What did you eat today?

Sweet Potato Waffles sound good Crankin! If I had a waffle iron...but what I need more is a potato ricer or some other tool that will allow me to shred sweet potatoes and squash properly for hash. I prefer the shredded rather than diced version.

Yesterday:

B: eggs scrambled with pre-cooked ground pork and coffee
1 hour intense Funday workout
S: macadamia nuts and a few dried cherries
L: mustard glazed roasted chicken thighs, roasted kale and chard, 1 slice paleo banana bread
S: 1 beer (Founders Breakfast Stout)
D: Egg Foo Yong with special sauce - quite good!

Today:
B: Last of the Egg Foo Yong
1 hour group training session - even more intense than yesterday, it finished with my doing a Farmer's Carry with two 50 pound kettlebells for 200 meters!
S: egg whites and 1/2 small baked yam
L: Planning on roasted chicken, the rest of the small baked yam, and sauteed brussel sprouts - offices closed due to snow until 1 :)
D:? Who knows? Time will tell. Probably some thawed beef tips and a salad.

B: cereal, strawberries and bananas, milk
snack: few pieces of mango
L: 1/2 chicken breast
Snack: gaucamole, chips
D: roasted cauliflower/potato soup pureed soup w/sprinkle of parmesan cheese, small piece sirloin steak, roasted white and sweet potatoes, roasted broccolini, 1 glass red wine

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Originally Posted by Catrin

Sweet Potato Waffles sound good Crankin! If I had a waffle iron...but what I need more is a potato ricer or some other tool that will allow me to shred sweet potatoes and squash properly for hash. I prefer the shredded rather than diced version.

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Like a cheese grater? I usually use one like this that I got at the grocery store:
http://www.amazon.com/Progressive-In...=cheese+grater
Or, if I'm doing it in quantity, the shredding disk on my food processor. And I use the regular food processor blade to make cauliflower 'rice'. It's ridiculously messy, so I don't do it very often.

I was good all weekend but I don't remember what I ate so I'm not going to record it here. I will say that I am quite proud that I was able to steer clear of any treats (or sugar) this weekend even on the heels of my indulgence on Thursday night. I certainly had a lot of sugar thoughts and cravings, but I didn't cave and I think that today, I'm past it. Phew!

B: last piece of sausage, kale and onion frittata, avocado, pineapple, black coffee
L: sausage and cabbage 'noodles'. clementines
S: hard boiled egg, banana (if I need this)
D: chicken and veggie stir fry - I'm trying the stir fry sauce from Well Fed for the first time. Hope it's good!

Oh, Catrin - I made that banana bread recipe you linked to use up 4 brown bananas. It was REALLY good! Even my non-paleo husband liked them. I added chopped walnuts and nutmeg and made them into muffins and they worked great. Luckily, I have a lot silicone muffin cups because I needed all 18 of them to use up all the batter!

The shredding disk on my food processor just doesn't work. I hadn't thought about a cheese grater, thanks! Also glad to hear you liked the recipe. It is good and also good for non-Paleo events :)

Catrin, I have an old fashioned potato ricer like my mom had. It's a cheaper type of kitchen implement, but not every place has them. I'd say check Amazon.

handful of walnuts before boot camp
B:4 oz. of almond milk, one sweet potato waffle with walnuts and dried cranberries, blueberries, coffee
L:salad with spinach, tuna, grape tomatoes, carrots, artichoke hearts, fig vinegar, an apple
D: Passover Seder... I did pretty well, didn't over eat at all. one half a piece of matzah, one gefilte fish, horseradish, a small amount of dark meat turkey, one small piece of matzah/apple/raisin kugel, chicken soup with one matzah ball, broccoli, one mini lemon square
I still gained almost a pound this morning.

Happy Passover, Crankin!

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Originally Posted by Crankin

Catrin, I have an old fashioned potato ricer like my mom had. It's a cheaper type of kitchen implement, but not every place has them. I'd say check Amazon.

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It looks like a cheese grater is a less expensive option, so I may go with that. A julienne peeler will also work but I think the grater is probably quicker - and certainly easier to find at a local store.

I've already posted most of yesterday, outside of dinner. I had the last of my home-seasoned Italian sausage/ground pork and scrambled it with veggies and 2 eggs. I was HUNGRY and unwilling to wait for more dinner-like preparations.

