Diet

Paleo Meals

Posted by bronick on January 10, 2011
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A little review of my meals from last week…

Its nice to be cooking at home again, although the dishes drive me nuts! Its a never ending task when you have a small kitchen. Bulk cooking helps… alot! My attempt at crock-pot beef and veggies turned out ok, but it needs alittle something-something. I’ll need to look up some recommendations. My attempt at Paleo Shrimp Scampi (recipe below) on the other hand turned out great!

I did take some time to look up some Paleo recipes and decided to try the Thai Chicken Soup as my first one. Overall it is very good, however, it does seem to be missing something. You check out the recipe below along with my notes. Next up Paleo Butter Chicken… we’ll see how that goes!

I did eat out a bit this week. Breakfast was from the office cafe since I slept in or out with friends over the weekend, just because I wanted to be social. Either a omelet or scramble with some fruit. Did eat dinner at Una Mas on Sat because I was attending open house for my drum corps (San Francisco Renegades) and it was a fundraiser. I got the steak fajitas, just meat and veggies w/ gauc and tomatoes.
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Hydrostatic results…

Posted by bronick on January 7, 2011
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As part of the Paleo Challenge, I got a hydrostatic body composition test tone from FitnessWave. Its nice to know that my home scale is WAY off, as the number was kinda frighting… granted I’m still not terribly thrilled with the more accurate results:

Home Scale 30.9%
Hydrostatic 21.7%

According to their recommended percentages, this puts me at the very upper end of the “average” for men. One of these days it would be awesome to get down to single digits, but for now I’ll be happy to drop down into the teens.

The ironick part of it is that I’m basically the same percentage as I was two years ago (21.4 on 02/20/2008), but my weight has gone up. Which means I’ve been adding lean mass, as well as adding to the spare tire unfortunately.

Paleo Challenge 2011

Posted by bronick on January 4, 2011
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With the start of the new year, I’ve started the Paleo Challenge with the gym again. Its a bit different this time around, as its a point/penalty based system and a bit more strict than the one from last year. I’ve been wanting to start paleo again for some time, so this will be a good jump start. I’m only committing to Level 6, as I have lots of meat at home which I should use which doesn’t qualify for Level 7 as it is not grassfed/freerange/etc… But I’m planning on trying to eat at Level 9, just skipping Level 7.

So far, so good. I spent some time this weekend cleaning up my kitchen since I’ll be doing a lot more cooking again. Here are a few of meals I’ve started off with:

Confession time…

Posted by bronick on June 7, 2010
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So my eating last week was great! … until the weekend hit :-(

Pizza, Mexican, beer, wine, and ice cream aren’t very Paleo.  I fell pray to the “well I’ve already messed up once for the day, might as well indulge for the rest of the day” thinking again. I was reading in some magazine which said “each meal stands alone” and I really need to start looking at stuff that way. Just because 1 meal is off, doesn’t mean the entire day needs to be. But I have to say… having a beer out in my newly re-setup patio the other night was really nice.

On the upside, I was back on track today,  aside from the coffee still). And I did have a glass of red wine with dinner since I still have some of the bottle from the weekend left. Tomorrow will be a test my will power since I’m working swing shift. Funky work schedules always tend throw me off…

Back to the cave… caveman diet that is…

Posted by bronick on June 2, 2010
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Paleo Lunch Kit

So after about month of eating like crap, feeling like crap, and only making to the gym twice a week (if I was lucky) only to suck at the workout… I’m finally getting my act back together and starting up Paleo again.

Starting this week/month I’m going Paleo again. No challenge this time, just something I need to do. I stocked up on some stuff last week, but didn’t get around to starting it. But I did this week its a GO!

Dinner: Roasted Chicken, Veggies, and Avacado

Dinner: Roasted Chicken, Veggies, and Avocado

I’m not going to be strict Paleo, mainly because I want to keep my post workout shake going… and the whey protein isn’t Paleo. However, I do feel that I benefit from it. And There are some convenience factors that factored in… like the roasted chicken from Costco, its fairly Paleo aside from the seasoning on it. And things like chicken sausage. But all of this is much better than the pizza I’ve been eating a bit of the past few weeks.

So far my meal have been some sort of scramble/omelet for breakfast, turkey/veggies/nuts for lunch, and chicken with some veggies for dinner. The non-Paleo stuff has been coffee… my energy levels have not recovered from the bad eating and wacked out sleep schedule last month.

I’ve got my Paleo lunch kit ready to go for tomorrow again: turkey, cherry tomatoes, baby carrots, mini bell peppers, and raw almonds. And breakfast is in the oven… egg, chicken sausage, onion, and spinach quiche… no crust of course!

