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madelinekelly at 11:15pm on 25/01/2010 under food
madelinekelly at 11:15pm on 25/01/2010 under foodOops. Forgot to post about food over the weekend -- too busy with Viennese balls and epic journeys to collect banana boxes from the deepest wilds in the far north of my rock.
Anyway, Saturday: banana, walnuts, dates, shortbread biscuit, carrot, apple, satsuma, cheese (not paleo, but it needs eating up), pasta (ditto) with garlicky mushrooms and the remains of the stuffing mixture from Thursday's roast chicken, with pesto on top, various herbal teas.
Sunday: half a galia melon with pomegranate seeds scattered over it, smoked salmon steak with spinach salad and a lemony mayonnaise dressing, BLT baguette (not paleo but Matt's dad offered to make it, and you'd be a fool indeed to refuse free food), some kind of chocolate biscuit thing at mum's house (more free food!), and then for tea I opted to make a totally non-paleo meal* of pea-and-parmesan risotto using stock made from Thursday's chicken carcass, and then Matt found a leftover chocolate birthday cake in a box upstairs so we had some of that for pudding, glass of white wine, various herbal teas.
Monday: boiled egg, banana, peppermint tea, lemon-and-ginger tea, roast leg of pork with wilted lemony spinach and a kind of vegetable sauce affair of onion, celery, garlic, apples and courgette all cooked together in white wine and chicken stock (delicious!), peppermint tea, coleslaw (cabbage, carrot, apple, onion, almonds, in lemon juice and flax oil dressing), slice of cold pork, small chunk of chocolate cake, camomile tea.
Exercise: none. This is terrible. I can't keep on writing "none" here, can I? I'll go and do some press-ups in a minute.
Feeling: fine. I've noticed that since we started this diet last week I haven't felt hungry at all -- very unusual for me. Also noticed that I'm generally sleeping better. Matt has, to his surprise, twice slept through the night without waking up -- which is something I've never known him to do in the nearly-ten years we've been together. My gums have stopped bleeding and my teeth no longer feel loose in my head, something that had been really worrying me over Christmas.
No noticeable surge in energy levels, though. And my skin is not glowing and amazing. In fact, people keep telling me I look ill. Admittedly, I have been ill (the usual post-Christmas cold, which pops up at the start of the school term and hangs around for weeks. It's almost gone now), but it's rather galling that people can see it in my face.
And, as suspected last week, it's going to be an expensive diet to maintain. I estimate that we've spent £45 on food since last Tuesday. Meat is not cheap. And fruit and veg aren't either. I'm beginning to regret giving up the allotment.**
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* we don't particularly want to lose weight, so we've opted to keep some of our meals non-paleo -- essentially grain/legume/dairy-rich (so that risotto was the ultimate non-paleo meal, really). But, even with doing that, I seem to have lost 4 or 5 pounds since the start of the year.
** it's just for a year. We're anticipating being too busy with doing up the house, and Matt's dad was very keen to take it on while he's on the waiting list for a more permanent plot for himself.
Anyway, Saturday: banana, walnuts, dates, shortbread biscuit, carrot, apple, satsuma, cheese (not paleo, but it needs eating up), pasta (ditto) with garlicky mushrooms and the remains of the stuffing mixture from Thursday's roast chicken, with pesto on top, various herbal teas.
Sunday: half a galia melon with pomegranate seeds scattered over it, smoked salmon steak with spinach salad and a lemony mayonnaise dressing, BLT baguette (not paleo but Matt's dad offered to make it, and you'd be a fool indeed to refuse free food), some kind of chocolate biscuit thing at mum's house (more free food!), and then for tea I opted to make a totally non-paleo meal* of pea-and-parmesan risotto using stock made from Thursday's chicken carcass, and then Matt found a leftover chocolate birthday cake in a box upstairs so we had some of that for pudding, glass of white wine, various herbal teas.
Monday: boiled egg, banana, peppermint tea, lemon-and-ginger tea, roast leg of pork with wilted lemony spinach and a kind of vegetable sauce affair of onion, celery, garlic, apples and courgette all cooked together in white wine and chicken stock (delicious!), peppermint tea, coleslaw (cabbage, carrot, apple, onion, almonds, in lemon juice and flax oil dressing), slice of cold pork, small chunk of chocolate cake, camomile tea.
Exercise: none. This is terrible. I can't keep on writing "none" here, can I? I'll go and do some press-ups in a minute.
Feeling: fine. I've noticed that since we started this diet last week I haven't felt hungry at all -- very unusual for me. Also noticed that I'm generally sleeping better. Matt has, to his surprise, twice slept through the night without waking up -- which is something I've never known him to do in the nearly-ten years we've been together. My gums have stopped bleeding and my teeth no longer feel loose in my head, something that had been really worrying me over Christmas.
No noticeable surge in energy levels, though. And my skin is not glowing and amazing. In fact, people keep telling me I look ill. Admittedly, I have been ill (the usual post-Christmas cold, which pops up at the start of the school term and hangs around for weeks. It's almost gone now), but it's rather galling that people can see it in my face.
And, as suspected last week, it's going to be an expensive diet to maintain. I estimate that we've spent £45 on food since last Tuesday. Meat is not cheap. And fruit and veg aren't either. I'm beginning to regret giving up the allotment.**
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* we don't particularly want to lose weight, so we've opted to keep some of our meals non-paleo -- essentially grain/legume/dairy-rich (so that risotto was the ultimate non-paleo meal, really). But, even with doing that, I seem to have lost 4 or 5 pounds since the start of the year.
** it's just for a year. We're anticipating being too busy with doing up the house, and Matt's dad was very keen to take it on while he's on the waiting list for a more permanent plot for himself.
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