Omg, I've made it two weeks without grains!
Today was so crazy busy that I really didn't get to eat much. I had a banana and coffee for breakfast. But then I didn't eat again until dinner time because I was working on building a playground with SIFE. We got rained out! So close to being finished. Afterwards I treated myself to a watermelon juice. Seriously the best drink!
When I got home, I had some banana chips but I was so engrossed in making a trifold board for SIFE that I kept putting off eating, but not on purpose. Before I knew it, it was time to get ready to go out with my friends. So I made my go to salad - star berries, sunflower seeds and baby spring mix. It's so easy and quick to make.
Party time! I only had one drink while out and I had so much fun.
Day 15
I did not want to wake up early today even though I had told a friend I'd meet her to work on her classroom before I went to finish the playground. But my plans to finish the playground fell trough and my friend luckily didn't want to wake up early either.
I decided to reward myself today for doing pretty well on this new diet so I got a Starbucks iced coffee with whole milk and another banana for breakfast. Is it possible to have too many bananas??
Yay, one of my good friends recently got engaged and she invited me to go wedding dress shopping with her today. Yay! But hmmm..... What can I eat for lunch?? I shopped with them for a while then we were all hungry so we looked around for lunch. They decided to go to a bubble tea place that had food. Not too much food to choose from if I don't want to go off my diet too bad. I got curry chicken. It was delicious. It came with rice so I ate a little of it but I tried to focus on just eating the chicken and avoiding the potatoes. Ugh. Bad choice. I immediately felt bloated and super full. It was the first time I've had grains in two weeks and if that's the way I'm going to feel after eating grains, I will gladly skip them!
For dinner I had a salad with ground beef, guacamole and salsa. Paleo is doable. Sometimes it's hard to not add cheese and sour cream and beans to taco salads, but I feel much better about the eating habits that I'm forming. I'm nervous about tomorrow though, I start school and my schedule is already busy. I will need to find time to make food and things that I can take on the go.
Oh and obviously I didn't get to make the chili today that I had planned to do. Maybe next weekend.
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Day 16
First day of the Fall 2012 semester! I am so not ready for this. These first few days will be crazy busy for me. I have morning classes, then head to work, then home to work on homework or stuff for my tutoring. How am I going to manage sticking to paleo? I need to buy a lunch cooler to keep my food from spoiling while it sits in my car during class. Houston is crazy hot and the heat would seriously over cook my food....and I don't wanna cook lettuce or strawberries. Gross.
So I just picked up a Bacon Chicken Salad to bring to work and some beef jerky if I need a snack. Oh and I bought a cool lime refresher from Starbucks this morning because I was in need for some serious caffeine after my macroeconomics class.
Around 1pm my stomach started to hurt. It was a weird feeling, like hungry, kinda painful like I had worked out my abs hard in the gym (but I haven't recently) and uncomfortable. Not sure what's wrong. Ugh. I ate my salad but it only made the feeling go away a little. Maybe it was from yesterdays rice? or the cool lime refresher? or maybe the beef jerky....can beef jerky go bad?
No working out tonight. I have to buy school books online, finish the SIFE trifle board, buy a printer and my tummy hurts. I just grabbed a smoothie after work for dinner because I was hungry and had to run some errands.
Day 17
Is it possible that today is busier than yesterday? Half a day of work, class, tutoring then homework. I seriously feel like I'm living off of smoothies right night. I had a protein shake with some coffee mixed in for breakfast. On the way to tutoring I picked up a fruit smoothie. For dinner, I needed to eat something more nutritious and substantial. I made grilled chicken and had my go to salad, by now you should now what type of salad that is....strawberries, sunflower seeds and baby spring mix.
Day 18
I need to get back to eating regular foods. A protein shake with coffee for breakfast on the way to class.
What can I pick up to eat for lunch and a snack at work? My Fit Foods! I just need to make sure to avoid any dish with rice, pasta or grains. It's doable.
Are red potatoes paleo friendly? I looked this up before stopping for food because I wanted their bbq chicken which comes with green beans and a red potato mash. Seems like red potatoes are a touchy subject in the paleo world. This blogger goes more into depth about red potatoes and if they are paleo.... Mark's Daily Apple - Are potatoes paleo? He says that "Evidence exists for human consumption of roots and tubers from multiple sites spanning multiple time periods: Northern Europe (specifically Poland), in the terminal Paleolithic and early Mesolithic." So I've decided I will get the meal with the red potato mash, but I won't do it very often. I'll limit my spud in take since I'm trying to get into better shape.
Snack time! I have egg salad with nut thins and celery from My Fit Foods. So good. But do not eat the nut things if you are trying to stick to paleo foods. I made the mistake of eating them, THEN looking at the ingredients. I thought that the Almond Nut Thins would be made from almonds. Well they have almonds, rice flour (fail) and some other paleoFAIL stuff. You live you learn to look at ingredients before you eat something. If you aren't trying to eat paleo, but are just eating healthy, Nut Thins are a tasty cracker replacement. Oh and the egg salad....does have some mayo in it. Another paleofail but at least it's nutritious since who knows when I will get dinner tonight.
Dinner time - egg drop soup, chicken and a little brown rice. I knew I shouldn't have eaten any grains. I don't want this to spiral out of control and start eating more grains little by little. Just need to cut out grains cold turkey.....again. I don't need them, they just taste good.
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