Primal Blueprint Journal (Katja) page

[Katja]

Day 1!

Food:
Breakfast: 2 eggs scrambled, 3 oz raspberries, coffee with cream
Lunch: 1 sausage, 2 large zucchini sauteed with garlic
Snack: 1/2 oz almonds, 1/2 oz coconut, handful of cherry tomatoes
Dinner: 6 oz salmon, roasted carrots and brussels sprouts, 1/2 glass white wine

Exercise:
Stretches for back
8.3 mile racing wheelchair push

Thoughts:
Because I want to lose fat, it's time to get serious, cut fruit down to <=1 serving per day, cut out the sugar in my coffee, take it easy on the nuts, and keep carbs between 50-100 grams. Carbs today: 70 grams.

[Katja]

Day 2

Food:
Breakfast: 2 eggs, scrambled, mushrooms sauteed in butter, 1 tomato, coffee with cream
Lunch: 1 leg of duck, 1/2 cup sweet potato cubes, spinach, cranberries, walnuts, 3 oz cheese
Snack: handful of cherry tomatoes
Dinner: 5 oz steak, beet greens, carrots, brussels sprouts, cherry tomatoes, 1/2 beet

Exercise:
A fair amount of pushing around campus to go to meetings
Stretches for back

Thoughts:
Breakfast didn't hold me for long, and I was desperate for lunch by about 10:30 or 11:00. Coffee without sugar is making me very cranky.
Carbs: 97 grams (highest carb items: sweet potato, tomatoes, carrots)

[Katja]

Day 3

Food:
Breakfast: about a cup of roasted pork left over from a friend's pig roast
Snack: 5-6 Italian prune plums, a couple of walnuts, some jerky I was making
Dinner: 1/2 chicken breast baked with nuts, sauteed red peppers and onions

Exercise:
weights
9 mile handcycle ride with my daughter - pulled something in my back
choir rehearsal

Thoughts:
Didn't eat much, didn't feel like eating.
Carbs: 39 grams

[Katja]

Day 4

Breakfast: 1/2 chicken breast baked with nuts, salad, coffee with cream
Snack: Larabar
Lunch: 3 large pork meatballs, cooked greens, parmesan cheese, coffee with cream
Snack: jerky
Dinner: 1/2 chicken breast baked with nuts, 1 carrot, 1 beet, 1 tomato, 1 glass white wine

Exercise:
Racing wheelchair track practice, descending intervals (400/200/100), total mileage 6

Thoughts:
Very tired, still not very hungry
Carbohydrates: 55 grams

[Katja]

Day 5

Food:
Breakfast: 3 eggs scrambled, 1 piece bacon, 1 tomato, coffee with cream
Lunch/Snack: some beef jerky, sauteed onions and peppers, a couple of ounces of pulled pork, 1 oz walnuts, 1 oz dried coconut, 2 oz brie cheese
Dinner: 6 oz broiled salmon, beet greens, white wine

Exercise:
9 mile handcycle ride with friends
crawling around cleaning and recabling all the network and tv stuff (and it was exercise!)

Thoughts:
I didn't spend very much time planning what to eat, so the middle of the day was sort of random scavanging.
Carbs: 29 grams

[Katja]

Day 6:

Food:
Breakfast: 2 hard boiled eggs, 1 pear, coffee with cream
Lunch: Roasted chicken breast (with skin) and greens in a brown butter sauce, glass of white wine
Snack: 1/2 oz walnuts
Dinner: 8 large sauteed shrimp, tossed with pesto and tomatoes

Exercises:
None, letting the shoulders rest

Thoughts:
Very, very full after lunch. Lasted well into the evening.
Carbs: 47 grams

Posted too soon! An after dinner snack of 1/2 cup dried cranberries and an ounce of dried coconut puts me at 99 grams of carbs for the day :-(

[Katja]

Day 7:

I spent this evening and the following day with my husband at the racetrack, so this was the first time I had to make sure I would have something to eat. No hassles from anyone except my husband.

Food:
Breakfast: 3 eggs, scrambled, 2 slice bacon, tomatoes with pesto, coffee with cream
Snack: beef jerky, some nuts
Dinner: a bratwurst with ketchup (I got to the track too late to have dinner with everyone else. My husband presented me with a plate with a cold bratwurst with ketchup ("All the mustard was gone"), bun, and potato salad. I ate the brat and tossed the rest.)

Exercise: Ha!

Carbs: 22

[Katja]

Day 8

Breakfast: aspargus/bacon frittata (made the day before and brought with me), coffee with evaporated milk (cause that's what there was)
Lunch: chicken salad (made the day before and brought with me), a couple of tomatoes and a cucumber
Snack: nuts & coconut
Dinner: a couple of pork chops and a couple of tomatoes
Snack: 6 dates

Thoughts:
frustrated, tired. I want easy food (bread, ice cream, fries). I want my husband to support me in this. If I stop doing this, is it back to 1200 calories a day?
Carbs: 57

[Katja]

Day 9

Food:
Breakfast: 3 eggs, scrambled, 3 slices bacon, coffee with cream (which is starting to taste ok)
Lunch: 7 oz steak, salad, french fries
Dinner: chicken stroganoff, asparagus, carrots, tomatoes

Thoughts:
Gave myself a little break today with the french fries. Trying to get my mind back on track.
Carbs: 73 grams

[Katja]

Day 10

Food:
Breakfast: leftover chicken stroganoff, leftover carrots, coffee with cream
Snack: 1 hard boiled egg
Dinner: 2 hamburgers (8 oz), sauteed zucchini, a couple of black olives

Exercise:
Weights
A ton of running around doing errands

Carbs: 16 grams (whoa! how'd that happen?)