So, I’ve decided to experiment with the Paleo Diet today. I discovered that I already have been pretty much eating the Paleo way except that I add in grains and a little dairy. So today I’m going to cut out grains and only have Greek Yogurt with my lunch. I’m curious to see if this way of eating will be easy, or if I’ll crave grains.
So far today I’ve had only fruit – bananas and some pineapple. (Edit: I’m still hungry after having 2 bananas and some pineapple, so I’m going to have some eggbeaters!) For lunch I’ll have Greek yogurt, an apple, some raw veggies (carrots and celery) and a turkey cutlet. Dinner will be veggies, another apple or maybe an orange, blueberries and chicken. Snacks will be carrots and celery.
I’ll update more later and report on whether or not I was able to stick to the plan and how I felt on it!
I am still surprised to be even thinking about doing a Paleo type of plan. Three months ago I wouldn’t even think of it, let alone experiment. My how times change…
Proof that I’ve been sitting in front of the computer wayyy too long today: I’m sitting here giggling maniacally over the Marky Mark pics I posted a while ago on the skinny website. 
(Not in a mean way because oddly enough even with the weight gain, I think he’s still hot!)
Today’s food intake hasn’t been very impressive. It’s already 8:20pm and I’m only up to 575 calories. Oops. It’s all been mostly healthy stuff although I didn’t really stick to my meal plan for the day. So far I’ve had bananas, half a yogurt, a turkey cutlet, some grape tomatoes and a bagel thin with fat free cream cheese.
Time to get dinner started!
Later Update: I’m up to 1250 calories altogether for the day.
I was absolutely exhausted this morning! My “get up at a decent hour” trick didn’t work like it usually does. Usually if I know I’m going to be tired in the morning but want to make sure I get up at a particular hour, I’ll set my phone alarm for one hour before I want to get up, and put a caffeine pill and glass of water next to my bed. When the alarm goes off, I immediately take the pill and set the alarm for one hour later. Usually I will stay awake from that point on but enjoy around 30 minutes lying in bed daydreaming and/or meditating. (By the way, I don’t do this very often, just on days I know I’ll need to get up earlier than usual).
This morning it didn’t quite happen that way. I took the pill, ended up falling back to sleep, had vivid dreams and slept an additional 2 hours. Sheesh. Oh well.
It’s a totally gorgeous day out today and I intend to get outside at some point, but so far I’ve been chained to my computer working.
I have today’s menu all planned out and so far I’ve stuck to it: fruit for breakfast and snack, soup, yogurt and an apple for lunch, and lean protein, veggies and more fruit for dinner. Seems reasonably healthy and low-cal.
I ate well over 1200 calories today. As posted on the ‘What Did You Eat Today?’ thread on the Skinny forum, here was my intake for today:
B: 3 small bananas, half a pear (310)
L: 3 small bananas (270)
S: bagel with fat free cream cheese (170)
D: 1 cup raspberries, 1 banana, a serving of steamed mixed veggies, a handful of orange grape tomatoes, and 3/4 of an oven-baked turkey breast (over 500, not sure exactly of total)
Lots of fruit, some veggies, protein and even some grains in there. I’m happy with what I ate today.
I went and bought free range turkey breasts today (boneless skinless). So yeah, raw meat. It ended up being OK although I have scrubbed my kitchen from top to bottom and disinfected the sink three times tonight alone.
I just need some cooking tips for the turkey breasts, I accidentally overcooked it but it was still pretty good. VERY filling.
Earlier this evening while out driving, I had either a mild panic attack or a low blood sugar attack, I’m not sure which but I’m now 99% sure it was the latter. It had only been a few hours since I’d eaten. And it was scary. I honestly thought I was going to pass out behind the wheel. My vision narrowed and I felt myself blacking out. Thankfully I was literally 3 minutes from home, (although it didn’t matter, I was on a two-lane road with nowhere to pull over!) but I grabbed a couple of breath mints (peppermint) out of my purse and popped them in my mouth. It seemed to help almost immediately, so it must have been blood sugar.
I’m not sure why my blood sugar would tank though since I had eaten the bagel with fat free cream cheese only hours earlier. Scary stuff!
