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Steve Jacka’s log….

2009-11-11T12:39:59Z

Ok I’ve been putting this off for a while now.Its about time.My situation at the moment is a bit erratic so i think this will help me get back on track and stoke that fire in the belly.Hope this will be of assistance and in turn look forward to learning from others.Cheers.

Wed 11 /11/09

Breaky
5 oz of turkey
3 blocks oatmeal
1 tub apple puree ( 2 blocks)
2 desert spoons of almond, brazil and cashew spread
some macadamias
Strong latte

Lunch
5 oz of sardines in olive oil tossed with 2 diced cucumbers , olive oil and lime juice .
1 carrot
Some macadamias an almonds.

Snack pre workout about 1 hour before 6 pm class
1 chicken leg ( Lilydale )
1 apple
10 macadamias

Dinner ( post workout on way home)
2 carrots
5 oz of chicken breast

then about an hour later 2 good handfuls of walnut,almond and macadamia nut mix and a cucumber.See how I feel.Sometimes I need more depending on workout .

Nic’s Feb Paleo Challenge

2010-02-01T23:14:00Z

After having my last gorge on choc-caramel swirl ice-cream last night, i woke ready and rearing to paleo this morning!

1/02/2010

B’fast: 2 egg omlette with spinach, mushroom, tomato and bacon (visible fat cut off)
Morn: 1x small plum, handful mixed nuts
Lunch: 1/2 can salmon and salad (spinach, caps, tom, carrot)
Arvo: cup green tea, 1 kiwi fruit
Dinner: 1/2 baked chicken breast (with garlic, ginger, capers, olive oil) and veggies (beetroot, pump, aspargus, brocolli)
2.5L water

Day 1 down, no stress.

My goals for the next 28 days are:
- no gluten
- No dairy
- no sugar (no choc, ice-cream etc…eek!)
- no coffee (!!)
- be organised…this is important as i am often not organised and then snack on whatever is around at work (eg. biscuits, cakes etc)

Im going to allow myself a glass of wine here and there…just to stay sane.

Weighed in at 57.2kg at the box today - usually 1-2kg heavier but lost a few due to India.

Good luck everyone!

Thihan’s February Log

2010-02-04T23:38:08Z

Thought I’d start a more detailed log separate to the Challenge. Gotta get rid of my cricket gut and man boobs. Paleo challenge here we come (coincides nicely with FebFast so no alcohol this month should help with the beer belly)

Plan is:
No gluten
No processed food
No refined carbohydrates
No alcohol
Regular but power law supplementation with mix of fish oil, cod liver oil, spirulina and vitamin D

1/2
8:30 - Scrambled eggs, bacon, mushrooms, black coffee
12:30 - beef curry, salmon, beans, thai beef salad (at cricket)
15:00 - beef wrap without the wrap (beef, lettuce, tomato)
20:00 - san choy bao and chicken satay skewers - post game at pub with the boys (drank only water - difficulty level 9/10)
21:00 - aahhh had a brain fade and ate dairy milk chocolate bar (I can believe I’ve f****d up the first day of the challenge - ridiculous. Oh well things can only get better

2/2 Flying from Tasmania at 6am - slept 1 hours 3 X 20 min naps during the day
5am - Cashews
1230pm - 1/4 chicken and salad from coles
1900pm - 3 X beef rissoles with gratedzucchini, onion and carrot inside and salad of rocket, cherry tomatoes, avocado and cucumber with olive oil and balsamic
2030pm - Trish baked cookies for one of her colleagues… I tried to be strong but I caved and ate one. How am i going to beat this sweet tooth of mine?

3/2 - slept 8.5 hours
IF day - just water 21.5 hours
18:00 - 2 X lamb rissoles from last night
19:30 - BBQ - carrot and celery with salsa
steak, chicken skewers and tomato and cucumber salad with fetta and sweet corn (I know it’s a grain)
NO BEER OR WINE
1 X cookie (again with the sugar… dammit)
21:00 - 3 X Vit D capsules
Excellent IF day recovered well from no sleep on Monday night.

4/2 - slept 8.25 hours
12:30 - 3 X lamb rissoles and salad from 2 nights ago - 6 X fish oil
20:00 - chicken
22:00 - 6 X fish oil, 3 X Vit D, 6 X spirulina (just giving it a go)
I know not enough food but I find this happens after a proper IF day

Jess’s Food Log (Cakewoman to Cavewoman)

2010-07-08T23:08:03Z

The feb challenge was great. Not off to such a great start this time round. So I’m actually considering going paleo until Sept 27th (my birthday).

