29 July 2011

Breakfast:
1 egg (0.4g, 80cal)
1/4c almond flour (1g, 145cal)
1 tbsp coconut oil/butter (0g, 120cal)
2cups hibiscus tea w/sweet n low (.5g, 4cal)

28 July 2011

It was bad when I weighed myself after New York but I got the courage to weigh myself again.
I'm 7.2 pounds down - so my 10 days or so of regular carb =almost 4 pounds gained. Unbelievable. I'm looking into whether the HCG diet can be added into what I am doing - it sounds like that is a much lower calorie diet but if it works, it works. I would just be bummed about not having booze for 42 days.

Breakfast
1 egg (0.4g, 80cal)
1/4c almond flour (1g, 145cal)
tea with cream (0g, 50cal)
1 tsp coconut oil (0g, 40cal)

Lunch
3oz pork roast (0g, 300cal)
tea with half and half (2g, 40cal)

Snack
2 tbsp almond butter (2g, 200cal)

Snack
1 Mr. Goodbar mini (3g, 42cal)
1 Reese's mini peanut butter cup (5g, 42cal)

Dinner
4 small zucchinis (4g, 42cal)
1 egg (0.4g, 80cal)
1/4c almond flour (1g, 145cal)
1 tbsp coconut oil/butter (0g, 120cal)

1 shot tequila (0g, 120cal)

1446 cal
18.8g carb

27 July 2011 - let's try this again.

Breakfast
Tea with cream (1g, 50cal)
1 egg (0.4g, 80cal)
1/4c almond flour (1g, 145cal)

Snack
mondo slim jim (3g, 300cal)
orange diet rockstar (2g, 20cal)
small green pepper (2.5g, 13cal)

Lunch
small green pepper (2.5g, 13cal)
3oz pork rib (0g, 300cal)

Dinner
1 egg (0.4g, 80cal)
1/4c almond flour (1g, 145cal)
1tsp butter (0g, 33cal)

1 shot whiskey

13.8g carb
1299cal

26 July 2011 - Failed Re-Start

Breakfast
17 potato chips. wow we're off to a good start here...

Lunch
Tea with cream (2g, 40cal)
mondo Slim Jim (3g, 300cal)

Gave blood - synchronicity is abounding. The woman at the snack table was doing kumihimo -- one of my backburner projects -- I braided for a bit while I was there and this may be proper inspiration for me to take that along as a drive-across-the-country project
1 can V-8

Dinner
5oz pork steak (0g, 500cal)
1/4c cashews

Got invited out for drinks...
1 Guinness
1 Alaskan Brewing Co. Double Black IPA
3 shots whiskey
sigh. really not good considering I gave blood today. double sigh. I can hardly wait until the sparkle of leaving wears off so people are not inclined to buy me drinks because I can't say no to a good microbrew... or a good whiskey.

Snack
1/4c almond flour
1 egg

Stepping Back on the Wagon - Day1

I got the job!!! by the way, airports SUCK for low carb. That was where my slippery slide to carb hell started. So after taking the last 10 days off it's time for me to step back on the wagon. I've managed to gain roughly half the weight I lost over 40 days back in 10 days and it's really frustrating. It's not like I was being a total pig either. I will write down what I kept track of but I'm just writing off the last 10 days and starting over.

Here's a summary of what I ate - well, what I can remember, based on my scrawling figures down in my little notebook.
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General Diet Commentary

I'm noticing some general patterns with this diet. First, as my life has gotten more hectic and ridiculous (i.e. full-time job, interviewing for another job, submitting materials for yet another job, 5 credit accelerated programming class, trying to have a semblance of a social life) I've gotten a bit lax on the diet. Specifically, too high a consumption of alcohol, nuts, and cheese. Additionally, I've been adding small amounts of chocolate which is unusual because I'm not really a chocolate person and because I don't normally crave sweets. All of this is not ideal because alcohol, nuts, and cheese are inflammatory and the alcohol is sapping my energy and the alcohol and chocolate are most likely slowing weight loss. I will continue to 'dial-it-in' on the low carb most likely until Tuesday, however, because tomorrow I drive up to Vancouver to see Doug Stanhope (one of the best comedians *evar*) and Monday I fly to New York for an interview (!!).

15 July 2011 - Day 54

AM Metabosol

Breakfast
1/4c almond flour (1g, 145cal)
1 egg (0.4g, 75cal)
1/4tsp vanilla (0g, 0cal)
4 drops stevia (0g, 0cal)

Snack
24oz lemonade Rockstar (3g, 30cal)
Tabasco Slim Jim (2g, 50cal)

Lunch
24oz lemonade Rockstar (3g, 30cal)
4 oz salami (1g, 400cal)
milk chocolate Lindor truffle (5g, 73.3cal)

Dinner
1/2c almond flour (2g, 290cal)
2 eggs (0.8g, 150cal)
1/2tsp vanilla (0g, 0g)
8 drops stevia (0g, 0cal)
1 shot scotch (0g, 120cal)

17.2g carb
1363.3 cal