How to go primal (without really trying) - join me?

nutri · 23-02-2012 06:03PM

oh good thanks so much! haha 'corn is a grain SUCKA' :rolleyes:

LoTwan · 23-02-2012 06:11PM

nutri wrote: »

hi again! I was just wondering if you could look at my day's food for today just to see if I'm in the right direction? I know cheese should be out, but then it's the first day, so I'm not sure.. I have to read over the steps again, not retaining any info today! Anyway, yeah any help would be great, and I know it says my cals are a bit low but the chicken fillets were 180 cals each instead of the 120 I think it took them as and there's still time left in the day thanks!

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/reports/printable_diary/Evi93?from=2012-02-23&to=2012-02-23

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nutri · 23-02-2012 06:14PM

I public'd it there a minute ago, should be alright?

keane2097 · 23-02-2012 06:15PM

Yeah I can see it fine.

Gummy Panda · 23-02-2012 07:13PM

Did someone say on here you can buy kale crisps like pre packaged?

Where do you get them?

Dotcomdolly · 23-02-2012 07:32PM

Gummy Panda wrote: »

Did someone say on here you can buy kale crisps like pre packaged?

Where do you get them?

They have them in nourish and the big one on George's st. It's by Natasha's raw food or sim. About 50c worth for 3e!

Gummy Panda · 23-02-2012 07:52PM

Dotcomdolly wrote: »

Gummy Panda wrote: »

Did someone say on here you can buy kale crisps like pre packaged?

Where do you get them?

They have them in nourish and the big one on George's st. It's by Natasha's raw food or sim. About 50c worth for 3e!

I just to try them to see what kale crisps are suppose to taste like before I try my own

LoTwan · 23-02-2012 10:16PM

nutri wrote: »

I public'd it there a minute ago, should be alright?

My post hung and you had fixed it while I was trying to resend

Anyway...

If I were you...

- Lose the banana. Too many carbs, with too little fibre. It's a great food for your post work out meal but not an every day thing.
- Increase your veg. Breakfast needs veg included and lunch needs more veg.
- Cut out the processed food. Turkey bacon is super processed 0% fat protein which is fine if you are on a low fat diet but you are aiming for 50-60% fat each day.
- Increase your fat. Or at least record it. You didn't list the fat that you fried the egg in for breakfast. How did you cook the chicken?

On that list your calorie split is Carbs 30% Fat 29% Protein 41%

If you are a woman and want to lose weight you should be looking at between 1200 & 1600 calories a day (depending on your current weight, height, level of activity etc) and less than 100g carbs per day. The standard method used by nutritionists to estimate our minimum daily protein requirement is to multiply the body weight in kilograms by .8

So...

Cook your eggs in olive or coconut oil
Eat bacon rather than turkey bacon
Add red meat (and eat the fat)
Add avocado
Dress your salad with olive oil

woggie · 24-02-2012 10:07AM

Dotcomdolly wrote: »

@woggie Well done on your success to date, good to hear you're feeling better on it. Are you talking about Everyday Paleo - did you get episode 19.5?

yep that's the one, have finished listening to them all now, didn't get 19.5 though heard them refer to it, very curious to know what happened lol

Dotcomdolly · 24-02-2012 10:16AM

woggie wrote: »

Dotcomdolly wrote: »

@woggie Well done on your success to date, good to hear you're feeling better on it. Are you talking about Everyday Paleo - did you get episode 19.5?

yep that's the one, have finished listening to them all now, didn't get 19.5 though heard them refer to it, very curious to know what happened lol

Poor dain

I was quite sad listening to it as I had grown fond of them all
http://huffduffer.com/dmilligan/49751

LoTwan · 24-02-2012 11:23AM

Dotcomdolly wrote: »

woggie wrote: »

Dotcomdolly wrote: »

@woggie Well done on your success to date, good to hear you're feeling better on it. Are you talking about Everyday Paleo - did you get episode 19.5?

yep that's the one, have finished listening to them all now, didn't get 19.5 though heard them refer to it, very curious to know what happened lol

Poor dain I was quite sad listening to it as I had grown fond of them all
http://huffduffer.com/dmilligan/49751

OMG! How horrible :-(

Stench Blossoms · 24-02-2012 12:12PM

Not suitable for the mentally unstable! Yikes

Gummy Panda · 24-02-2012 02:15PM

I bought some of that kale crisps from Nourish. I'm surprised how nice it is.

SteelyDanJalapeno · 24-02-2012 02:22PM

Dotcomdolly wrote: »

Poor dain I was quite sad listening to it as I had grown fond of them all
http://huffduffer.com/dmilligan/49751

jesus, what a b*tch

LoTwan · 24-02-2012 03:15PM

TiltedBrain wrote: »

Dotcomdolly wrote: »

Poor dain I was quite sad listening to it as I had grown fond of them all
http://huffduffer.com/dmilligan/49751

jesus, what a b*tch

That was one of the words I thought of

Dotcomdolly · 24-02-2012 03:20PM

Gummy Panda wrote: »

I bought some of that kale crisps from Nourish. I'm surprised how nice it is.

Glad you liked. The ones at home are a bit different as I think the ones in pack are dehydrated rather than baked.

So I was in town this morning, so hard to find myself something for lunch on the go in m&s, even all the salads had quinoa or the like in them. So I picked up a pack of roasted chicken drumsticks. Now I am sure you could stand at a bus stop and eat a sandwich without anyone paying any heed, the same is not true of a drumstick! Gawped at I was!

woggie · 25-02-2012 10:15AM

LoTwan wrote: »

TiltedBrain wrote: »

Dotcomdolly wrote: »

Poor dain I was quite sad listening to it as I had grown fond of them all
http://huffduffer.com/dmilligan/49751

jesus, what a b*tch

That was one of the words I thought of

Wow! its Like an episode from eastenders . poor guy he must miss his baby terribly. thanks for posting the link dcd

Dotcomdolly · 25-02-2012 02:16PM

I know

He doted on that child, you could hear it in the prev episodes, how could that woman live with herself?!

