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I thought
it would be helpful to actually see exactly what I eat all day.
Disclaimer: remember that I am still eating to lose weight.
This may or may not be exactly like anyone else's Paleolithic
/ Primal / Neanderthin
/ Stone Age / Caveman
Way of Eating (WOE). It may also not be how I'll eat when I
reach my goal weight.
As I've
said over and over, you must adapt the Paleo WOE to yourself
and it's pretty flexible, really.
So, here's
what I eat on an average - let's say- Friday:
4:00 am
- awake and drink 20 oz water. Usally do some of my strength
training while waiting for coffee.
4:00-6:00
am - 4 mugs Coffee (half caff, 1 packet of splenda, 1tsp heavy
cream in each)
6:00-8:00
am - (sometime in there) 3 smoked pork jowls
+ 3-4 egg yolks all fried in bacon grease.
(In case
you don't know what jowls are, they are NOT skimpy wee things
like rashers or bacon. They are mostly fat, with skin attached
and are at least 1/4 inch thick.)
Here they
are raw and cooked (skin is cut so they don't curl up):
12:00-1:00
pm - 2 of the following: skin-on chicken leg quarter
(leg and thigh), 1/2 lb hamburger patty, thick-cut
pork chop, beef steak, or
pork steak. Occasionally I'll get big fish
steaks or 1/2 lb of catfish. At any
rate, I'll choose two different meats for variety. All are broiled
or pan fried in bacon grease. I may or may not have a small
salad (lettuce and /or spinach, bacon bits, grated cheese, ranch
dressing) or some greens (collards, cabbage) fried in pork drippings
or perhaps zucchini sauteed in butter and covered in cheese,
lol.
Recently
I've been looking into Dr. Jan Kwasniewski's Optimal Diet, which
is another v. low carb WOE and quite similar to the way I eat
now (v. low carb, high fat, but with dairy). He recommends keeping
protein down so I've been substituting my beloved hog jowls
for one of my meat choices at dinner. Makes for good noms!
*Droooool*
(I had a salad with this, BTW.)
I'll have
a few bourbon and caffeine-free Diet Cokes in the evening (after
5p.m.) and that's it.
I'm almost
never hungry again for the rest of the day after my midday meal.
I've found that if I exercise, I'll be hungry for another meal.
Subsequently, I try not to exercise beyond my strength training!
I don't believe in cardio and it is certainly not required
to lose weight, IMHO.
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