Primal Journal of Nathan R. page 2

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Day 11
10.25.12 "Walk the dog" Weight: 227lb

1. Meals

Breakfast: 3 eggs cooked in butter, cheese, cold brewed coffee with heavy cream and splenda.

Lunch: Steak salad with kale and parsley, green and red pepper, grape tomatoes. Yogurt salad dressing (homemade).


Dinner: Steak salad with kale and parsley, green and red pepper, grape tomatoes. Guacamole (homemade) with yogurt.

Drinks: Splenda lemonade

2. Exercise routine

walked the dog to the park. looks like my dog is out of shape.

3. Any other musings regarding your challenge, your choices and achieving your goals.

It's almost a pound a day. I can't wait to reach 220lbs. Haven't weighed that much in years!. Once I finish this box of splenda, i'm switching to stevia full-time.

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Day 12
10.26.12 "cheese steak" Weight: 228lb

1. Meals

Breakfast: 3 eggs cooked in butter, almond butter bread (no grains), coffee with heavy cream and splenda.

Lunch: Macadamias.


Dinner: Cheese steak sandwich using no grain almond butter bread.

Drinks: Stevia lemonade

2. Exercise routine

none

3. Any other musings regarding your challenge, your choices and achieving your goals.

Hunger not an issue despite the long days. Kale and parsley make an awesome flavorful salad.

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Day 13
10.27.12 "Saturday" Weight: 228lb

1. Meals

Breakfast: Macadamias and cashew butter.

Lunch: Steak salad with parsley and kale with guacamole.


Dinner: Steak salad. Fried chicken minus crispy skin, pizza cheese.

Drinks: Stevia lemonade

2. Exercise routine

walked 3 miles with wife and baby

3. Any other musings regarding your challenge, your choices and achieving your goals.

Resisted the urge to eat fried chicken. I peeled the skin off. It tasted like salt. Pizza cheese was good though. I'll be sure to eat before social events.

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Day 14
10.28.12 "Cold Turkey" Weight: 227lb

1. Meals

Breakfast: 3 eggs cooked in butter and some medium cheddar.

Lunch: cashew butter and persimmons.


Dinner: pork chop salad with guacamole

Drinks: decaf coffee, coconut water, iced coffee

2. Exercise routine

flag football and basketball

3. Any other musings regarding your challenge, your choices and achieving your goals.

Switching to decaf. I think caffeine is the cause of my digestion issues.

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Day 15
10.29.12 "Cheat day, kinda" Weight: 227lb

1. Meals

Breakfast: 3 eggs cooked in butter and some medium cheddar.

Lunch: Pei Wei spicy chicken salad.


Dinner: pork chop salad with guacamole.

Drinks: water

2. Exercise routine

None really. I was playing with my dog a tiny bit in the back yard.

3. Any other musings regarding your challenge, your choices and achieving your goals.

Pei Wei is not very paleo friendly. I'm sure the sauce had soy and HFCS. Oh well.

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Day 16
10.30.12 "The incredible edible egg" Weight: 227lb

1. Meals

Breakfast: 3 eggs cooked in butter, coffee with heavy cream.

Lunch: Handful of macadamias and 3 eggs with salt n pepper.

Snack: Young coconut without the coconut water. Half a persimmons. Some grass-fed cheese.

Dinner: Pork chop with kale and parsley salad. Guacamole.

Drinks: water

2. Exercise routine

vacuuming my car.

3. Any other musings regarding your challenge, your choices and achieving your goals.

My weight fluctuated a bit last night. It went up most likely from the Pei Wei. Not too bad since I avoid rice and noodle dishes completely. It was back down by morning though. Forgot to cook my lunch last night so I had eggs for lunch. How can you go wrong with eggs though? They're cheap (even the cage-free omega 3s) compared to all other sources of protein.

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Day 17
10.31.12 "Halloween candy" Weight: 228lb

1. Meals

Breakfast: 3 eggs cooked in butter, coffee with heavy cream, grass-fed cheese.

Lunch: Buffalo wild wings.

Snack: Some persimmons slices and cheese.

Dinner: Pork chops.

Drinks: water, stevia lemonade

2. Exercise routine

none, unless the effort to change my car stereo out counts.

3. Any other musings regarding your challenge, your choices and achieving your goals.

I bought some 90% cacao chocolate. I only took two small bites from it. I like it.

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Day 18
11.01.12 "Novembrrrrr!" Weight: 228lb

1. Meals

Breakfast: 3 eggs cooked in butter, coffee with heavy cream and 90% cacao square, grass-fed cheese.

Lunch: Herb Chicken in a kale-parsley salad with olive oil and balsamic vinegar.

Snack: grass-fed cheese, persimmons, mixed veggies

Dinner: chicken in a kale/parsley salad with olive oil balsamic vinegar

Drinks: lemon water, stevia lemonade

2. Exercise routine

walked 5.5 miles

3. Any other musings regarding your challenge, your choices and achieving your goals.

I need to cut the snacks out. Also, I like lemon water.

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Day 19
11.02.12 "FRIDAY!" Weight: 227lb

1. Meals

Breakfast: 3 eggs cooked in butter, coffee with heavy cream and 90% cacao square, grass-fed cheese.

Lunch: Beef Jerkey

Dinner: chicken in a kale/parsley salad with olive oil balsamic vinegar

Drinks: lemon water, stevia lemonade

2. Exercise routine

Cleaned out my car

3. Any other musings regarding your challenge, your choices and achieving your goals.

It took me 3 hours to clean my car out. Does that count as activity?

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Day 20
11.03.12 "20 days already?" Weight: 226lb

1. Meals

Breakfast: 3 eggs cooked in butter, coffee with heavy cream and 90% cacao square, grass-fed cheese.

Lunch: Jason's deli salad bar, 2 servings

Snack: grass-fed cheese, persimmon slices

Dinner: chicken in a kale/parsley salad with olive oil balsamic vinegar

Drinks: diet coke, splenda tea

2. Exercise routine

none

3. Any other musings regarding your challenge, your choices and achieving your goals.

I got a new car today. Did more grocery shopping. Need to tighten up on my diet and include more exercise. However, I am enjoying myself while losing weight slowly. Clothes are fitting easier.