Crankin - while I don't bloat/hold water near as much as before moving to Paleo, I still hold some fluids the day after an intense workout. Is it possible the weight gain you've noted could simply be that? I know this is frustrating to you. My trainer changed my Tuesday session this week to Thursday so I have an unexpected rest day :) I was going to go in anyway, but decided after the last two days that my body would appreciate a rest. (So I go into the office an hour early - sheesh)

B: 1 piece wg toast, coffee
L: 1 bowl cauliflower/potato soup, 1/2 chicken breast
Snack: Mango
Dinner: spagetti and tomato meat sauce, salad with vinaigrette and blue cheese crumbles, 1 glass red wine

Tuesday

B: blueberry sausage, hot apple jicama mash with strawberries, black coffee
L: leftover chicken and veggie stir fry, mixed berries
S: (if needed, I didn't need yesterday's snack so perhaps I won't today as well) hard boiled egg, clementines
D: beef roast cooked in the slow cooker - not sure what I'll serve it with. Maybe with roasted asparagus and some cauliflower mash?

1 hr of mat Pilates tonight

Catrin, it's possible, but I don't like this pattern. Today is a rest day, but another Passover Seder tonight, so my eating is not exactly normal. I will be riding more, as the snow has disappeared, so who knows.

I hear you Crankin! That is frustrating for sure.

I weighed 125.7 this morning, my workout schedule for the rest of the week is a bit different as far as timing is concerned, I might take that but we will see. I prefer to have a rest day before weighing in but I may not be able to do that.

Or, you guys could just stop weighing yourselves. ;)

I don't know if I'm up or down a couple of pounds because I no longer step on a scale, ever. Life is WAY better without it! (I use my skinny clothes to gauge how I'm doing).

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Originally Posted by GLC1968

Or, you guys could just stop weighing yourselves. ;)

I don't know if I'm up or down a couple of pounds because I no longer step on a scale, ever. Life is WAY better without it! (I use my skinny clothes to gauge how I'm doing).

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I know ... it is so hard to do that! It really is one of the few things I've not set aside in my efforts to adopt a more Paleo/primal lifestyle. I think part of me is afraid that if I stop watching the scales those almost 100 pounds I've worked so hard to lose will start running back. The ironic part is I KNOW other things are going on with my body that the scales can't measure. I've dropped more sizes since July than my loss of 9-10 pounds explains - it is about far more than numbers on a scale.

Hi! My name is Catherine and I am addicted to the scales...
:o

When I stop weighing myself, my weight goes up. Believe me, this has happened a few times. I do go by the fit of my pants and some of them are a bit tight. At first I thought it was because I had just washed my jeans, but it's all my jeans and pants. Of course my huge cycling calves and quads don't help here. I like those things, but when the hips of my pants get tight, that is a cue.
I bought new black ankle length pants in the smaller of the 2 sizes I wear, because the reviews said they stretch out (this brand does). They are really tight, but I am wearing them now to remind myself not to over eat tonight.

B: wheat chex, 1% milk, coffee
S: mandarin oranges
L: chicken sammy from subway 6 inch
S: 1 small mango
D: 1 chicken thigh, mac and cheese, sauteed zucchini, 1 glass red wine

I am now making a conscious effort to stop snacking. It's just mindless eating and it's a bad habit.

Today
B: chicken apple sausage, hot jicama mash, 1/2 banana, tea
S: (sort of) black coffee
L: left over beef roast, pile of steamed mix veggies drizzled with olive oil and spices
D: beef marinara sauce over spaghetti squash, green salad w/ avocado

Skipped posting yesterday, let's just say it involved a lot of tasting and then eating another Passover dinner
Today:
B: one piece of gefilte fish with horseradish, half a piece of matzah with veggie cream cheese, an orange, coffee
S: 2 dried apricots, 4 oz. almond milk
12 mile ride, hilly, a little faster than Sunday, but painful. I kept thinking I might have to start leading "beginner" rides.
L: egg whites, 4 slices of ham, sprinkle of cheddar, blueberries
S: walnuts and dried cranberries
D: I took one of my 11 year old clients out to celebrate his "graduation." I had a cup of tomato basil soup, that looked suspiciously creamy. I had to watch the kid eat buffalo chicken tenders and potato skins. When I got home, I made a chicken salad with the left over chicken from the holiday, almonds, grape tomatoes. 2 squares dark chocolate

