yay!

I have tickets to see the Eagles of Death Metal, who I LOVE.

I also have a mean hankering for some chocolate, and wish it were saturday in the worst way as a result.

on that note, I'm going to keep up the No-S rules, but I am going to toss out the calorie/etc tracking. I realized that when my calories end up a bit low, I feel elated, and that's not healthy or ok. when I saw today's calories finishing around the 1300 mark, I felt like high fiving myself, then felt weird about it. I'll finish with today and friday, and may do it on occasion, but as for the daily updates, no more as of this weekend.

breakfast:
eggs
roast beef

lunch:
iced americano w/cream & sweetener

dinner:
chicken
broccolini
salad
coconut oil

Total Calories: 1307

5%	65%	30%
Carbs	Fats	Protein

net carbs - 12.2

the more I read about zero-carb, the better I think it is. I'm just saying. :) I'm nowhere near ready to take that step, but the more I read about it, the less worried I am about basing my diet mostly on meat. not that it's a concern, but everyone digs validation!

breakfast:
eggs
cheese
bacon

lunch:
deviled eggs w/bacon bits

dinner:
tea w/cream & stevia
chicken
salad
cheese

Total Calories: 1452

3%	73%	24%
Carbs	Fats	Protein

net carbs: 7.3

hmmmmm.

I am breaking my self-imposed "nuts only on the weekend" rule today. I realized I'm going to be, once again, doing a whole lot of running around with limited time for food preparation. I might not HAVE to do it, I have some meat in the oven right now (not a euphemism, HA!), but just in case. nuts are a better on-the-go option than fast food, imo.

and as I feared, seeing my calorie counts is starting to get to me. too many years of low-cal diet programming. that one day that I went over 2000 freaked me out! I'm going to continue on with it for the rest of the week, I guess, and see how I feel about it by the weekend.

breakfast:
steak
hard boiled eggs
coconut oil

*epiphany* - I like to eat nuts when I'm stressed out! today has been disappointing, annoying, upsetting. and it's not even 1:30 yet! today, I'm the litter box, not the cat. on that note:

lunch:
boneless short ribs
mixed nuts

(annoyingly, I feel happier after eating said nuts. they're still off the menu as snacks until the weekend.)

dinner:
boneless short ribs
few more nuts

I just didn't feel like veggies today.


Total Calories: 1995

3%	65%	32%
Carbs	Fats	Protein

net carbs: 9.2

mondays just keep right on coming

I am sore from practice last night! sore and with a new blister to deal with.

and now I'm done whining...for now. ;)

breakfast:
chili
eggs
cheese
sour cream
coconut oil

lunch:
hot wings
decaf americano w/cream & sweetener

dinner:
steak
salad w/dressing, etc
coconut oil

Total Calories: 1751

3%	68%	29%
Carbs	Fats	Protein

net carbs: 12.2

another busy day ahead. le sigh.

I think I should stick to meat and eggs for breakfast. I like the idea of a sweet breakfast more than I actually like the breakfast itself. plus, I should have not been lazy and made bacon instead of just having cheese.

breakfast:
oopsie french toast
yogurt
xylitol syrup
butter
mozzarella cheese

lunch/snack:
coconut
almonds
2 squares lindt 90%

dinner:
salad w/tomatoes, cheese, ranch, bacon bits
turkey chili
less than 1/4 of a small roti

the roti...well, my esthetician is a lovely Indian lady, and gave me a few fresh ones, still warm. they were potato roti, which I'd never tried, so I decided to have a couple of bites. they were delicious, but I stuck with the small amounts, since I now know what they taste like. I gave the rest to my best friend. :)

saturday

lucky for me, I woke up feeling queasy today, and it seems to be back a little. maybe the wedding food won't be an issue! hahaha! I probably just brought it on myself with worrying. heh.

breakfast:
2 oopsie rolls w/peanut butter and SF strawberry preserves
chicken

lunch/snack? (ended up being eaten pretty late, I'd brought the nuts to the wedding just in case)
toasted pecans & almonds
1 square of lindt 90% cocoa
1/3 chicken breast

dinner:
butter chicken
ham & turkey (deli style, one slice each)
roast beef
salad w/crappy caesar dressing
green beans
raw cauliflower & broccoli
weird cucumber/dill salad

small amounts of a lot of stuff! and all of it legal, except the dip with the veggies. it was dim, and usually it's ranch. when I got back to the table, it was a bit translucent, and tasted kind of sweet. so I ate the broccoli and cauliflower by itself. the wedding was really nice, and the reception was a total blast! and no worries about dinner, and I just stayed away from the desserts. somebody give me a medal! ;)

it's friday, I'm in love!

