What did you eat today?

[Owlie]

I have never been able to find a liquid calorie drink that I could stomach so I gave up. Now I use either gu's and water, or just solid food. Luckily (or not), I don't do rides long enough where it would matter anymore.

Today we started a 'sugar' detox. I put sugar in quotes because we already don't eat any processed sugar, but sure as shootin' it's easy to get hooked on the real stuff (honey, dates, high-sugar fruits, maple syrup, etc) too! We are cutting it out for two weeks starting today (we means me and my sugar-addicted husband).

B: scrambled eggs and cantaloupe
S: coffee with cream and a small banana
L: chili topped with 1/2 oz raw cheddar, paleo coleslaw
S: 1/2 oz raw cheddar, uncured summer sausage, apple
D: big salads topped with Cuban spiced pork left over from last night
S: fresh strawberries

So, wait.... no sugar, honey, or maple syrup (the obvious ones). Okay (it would drive me crazy--must have my coffee!), but no grapes, etc either? Damn. You people and your diets*.

Yesterday:
B: Coffee with lots of milk and sugar. Only way I can drink it, but I seem to have developed a caffeine problem...
L: Easter brunch at a restaurant. Blood orange cocktail (tasty!), wedge of iceberg lettuce with grape tomatoes, some kind of dressing, red onions and some nice blue cheese. Eggs Benedict with tomatoes and a few slices of steak, green beans and potatoes, 2/3 of a creme brulee.
S: Doritos, an apple.

Today:
B: Coffee and a doughnut
L: Chicken sausage, tabbouleh (homemade!), red+green bell pepper strips, radishes with hummus, half a package of the mini Reese's cups
S: Black tea with milk and sugar, 1 cookie
D: Chicken sausage (chipotle this time), brown rice left over from last week, salad with a bit of goat cheese and not-creamy Caesar dressing.
S: Pineapple chunks with mint

* (I don't mean this in a nasty way, hence the winky face, but I don't think I could do it, nor do I want to. It may be PMS and an intense desire for chocolate talking. )

[GLC1968]

* (I don't mean this in a nasty way, hence the winky face, but I don't think I could do it, nor do I want to. It may be PMS and an intense desire for chocolate talking. )

No worries!

Yeah, I'm a little more lenient with fruits, but we are going to avoid grapes, mango, pineapple and other high sugar fruits for this two weeks at least. We both find that once we start eating these sugary things, we just want more and it's not good.

Really, what I should do is promise not to bake anymore. I keep experimenting with paleo baking and the results have been too yummy for our own good!

[solobiker]

No worries!

Yeah, I'm a little more lenient with fruits, but we are going to avoid grapes, mango, pineapple and other high sugar fruits for this two weeks at least. We both find that once we start eating these sugary things, we just want more and it's not good.

Really, what I should do is promise not to bake anymore. I keep experimenting with paleo baking and the results have been too yummy for our own good!

I hear ya there. I have made some paleo muffins. Ohhhh soooo good. Have to take a little break from those.

[Owlie]

No worries!

Yeah, I'm a little more lenient with fruits, but we are going to avoid grapes, mango, pineapple and other high sugar fruits for this two weeks at least. We both find that once we start eating these sugary things, we just want more and it's not good.

Really, what I should do is promise not to bake anymore. I keep experimenting with paleo baking and the results have been too yummy for our own good!

Heh, I've got pineapple and mangoes sitting in the fridge right now.
Just saying, if you want to bake something and send it over here, I won't mind.

[spokewench]

B: special K, 1% milk, strawberries, coffee
L: fried rice with chicken
D: mexican chicken stew, chicken thighs, onions, roasted poblano peppers, chicken broth, hominy, cumin, chili pepper (yum) with a couple corn tortillas, 1 margarita

[GLC1968]

We had banana bread french toast on Sunday as kind of a final 'hurrah' before our detox - Ooooh so good!! The cinnamon pecan coffee cake and the sweet potato squares recipes I make are both outstanding too...even to non-paleo people. No more for a few weeks! It's a flat out miracle that I haven't put on a bunch of weight with all this cooking and so little exercise.

