Recommence Log

BFAST
Opened cottage cheese and it was moldy (brand new container. Nice. Agribusiness at its finest). Thus, no cottage cheese. Instead:
1 hard boiled egg
1/2 - 3/4 c walnuts
handful pumpkin seeds
handful dried currants
(The nut mixture was supposed to be a snack in the afternoon or for a little extra breakfast. Oh well)

LUNCH
1 Bratwurst (check ingredients prior to purchase and no HFCS, only meat and spices with a bit of dextrose as last ingredient)
1 cup sauerkraut
1 avocado

SNACK
Was feeling hungry so:
1 Granny Smith apple
Cashews
(See photo. Best I could do at the snack bar. Did NOT eat yogurt. Tasted weird.)

As I Said...

As I said on my workout page, maybe it's my diet. Here's what I ate yesterday:

sausage and one egg -- about 1/4 cup crumbled breakfast sausage
coffee with cream

1/2 c veggies and half a chicken breast with homemade dressing (walnut oil/EVOO, sav. blanc vinegar, mustard, herbs)

americano with cream

other half of sausage and one egg meal

zucchini (one, sliced, sauteed in EVOO), 1 salmon sausage patty (Weil brand), 1 slice avocado (leftover)
2 TBSP or so of Artisana Goji berry blend stuff (coconut butter with Gojis and maybe cacao nibs...)

Some water throughout the day.

Friday

20 Hour Fast (except for coffee with cream)

Broke it around 3 PM with 1 hard boiled egg and about 2 oz. of steak (maybe, it was a tiny portion) (it's what was leftover at work from my week of lunches)

Around 5:30 or 6 PM I had another few ounces of steak (maybe 3 oz) and knocked back a few cashews that hubby bought (1 oz cashews, maybe)

1 AM (!) Pizza omelet (2 eggs, pepperoni, tiny bit onion, EVOO, mozz, parm, 1/4 c tomato sauce - Thanks to Dollface for this recipe! It was delicious -- the perfect after-poker snack!!) and about 5 more cashews.

Fin.

Out of Food = Meat Experiment

Today - fasting (I hope).

Tomorrow - back on the meat experiment.

9-15 Debrief; 9-16 Plan

Yesterday is as close to all meat as I'll probably get, at least for now. Looks to me to be very low carb. Nuts add a few carbs (I'm guessing I eat around 2 oz of nuts, generally) and the tomato sauce and veggies add a few as well - but I doubt all of that together is much more than 25 g.

Then factor in the honey (TBSP) and peach. Of course, the eggs aren't "meat," but they are all protein.

But that's really all the "non-meat" I'm eating at the moment.

9-16 PLAN

Not sure about eggs -- probably have a few.

Small tomato and cucumber salad today - I have a farmer's market tomato left.
Leftover filet from yesterday - probably 1 oz left.
Some ground beef special.
Nuts.

I'll need some other food to take with me today -- or go buy -- I'll be gone from this morning until after a clinic at which I'll be volunteering tonight, which ends around 8:30 usually. That is a mystery at this point. There might be enough ribeye left or, if not, I'll take all the ground beef special that is left and probably get something like a salad with some protein to supplement.

I would fast today, but I'm not feeling up to it at the moment.

9-15

2 local, pastured eggs
4 slices local, pastured bacon
coffee with organic (but not grass-fed) cream

Plan today:
some of my ground beef special (beef cooked with veggies and tomato sauce - like meat sauce but no pasta :)

filet (not ribeye) for early dinner or late snack

some nuts for snacking (pecans and almonds)

**This is how it went down and then add this once I got home around 8 PM:

More ground beef special - the lunch portion was petite. This portion was regular. And a small peach.

I also had some tea (earl gray) with a little honey and a splash of half and half around 4 pm.

All Meat Is Hard

It's kind of hard to eat all meat (or all meat and eggs) - partly because it's just hard to have that much meat at your disposal! I haven't been doing all meat, but the focus has been on protein.

Today I fasted through the morning -- went on a kayak lesson/tour - had about 1 oz of nuts at our break (noon or one) and then had some duck confit with a few cherry tomatoes, a square of chocolate and some coconut butter afterwards (around 3). So much for all meat :)

Around 7 I had some ground beef with sauce and a few vegetables cooked in, including some arame (seaweed). I should be done eating for the day.

I've definitely noticed a drop in consumption with more fasting.