B: cereal, milk, mango, coffee
L: 1/2 sammy with chicken, 1/2 bowl of vege soup
D: leftover spagetti and tomato meat sauce, 1 glass red wine

half a glass of almond milk and a handful of walnuts before boot camp, which turned out to be half an hour of kick boxing and half an hour of core work
B: 2 eggs over easy, 2 slices uncured bacon, 1/4 avocado, coffee, an orange
L: chicken salad with almonds and dried cranberries, an apple, about anhour later nuts, cranberries, chocolate bits
S: hard boiled egg
D: spinach salad with roasted beets, scallops, orange slices, vinaigrette, glass of red wine, 2 squares dark chocolate

Today:

B: ground beef and veggie frittata
40 min training session that featured fun with kettlebells
s: boiled egg and small banana
L: Roasted chicken , kale and apple/ sweet potato hash
S: nuts. too many of them :o
D: See breakfast add blueberries for dessert

Breakfast
Black tea with sugar
2 pancakes with jam
Orange

1 cliff blocks pack
2 cliff bars
1 bottle of Gatorade

Cycles 74 miles

Big sale and bowl of pasta with tomato sauce
8 carrots And cheese and one banana
2 beers

B: toast, butter, coffee
L: 1 chicken thigh, 1 cream filled chocolate egg
D: salmon, rice medley w/ mushrooms, asparagus, 1 glass white wine
1 cherry turnover

Thursday
B: chicken apple sausage, hot jicama hash with banana, black coffee
L: chicken apple sausage, apple with almond butter
D: marinara with ground beef over spaghetti squash, clementine, blueberries

1 hr mat Pilates

(Lunch was not as planned - I had forgotten my Pilates clothing so I had to go home at lunch and that was all we had that I could prep quickly!)

Friday
B: chicken apple sausage sauteed with TJ's "healthy 8" veggie mix and topped with avocado
L: sausage and cabbage 'noodles', clementine
D: salmon, asparagus, mashed cauliflower (I think), blueberries

B: ground beef/veggie frittata
L: big spinach salad with chicken, bacon, dried cranberries, almonds, vinagrete
S: banana with a bit of almond butter
D: roasted chicken and parsley with the last little slice of paleo banana bread

B: egg whites with a couple of slices of ham and chicken, green chili salsa, 1/4 avocado, an orange, coffee
S: handful of walnuts
L: salad with chicken, black beans, sprinkle of low fat cheddar jack cheese, tomatoes, lettuce, salsa, side of blueberries and strawberries
12 mile hilly ride
S: 2 dried apricots, piece of matzah with margarine
D: It's Restaurant Week, so we went to the Blue Room in Cambridge. You get a 3 course dinner for a fixed price. Except for the dessert, I did fine. Had a shaved veggie salad for my first, grilled Arctic Char on a bed of parsnip which looked like a potato pancake, and an upside down apple crumb cake with vanilla ice cream. The portions were smaller, which means they were normal. I could have done without the dessert and I left most of the cake part.
And I had 2 two glasses of rose wine. Feeling very spring-like.

B: fried matzah (it's like French toast with matzah), 2 chicken sausages, blueberries
L: salad with lettuce, black beans, tomatoes, chicken, salsa, an orange
22 mile ride, ate a handful of nuts, cranberries, and chocolate
S: glass of almond milk, two dried apricots
D:a few slices of red pepper with hummus, flank steak with chimichurri sauce, sweet potato, broccoli, salad, glass of rose wine, small scoop of chocolate frozen yogurt

Yesterday

B: Last of the ground beef veggie casserole
L: Tuna salad with lettuce wrap
S: banana
Short bike ride :D
D: Sauteed shrimp/veggies with jicama "home fries" first time I have made or eaten jicama and missed the part where it said to slow-cook the jicama first. Still good and cooked with Parsley.

Yesterday:

B-oatmeal with skim milk, fresh strawberries, blueberries
small slice of Easter stollen cake-bread, 2 cups of tea with skim milk

Snack- coffee with milk, a small slice of cornmeal savoury bread (near end of a 35 km. ride)
Tea with milk later, a tangerine, small slice of goat cheese
more tiny slice of stollen

Dinner-smoked salmon sandwich on French baguette with tomato, onion, goat cheese, basil, mustard
Tea with milk, a chocolate handmade EAster egg

THis is not ideal..

Today:

B: eggs scrambled with veggies, fresh side "bacon", coffee
14 mile easy bike ride
85 minute hard group workout with a protein shake afterwards
L: beef shanks in broth with spinach and a poached egg, sweet potato
D: Moroccan Meatballs over cauliflower-rice with Velvety Squash - and both were lovely! I was going to make some cauliflower rice pilaf but am tired of cooking, will probably make it tomorrow night.