ok, no I'm not. but it IS friday. :)

wedding tomorrow, still no idea what to wear. awesome. and this will be my last track of nutritional info for now. I kind of like seeing the analysis though, so I may keep it up on weekdays only. :)

breakfast:
roast beef
eggs
(beef and eggs = fantastic breakfast!)

lunch (?):
decaf coffee w/half and half

dinner:
roast beef
salad
grape tomatoes
mozzarella cheese
ranch dressing
bacon bits
americano w/cream & sweetener

Total Calories: 1609

2%	68%	30%
Carbs	Fats	Protein

net carbs: 11.2

this is odd. when I re-inducted (can you even call it that?) last, I decided to do no sweets for three days. on the third day, I was dying for it. so now I'm trying to just do desserts (and any other sweet meal *cough*sugar free maple syrup*cough*) on the weekend only, and, ideally, not every weekend. anyhow...day 4, and I'm dying for chocolate. *shrug*

speaking of the weekend, I have a wedding to go to on saturday. this makes my palms sweat for two reasons:

1. I have nothing to wear (black dresses seem too goth for a spring wedding)
2. the food choices.

I suppose I can just resign to having a potentially off-plan meal, but I've been so damn careful. it IS on the weekend, etc, but man. I know butter chicken will be involved, I just hope it's not too rice-laden. because rice sucks.

breakfast:
roast beef
eggs

lunch:
roast beef (guess what I cooked last night?)
salad

dinner:
still more roast beef
chicken
peppers
ranch dip
broccoli w/butter, sour cream, bacon
coconut oil

Total Calories: 1487

6%	57%	37%
Carbs	Fats	Protein

total net carbs: 15.1

no work today. yay/yikes!

breakfast:
brisket
eggs
coconut oil

lunch (?):
americano
cream
sweetener

dinner:
salad
mozzarella cheese
ranch dressing
chicken
broccoli
cauliflower
butter
coconut oil

totals for the day (I'll do this tomorrow and the day after too, so I have some idea of what I typically eat. just for fun, hahaah!):

Total Calories: 1391

4%	67%	29%
Carbs	Fats	Protein

total net carbs: 11.2

hellooo, spring!

once the initial blast of alder pollen goes away, I can't help but be in love with the season. cherry blossoms are everywhere, you can smell the ocean and poplar trees, and the days are longer and lovely! makes me want to just be outside before summer comes and makes it too hot to stand it.

breakfast:
eggs
brisket
coconut oil

lunch:
brisket
orange peppers
ranch dip
coconut oil

dinner:
chicken
salad w/ranch dressing
caulflower
butter

just for fun, I thought I'd run this through nutritiondata.com. my supposed minimum calorie requirement is something like 1950 cal/day. I'm going to run monday through, and maybe wednesday too, and log it here, just for my own reference.

Total Calories: 1828

4%	58%	38%
Carbs	Fats	Protein

estimated glycemic load: 7

net carbs: 12.8

it seems like my omega 6's are awfully high, which surprises me. which foods are high in omega 6??

good monday...or is it?

depends on who you ask (don't ask the boomtown rats!). I had an excellent practice last night, but I'm a bit sore today. when I first started with the derby league, I'd be DYING of soreness after practices, like almost to the point of having to lift my legs using my hands. I'm on the referee team now, and much to my initial surprise...we work just as hard. short story long, I'm never anywhere near as sore after practice as I was before, and I'm bordering on being proud of myself for it.

derby endurance is a different creature than others. one of the players, who is in obvious excellent shape, has endurance problems at times. her usual position is Jammer, which is the most demanding, but she's a runner in her off-skate life. she was commenting on how different it is the other day. roller skating is like jogging with weights on your feet. I thought it was interesting. :)

anyway! enough of that. time for the foodstuffs.

breakfast:
pork chops (the super thin sliced, "fast fry" type)
egg

lunch:
tuna
mayo
orange pepper

I wasn't actually hungry for lunch. it's a well-ingrained habit to eat on breaks at work, and evidently I haven't broken that one. plus, I can't have snacks now, so that's that. unless I grabbed a handful of nuts and called it lunch. oh wait...I'm trying to only eat nuts on the weekend. hahaha! guess we'll see how I go with that one...