Eat like crap, feel like crap…

Posted by bronick on April 15, 2010
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So last night (Wed) I jump off the deep end and ate pretty bad…  The lettuce wrap burgers where ok, but that was topped off with 1/2 pitcher of beer and some garlic fries, followed up later on by ice cream. And then again for lunch today I had Indian fish curry and naan.
I had absolutely no energy today. Ugh. Lesson learned.

So last night (Wed) I jump off the deep end and ate pretty bad…  The lettuce wrap burgers where ok, but that was topped off with 1/2 pitcher of beer and some garlic fries, followed up later on by ice cream. And then again for lunch today I had Indian fish curry and naan.

Ugh… I had absolutely no energy today. Lesson learned, and I need to remember how this felt so I don’t have to relearn again and again and again.

Paleo Day 31 – Almost…

Posted by bronick on April 1, 2010
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Bunless Burgers, salad, and beer.

Bunless cajun burgers, salad, and beer.

So the Challenge is officially over… but I am planning on continuing eating mainly Paleo (or Primal) going forward. However, I treated myself last night to some beer and 1/2 price burgers at St. John’s Bar & Grill.  For the burgers I did do lettuce wraps with no cheese to avoid going overboard right away ;-)

Breakfast
Cajun turkey omelet w/ veggies and salsa
Strawberries
Macadamia nuts

Snack
Turkey slices
Red bell peppers
Baby carrots
Almonds
Few slices of dried fruit

Snack
Turkey slices
Red bell peppers
Baby carrots
Almonds
Pear

Dinner
2 Cajun burger lettuce wraps
Side salad
IPA been

Snack
Coconut Bliss ice cream

Paleo Day 30 – Final Day

Posted by bronick on March 30, 2010
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Steak, broccoli, pumpkin, and tomatoes

Steak, broccoli, pumpkin, and tomatoes

Breakfast
Cajun turkey omelet w/ veggies, guac, and salsa
Orange

Snack
Turkey slices
Baby carrots
Red bell peppers
Almonds & Pecans

Snack
Apple w/ almond butter
Turkey slices
Red bell peppers
Almonds

Other
PWO Smoothie – Strawberry, banana, egg whites, coconut milk & water.

Dinner
Grass-fed longhorn steak (New York Strip)
Steamed broccoli
Roasted pumpkin
Fresh tomatoes
Banana “ice cream”

So the challenge has finally come to an end… Today was my last official day and was finished off with a nice big paleo dinner. Finally got around to trying the grass-fed longhorn steak I bought from the farmer’s market the other week. The meat itself was good, however, I think i was little to well done for me and I bit peppery… as I apparently used a bit too much Ms Dash seasoning. Do I finished off the meal with some banana “ice cream” to cool my mouth down. I love this stuff!

What’s the plan for tomorrow? Well, the same as I’ve been doing…. with one exception, I am planning on going out and having a beer ;-) There was lots of talk of beer over the week and all I could say was “2 more days”. But I do plan on trying to continue the paleo diet, however, maybe not quite so strict. I’m also thinking of checking out the Primal diet as well. But definitely planning on keeping up the eating clean for a while… its nice to be losing weight again. And my energy is good. The fact that I haven’t needed caffeine or an afternoon map in 30 days says something!

I did update my progress page with my photos and some stats, the rest will be filled in tomorrow and then the workouts hopefully Thursday.

Paleo Day 29

Posted by bronick on March 29, 2010
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Lamb meatballs w/ kelp noodles and sauteed greens

Lamb meatballs w/ kelp noodles and sauteed greens

Breakfast
Veggie omelet w/ salsa and avocado

Lunch
Turkey slices
Red bell pepper strips
Almonds

Snack
Turkey slices
Red bell pepper strips
Almonds
Strawberries

Other
PWO Smoothie – Strawberry, banana, egg whites, coconut milk & water.

Dinner
Paleo lamb meatballs (made with almond meal) over kelp noodles w/ no salt added tomato sauce
Sauteed greens

After reading the post about kelp noodles on the cfscpaleo blog, I decided to give them a tried. They weren’t that bad, but I think I prefer the spaghetti squash for “spaghetti”.  I might try a noodle bowl or stir fry with them later in the week. The meatballs turned out good though.

I also tried a different approach to lunch today, basically doing what I did over the weekend while out at the qualifier… just much throughout the day without having  a real meal. Worked out pretty well and will probably just go with that tomorrow as well.

Only one more day to go! I can’t believe it’s been 29 days already…