Monk's Primal Journal page 4

[Monk]

Thought I would jump on and do a weekend recap. I just added my pictures from today to my others and have sat here just staring at them. It is truly amazing what simplicity can do to a human body in eight weeks. I love the way my body is gradually changing, from the week before, and espcially the first week pictures next to the eighth week pictures.

As far as excercise goes, I've done soe pull-ups, differnet variations with no set number to achieve. Meant to get to the yoga but just have had other distractions.

I had looked at a hread about hair growth, I have used a chinese herbal shampoo three times a week for a few years now, but since going primal I swear I have new hair growing in. If it is true, that woould be amazing, but I'm not obsessed about my hair. In fact I cut it all off and have kept it very short, for a couple years, in acceptance of this.

On to the food recap.

Saturday was pretty standard, morning hardboiled eggs and dried dates.

I took the sample of bacon and spinach leaves with balsamic to y corkwer, she liked it. That wa also my lunch with a few more dried dates.

Dinner was Chipotle, same bowl I've mentioned before. While there I think this young girl was trying to get my attention, but she looked a bit too young for me. On the way home I stopped and got a goatmilk yogurt and kombucha for dessert.

Sunday, I didn't eat until about 2pm, just lazed around the house and watched some of last seasons Game of Thrones. Ran off to have some Lobster Bisque...stopped at the bookstore then went to Boston Market for dinner. I had the three piece dark with BBQ sauce, creamed spinach and the broccoli.

On to today...

Kind of a lunch, went out and had a omelet of american cheese, mushrooms, sausage, a side of bacon and a orange juice. Went grocery shopping after that and tried to find menu ideas that would last the week( at least until payday thursday) I think I have enough stuff to last me the week easily.

I have to boil my eggs tonight for the week.

Think tonight, I might cook some bacon and zuchini and follow that with a yogurt.

Had a kombucha today and will probably drink water the rest of the day.

[Monk]

Morning--two hardboiled eggs and a couple dried dates.

Lunch- broccoli slaw with ham mixed with Lemonaise with dried sweetened cranberries on the side--excellent lunch idea, kind of winged it with what I had grabbed on the shopping trip.

I had thought about saying more here, but don't feel the need to now. I have moved passed it now, coudl be that I let it fall away, with cutting my hair and napping in the tub--just move forward. I may go into it later, but not tonight, but I almost don't feel like looking that far back. I have already moved too far ahead of the thought itself.

Dinner-a hodge podge of things, a little broccoli cheddar soup, a couple bites of ham, a goat milk yogurt and a kombucha...and the last few gulps of chocolate coconut juice.

'nuff said

[Monk]

Morning, drank two cups of tea, one for fighting colds, felt a little sniffly. At 7am I ate my two hardboiled eggs, but about an hour later I felt like I had diahrea, so not sure if it was a bug or just the eggs. i don't usually have a strong reaction to eggs.

Today was our office party, I gave money towards the food others didn't bring. They were a little stingy on the meat when I got there. I just held my plate out until I was happy with the amount of ham they were willing to give me. Then a I got some swedish meatballs, happy they didn't hold back on tose and had like six of them, they were rather small...don't think thye had rice in them from the taste. Then I got green beans and the meat that was cooked with them and some greenbean casserole.
I was jumping passed a cowroker as he stopped for stuffig and potatos etc. On my way out of the room I passed him again, when he stopped at the sweets table, none for me. One of my lady coworkers laughed when i walked by the other guy and said,"I'll leave all of that--the sweets--for the rest of you" Oh and two deviled eggs

It was a good meal. I got another deviled egg from a cube mate. I was standing by her empty desk, telling another coworker, how,"if I knew if she had used a spoon to get the deviled egg, it wouldn't be safe for her to leave the egg behined, unguarded." When she got back, I explained what me and the other coworker were talking about, the owner of the egg let me have it(she is the one who has given me the food I've talked about before), because she was going to go get cake or rather cakes.

Yes, let them eat cake...and more cake and even more cake....yes let them gorge themselves on sweets and grains and hold their bellies until they can take no more.

Home after a few important stops, napped in the tub, woke and ate some ham, yogurt and a kombucha.

Felt amazing today...that seems to be a running theme for my life anymore.

