sun 3/7

bk: smoothie with berries and ground flax and protein powder

lunch: some beef jerky and nuts and some fruit

later lunch: mexican restaurant in San Jose: chicken fajitas with no rice/beans/tortillas. cup of guacamole and some salsa and 3 tortilla chips!

Dinner: Oscar party: I ate some leftover paleo eggplant mixture; BUT couldn't resist the pizza and chocloate cake and some kind of oat-nut brittle.

3/6 sat

fritatta of: garlic, 4 slices of ham (20g protein), italian seasoning, spinich, and then 3 eggs (just 1 yolk).
- glass of odwalla superfood. I know it is not really paleo but it is green and looks healthy!

lunch: taqueria zapata: carne asada and steamed veggies and guacamole

Dinner: i can't remember

3/5 fri
bk:
3 slices chix breast (15 grams protein)
smoothie: small banana, 1.5 to 2 cups of frozen papaya, mango, strawberrie, pineapple, scoop of protein powder and tsp of flax seeds.


lunch:
Seller's Market: some kind of ahi salad but with so little ahi that I added more chicken. they seem so stingy with the meat there.

Dinner:
a really good mix of eggplant, garlic, leeks, onion, green onion, bellpepper, some italian spices and two cans of stewed tomatoes. Then add in a bunch of chicken breast. Kind of a stew. I was basically cleaning out all the vegetables I overbought last week. Side dish of microwaved 1/2 acorn squash with mango salsa
in the middle.

Snacks:
probably too many nuts. I bought bags and bags at costco and they are too plentiful. some cranraisans.

3/3 wed

Dinner: ate standing up in the kitchen on the fly some leftover chicken, zuchinni saute with hot salsa I made a couple of days before.

3/4 thurs

bK: smoothie with berries and some protein powder

Lunch #1: some beef and turkey jerkey, nuts and dried fruit just before running off to crossfit.
Lunch #2: Lee's deli - some fish and brocolli and asparagus and 1/2 avocado.

Dinner: tilapia fillet, bowl of brocolli with hot salsa and then microwaved. Salad with some nuts, olive oil balsamic vin and some cranraisins.

Snacks: 1/2 small watermelon and some nuts.

3/2 tues

bK:
3 egg (1 yolk) scram with leeks, garlic, bellpepper and 3 slices deli ham.

Snack: Pluot

Lunch: Lee's deli: salty fish and an assortment of paleo veggies and fruits

Dinner: Portico: salmon, chicken and a small slice of beef, some steamed veggies, beets, small amount of assorted fruit.

3/1 mon

Bk:
Smoothie: small bananan, 1 c water, 1.25 cups frozen berries, 2 tbls ground flax seed, scoop of protein powder (not very paleo, but 28grams of protein on the fly).

Lunch:
Portico: 1/2 roasted chicken with skin pulled off. Steamed vegetables.

Snacks:
orange, nectarine, mixed nuts, and an Oh Yeah at LF for Chriss's seminar.

Dinner:
4 chicken breast tenders, stir-sauteed/stewed with zuchinni, mushrooms, onions, garlic and salsa. Hmm good.

2/28 sun

bk:
3 egg (1 yolk) scram'd with tilapia fillet, leeks, garlic and mushrooms and canola oil. I bought a large jar of peeled garlic at costco. I will have to eat garlic with everything for the next month. BEWARE.
- a pluot.

lunch:
Duarte's Tavern in pescadero: some kind of crappy fish, cod I think, that was supposed to be grilled but came as pan-fried and a little oily with some kind of cracker coating. Brocolli and some artichoke heart.

Big snack at home: some hot-beef jerky, nuts, orange and something else that I can't remember.

Dinner:
A very beautiful plate:
3 chicken breast tenders
Spinich with garlic, onion, almonds and some canola oil
1/2 acrorn squash, microwaved, filled with Mango salsa.

Dessert:
1/2 small seedless watermelon

2/27 sat

bk:
a fruit that i never heard of before called a Pluot. I think it is just a plum!
Smoothie with a banana, frozen berries, scoop of protein powder, water.

Lunch:
I'm heading to the gym and packing a lunch for afterwards at work. Going to be fruit/nuts and jerkey.