HERE is the recipe for the velvety squash - and it is VERY good. Any winter squash or even sweet potatoes will do - I chose to use kobacha squash. I really like them and I can cut them far easier than butternut squash.

B: very small endive (the leaves fell apart) stuffed with low fat veggie cream cheese and lox, piece of gefilte fish, an orange, coffee
L: chicken leg, 1/4 avocado, cup of roasted red pepper tomato soup, an apple
13.5 mile windy and hard ride
S:walnuts, cranberries, chocolate (a handful), followed by 2 little pieces of Machengo cheese about an hour later
D: DH made blueberry waffles, which I ate with walnuts and one very spicy jalepeno chicken sausage, 2 squares dark chocolate

B: cereal, milk and mango, coffee
1 chocolate cream egg
D: beef vegetable soup, 1/2 chocolate chip cookie, glass of red wine
cup of teawith honey

My weekend eating was nuts. Well, not actual nuts! I did not eat anything that would be considered 'off plan' but my eating wasn't good. Except for a good breakfast each day, I hardly ate normal meals. I snacked a lot. I also biked on Saturday (yay!).

Today things will be more back to normal on the food front (I hope!)

B: eggs with mixed greens, bacon and scallions in them, sausage patty, few pieces of roasted sweet potato
S: banana with almond butter
L: chicken apple sausage, steamed mixed veggies with olive oil and seasonings, apple slices
S: (if needed) hard boiled eggs
D: salmon, asparagus, green salad, blueberries

Catrin - I've made that recipe before (Velvety Squash) but I found it was WAY too garlic-y for me. I probably should have been smarter and recognized that when she said a head of garlic, she didn't mean a head of home grown garlic which is much stronger than most store-bought stuff. I should try it again and cut it in half, at least.

I like garlic :D I only made a small squash so I cut the garlic in half. I didn't have pecans so I used what nuts I had. Very tasty and a different way to make squash and to get some good carbs into my diet.

2 dried apricots and a small glass of almond milk before boot camp
B: egg whites, kale, and lox scrambled, an orange, coffee
L: 3 very small left over chicken pieces, about half a cup of black beans, an apple
S: corn tortilla with hummus, a few nuts
D: taco on a bed of lettuce. No shell, ground turkey with home made taco seasoning, home made guacamole and salsa, dish of strawberries, 2 squares dark chocolate

B: the usual scrambled eggs with veggies, 1 slice fresh side, coffee
Group training...post- workout protein shake
L: Moroccan meatballs with cauli-rice, last of the velvety squash, some chopped strawberries + pineapple for dessert
S: starving, so had a small salad that I was too full to eat at lunch
D: beef shank in broth with some cauliflower rice pilaf

I thought I looked a bit slimmer in the mirror as I got out of the shower today so I tried on some pants that have been too small to wear for the past few months and they fit! Yay! I love it when my wardrobe expands for free! ;)

B: sweet potato waffle topped with almond butter, 1/2 banana, pork sausage patties, black coffee
L: left over pot roast, roasted sweet potatoes and a green salad
S: hard boiled egg, apple
D: salmon, asparagus, salad and fresh pineapple.

Last night, we had to run errands so I had salmon and veggies at a restaurant instead of cooking my own, so I'll be making it tonight!

B: 2 eggs, scrambled with 1/2 a sweet potato, kale. 2slices uncured bacon, blueberries, coffee
more coffee at work
L: salad with lettuce, tomatoes, chicken and ham, salsa, an apple, handful of nuts
S: small corn tortilla and a wedge of cheese (I don't know the name, it's one my DH likes)
D: I made the Chinese style cabbage and veggies from the Paleo cookbook, but I used tofu instead of chicken. Not Paleo, but it tasted great.
2 squares dark chocolate

Yayyy GLC, that is good news. I am also paying attention to how you use carbs :)

Today:

B: shrimp omelet, 1 slice fresh side, black coffee
training session
Post-workout snack - egg whites and a small banana
L: moroccan meatballs, cauliflower rice pilaf, pineapple-cucumber 'salsa'
S: a few nuts and dried cherries
D: roasted chicken thigh, last of the cauli-rice pilaf, small roasted sweet potato. A couple of strawberries and a bite of fresh pineapple for dessert

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Originally Posted by Catrin

I am also paying attention to how you use carbs :)

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I'm glad someone is...because I'm not! (at least, not lately)