m being social, so rather than finish up the week that that way I get to start off the week that way. Speaking of the next week… its time to bump things up. I’m going to make an attempt to limit the amount of nuts and fruits, as well as not eat out so much.

Oh, here is the complete menu for the rest of week #1…  Read more…

30 Day Paleo Challenge

Posted by bronick on June 4, 2012
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So once again I fell completely off the wagon, MIA from the gym, and was living off pizza. When will I learn :-(

With the start of the new month (June), I decided to try and get back on the Paleo/Primal track. Since I don’t seem to be doing so good with the “trying to just eat better”, I’ve decided to join in with a few other folks on http://robbwolf.com who decided to do a 30 day challenge for June (read here).

I was a little weary of starting on a Friday, as I usually like to start fresh with the beginning of the week on a Monday. However, considering that the weekends are usually my downfall, I figured decided it was a good thing after all. And for the most part I made it through pretty well, aside from a few glasses of wine and some cheese. This included resisting the pizza they provided for a meeting and later birthday cake at the office on Friday.

Here’s a sample of some of the meals which I make:


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