Thursday, March 19, 2009

Breakfast:

2 eggs (2 carbs)
3 Jones All Natural Little Pork Sausages (1 carb)
1 tbsp Heinz Reduced Sugar Ketchup (1 carb)

Lunch:

Spring Mix (3 carbs, 2 fiber)
Plum Tomato (3 carbs, 1 fiber)
5 Green Olives (1 carb)
Fresh Ahi Tuna Steak
Olive Oil and Balsamic vinegar dressing (1 carb)

Snack:
1 oz pork rinds

Dinner:

6 oz Nathan's Corned Beef Brisket leftover from Tuesday
1/2 cup Sauerkraut (6 carbs, 4 fiber)
1 cup broccoli sauteed with garlic and butter (6 carbs, 2 fiber)
1 slice Swiss cheese (1 carb)

25 - 9 = 16 net carbs

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Because the idea of keeping a food journal is constantly hyped up by various experts I'm now making about my 300th attempt at doing it regularly. I've been on my diet for over a year now and lost 120 pounds, but I still have about 40 to go. However I'm not really keeping strict carb counts anymore and just try to intuitively keep it low but I'll try to list them here so I know. 20-30 net per day is what I'm still aiming for. Mostly drinking water, keeping artificial sweeteners minimal but not completely cutting them, or "products" out.

So yeah, here's my breakfast today, a variation on the Protein Power 'Power Shake':

1 ounce heavy cream (1 carb)
1 cup Blue Diamond unsweetened almond milk (2 carbs, 1 fiber)
2 scoops Wegmans Vanilla Why Protein Powder (2 carbs)
1 packet stevia (1 carb)
1 tablespoon Omega Shakers Berry Blend [this is flaxseed and berry extracts] (3 carbs, 2 fiber)

9 carbs, 3 Fiber

I also took my daily Krill oil. 1 bottle of water so far.

Lunch: Sliced buffalo steak over salad

2 cups spring mix (3 carbs, 2 fiber)
1 plum tomato (3 carbs, 1 fiber)
5 green olives (1 carb) [i sort of feel like the daily plate count for this might be off]
2 tbsp Bolthouse Farms Caesar Parmigiano Yogurt Dressing (3 carbs)

1 oz Macadamia Nuts for a snack (3 carbs, 2 fiber)

Dinner gets hard to list exactly what I had. It was the South Beach recipe for Pistachio Chicken. It was a chicken breast crusted with ground up Pistachios served over spring mix with a dressing made of olive oil, avocado, onion, lime juice all blended together. I'm just going with the per serving count under the recipe in the book, 13 carbs, 5 fiber.

So for the day, 35 carbs, 13 fiber for 22 net carbs. Not bad.