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Breakfast- (8 AM ish)
Kind of a weird combo of about 1 oz buffalo jerky, 4 strawberries, 8 "ginger snaps" (raw coconut, date, ginger, **not flax - sesame bite-sized "cookies" - and those are the only ingredients, nothing added to it), and an Americano with some half and half.

(11 AM)
Another small piece of jerky and 12 snaps. Feeling some low-blood sugar symptoms. (Need a little more protein and a little less carb for breakfast.) (20 snaps is probably 1.5 servings -- 155 cals/9 g fat/15g carbs/3g protein per serving)

(11:35 AM)
Buffalo tri-tip with about 1/2 a sweet potato and some kale (all stewed together yesterday low and slow in crockpot) for lunch. (Ate it around 11:35 - had half the meat serving that I put in the container - probably about 4 oz.)

(1:30 PM)
1 small box coconut water (pure - no added sugar or juice)

(2:20 PM)
4 oz 4% cottage cheese; 20 raspberries (I don't actually count them, I estimate by way of counting some of them)

(6 PM)
Rest of tri-tip roast - about 4 oz. 6 more "ginger snaps."

Oh, Food Log -- have I missed you?

Earth Date: February 2, 2010

Breakfast: after 13 hours, 2% Greek yogurt, plain (7 oz., 130 cals), handful blueberries, handful raspberries, sprinkling of Truvia.

(felt like I had a blood sugar drop prior to eating this meal; would have been 3 hours after prior meal. Need more fat in it? 2% yogurt only supplies 4 g fat)

Lunch: after 3.5 hours, 6 oz. pot roast, kale (1 cup cooked), sweet potato (about 1/2 to 3/4 of 1 large).
(was feeling a little bloated after eating, but felt better about an hour after)

Snack: after 2-2.5 hours, 4 oz. cottage cheese (90 cals), handful blueberries, handful raspberries.

(I haven't actually eaten the cottage cheese yet; will in a bit)

Thus far, prior to dinner, 200 + 500 + 150 = 850.

Thinking 1400 calories a day is too high for me. Would like to stay around 1200 range. Usually end up at 1400-1600 according to Fitday (and not noticing changes at that level). I'm small with an inactive job, so this may be correct.

Will be noting my dairy and sugar intake. I don't know if I have a problem with dairy, but want to note how I feel when I have it.

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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.