Dinner:

A strange salad: mixed greens, brocoli, walnuts, dried cranberries with some balsamic vin and olive oil, topped with some roast beef, garlic, mushroom mixture I sauteed. The roast beef was out of a can: saw them at costco and thought I would see how it was for some back-up protein in a clinch. Not too bad. Lower sodium than usual in such canned goods.

Snacks: cashews and dried cranberries.

2/26 fri

bk:
mango and banana
a scramble of leeks, tilapia, canola oil, 3 eggs (1 yolk only).

Lunch:
Portico: some chicken and beef, beets, brocolli, a little fruit.

Snack: Some beef jerky and some turkey jerkey while walking around costco for the, otherwise, major Paleo loadup.

Dinner:
Porkloin sauteed with garlic and mushrooms. Some over-microwaved formerly-fresh brussel sprouts

Snack: some mixed nuts.

2/25 thurs

bk: smoothie: banana, 1.25 cups frozen berries, scoop of ground flax seed
tilapia fillet

Protein bar (before workout)

Lunch:
Lee's deli Paleo miscellany

Dinner:
Buckhorn grill: 2 chicken breasts and assorted grilled vegetables

Snack:
some fruit I think

2/24 Wed

bk: orange, cup of grapes, and a tilapia fillet pan fried with some creole seasoning and some olive oil. Maybe a banana (i am staring at it but not very hungry).

Lunch:
Julies buffet: Assorted shrimp/avocado, fruits and green salad items.

Dinner:
Taqueria Zapata: Steak and steamed vegetables. It was really good! It was interesting simply to say no to beans and rice and tortillas. The lady seemed to think it was sacrilege. She even had some discussion with the other employees on how to charge me for this plate.

Snacks:
protein clif bar late at night. 4 pita chips out of a bag that appeared on my counter. the devil has entered my midst.

Tues 2/23

BK: smoothie (banana, 1 cup bluberries, 2 tblsp of ground flax seed.
3 eggs (1 yolk) scramble with 1/2 salmon fillet and some chopped leeks.

lunch: tilapia (or some kind of white fish) and a bed or mixed greens, bellpeppers, mushrooms, beets, etc. a little bit of cut fruit.

Dinner:
Kind of under the weather (or just all around body ache after earlier WOD): 1 banana and a high protein clif bar. I just didn't feel like cooking anything.

mon 2/22

- mango, salmon, 1/2 avocado

- green salad with some beets and a seasoned chicken breast.

- larege handful of cranraisins, 1 cups grapes.

- dinner: 3 chicken thighs with no added seasoning, baked in broiler pan with fat drained away;
brocolli, and some zuchini mix left over from the other night

Late night breakdown: scraping an old peanut butter jar for the last heaping tsp of this delicious legume. A high protein clif bar.

Sat 2/21

- scramble with 3 eggs (only one yolk), some chicken breast and some zuchini, onion mix. A little olive oil.
- smoothie with 2 cups frozen berries, some ground flax.

Lunch
- a muscle milk shake out of a machine because I couldn't get a health lunch and it was the best thing available.

Dinner
1.5 salmon filets, asparagus baked with some creole seasoning (salty), some fruit, and some eggplant stir fry (with a little teriyaki sauce for seasoning).

2/12 through 2/20

I was on a cruise in the Carribean. Food buffet 24/7.
Friday was a travel day and it was tough to do Paleo on the road. But I stuck to it. Some beef jerky on the plane, Dinner in Ft. Lauderdale was from a upscale mall salad bar; later night snack was meat from the Publix deli and some fruit!

The cruise ship had lots and lots of meat of all different varieties and fruit and fruit and more fruit. Vegetable dishes were a little harder to find variety that weren't laden down with other stuff. I ate and ate; when I was full -- I ate some more. Food everywhere all the time. But, I was also working out everyday and felt very hungry (could this be "rabbit starvation?" - the more protein the hungrier). Protein intake was VERY high. I will have a little beef, and how about some of the chicken and can't forget the fish. Then have seconds.

I managed to forego desserts but started to have a few little slips here and there at the end. Other than a few cookies, I managed not to eat the full blown non-Paleo meal followed by scrumptious life giving dessert until towards the end.

Most meals were "modified" Paleo. I tried to make good choices, but did not forego the salt that came with the prepared meal territory. Not limiting my food intake really helped to achieve success, if that be possible. I didn't feel deprived.

Success measured by not gaining weight during a week long food extravaganza.