Food this last week has been crap.

Last week ate potatoes and potatoes and drank beer and ate oreo cheesecake. Last two days better though. Haven’t really been keeping track too well for the last week. I think I’m just gonna write it off and be more disciplined.

8/7
Eggs, chorizo, avo, tea, 3 fish caps.
1/4 bbq chook, macadamias, and a kit kat.
1/4 bbq chook, 1/2 tsp mayo.
Lamb chop, broc, cauli, sweet potato.
Apple, 3 fish caps.

I will post here once a week. My paleo is looking mighty zone-ish, just add bacon.

The Rookie’s diet.

2009-06-05T19:43:12Z

After reading some of the serious effort you guys put in I was inspired to start my own log to keep me honest.

I had my last soft drink the day before I started Crossfit. I can see some obstacles - I do most of the cooking at home and my wife still wants to eat her pasta and potatoes. Nothing good is ever easy though.

I looked at the Paleo diet last night and am suited to 17 blocks. I have had two differing body fat % readings from two sources. 13.5% and 15%.

Thurs

Breakfast 1 (1 hr before workout): Kiwi Fruit and handful of trail mix.
Breakfast 2: (at desk at work) Protein shake (70gm muscle milk lean muscle formula) and 1/2 cup of porridge. Unsugared coffee.
Morning Tea: Muesli bar (Carmen’s)
Lunch: 2 x Tuna (1can) and Cheese (1slice) Sandwich - multi grain.
Arvo Tea: 3 Rice biscuits. Unsugared coffee.
Dinner: Fried Flathead with potatoes and beans (damn they are going to be hard to ditch!). 2 glasses red wine.

Fri

Breakfast: 6 Weetbix with milk.
Morning Tea: Muesli bar, unsugared coffee.
Lunch: 2 x Tuna (1can) and Cheese (1slice) Sandwich - multi grain.
Arvo Tea: Unsugared coffee
Dinner: 3 egg Omlette with capsicum, onion and cannelloni beans.

I need to research some additional recipes. I’ve got my first grocery shop since the change coming up. Will try and avoid the aisles!

Adrian Padovano Nutrional Log

2010-03-12T14:46:37Z

I have decided to start up a blog, which will hold me accountable for all the food that I consume.

I was following a paleo diet late last year, however I went off the rails and have declined to an extremely poor eating lifestyle which has negatively affected my training. A typical day would exist of a take-away lunch at uni (pizza, fried food), pasta/pizza at work and then another take-away meal after work.

So here it goes….

12/03/10

9:00am 2 Eggs with 1/4 avocado
2:00pm Roast chicken from coles, grilled mushrooms (olive oil), and 1/4 avocado
6:00pm grilled flake, 1/2 fried flake, 3 scallops, 3 crab sticks
9:00pm 390ml diet coke, glass red wine

The day started well, however caved in to temptation at dinner time, and over-indulged.

Brod’s experiment

2009-10-23T20:58:02Z

Im gunna log my 42 days 100% strict paleo dieting on here to try and keep me focused (the longest i have ever gone in a row is a working week) might also be a good read as i will try to include the good, bad and the outright inconvenient. i have already quit drinking 3 months ago and feeling alot better for it so i guess the next step is my diet. Right after i stopped drinking i let my diet slip a fair bit because i could easily justify bad eating with the whole non-drinking thing, but it only led to a few kilos of weight gain and picking up a virus that has inflammed my chest and brought my asthma/bronchitis(doctors havn’t been able to make their mind up since i was 6) to the surface. and by 100% i mean no alchohol, no caffiene, no dairy, no rubbishy meats along with all the other usual paleo sturff. I’ll also add that i am not portioning anything as my life has been so up and down since i started zoning about 8 months ago, i found that this was also when my food quality dropped and I gave in to the easy justifications for eating bad food made available when your just looking at foods with macro-nutrients in mind. Today is day 4 so ill just start here.

Brekkie: 3 scrambled eggs with 1 oz ham off the bone followed by an apple
Lunch: Chicken salad
Snack: apple
Dinner: Buffalo with roast pumpkin, avacado, mushrooms, carrot, onion and garlic

I snack on nuts throughout the day, i have a container with a mix of walnuts, almonds and pumpkin seeds. I wont bother listing these snacks in my diary. i also use olive oil to cook with.

