Menu Plan

I'm writing this menu plan with a tad of grumpiness.  I've boycotted my journal for the last few days since I haven't lost anything in almost a week.  It's frustrating, but...I must continue, right?  Tighten things up.  I'm sure it's because of my son's birthday, and that I made sweets last week.  This week will hopefully be better.

Budget wise, I'm feeling really confident (talk about moody, lol).  We were able to stretch so much money last week, and we didn't even use all the meat we bought.  We took money our early, because another grocery store was having a huge sale on chicken.  I bought a whole roaster for 5 bucks!  I wish it was organic, but it will have to do.


Sunday: Chicken drumsticks with hubs best rub (will post the recipe!)
Monday: Roasted Whole Chicken
Tuesday: Choir night (leftovers!)
Wednesday: Pork Loin -- I will be adjusting this recipe to not use sugar, and will be posting the results!
Thursday:  Chicken quarters - I should mention I bought 4 chicken quarters for 3 bucks, tyvm!! :D
Friday: Leftovers
Saturday: Improvise!

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Food Journal - Day 10

Today, I'm back to normal.  Less sweets, more creative cooking and feeling good.  Yesterday was a celebration, and life is meant to be celebrated.  I won't feel bad about the cake anymore.  I won't be having any more either.

Today I will be experimenting with a failed pulled pork.  It's not completely failed, but it's not fantastic. I'm turning it into some stew and altering a recipe I found on the interwebs.  If it's fantastic, I'll post the recipe.

Lost since last weigh in: 0
Total pounds lost: 6
Pounds to go: 22

Breakfast: 2 eggs (I'm really tired of eggs...) and two cups of coffee
Lunch: Last of the leftover shephard's pie
Dinner:  Pork Stew


For snacks, I let myself have one of the muffins I made yesterday, and almonds.  Honestly, today wasn't a heavy snacking day.  I just wasn't hungry most of the day.  This morning I was hungry, and I have to admit, it was nice to be hungry and not feel the anxious shake of having low blood sugar too.  I was just hungry.  That's it.

Food Journal -- Day 9

Yesterday I felt awful, and even though I didn't each much I still didn't loose anything.  I'm ok with that.  This morning was the first time I didn't feel like eating anything for breakfast.  I'm not sure if it has anything to do with feeling sick all day yesterday, or if my body is just saying it's not hungry.  Either way, if I'm not hungry I don't eat.  Intermittent fasting is part of the primal diet.  So long as fat intake is high, you're body will know it's not in danger of starving.

Today is my son's 10th birthday...we will celebrate of course with cake.  So I don't go into complete cake envy, I'm making my husband and I a special treat thanks to the Civilized Caveman.  If I wasn't so early into my reset, I'd have cake...trust me.  However being that I just started it's not time yet for those kinds of cheats in my mind and it would set back all the work I've accomplished.  Well, maybe not, but I don't want to risk it.



Lost since last weigh in: 0
Total lost: 6
Pounds to goal: 22

Breakfast:  Coffee with creamer (and yes, that was it!)
Lunch: Pulled pork
Dinner: Shepherd's pie, pulled pork


For snacks I had raspberry banana muffins that I made to help with the temptation of cake.  I had to try my cake though, and I did.  I hope I don't regret it tomorrow.  It was tasty, but all the leftovers will be going to gluten eaters.  I've had enough.  I'm sure though my carbs were off the chart, so back to being super strict tomorrow!

Food Journal -- Day 8

Lost since last weigh in: 0
Total lost: 6
Pounds to goal: 22

Breakfast: 2 scrambled eggs, 1 cup of coffee with half and half
Lunch: Leftover shepherd's pie, side salad
Dinner: Pulled pork, sautéd cabbage

For snacks today, I went to almonds.


I spent most of the day feeling nauseous.  Not really sure why...but my stomach is seriously upset with me.  I typically have a stomach o' steel, but I think something I ate wasn't right.  Sad...I cooked most of it, hubs cooked the rest.

Anyway, food has been light today because I didn't want to eat.  I did eat, just not much.

Menu Plan

Last week's menu plan was an awesome success.  I didn't always eat everything in order, but we stuck to the plan and stayed with in budget.  This week was a huge pork sale at the grocery store.  Pork was half price, so I bought a huge 7 pound loin, and a roaster to make pulled pork out of.  We're not typically such heavy pork eaters, but the deal was too good to pass up.  We decided to cut up the big 7 pound loin into 3 pieces, roughly 2 and a quarter pounds each.  That boils down to just about 8 bucks a meal for meat for a family of four.

Let's hope we can do it again!


Monday: Shepherd's Pie

Tuesday: Pulled Pork, with a side salad

Wednesday: Cubed steak with capers (we didn't get to it last week), sautéd mushrooms

Thursday: Garlic Balsamic Pork Loin, with roasted carrots (I want sweet potatoes, but I can't just yet!)

Friday: Leftovers!

Saturday: Citrus Pork Tenderloin

Sunday: Leftovers!


Shopping List:
1 pound of ground beef
carton of eggs
celery
Pork, pork, and more pork


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Food Journal -- Day 7

I went to bed last night with some pain in my legs...and groggily I laid in bed with my iphone and googled leg pain - ketosis.  What I found is that I was sorta right.  I said before I thought it was sugar withdrawal, and I was kinda right.  So, don't take this as a professional opinion, because you know if it's on the internet then it must be true.  However, what I read last night says that in ketosis your body purposefully pulls all the water out of your muscles in search of sugar to use.  Which can also strip your body of potassium and electrolytes...and potentially lead to dehydration?

I know I've been thirsty, and drinking much more water...and the interwebs suggests that I lay off diuretics like coffee.  Fat chance.  The interwebs also say taking a potassium supplement may help, along with some beef jerky, because it's high in electrolytes.  Who knew?




Anyway...here's the stats for today.


Lost since last weigh in: 1
Total lost: 6
Pounds to goal: 22

Breakfast: 2 scrambled eggs, and 2 cups of coffee with half and half
Lunch: Chicken leg, leftover lamb, and an apple (!!) with almond butter
Dinner: Shepherd's Pie sans crust

For snacks I ran to cashews or almonds.  My carb count is still pretty low, but probably not low enough for ketosis.  Without really counting things out, I would imagine I hover around the 100 mark.  Here's an image from Mark's Daily Apple to help you figure out where you should be.

Image Source: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/press/the-primal-blueprint-diagrams/#axzz2HO7fJlsC

Food Journal -- Day 6

Today was a different day.  I was alert, and energized and stayed busy all day.   So much so that I typically write this journal all day, and it's a little after 5:00pm and I'm just starting.

Lost since last weigh in: 0
Total lost: 5
Pounds to goal: 23

Breakfast: 1 scrambled egg and pork sausage patty, with 2 cups of coffee and half and half.
Lunch: Lamb leftovers with mushrooms and cabbage..the picture there was my plate. :)
Dinner:  Chicken quarter with side salad, with home made italian dressing (recipe to come soon!)


Today was easy.  Easiest day by far.  I didn't have many cravings, and for snacks when I breezed through the kitchen was cashews.  I was too busy to need to snack. :)