Edit: Oh, I know! I suspect it has to do with the past several days of very light eating. I’m not sure if this happens to other people, but my body tends to react the strongest to super low calorie days the day after I do it. The day I eat lightly, I’m fine, but the day after, I feel the effect. It makes sense now. 
Today is a beautiful sunny day! We are supposed to get some warmer weather in the next several days (60’s), which I am very much looking forward to.
So far today I’ve had a bowl of bran flakes with vanilla almond milk, and a large Honeycrisp apple. I love love love Honeycrisp apples, they are sweet, slightly tart and crunchy! I’ve decided to eat at least 2 apples per day until all the apples are gone out of my fridge. I know they are no longer in season and I don’t want to end up letting them go bad. They seem to last a long time in the fridge though.
For lunch I’m planning to have soup, yogurt and toast. I found a coconut milk yogurt that is both non-dairy and non-soy and has the live active cultures in it. Only problem is, it’s not very tasty! But it’ll do for now.
I seem to finally be getting used to the antibiotics. They aren’t making me feel nearly as bad as before. However, today’s noon dose was the last one until tomorrow night. Since I cannot drink water after midnight tonight, I cannot take the antibiotic, nor can I take tomorrow afternoon’s dose. So I’ll be skipping a day. (You have to drink lots of water with Bactrim, I’ve been going through more than a gallon per day lately!) I think it’ll be OK to skip a day.
Tomorrow I’ll be drugged up most of the day. How fun… 
I’m going to try and do the main website updates before my appointment tomorrow. Not sure if the Valium will be worn off by tomorrow morning though? Anyway, I’ll be sure to update here when I can about how everything went!
I can’t believe it’s been so effortless to stick to only raw foods the past 2 days! Wow. I am doing very well. Today for breakfast I had lots of fresh delicious berries, then 2 bananas as a snack. Lunch was raw sunflower seeds, nuts and raisins. I also had 2 ounces of the raw milk cheese and now I’m eating a huge green salad, with romaine and other lettuces, herbs, carrots and cabbage with a little bit of fresh guacamole and pico de gallo drizzled on top. The combination of it all is absolutely delicious!
I don’t have dinner planned, as it’s already 4pm, but if I get hungry later I’ve got lots of fruit and veggies to choose from. I may whip up an experimental fruit/veggie salad or something. I didn’t intend to go 100% raw right away, but I’m going to just go with it as long as I can.
Overall I feel pretty good today in every sense except that I’m tired, but that’s because I only slept 4 or 5 hours last night!
I decided to put my moving checklist into a separate post. I will be keeping track of the tasks that need accomplishing on here and will cross things off as I finish them!
Moving Checklist:
Finish packing kitchen- Finish packing bedroom
Finish packing computer roomOrganize and pack magazines and mail on entry hallway tableOrganize and pack magazines and mail sitting on dining room table- Pack bathroom stuff
- Clean bathroom
Throw out the rest of the magazines under coffee tableFinish organizing and packing stuff in hall closet near doorPack stuff in hall closet in hallwayPack items in dining room cupboardFinish packing items in bedroom closet- Wash load of whites
- Wash load of colors
Get keys to new apartment
May as well keep track of what I’m eating today, too!
Food So Far Today (Friday):
- Green smoothie (pineapple, baby greens, cantaloupe, frozen banana)
- 1 apple, 1 pear, pineapple chunks
- Take out (veggie burger, mashed potatoes)
Food So Far Today (Saturday):
This will probably be the last post I do until the actual day of the move (Sunday). But feel free to check back often, I’ll be keeping this post updated regularly!
I think I have either a sinus, ear or tooth infection! Noooooooo!
I’ve eaten SO clean and healthy today! I’ve had a green smoothie (made with blueberries, cantaloupe, frozen strawberries and some baby red lettuce), some fresh fruit, lots of locally-grown cherry tomatoes (which were absolutely AMAZINGLY delicious), a cup of unsweetened almond milk, a ‘no-sugar-added’ cup of applesauce, half an English cucumber, some fresh veggie juice (cucumber, tomato and celery), and homemade veggie soup, which I made another batch of this afternoon. It came out even better than the last batch.
I swear, locally-grown pesticide-free tomatoes are the tastiest fruits in the world! Or the ones straight from someone’s backyard garden. Mmmm.
The bad news is that I’ve only taken in about 600 calories so far today! And it’s already 5:30pm and I finished dinner a few minutes ago. Oops. Way too low calorie.