Usually Friday night is a big pig out/takeaway night for me so its the first real inconvenience. What i can tell you is that instead of feeling bloated and drowsy right now i feel really good. Satisfied.
One of the main things i am already noticing is my steady mood. This might also have something to do with the no-more caffiene. I feel a bit slower during the day, a little harder to get going at work but i feel constant, not dramatically up and down which i know myself to be. my (not explosive but constant) energy lasts well into the late evening yet as soon as my head hits the pillow i sleep like a baby, as opposed to lying awake for maybe an hour, then waking up at some point in the night for no reason. My training has been a little lack-luster of late with this virus i have had for the last 10 weeks leaving me a little short of breath, and a little short of confidence. Inspired by the posts on Robb Wolf’s website on paleo + crossfit i am going to step it up as of next week. I am also seeing my Homeopath on thursday who is the only one who I’ve known to get rid of my viral pests in the past. So anyway if anyone reads this please feel free to comment with suggestions or advice :)

Soula’s Nutritional Log

2009-03-11T22:33:48Z

Breakfast
4 egg whites (with one yolk)
1 large tomotoe
half cup mushrooms
half cup onion
2 Tbs Avocado1
1 small glass freshly squeezed vegetable juice
1 coffee, touch of milk
Snack
1 glass vegetable juice (celery asparagus beetroot zuchinni)
2oz chicken breast
10 almonds

Lunch

2 oz chicken with cucumber, tomotoe, onion, sweet potatoe, peppers
This was straight after training, so limited fats

Snack
2 tbs oates
half scoop of protein powder(no artificial sweetners, just stevia)
8 almonds

Dinner
2oz sea perch with vegetables (brocoli, cauliflower, zuchinni)
3 olives
1tbs avocado

Snack
2 egg whites
15 almonds

Feeling really good eating paleo/zone. I started on 12 blocks about 5 weeks ago, but felt really full after meals, so I thought of trying 10 blocks and see how I go with energy levels. I am also trying to strip of some body fat that I stupidly gained over the January holidays.

Fran’s Paleo Challenge July

2010-02-02T13:52:30Z

Thursday-1/7/10
two eggs and two lean rashes of bacon, avocado and tomato
coffee
banana
pear
coffee
chicken breast baked in proscuitto, stuffed with grated pumpkin and steamed cabbage

Friday-2/710
coffee and 2 egg, sweet potato and pumpkin and ham muffins
Woke up at 4pm after spending yesterday moving sports equipment from old shed to new shed-bad idea!
so did not each much.
Seafood-fresh-oyster, mussels, crab, lobster,prawn and fried-calamari, fish (OK I know not PALEO but special dinner, hence a shared dessert.

Saturday-3/7/10
coffee and 2 muffins as yesterday.
left over chicken and cabbage
steak and veg

Sunday-4/7/10
coffee(2) and omelette with ham, capsicum, zucchini
apple
breast of barbecued chicken
pear
walnuts/almonds
fish curry with cauliflower
macaroons(made with 100%coconut, almonds, egg whites and honey)

Monday
coffee and two zucchini, ham and capsicum egg muffins
apple
shared beef curry/chicken skewers (satay) and some steamed rice- I know not paleo-met Tim for Lunch in city-I’m on holidays.
Coffee
Beef and vegetable hotpot
macaroon (with ingredients as mentioned above)

OK SO I HAVE BEEN DRINKING MORE COFFEE LATELY-NEED TO CUT BACK DOWN TO 1 AT A MINIMUM.
GOAL IS TO TRY TO MAINTAIN NO LESS THAN 95% PALEO.
This is to ensure I stick by it.
Need to try some other breakfasts or I will go back to eating fruit, can’t do eggs every morning.

Gav’s food log.

2010-06-10T23:16:13Z

OK. Here we go.

Breakfast- 5 scrambled eggs with cracked black pepper

Recess- (yup another teacher) 100gms tin of tuna in olive oil

Lunch- Steak with spinach leaves, tomato, mushrooms and cucumber

Dinner- Thai green chicken curry luksa with beans and brocolli

I also drink about 3-4 liters of water a day.
Trying to cut back on coffee as I am working hard to get the kgs off. My biggest problem is that coffee is often an extra large latte and the milk does make me feel average at best.
Have to start having another snack mid afternoon to keep the proteins up.
I am hitting the fish oils as well which is showing good results.
Really happy for any advice.