Food Log Week 1

To make myself more accountable and to help me make better choices I am going to be keeping a simple daily food log.  Hopefully the requirement of posting my eating choices to the world wide web will guilt me into eating a good whole nutritious diet.

Short, simple and sweet.  Here we go

Day 1

Breakfast: cottage cheese 3/4 cup
Lunch: Salad with grilled chicken and newsman's own dressing, vanilla yogurt
Snack: pepperoni stick
Dinner: all natural sausage, 1/2 zucchini grilled, 1 small potato grilled
Snack: 1 cup strawberries and 2 oz grilled chicken

Day 2

Breakfast: 1 hard boiled egg
Lunch: Salad with grilled chicken and newsman's own dressing, vanilla yogurt
Snack: 2 small handfuls of mixed nuts
Dinner: Seasons pork chop and steamed cauliflower
Snack: all natural sausage, 1 cup of strawberries

Day 3

Breakfast: 2 1/2 scrambled eggs
Lunch:  Salad with grilled chicken and newsman's own dressing, vanilla yogurt
Special note here that I went for a walk to the ice cream truck, I did not get any ice cream (big pat on back)

Dinner: natural sausage, grill chicken, sunflower seeds

Snack: 1 square 85% dark chocolate

Day 4

Breakfast: 1 hard boiled egg
Lunch: Salad with grilled sausage and newsman's own dressing, vanilla yogurt

Snack: apple

Dinner: mustard glazed chicken thighs, grilled potato & grilled zucchini

Day 5

Breakfast: apple
Lunch: Salad with grilled sausage and newsman's own dressing, vanilla yogurt
Snack: 2 small handful of mixed nuts

Dinner: Steak with steamed cauliflower and salad with Newman own dressing. 

Snack: Strawberries 

Day 6

Breakfast: bacon & eggs

Lunch: sausage and salad 

Snack: ice cream cone

Dinner: steak with corn on the cob asparagus plus wine

Snack: strawberries 

Day 7

Breakfast: paleo crepes with mixed berry sauce and bacon

 Lunch: ribs 

Snacks: prosucitto slices 

Dinner: mussels in white wine sauce, wine 

Observations:

1.  Every morning I woke up feeling skinnier.  This was a great feeling I had when my first few months on paleo and it felt so good to have it again. 
2.  It was easier to get out of bed.   I am always awake before the alarm clock but usually require it to go off before I will get up. Not this week. I was up and out of bed 15-30 minutes early every day.  This might have been partly my desire to jump on the scale and see if I was skinnier. 
3.  Every morning the scale showed me a smaller number. To add to my joy of feeling skinnier. 
4.  I just felt better. It was one of those things were you thought you felt good before but now you realize that you were ok but NOW you feel good. 
5.  I saved money. I brought my lunch every day. Made dinner at home every night. Resisted the urge for ice cream. 
6. We ate through the pretty much all the food in the fridge and the freezer.