[Monk]

Yesterday, I had had enough of the CW world, they just seem to be lost in the herd waiting to be force fed the next new idea. It made me think of Soylent Green, I think it is ironic that the name starts out with "soy", but could it come to a place where we do have a company produce Soylent green is more of what I wonder about. Imagine the ad, soylent green, packed with your daily vitamin requirements and it tastes great...just like your grandmother and some knowing soul comes by and rips the rest of the sentence off. They could pack red dye No.xxx in there with igh fructose corn syrup and artificial flavoring.

Anyways, thursdays food;
Tea
hardboiled eggs and dried, sweetened cranberries.

broccoli slaw and ham

a few shrimp, a little broccoli cheddar soup and binged on the whole dark chocolate almond and cherry bar.

Today:
tea
two hardboiled eggs

broccoli slaw and ham...didn't eat the apple I took.

goatmilk yogurt and kombucha...wasn't real hungry.

evening snack, a few shrimp.

[Monk]

Saturday's menu was pretty much the same as the rest of the work week, except I had half an apple in the morning.
Dinner was a bowl at Chipotle's, same as I have been ordering since going primal.
I did stop and get a large bottle of Blackberry wine and drank that until it was gone. It was a good night to read and drink wine.

Sunday, didn't eat anything until 1pm, then went to Earthfare and got some wings and drank water. I really like how they have the cafe area, to eat the hot food they sell.

Monday, I never thought I'd say how much I look forward to Mondays, but I do. It is the day I have taken progress pictures for the last nine week. Very subtle changes compared to last week, but next to the first week, it is amazing. ALSO I can actually report my first weight loss! I have lost about 3lbs, so I'm about 177lbs, it's a bit hard to read my marks on the analog scale. I think it is happening how I thought it would, my body got rid of enough surface face and is now starting to burn my belly fat.

Today's food

Morning, fried up my last two eggs.

Lunch was a bowl of Lobster bisque

Dinner was Boston market, three pc dark with BBQ sauce, broccoli and creamed spinach.

[Monk]

morning had some tea, later the two hardboiled eggs and apple.

I got hungry about an hour later...went and got the trailmix and ate the almonds and raisins.

Lunch was the ham, but with baby spinach and lemonaise...was still hungry, ate some Upstate Farm yogurt, it has cornstarch, but no soy...and it had sugar too.

I am not sure if my body is burning more calories now that it is burning the fat that affects my weight.

Dinner: cooked up the ground round and a zuchini with the Tiki Marsalla simmer sauce. I had forgotten I had the simmer sauce, but it worked and it doesn't have any unwanted ingredients. I opened the bag of sweet potato chips and had a few. topped off with a kombucha.

[valmason01]

I opened the bag of sweet potato chips and had a few. topped off with a kombucha.

What kind of oil are the sweet potato chips cooked in? I am having terrible snack attacks and would at least like to find something cooked in decent oil.

[Monk]

The bag doesn't say what type of oil was used, they are the Food Should Taste Good brand. These are the salt and pepper cjips.

[Monk]

morning and lunch meals pretty much mirrored yesterday.

I was going to eat the other part of last nights meal, but started thinking about nachos and how I could used sweet poato chips as the nachos and prep all the stuff at home. I had a couple stops to make, then felt like I'd go to Chipotle, since the nacho idea made me hungry.

Now that I got the bag of chips out I think I'll have a few.

[Monk]

Feel like just saying Ditto for breakfast and lunch...but this was a day of a little less primal eating, not much. Added a yogurt from Upstate Farm at lunch...it has corn starch in there, that's as bad as it gets.

Dinner, stopped and got some non-primal stuffed cabbage, a Hersheys almond bar and a Naked juice. The Hersheys bar was really sweet, since most of my sweetness has been from fruit and dark chocolate.

That pretty much wraps up the day for eating. Took a much needed nap in the tub.

I think it is almost impossible to be 100% primal in public, because you never know what added ingredient might be in something. It is nice when deli food has lables, so we can make choices--do we feel like cheating after several weeks of not cheating or just walking away, it all depends on the commitment we have made to ourselves. Promising others that you will lose weight or eat a certain way or any other aspect of our lives, isn't the right way to go about something. Are you doing it to make them happy, while making yourself miserable? Hopefully not.