Plus I took a 45-minute power walk earlier.
I wonder if I should just stick with what I’ve eaten and call it a day food-wise. I really don’t want anything else to eat, except maybe some red grapes. One super-low calorie day won’t hurt nobody, right…? I don’t know why today was so “clean and healthy” but my body just wanted it for some reason.
OK, I tried… and the truth is, I just don’t like kale. I had it again in a smoothie this morning and it was just… yucky. It overpowers the fruit in the smoothie, oddly enough.
So I’m just going to stick with other greens like chard (which may actually be slightly more nutritious than kale), spinach, dandelion greens, etc.
I made a smoothie this morning with the following ingredients:
- 167 grams frozen strawberries
- 149 grams mango
- 227 grams cantaloupe
- 208 grams oranges
- 94 grams kale
- a few ice cubes
Total calories: 372.
I got a nice burst of energy about 20 minutes after finishing the smoothie.
But definitely no more kale. It’s such a rough and scratchy vegetable, I don’t see how it can be good for our digestive systems anyway?
I made my sister, niece and I a smoothie yesterday evening before we left to get the puppy. Since they aren’t keen on greens, I made it with: a banana, pineapple chunks, strawberries and a few slices of orange. They really liked it. That was my dinner (along with a few sunflower seeds).
I have a ton of tomatoes I need to use in a soup or something today. More on that later!
I’ve officially been off dairy for 11 days… (it would be two weeks but I found out there was casein protein in something I thought was vegan last Wednesday). So… I’ve been feeling a bit ‘out of sorts’ over the past week and a half. I’ve been more irritable and cranky than usual. I thought that was from adding in more cooked vegan food.
Last night things started getting weird. I started to sweat – a lot – for no reason. I turned my AC down to 68. And still… I was sweating nonstop. Not to mention I was getting some aches and pains in my leg muscles. And I couldn’t sleep although I felt tired. I turned down my AC to 66. (I know, ridiculous!) Still I was sweatin’. Not to mention my tongue felt disgusting and I had a bad taste in my mouth. Very odd stomach pains on and off. And I had terrible insomnia. I slept 3 hours the night before, and 2.5 last night. I got up at 3am and went back to bed this morning and tossed and turned for hours.
I suddenly realized that I felt like I was going through… detox. All those symptoms are exactly how my previous detoxes felt!
So, my question is/was, what am I detoxing from? Dairy and dairy products are the only thing I’ve recently given up. So it must be that!
It’s well known that when a person gives up dairy, their body gets rid of the excess mucus. I experienced that a lot last week. It’s gotten better over the past few days. (Sort of).
But an actual detox from dairy? No way! Why?!
So today when the sweating started back up (which it did about 30 minutes ago), I did what I usually do: opened up my trusty google browser and started searching for other people’s experiences. And boy did I find some interesting stuff. Apparently, people sometimes do go through detox when they give up dairy for long enough. During my previous high-raw fruitarianism, I would still cheat with dairy every few days or so (and sometimes once I ate it, I’d have to keep eating it for the following few days. I really have had a hard time giving it up!) The longest I went before was 7 days.
So I guess when I hit the 10-day mark yesterday, my body realized that I mean business this time. So it’s “cleaning house”.
I can’t help but wonder how I’ll feel in another few days?
Other people who have gone through this usually start feeling better by week two. I am going to consciously up my distilled water intake for the next few days.
So, onto swiss chard wraps… ok, that probably sounds gross to some of you. I’ve been looking for a way to include raw swiss chard into my diet since it’s SO nutritious. The only problem is that it’s a bit too bitter to eat plan. So my solution today was to make a swiss chard, green chile hummus & yellow pear tomato wrap. And it was delicious! I warmed the tortillas up for just a minute or two before adding the veggies and hummus.
Mmm… I foresee many ‘veggie wrap’ experiments in my near future!
I’ve done pretty good on food intake today even though I’ve had NO appetite! I had 3 quarters of a pound of cantaloupe for breakfast; 2 swiss chard wraps, plus a romaine, tomato and guacamole salad for lunch. I’m not sure what dinner will be. I’m really working on upping my raw veggie intake again. I may have a veggie burger and spinach salad later. I’m not sure.
