Day 2

Well that's the second day almost down, loving the simplicity of this way of eat.  Had planned to walk to get my food shopping done today (gathering ) but needed to catch up on some sleep so didn't have time.

Also discovered the CRON-o-Meter today
Pre shopping snack - 8:00
Chicken, roasting, meat only, cooked, roasted   20g
(left over from Friday night)
Apples, raw, with skin                           1 medium

Breakfast - about 9:30

Beef, ground, 80% lean meat / 20% fat    90g
Egg, whole, raw, fresh                           4 large

Lunch - 13:00
Fish, trout, rainbow, farmed                   274g

snack - not sure when it was
Carrots, raw                                  1 medium


Dinner - 19:00
Chicken, roasting, meat and skin             2 lbs
Apples, raw, with skin                           1 medium

Limes, raw                                           0.25   fruit
used in a few pints of water to add some flavour


Quite surprised that i got close to recommended about of vitamins and minerals of this, another bonus if you believe in RDAs

Also cooked out some pork fat to store and kept the chicken fat that came out of cooking the legs, added some garlic and chilli to this to add some more flavour.

Someone brought cake to work today, somehow managed to resist

Also am starting to notice a shift in when i'm hungry.  Eating breakfast this morning was difficult as i wasn't particularly hungry, but felt i needed to as was off to the gym.  and between now (midday) and then (6:30am) have only had a small piece of beef and am now just getting hungry.  This is very different to how things used to be, when post workout i'd need another meal within 30 minutes to an hour.   Liking this

Don't feel that you have to put food in, if you don't feel like it.

I usually workout without having food for about 20 hours beforehand.  I then eat about 2 hours after working out.
Working out in a fasted state is supposed to help increase HGH levels  

But it is great to go as long as you want without feeling the overwhelming desire to eat all the time.  It means you can choose when you eat and it's easy to hold off until later if you don't have any good food available.

*good job passing on the cake  

I guess i just need to reprogram my brain a little to listen for when i'm actually hungry, which seems to be more difficult than it should be.  And the extra HGH would be a good side effect.

Yeah not having to eat will be a good benefit in the coming weeks as i'm about to start traveling lots with work, but have a big tub of homemade jerky ready to go

Day 4
Breakfast - 0600
2 eggs
1 apple

Had precooked a load of eggs, but although i felt hungry when i woke up after eating a small fraction of it i felt full, so grabbed an apple for the drive and headed out to the gym / work

lunch 1300
7 chicken drumsticks

Again i didn't need food straight after training :S
Considering the schedule i have in the next couple of weeks this is a good thing, as may end up living on eating before work and then again in the evening (trying to stop thinking breakfast and dinner as just need to eat when i'm hungry )

Will post what i eat later, if i do eat again at some point.  May well be tomorrow is it's Jodo and Iaido night tonight

Edit:
Did have something else to eat, but have only just got to internet to be able to post

Dinner
Did end up having dinner
4  - ¼ lb beef patties

Also finished of the pork rinds (scratchings)   that were left over from the lard making experiment when I got back from my martial arts classes


Didn’t mention it but when I was cooking up the beef patties on Monday evening I snacked on some of the raw ground beef, it was tasty

It looks like you are doing swimmingly even though you aren't home to make all the things you want. Great job and welcome to the forum and this WOE!  I love it. I know I've slowly begun to realize what the different between hunger and thirst is.. I think a lot of people mistake them. So many don't drink nearly enough water and/or replace water with diuretics. (coffee, soda, alcohol)

Saturday
13:00
1/2 lb ground beef (cooked rare)
1 raw carrot
1 onion cooked along with the beef in the beef fat
1 apple

and that's it so far today, although there will be more come the evening, most likely more ground beef as that's kinda all i got sorted whilst staying with GF this weekend.  She is being very supportive about the different w.o.e, although we had a slight disagreement about 'breakfast being the most important meal of the day'   oh well sure she'll see it's doing me good as the weeks go by

18:00
1 ground beef (cooked rare)
1 carrot
1 onion
1 tin chopped tomatoes
some mixed herbs

all cooked up together.  GF was slightly annoyed with me saying, 'but i wont be hungry when you wanna have dinner' so i had this a bit earlier than planned but hey i got through another day away from home

Monday
8:00
apple       1  - felt I needed something

12:00
‘Chicken drumsticks’      7

Ok yet again I’m away with work, so I picked up some pre-cooked chicken from the supermarket for lunch.  Was expecting these to be pretty rough, but initially they sorta tasted ok.. until I began to pick up the ‘this isn’t just chicken’ feeling.  Checked the ingredients, expecting to see just chicken, little did I know:
   Chicken drumsticks, water! Stabilizers, other crap
Well I was kind of stuck, that’s all I had with me to eat and I was hungry so I eat them, big mistake, within an hour or so have gas and stomach discomfort.  So lesson learnt, check the ingredients before you buy it.  Thinking tomorrow I’ll just hit the hotel breakfast hard on the things I can eat then hold out until the evening

15:00
Innocent fruit smoothie

19:30

Chicken breast skewer   2
Fillet steak skewer      2

These were good, although did have some seasoning on 

T-bone steak         18oz
Green beans         ~10
Carrots            maybe ½

Ok the steak was awesome, as thick as my wrist and nice and bloody inside.  Forgot that beans are a no-no.   Also I’m getting better at ordering food, this time asked them to leave off the chips (fries)

Not the best of days today, but learnt a few things so

Also checked my body weight this morning, down 4.9kg (~11lbs) for the year and 2.1kg (4.5lbs) since starting Paleo 9 days ago.  Also my waist is down 5/8 inch.  Hoping that as my body stabilizes I’ll get more of an appetite, as I’m not looking to drop massive amounts of weight.   On the plus side most of the weight lost seems to be water / fat as my strength levels are still increasing.

Update: there was defiantly a lot of salt on the meal, I can feel it, time for lots of water to flush out my system… gggggrrrrrr

Tuesday
07:00
Eggs – 4
Bacon – 4 slices
Orange juice – large glass

To avoid yesterdays issues with ‘chicken’ I hit the hotel breakfast, I know bacon isn’t truly paleo but it didn’t give me any problems and I’ve felt much better today.

13:00
Apple  1
Sunflower seeds – 10g
Pumpkin seeds – 10g

17:30
Beef patties – 4 1/4lbers
Carrot – 1 medium
Broccoli – 75g

The Carrot and Broccoli were stir fried


Lime – ¼ in glasses of water

I seem to have done much better today on the micro nutrient front according to CRON-o-Meter.

All a bit rushed so hopefully not too many typos