Today -
B: smoothie (1/2 banana, egg white, 1/2 c blueberries, almond milk and spinach)
S: coffee w cream and a banana
L: left-over cuban pork lettuce wraps with coleslaw and avocado
S: guacamole and baby carrots
S2 (maybe): apple and 1 oz raw cheddar
D: baked rosemary chicken with asparagus and greek salad

[Owlie]

We had banana bread french toast on Sunday as kind of a final 'hurrah' before our detox - Ooooh so good!! The cinnamon pecan coffee cake and the sweet potato squares recipes I make are both outstanding too...even to non-paleo people. No more for a few weeks! It's a flat out miracle that I haven't put on a bunch of weight with all this cooking and so little exercise.

I'm pretty sure healing requires calories. How's your foot?
I'm curious: What exactly goes into paleo-friendly baked goods? Is it a modified version of the gluten-free stuff? Straight-up the same thing?
Also, besides the things you mentioned, what counts as high-sugar, since most fruit in my book is pretty sweet, save the Terrible Strawberries that are currently roaming my refrigerator? Apples? Cherries? Berries?

Today:
Accidentally (mostly) vegetarian, as it turns out.
B: Cake doughnut and coffee.
L: Tabbouleh, bell pepper and radish with garlic hummus, one stuffed grape leaf, some sort of Welsh cheese with mustard seeds, coconut water, and the other half of the Reese's cups from yesterday.
S: Small white chocolate mocha, a few chipotle bbq Doritos (don't eat them. They're nasty.)
D: Bowl of cereal, and I'll have some fruit after I take a shower and do the dishes. I am exhausted and I don't know why. I swear the 46-mile ride I did back in November (after not riding significantly for 2 months) didn't wipe me out this badly.

[GLC1968]

I'm pretty sure healing requires calories. How's your foot?
I'm curious: What exactly goes into paleo-friendly baked goods? Is it a modified version of the gluten-free stuff? Straight-up the same thing?
Also, besides the things you mentioned, what counts as high-sugar, since most fruit in my book is pretty sweet, save the Terrible Strawberries that are currently roaming my refrigerator? Apples? Cherries? Berries?

My foot is improving, thanks for asking. There is no more pain...just annoyance at the cast and my lack of mobility. But I think I'm doing a bang up job at remaining positive most of the time!

Paleo baking is often similar to gluten-free. Usually things are made with almond or coconut flour, without dairy and very low or absent on sugars. That banana bread I mentioned above had no added sugar...just the bananas. No grains, no dairy, no legumes and no sugar, basically. And it's usually pretty high in fat to make up for the lack of other ingredients!

For sugary fruits, I think that bananas must qualify, but since I don't notice a sugar spike from them, I still eat them. Cherries are high, grapes are high and some melon is high. Apples, berries, pears, stone fruits (peaches, apricots, etc) and citrus is ok if you eat the whole fruit because the fiber dulls the sugar impact. And the more ripe a fruit is, the more sugar it's got. Oh and dried fruit is a no-no because it is so high in concentrated sugar. I do eat it under normal situations...just not when trying to kill the sugar beast like right now.

[Reesha]

No worries!

Yeah, I'm a little more lenient with fruits, but we are going to avoid grapes, mango, pineapple and other high sugar fruits for this two weeks at least. We both find that once we start eating these sugary things, we just want more and it's not good.

Really, what I should do is promise not to bake anymore. I keep experimenting with paleo baking and the results have been too yummy for our own good!

I am the same way GLC. I have been eating pretty paleo for months and it's amazing how little sugar I crave now. Now when I need more of it (and more calories in general) I'm satisfied with so little food. Hence my need for liquid calories.

[solobiker]

B: oatmeal with protien powder

S: Apple with some beef jerky

L leftover turkey with some veggies and a homemade cookie a co-worker made

S: pretzles

D: Fish and a salad

commuted to/from work on my bike, did a 30 min weight workout and I may go for a walk later on.