On a happier note I have ticked my fermented food box - had saurkraut for
the first time today as part of lunch - yummo! I bet my 5 yo dd would love it too, she loves olives, gherkins etc
Am going to get kimchi next time I'm in town in one of the asian shops.

Doolee · 25-02-2012 09:00PM

Dotcomdolly wrote: »

On a happier note I have ticked my fermented food box - had saurkraut for
the first time today as part of lunch - yummo! I bet my 5 yo dd would love it too, she loves olives, gherkins etc
Am going to get kimchi next time I'm in town in one of the asian shops.

Keeping to that happier note, I got some yesterday in the Asian shop on George's st. It's in a bag in the fridge at the back. There's 3 slightly different types. Have a read of the ingredients as there's rice starch in there, but one of them also has MSG so stay the hell away from that one:)

Gummy Panda · 25-02-2012 09:18PM

I had a bad day with paleo

I went low carb yesterday and my blood sugar dropped like a rock. I thought "ah sure I have had keto headaches before". Woke up this morning like I had 3 x bottles of wine hangover and felt like proper flu.

Caved and had some oats as it was the easiest carb source at hand. Going to buy some sweet potatoes tomorrow and use that as a carb source. I'll try to keep carbs low though

Dotcomdolly · 25-02-2012 09:19PM

Bad day today - as the old ww saying goes - if you fail to plan, you plan to fail. Walking around M&S starving, trying to find something for dinner, while my poor husband fumed..They got the chinese take away deal, I got nothing & had to make do with what was in the fridge.
Feeling cross & fed up.

Gummy Panda · 25-02-2012 09:31PM

Dotcomdolly wrote: »

Bad day today - as the old ww saying goes - if you fail to plan, you plan to fail. Walking around M&S starving, trying to find something for dinner, while my poor husband fumed..They got the chinese take away deal, I got nothing & had to make do with what was in the fridge.
Feeling cross & fed up.

The problem with M&S is when you find something that you can eat, they have throw something onto it you can't e.g. chickens covered in sugar or salads with rice in them.

Dotcomdolly · 25-02-2012 09:42PM

Yes true, so many lovely salads spoiled with cous cous, pasta or quinoa!
And I discovered after eating them yesterday that my hastily purcahsed chickon had dextrose or something in the skin glaze. :rolleyes:

Sorry you felt rough today - are you eating enough veg & fruit for your carbs? I use myfitnesspal and take in 70-100g carbs a day in non startchy carbs.

Gummy Panda · 25-02-2012 09:53PM

Dotcomdolly wrote: »

Yes true, so many lovely salads spoiled with cous cous, pasta or quinoa!
And I discovered after eating them yesterday that my hastily purcahsed chickon had dextrose or something in the skin glaze. :rolleyes:

Sorry you felt rough today - are you eating enough veg & fruit for your carbs? I use myfitnesspal and take in 70-100g carbs a day in non startchy carbs.

I didn't have any fruit. I think that was my downfall. As I'm use to other low carb diets that restrict fruit. One banana might have been enough to give me some sugar and some potassium.

I think the dextrose on the chicken isn't too bad as its burned off and probably just to brown it. It is pretty much pure glucose.

LoTwan · 25-02-2012 09:54PM

I am trundling along happily. I'm eating well & losing weight (17lbs in 7 weeks) but I have stopped exercising (again). I need to get back to it but man alive I can't get to it :-(

Dotcomdolly · 26-02-2012 10:42AM

Just listening to this now
http://paleosummit.com/mark-sisson/
I thought it would be a video feed of them talking..but it's more like powerpoint =audio, it's more suitable for listening, but then you miss the visuals..

LoTwan · 26-02-2012 04:46PM

Dotcomdolly wrote: »

Just listening to this now
http://paleosummit.com/mark-sisson/
I thought it would be a video feed of them talking..but it's more like powerpoint =audio, it's more suitable for listening, but then you miss the visuals..

Video makes the bandwidth requirements too high. 9 days x 3 videos would kill my download limit. This is good news for me.

I won't get to listen til after the boys are in bed.

Liver & bacon for dinner tonight! Yummyoladelicious :-)

Doolee · 27-02-2012 09:12AM

Dotcomdolly wrote: »

Just listening to this now
http://paleosummit.com/mark-sisson/
I thought it would be a video feed of them talking..but it's more like powerpoint =audio, it's more suitable for listening, but then you miss the visuals..

I thought that too but copped it was just an ONLINE thingy and as its all free-ish I knew they'd keep it simple. Will still be checking it out every day though:)

LoTwan · 27-02-2012 11:59AM

Doolee wrote: »

Dotcomdolly wrote: »

Just listening to this now
http://paleosummit.com/mark-sisson/
I thought it would be a video feed of them talking..but it's more like powerpoint =audio, it's more suitable for listening, but then you miss the visuals..

I thought that too but copped it was just an ONLINE thingy and as its all free-ish I knew they'd keep it simple. Will still be checking it out every day though:)

I liked the Mark Sisson one. I stopped the other one part way through.

I got a small pressure cooker from India this morning :-) I'm looking forward to getting cooking with it :-)

Dotcomdolly · 27-02-2012 12:19PM

Well, here we are...almost 2 months later and I've done it, and I'm so glad I did! I am eating the best I ever have in my life & feel so good.
Definitely going to keep it up for good.

How to go primal (without really trying) - join me?

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