dinner:
chicken
broccoli w/butter, sour cream, bacon
peppers
ranch dip
americano w/cream & sweetener

Total Calories: 2060

5%	61%	34%
Carbs	Fats	Protein

estimated glycemic load: 11

net carbs: 18.2

sundayyy

I thought I had entered today's food! aduh.

breakfast (and lunch):
taco meat
cheese
sour cream
salsa

dinner:
sausage
chicken
steak
halloumi
peppers
cucumbers
(it was a bbq meatapalooza! small bits of everything, and everything frigging delicious!)

post-practice snack:
protein powder in water
1 bite of coconut milk pudding to kill the over-the-top dairy aftertaste. hahaha!

so this week, along with no snacks and no seconds...no desserts. except on the weekend. wish me luck!

busy day!

I should have left today open. d'oh.

breakfast:
taco meat
cheese
sour cream
salsa
(didn't feel like eggs and need to finish the salsa before it goes off)

lunch? dinner? (full for HOURS after breakfast):
chicken
broccoli w/butter
orange pepper w/ranch dip
peanut butter cups (2 tiny ones)
coconut milk pudding w/pecans

on the wrong side of the bed

that's where I got up this morning. yeesh.

anyhoo!

breakfast:
bacon & cheese omelet
sour cream & salsa

lunch:
chef's salad
ranch dressing

dinner:
americano (arguably the best one I've ever had in my life) with cream and sweetner

I'm calling the drink dinner. I was stuffed from breakfast for HOURS today, which I guess is a good thing.

see previous video post

wwwwork is the last thing on my mind! ha!

I decided to make peanut butter cups today. no recipe, which isn't always smart. I guess we'll see how THAT works out.

breakfast:
bacon & cheese omelet
sour cream & salsa
peanut butter filling (as I said, no recipe, so I had to taste it. hehe.)

lunch:
americano w/cream & sweetener
chicken
salad
bacon bits
ranch dressing
peanut butter cups (ok, maybe making them wasn't super duper smart)

dinner:
chicken
broccoli
butter
sour cream
bacon bits
peanut butter cup (I know, I know)
americano w/cream & sweetener

no work today!

thanks to my niece and nephew, I used to sing this song in my head at work (when I was in a job I hated) ALL THE TME:



now it just applies to not working. ha!

thank GOODNESS I had no work today! my throat is sore again. I thought it was from having to yell my head off on saturday (derby refereeing ain't quiet), as it started on sunday, but it's still here. including feeling weak. yay.

breakfast:
steak
coconut milk pudding w/nuts

lunch:
coconut milk pudding w/nuts
(I wasn't hungry and I'm concerned about the stuff going off. sheesh. not much left now. :) )

dinner:
chicken
salad
ranch dressing
bacon bits
broccoli
sour cream
butter
see lunch. ha!!!

and I'm back!

the worst I did as far as off-plan eating goes is a few bites of bean casserole and two or three pecans off the top of a sweet potato pie during easter dinner. go me! I still feel overstuffed.

the weekend was a gong show of being too busy, and spending hours and hours in a freezing cold arena. now I have a sore throat! so excited! ;)

I made a big zucchini noodle lasagna, and am trying to eat it before it goes off.

oh, and I'm trying to cut out snacks.

breakfast:
aforementioned lasagna
chayote w/sweetner, almonds & coconut
hwc

lunch:
see breakfast, minus cream and chayote
couple of slices of roast beef

dinner:
see lunch. the lasagna is now finished!
coconut milk pudding (I'm not cutting weekday desserts until next week! hehe!)

weekend off!

not off from my eating plan, off from logging food. :) I'm going to be too busy and running around (and away from a computer) for most (read: probably all) of the weekend to remember everything I eat and log it. :) if I have something pressing to say, I probably will, but as for what I'm consuming, I won't be able to worry about it at length this weekend.

so yeah! happy easter! :) see ya on monday.

babysitting...

