PALEO: DAY 6
I woke at 5:30 when my husband got up and I wasn't too happy about missing out on that extra half hour of psychological repair. But the upside was my husband ran over from the scale to tell me he lost 2 more pounds (4 total in 2 days). I know the scale isn't everything, but it can be a good indicator that you are generally moving in the right direction. I laid in bed reading for a little longer. Mark's Daily Apple had a great article on the trend of cutting out the middlemen (doctors) and taking charge of our own bodies. This tied in to what Nathan talked about at his nutrition talk last night. We know what's best to put in our bodies by the way we feel. We can be in charge of our own health. Nathan also talked a lot about metabolic typing. Basically Nathan made it sound like grains are good for some people because they are slow oxidizers...but it made me think that there has to be another way to get the appropriate foods within the paleo diet for that metabolic type. My paleo methodology is completely against grains due to leaky gut and other issues. I would welcome any comments on this stuff please! I definitely plan on doing some more research as time permits.
Enough about that...moving on! One thing I've noticed when some people try paleo is breakfast can be a problem. Maybe they can't or won't have eggs every morning. Even my husband said last night that he wanted something other than hard-boiled eggs for breakfast...my solution...leftover pork carnitas with avocado. Luckily, I slipped him some koolaid when he started, so he was on board with my idea. The main thing is we have to get over the our ideas of what breakfast, lunch, dinner and snack foods should be. Call them meals (and foods can be interchanged between them all). Eat what you have around you that is high in protein and good fat with carbs from veggies (1st choice) and fruit (2nd choice). It's really that simple. So, for breakfast tomorrow, feel empowered to grab a big bowl of leftover chicken curry like I did! And chomp that food down with pride even though it is 7:30am!
After that I went and hung at CF Burn as usual..doing a bit of coaching, eating (leftover pork and some almonds), and then finally worked out myself! Great workout too until I swallowed a bug at the end....that stayed with me for quite awhile afterwards. I kept saying it was trying to get out, which amusingly kept activating my good friend Stephanie's gag reflex! I'm so mean! After my unexpected snack, I went out to lunch at Stanford's with Stephanie and a very funny gay couple...who were disappointed that I was having a "dry" lunch...but we still managed to have a good time. I ordered a salad with grilled chicken, hard-boiled eggs, cucumber, bacon, tomatoes (and no I didn't ask if it was pasture raised chicken/eggs or nitrate free bacon). I used olive oil and balsamic to dress it. It was actually very tasty. Eating out is possible with paleo!
Tonight was more leftovers! It's just a fact of life when you cook in larger quantities. I started looking into procuring the pasture raised chicken, eggs and pork that was mentioned at the nutrition talk last night. I'm going to head over to Danville's Farmers Market on Saturday to visit Prather Ranch and get some goods to try. Then I'll visit the Walnut Creek market to hit up Holding Ranch to see which meat I prefer. Based on my preference, I will start exploring purchasing larger shares of meat to split with other like-minded people. :)
My homework is to watch Food Inc this weekend...I think I'm the only one who hasn't seen it. Tomorrow's menu will include some wild-caught fish of some sort. I'm thinking I will make brussel sprouts and bacon with some cauliflower mash to go with. And Friday, I'm making Dusty's Green Chili Burgers! Recipes to follow........
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