...instead of working. my lovely 7 yr old nephew is sick, so here I am. rock you like a hurricane. ha!

breakfast:
nut bar
granola
yogurt

lunch:
zucchini "noodle" lasagna
nut bar

dinner:
turkey chili on a pork chop (meat o rama!)
nut bar

day 2 of 12 of not using the herbalist's cream. god, that sounds so cryptic.

breakfast:
coconut muffin
roast beef
havarti
mustard

lunch (graze-y lunch, my worst thing, little bits of each):
chicken
roast beef
cheese
peanuts & peanut butter on celery

dinner:
turkey chili
sour cream
cheese
coconut cheese bread
nut bar

yeesh

so I saw my friend on the weekend, who was complaining about being sick. it sounded like he had the stupid flu I just had, so I didn't think TOO much of him talking to me, right in my face, in a loud bar. my voice is screwy today and my throat itches. YAY, oh good, please let this be a new cold! because I just haven't had enough between the alder pollen and the ever-morphing hellflu. really. I need to have my yelling voice back/on by saturday.

hahaha, whine whine whine.

breakfast:
coconut flour muffin (yeah, I need to get some bacon!)
peanut butter
butter
sf strawberry preserves
coconut milk pudding

snack:
macadamia nuts

lunch:
see breakfast, minus pudding, plus bocconchini. talk about unsatisfying. I didn't have any time to cook anything yesterday that I could have had today, and forgot I still had meat cookies. what a drag. I wonder if they're still ok.

snack (after an impromptu 45 minute skate, whew):
roast beef

dinner:
chicken
broccoli
salad
ranch
1 square chocolate
walnuts

siiiigh...

this is the last week of my short assignment, and I'm completely bummed out about it. :(

breakfast:
coconut muffin, split
on one half: roast beef, havarti, mustard
on the other: peanut butter, sf strawberry preserves

lunch:
broccoli, cauliflower, celery w/ranch dip
buffalo chicken wings
americano w/cream & sweetner

snack:
nuts

dinner:
steak
salad w/ranch dressing
coconut milk pudding
square of dark chocolate

another sunday

the drum workshop was super cool, albeit too long and blister-producing.

breakfast:
coconut muffin
butter
SF strawberry preserves
peanut butter
americano
cream & sweetner

once again, my day got crazy and I had no time to update, so hopefully I'm not missing anything:

lunch:
coconut muffin
havarti
roast beef
mustard

snack:
macadamia nuts

dinner:
chicken
mashed cauliflower
coconut milk pudding

drum workshop day!

this should be interesting for on-plan eating. and by INTERESTING, I mean "packing my own lunch to a lunch-provided thing".

there's a tattoo convention happening in town in a couple of weeks, and I want to go in the worst way. I also want to get tattooed by corey miller in the worst way, but that's looking impossible. le sigh. I'll just have to be satisfied with gawking at him. hrmph.

breakfast:
"english muffin"
yogurt
nuts
granola

the rest of the day (can't remember exactly what I ate when, so here's the list):
1/2 pastrami sandwich on coconut roll
veggies (tomatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, mashed cauliflower, peppers, lettuce, snow/snap peas {not sure which} cucumber)
chicken
strawberries
coconut milk pudding

seriously...let me sleep.

I was going to get up early to see my doctor today about how over-the-top tired I am ALL THE TME. my neighbours helped me out by waking me up BEFORE 530 am. ye gads. then, I went to the doctor (in another part of town) only to find out that he's taken today off. jackass. so I'm pretty unimpressed with today so far.

breakfast:
yogurt
nut granola (as if I'd eat a grain one)
leftover beef shortribs

snack:
americano w/cream & sweetner
coconut milk pudding

lunch:
chicken, pesto, tomato, mozzarella sandwich on coconut english muffin
yogurt & nuts (the sandwich was NOT satisfying)

dinner:
chicken thighs (guess why? chicken thigh!)
salad
ranch dressing

I've had two naps, and I'm thinking I'm due for #3. gawwwd.

let me sleep!

please!

seriously...I'm concerned about my fatigue levels. I went to the chiropractor today and then had a LONG-ass nap. I'm ready for another nap and then a good night's sleep. tomorrow morning, I'll go see my (hot) doctor.

breakfast:
meatloaf
coconut muffin

snack:
homemade mounds
1/2 nut bar (and they're DONE for now, thank goodness! too good for me.)

dinner:
boneless short ribs in homemade bbq style sauce
big salad
ranch dressing
coconut milk pudding
HWC

happy april fool's day!

or not...hahaha! it was a waste of a day/gong show for me. which resulted in a less than great breakfast and lunch. I had to wait at the DMV again, all damn day, and forgot to bring snacks. by the time I got home, I was starving and grabbed the first low-carb friendly things I found.

breakfast:
sausage & egg mcmuffin on a coconut flour muffin

lunch:
nut bar
yogurt & granola

dinner:
meatloaf
broccoli
butter
homemade mounds bar

snack:
slice of roast beef
coconut milk chocolate pudding